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Was: ATF Now: Arctic Blue?



<checks for blonde roots> Obviusly not eh? I don't always look at the
pictures, I blame beer and bad internet speed for this one, 'k?
Cathy

On 5:56 pm 07/11/07 "Joe Mair" <jmair@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What, Cathy, were you not paying attention?
>
> From this thread:
>
> On 7/11/07, Janzen, Lawrence <lwjanzen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> >  No, I didn't just get out of jail but I sure made it sound like
> it!  I
>
> >  bought the car off a friend who was the original owner.  He bought
> >  it new in '87 and drove it till '96.  He needed to replace the
> >  exhaust but did not have the cash, so his plan was to put it off
> for one year.
>
> >  The next year he still did not have the funds to fix it so it sat.
> It
>
> >  sat in his garage for 10 years!  I bugged him a couple times a
> year to
>
> >  sell it to me (for the last 10 years).  I finally convinced him to
> >  sell the car to me last September.  So, I have a somewhat preserved
> '87 Scirocco
> >  16V with only 73K kilometres (45K miles).   There is a pic at...
> >
> >  http://www.neojedi.com/dublife/yausoroti/ownerSheet3.php?id=1592
> >
> >  As for the power steering fluid, I will probably go with the
> >  special fluid (made by Pentosin) and I will flush the system first
> >  as recommended by David Utley.
> >
> >  That's my story,
> >  Larry
>
> It was about the ATF discussion, but surprise, we got off topic.
>
> Never seen me a Arctic blue in the North America.  Very cool.
>
> Joe
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: C Boyko [mailto:roccit_53@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 5:46 PM
> To: Spewey
> Cc: scirocco-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Was: ATF Now: Arctic Blue?
>
> > From what thread did THIS arise? I haven't seen an Arctic Blue one,
> wait,
> what's THAT?? Yeah, there's one over there on the other side of the
> garage.
> :)
> <http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s221/starfighter53/IMG_0386correct
> -1
> .jpg>
>
> We got them instead of Flash Silver in the 87 model year at least.
> Perhaps
> a kind soul with high speed could search online Canadian brochures for
> the
> other 16V model years so I can finally lay the question to rest, I'm
> thinking our later silver ones were Flash same as the US; mine
> actually has
> an 86 production date. For the record, the car had been resprayed
> under warrantee, it was plagued with the dreaded peeling 80's clear
> coat like eveything else of that vintage :)
>
> Cathy
> 1979 Kolibri green and red 8V "Klaus"
> 1987 Arctic Blue Metallic (from the factory!) 16V "The Silver
> Headache" (only one I've ever seen...explains her attitude)
>
> On 4:48 pm 07/11/07 Spewey <spewey@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  That's pretty cool, I don't think I've ever seen an Arctic Blue
> > one.
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