Re: Went to look at a white 16v....

[Pei-Chung Ting <chungsteroonie@yahoo.com>]

Funny,

I have 2 16v's waiting to get sold sitting in my
driveway. . . in prestine mechanical condition,
straight and rust free. . . but California is a
friendlier place for 'roccos.

-'Chung

--- Wojciech Galecki <galecki@umr.edu> wrote:
> 
> 	Well, finally, after searching for a year+, I came
> across an ad for
> an '88 white 16v with 79k miles and the asking price
> was only $900. I knew
> from the price that I should expect a few things
> wrong...
> 
> 	What can I say except, when you show up to the
> seller's place and
> the car has its engine running already, run away.
> This 16v was abused.
> Several large dents, rough engine, crack on
> A-pillar, pigged out interior,
> no radio, etc. The places where the bodykit had
> started to come off,
> someone took regular dry wall screws and shot them
> into the arches and
> underlying bodywork (God forbid he use some kind of,
> I don't know, GLUE)!!
> I'd like to find the shithead that did this and
> shoot several hundred
> screws in his ass. The seller was really proud of
> the fog lights he wired
> up (without a switch, I might ad, so if the ignition
> is on, the fogs are
> on). I could go on, but what's the point?
> 	It made me so sad to see my dream car (white 16v
> mkII) in such a
> poor state. I'll continue looking but I probably
> won't come across a white
> 16v for a good time, if ever. If any listers know of
> any nice, white 16v
> mkIIs FS in the midwest (Seattle is too far away),
> preferably in Missouri,
> please let me know...
> 
> 
> just venting,
> 
> ___Wojciech Galecki___
> '84 8v Scirocco    Way nicer than a beat up white
> 16v
> 
> 
> 
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