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Fantastic post, Chris.


--- Chris Bennett <scirocco16vr32@gmail.com> wrote:

> LOL  Well I try my best to embody the theme of
> "Not the brightest lightbulb on the Christmas
> Tree..."  But dammit I
> try my best to blink the most.
> 
> My dad had an 79 Sciroco that was beat but ran like
> a scalded dog.  So
> I was almost a VW owner in 1989, but I didn't get as
> high of grades as
> he thought I should get so he sold it the day I was
> supposed to get
> it.  Oh well, first you don't succeed...
> 
> I bought the '85 in 1999.  And to be honest with you
> I didn't have a
> FRIGGIN clue that there was a MK2 Scirocco.  I
> thought they stopped
> making them in 81.  Some of you are of the opinion
> that WAS the last
> year of the Scirocco.  We were shopping for a car
> for the wife and it
> was sitting there in a used lot.
> 
> It was love at first sight.  It had the old style
> bottlecaps and the
> paint was already fading, the sunroof was hanging at
> an odd
> angle--obviously not sealed.  The ass end had that
> neglected Scirocco
> sag to it, and I really had no idea what kind of car
> it was.  I looked
> at it and I told my wife... "Honey come look at
> this!  If this is what
> I think it is--these cars are awesome!"  We started
> it up and it had a
> horrible exhaust leak and there was this semi-funky
> smell that I
> couldn't quite place.  Day one, she hated it.  I
> figured out what the
> smell was when one of my more "educated" Vw buddies
> came over and said
> they all smelled like that.  That's the old VW
> interior smell.
> 
> Six months later I still wasn't sure how to change
> my oil, and I found
> a wrecked 88 for cheap and decided I was going to do
> an engine swap.
> Estimated it would take a weekend.  Waited for a
> three day weekend and
> off I went.  No tools, no clue.  6 weeks or so later
> I sent out a plea
> everywhere I could and found the NW Scirocco List.
> 
> That's where I met Shannon, Lisa, all the
> others--but most importantly
> Stan.  Stan got my car running in about 10 minutes
> of being there.  I
> could repair multimillion dollar radar systems for
> the Navy but I
> couldn't get a $900 car running.  (one that ran
> perfect I might add
> before I got the idea to upgrade it)
> 
> My brother.  God I miss him.  To hell with the car
> and the accident,
> he is my friend and I wish I knew where he was.  He
> was my mentor with
> the car.  I knew I could call him and describe what
> was going on in
> all the wrong terms and language and he would say
> something like Oh
> yea... that "thingy" you said was hanging is called
> a hall sender.
> You need a new distributor.  What's a Hall sender
> you ask?
> 
> It's things like that... the infinate patience for
> the inexperienced
> is one of the reasons I am here.  I know only a
> little more than than
> I did 6 years ago, but it's not necessarily the
> wisdom itself that is
> important; it's knowing where to seek it that is.
> Although I have been an offical member since last
> year I have browsed
> and lurked before.  I came through Cincy in 2003,
> went into an import
> shop in Fairfield Ohio, and was looking for stuff
> for my car, and the
> owner asked me if I knew Daun.  I didn't at that
> point and I called
> him and was actually talking about buying an engine
> but circumstances
> prevented me from going up to meet him.  I was told
> if you want to
> know anything about a Scirocco he was the one to
> talk to.  ;)
> 
> So I was meant to wander around and find you guys
> eventually.
> 
> Chris
> 
> On 11/1/05, VeeWdriver@aol.com <VeeWdriver@aol.com>
> wrote:
> > Odd, I got my 86 8V in late 1997 and I know I
> started searching for VW
> > related stuff and found scirocco.org around that
> time.  But when I  search the
> > archives, I can't find anything before January
> 2000.
> >
> > ?????
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