need advice, beginning work on '84

[griffink1 at nku.edu (Kathryn Griffin)]

hi,
my name is katy and Ive had my scirocco for about 2 years. For a while it was just a car that i took basic care of to get me from one place to another, but the longer i drive it the more i love it. I really want to start seriously fixing it up, and would like some suggestions about the first things to tackle. its an '84 inline 4 1.8 wolfsburg edition. specifically, is there anything to work on to improve acceleration and general performance? its also getting some very minor surface rust spots- i plan to repaint soon, so is there anything i can do to stop the corrosion before i repaint? any advice for the beginning scirocco enthusiast would be much appreciated. 
                                            thanks,
                                                   katy
(if i send this the wrong way or something somebody tell me please- im not very tech-sauve)

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Subject: Scirocco-l Digest, Vol 19, Issue 33