Realization of how long I've owned my car...

[desinor at sympatico.ca (Jean-Claude Désinor)]

  Right, I got my 84 in December 83, and still drive it too.
  I got involved in two fender-benders:
  - rear ended once on the Don Valley Parkway in Toronto. Caused a minor 
wave, that required
    a costly body stretch and realigment (covered by insurance)
  - someone hit the right fender during an icestorm, again in Toronto, 
while I was eating at
    a restaurant. This time, major damage to the suspension. Covered by 
insurance.
  The rustproofing was badly applied after the second accident, so I had 
to replace both fenders with used ones after 12 years (grrrrr).  My 
repairman had an aftermarket hood available, so he throw that in to 
replace the rusted original.
  Other than that, everything is stock.
    Jean-Claude
    84 8v, (kicks into life May 1st)

Chuck Blue wrote:
> Children,Children.
>  You people are making me feel bad.I bought my first Scirocco new in 
> 1979 and I am still driving it.It has been totaled twice and 
> resurrected twice.I had planned on keeping it stock but as you know it 
> has undergone a few modifications.I still love to drive that 
> car.Unless there is company to haul around in the "familiy" car the 
> Scirocco is the one that gets used.
>
> ole blue
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "ken weidmann" <glxtasy@hotmail.com>
> To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 12:37 PM
> Subject: Re: Realization of how long I've owned my car...
>
>
>> Daun,
>> That's the best you can do? 9 years?
>> I don't have the plethora of rocco's that some of you guys have, but 
>> I've owend my 85 1/2 since early 1988. Bought it with right around 
>> 40k on it. The car is now over 200k. And that is with it being off 
>> the road now for a year and a half recently and also spending a lot 
>> of time sitting in the garage while I rotated driving all the cars.
>>
>> http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2578311
>>
>>
>> Kenneth Weidmann
>> 916-332-8504, 916-747-9827 (cel)
>> 2004 Cayenne Turbo
>> 2003 540it Sport
>> 1992 Mazda "Radio Flyer" B-2600
>> 1985 VW Show-rocco
>> 1957 356 a, 2nd owner, original family #100119
>>
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>> Message: 5
>> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 07:37:50 -0800 (PST)
>> From: Daun Yeagley <vwdaun@yahoo.com>
>> Subject: Re: Realization of how long I've owned my car...
>> To: DAN <sciroccodriver@yahoo.com>, scirocco-L@scirocco.org
>> Message-ID: <207524.91114.qm@web52703.mail.yahoo.com>
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>> --- DAN <sciroccodriver@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> I realized
>>> yesterday that licensed drivers between 16 and 17 years
>>> old have actually been alive for less time than I've
>>> actually owned my Scirocco.  The real problem I'm having
>>> with that is that I don't feel old... despite having 3
>>> kids and working on my 2nd marriage.  ha.  Funny, isn't
>>> it?
>>
>> The Sciroccos keep us young.  Or at least young at heart.
>> :)
>>
>> How old were you when you bought that car?  I seem to
>> recall that we're exactly the same age (give or take a few
>> hours) so you had to have just started driving when you got
>> it, no?
>>
>> The ones I've had the longest are my white 16v from
>> 1998-present, and the '86, 1993-1996 and 2002-present.
>>
>>
>> Daun Yeagley - Wilmington Ohio
>> '81 Scirocco S (Deiter)       '86 Scirocco 8v
>> '88 Scirocco Slegato (Gino!)  '88 Scirocco 16v
>> '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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