front cross member bar - ripoff?

[scirocco at vintagewatercooleds.com (Eric S)]

Yep, that was me...honestly, its not like I patented it or anything, and I
quit making them some time ago.

This bar does most closely resemble my design, looks like it would do the
job!

-- 
Eric
www.vintagewatercooleds.com

1981 Scirocco S (TDI swap project)
1990 Fox Wagon 1.6 Heron Head 8v
1991 Cabriolet (2.0 crossflow 8v project)


David Winchell, II said:
> It was Eric S.  And it does look just like his with the exception of the
> powder coating. IIRC, Eric was letting someone else from the vortex make
> them after he stopped.
>
> I'm sure Eric will post about it and give more details...
>
> Dave
>
> David Winchell, II
> 84 Scirocco BBS Turbo
> 79 Callaway Scirocco
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> 00 Silverado
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: julie@menloparkrandd.com [mailto:julie@menloparkrandd.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 6:46 AM
> To: Nate Lowe; Scirocco List
> Subject: Re: front cross member bar - ripoff?
>
> Scott Rose IIRC. This thing is identical. After all of his hard work
> too...
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Nate Lowe [mailto:nlowe79@gmail.com]
>>Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 10:28 PM
>>To: 'Scirocco List'
>>Subject: front cross member bar - ripoff?
>>
>>I remember the front cross member bar that was made either by a lister or
>>someone on vortex (or both?) that was used to give support to stop
> cracking.
>>Well, I came across this today:
>>http://store.blackforestindustries.com/mkicrrebar.html which looks a hell
> of
>>a lot like the bar that was being sold before. I don't remember who
>> exactly
>>designed that bar, but if they didn't authorize its design then I'm sure
>>they'd like to know about this. Hopefully this is all me just being out
>> of
>>the loop about what happened with that bar's design, but I figured better
>>safe than sorry.
>>Nate
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