Deal's off: Memphis '81 Scirocco

[vwdaun at yahoo.com (Daun Yeagley)]

I've done something I don't think I've ever done before.  I
backed out of a deal I made on a car.

I got the following e-mail over the weekend from another
lister:

> did you pick up this car yet? I am almost positive i know
> this car. It is
> rotted pretty bad in the rear. Also has a dead cylinder.
> Pretty sure it
> broke a valve. Email me back, i am interested to know how
> you make out.

This got my interest, so I e-mailed him back and got this:

>I am not near. I am in Pa. A friend of mine went to
>college 
>with him. Pete 
>was down here for a visit about a year ago. While here he 
>and Ted got to 
>talking about the car. Pete said Ted could have the car
>if 
>he wanted it. So 
>we pack up the car and headed for Tenn. We got there
>around 
>8PM, enough time 
>to put the fresh Battery we brought in it and fire it up. 
>It had a really 
>bad miss, that we assumed was a ignition problem. The
>next 
>day we 
>investigated further and found that cylinder number 3 had 
>no compression. 
>The other three all had over 140 as I recall, which ruled 
>out the head 
>gasket. It was also burning a good bit of oil. The
>interior 
>is typical plain 
>jane, not id too bad condition as i recal. both rear
>wheel 
>wells are rotted 
>pretty bad, i am guessing the sun roof drains are not 
>draining and are 
>creating alot of moisture back there. it also has a good 
>bit of rot down low 
>around the muffler area. In the end we decided it was too 
>far gone to make 
>it worth towing home. So we packed up and headed back to
>Pa 
>without it. When 
>Pete was here he made it sound as if the car was really 
>nice and it ran 
>great, that is the only reason we were willing to drive
>for 
>12 hours to go 
>get it. I only replied because I didn't want to see you
>get 
>burned because 
>Pete misrepresented the car again. Let me know how it
>turns 
>out.

This e-mail filled in some of the blanks that Pete had left
out when talking with him, which is too bad.  (He did
mention his old roomate etc.)  Had the car not had such
serious engine problems OR there wasn't much rust in the
rear I still would have picked it up.  But combine the two,
and it becomes "not worth it" to me for what I want it for.

Live and learn I guess.  And thanks goes to Jason for
saving me a weekend's worth of time and a couple hundred
bucks down the drain.


Daun Yeagley - Wilmington Ohio
'81 Scirocco S               '86 Scirocco 8v
'88 Scirocco 16v             '88 Scirocco Slegato 
'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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