scirocco in novel

[peter at thescirocco.com (Peter)]

Mars red would... ;) 


Peter
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-----Original Message-----
From: scirocco-l-bounces+peter=thescirocco.com@scirocco.org
[mailto:scirocco-l-bounces+peter=thescirocco.com@scirocco.org] On Behalf Of
Jeff Toomasson
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 4:47 PM
To: rapieper@yahoo.com
Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Subject: Re: scirocco in novel

'78 and '79's did, but I have a hard time imagining it could fade _that_
much!  :)

JT
> Did Sciroccos ever come in dark blue?
> 
> --- matt <matt@safearmy.com> wrote:
> 
>> Here is what someone posted on a local VW board:
>> 
>> This may not be very interesting, but I found the description funny. 
>> I'm reading a book called A Death in Vienna, by Daniel Silva. It's 
>> basically an spy/espionage book. Here is an paragraph about half way 
>> through the book.
>> Notice the spelling...
>> 
>> "Alfonzo Ramirez drove the last surviving Volkswagen Sirocco in the 
>> western hemisphere. It might have been dark blue once; now the 
>> exterior had faded to the color of pumice. The windshield had a crack 
>> down the center that looked like a bolt of lightning. Gabriel's door 
>> was bashed in, and it required much of his depleted reservoir of strength
to pry it open.
>> The air conditioner no longer worked, and the engine roared like a 
>> prop plane."
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Matt
>> 1981 Mars Red
>> 1984 Wolfsburg
>> 1987 8v Auto
>> Louisville, KY