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Tech day, was Re: Slegato acquisition - part 1 (long)



Anyone want to do a tech day later this month? I've got three thousand
square feet of garage burning a hole in my pocket(i.e.  I'd like to share it
for the cause.)   I'm thinking sometime in the next few weeks.  Any weekend
except for the bugout weekend.  

Brian

-----Original Message-----
From: scirocco-l-bounces+brianpage=mris.com@scirocco.org
[mailto:scirocco-l-bounces+brianpage=mris.com@scirocco.org] On Behalf Of Dan
Bubb
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 2:30 PM
To: Neptuno; Mike Smith
Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Subject: Tech day, was Re: Slegato acquisition - part 1 (long)

Basically, I'm keeping my mouth shut.
I have about 2 more weeks of work on my nephew's car before I can consider 
it done.
Then I HAVE to do some things to my 84 before H2O. I can't keep driving it 
with essentially no intercooler, no blowoff valve and still pretty crap 
tuning among other things.
So, I'm pretty much out of a tech day for another month to 6 weeks.


From: "Neptuno" <neptunonc@yahoo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 2:07 PM


> Absolutly no shit about that...... We have to get some things in order 
> before H2O.... Rodolfo is limping. Freeking suspension is shot and I need 
> to get that doen, plus is giving me crappy gas milage
>
>
> Mike Smith <smithma7@gmail.com> wrote:
> There has been far too little of tha ttime for all the MD people!
> Who's got work they need done?!? We need another tech day!
>
> On 8/9/05, Dan Bubb wrote:
>> You been hanging around with Mike and drinking to excess lately???
>>
>> From: "Neptuno"
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 10:18 AM
>>
>>
>> > Dear D,
>> >
>> > I'll start by saying that your ever-growing-stable of a signature makes
>> > most of us have mix feelings.
>> >
>> > On one hand we are so very happy that it keeps growing as we know that
>> > means one fewer rocco converted into nice office furniture or even 
>> > worse,
>> > raw metal that is farmed out to Japan to later be sold around the world

>> > as
>> > accommodating bathroom partitions at the airport. (yeah you all know 
>> > the
>> > ones, The Shiny ones!! )
>> >
>> > The second emotion is that of being revolted by the seemingly 
>> > unspeakable
>> > amounts of Sciroccos I will NOT have (or can not) You monster!!! 
>> > spending
>> > obscene amounts of time and energy on the road to world rocco 
>> > domination.
>> > Going into Canada even to take the roccos finely kept by the white 
>> > winter
>> > wonderland. The malicious intent to keep the brothers and sister of 
>> > that
>> > land with universal health coverage without one more rocco. Imagine 
>> > alone
>> > the repercussions of your actions. Another teen negated his/her dream 
>> > of a
>> > Slegato or the Grampa having a coronary for your endeavors.......Oh 
>> > Daun
>> > we Salute you.....(where is that beer?)
>> >
>> > In any case,
>> >
>> > Here is my Happy Bunny Coffee cup (that reads "your morning breath 
>> > smells
>> > like butt") held high up in the sky in Cheers of acknowledgment!!!!!!
>> >
>> > To You!!
>> > El Tony
>> >
>> > Ps, Hell you did say Paprika Red? Nice...BTW paprika is the dust of 
>> > dutch
>> > red peppers :^)
>> >
>> >
>> > Daun Yeagley wrote:
>> > It's been a long journey to get this far, but I now possess
>> > a Paprika Red Slegato.
>> >
>> > A few of you might remember the failed attempt to retrieve
>> > said car from Montreal in March - and promptly blew the
>> > transmission in Mark F's Audi before even leaving Hamilton.
>> >
>> > Finally over this past weekend, I snagged mom's F-150 and
>> > headed north of the border, using Cathy's as a base of
>> > operations. She and I headed out on Sunday afternoon for
>> > the 7 hour drive to Marc's. (We knew it was going to be
>> > either a really good trip, or a really bad trip by the
>> > parasol umbrella we saw within minutes of leaving that was
>> > gently wafting down to the ground from 200-300 feet in the
>> > air.)
>> >
>> > We met up with Marc for a few minutes Sunday evening (after
>> > a couple wrong turns in scenic Montreal) and checked out
>> > the car. It's a wee bit rough around the edges, but it's
>> > quite solid enough to work with (almost no rot underneath),
>> > unhit with original paint, clean interior and mechanically
>> > taken care of.
>> >
>> > Monday morning we met back up with Marc in search of
>> > breakfast and a tow dolly. (while acquiring the dolly we
>> > had a dual Scirocco sighting at the shop next door. We
>> > spoke with the mechanic who owned both and he knows about
>> > the list but has no web access at home...) With breakfast
>> > and dolly both acquired, Marc did the honours of driving
>> > the Slegato up onto the dolly and then he and Cathy stood
>> > around taking lots of pictures while I cinched "Gino" to
>> > the dolly. (Normally I don't name cars, but this one stuck
>> > from the first attempted retrieval and it seems to fit.)
>> >
>> > The trip back to Cathy's was relatively uneventful, with
>> > her occasionally asking questions like "is that damn red
>> > car still tailgating us?" Gino towed wonderfully, and we
>> > arrived back at Cathy's exhausted around 10:30 Monday
>> > night.
>> >
>> > Now if the importer wasn't on vacation, I'd leave Gino on
>> > the dolly and take him home. However, it looks like yet
>> > ANOTHER trip to Cathy's (oh darn!) is in order before long.
>> > This might give me time to actually diagnose the coolant /
>> > oil mixing and fix it so I don't have to tow him the rest
>> > of the way back to Ohio.
>> >
>> > Huge public thanks goes out to Cathy for everything she's
>> > done so far, and allowing me to leave Gino with all the
>> > rest of her "fine German scrap metal" as she puts it. Also
>> > thanks to Marc for the immense amount of patience it
>> > required to actually get the acquisition accomplished after
>> > what, seven months?
>> >
>> > I just can't stomach the thought of a seven hour drive home
>> > today after living in that F-150 since Friday. Besides, I
>> > have a new toy to play with, home can wait another day....
>> >
>> >
>> > Daun Yeagley - Wilmington Ohio
>> > '81 Scirocco S '85 Scirocco 8v
>> > '86 Scirocco 8v '88 Scirocco 16v
>> > '88 Scirocco Slegato *still Canadian, but on it's way Stateside*
>> > '96 Passat GLX Wagon '56 Cessna 172
>> > The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts -
>> > Ehrlich's Law.
>> >
>> >
>> >
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> Mike
> '86 red 16v (Red 5)
>
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