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Deal's off: Memphis '81 Scirocco
You can buy my car if you want!
On 4/2/06, Daun Yeagley <vwdaun@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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