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[smithma7 at gmail.com (Mike Smith)]

Write a fuckin' book!

On 11/2/05, 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 <http://scirocco.org> around that
> time. But when I search the
> > archives, I can't find anything before January 2000.
> >
> > ?????
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Mike
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