Picked up my winter beater...

[julie at menloparkrandd.com (julie@menloparkrandd.com)]

Mark wrote ( a lot), but the fender flairs look like the ones from the Rabbit GTI.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark F. [mailto:mk1mark@gmail.com]
>Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 06:33 PM
>To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: Picked up my winter beater...
>
>... but I probably shouldn't have.
>
>The ad:
>
><http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=2915739>
>
>The body looked pretty decent on it (for a Canadian car anyways), so I
>didn't think the underbody would be rotted. I was wrong - the rockers
>have a few holes, but the worst thing is the passenger side rear beam
>attachment point is rotted pretty bad. It was dark and cold, the
>seller was late, we had to work on it for an hour to get it started,
>and my friend who drove me out there had to get back home for a party
>(the car was two and a half hours away) so I didn't check it over as
>thoroughly as I should have. I would have passed on it had I noticed
>the rot... In my defense I have never seen a Scirocco with a decent
>body like this that had such severe rot underneath.
>
>The exhaust is also toast (seller said it just needed a muffler), as
>are the rear struts, front strut bearings, heater fan, shift
>linkages/bushings, engine mounts, and the wheel bearings howl like a
>banshee... The tach, fuel and temp gauges don't work, and the
>windshield wiper blows any fuse under 30amps. And to top it all off
>the interior smells like a combination of cat piss and horse barn...
>
>The one redeeming feature on the car is the non-wiper rear hatch:
><http://home.cogeco.ca/~mardak/no_wiper_hatch.jpg>
>I've been looking for one for a while for a future "clean shaven" Mk2
>project. This car is a strange one though - it has the later two
>front wiper system, large rear hatch spoiler, but has a full size
>spare tire well. Must have been built just before the 84 1/2 model
>came out - using an early 84 chassis, and later 84 1/2+ parts...
>
>The solid blue door cards (no fabric) would have been a nice find if
>they were in better shape, but I may still be able to save them by
>dying them black and filling some cracks.
><http://home.cogeco.ca/~mardak/door_cards.jpg>
>
>Anyone know what these rear fender flares are from?
><http://home.cogeco.ca/~mardak/fender_flares.jpg>
>
>Here's a shot of the car itself:
><http://home.cogeco.ca/~mardak/84Scirocco.jpg>
>
>I'm almost afraid to dig deeper into the car in case I find more stuff
>wrong with it... Oh well, at least I have a parts car now...
>
>Later,
>
>Mark.
>75
>82
>83
>82 Caddy
>
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