scirocco in novel

[area53 at validpath.com (Jeff Toomasson)]

You got me there!  :p

Peter wrote:

>Mars red would... ;) 
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>Peter
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>Jeff Toomasson
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>To: rapieper@yahoo.com
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>Subject: Re: scirocco in novel
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>'78 and '79's did, but I have a hard time imagining it could fade _that_
>much!  :)
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>JT
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>>Did Sciroccos ever come in dark blue?
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>>--- matt <matt@safearmy.com> wrote:
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>>>Here is what someone posted on a local VW board:
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>>>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...
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>>>"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
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>to pry it open.
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>>>The air conditioner no longer worked, and the engine roared like a 
>>>prop plane."
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>>>
>>>Matt
>>>1981 Mars Red
>>>1984 Wolfsburg
>>>1987 8v Auto
>>>Louisville, KY
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