Re: MKI should I buy it?

[Jorel Jackson <jorel140@yahoo.com>]

--- Kervin Ridgley <kervinridgley@earthlink.net>
wrote:
> 
> OK,
>   I've been working on my 8v MKII for about 6
> months.  It's getting
> better all the time.  Here's the problem.  I got a
> line on a MKI last
> night that I can get for $150.  It's Orange (I think
> that's mars red). 
> My very first scirocco was this color so I REALLY
> want to buy it, but
> the price gives some insight to the condition.  I
> could only see the
> passenger side and there is some rust at the bottom
> front corner of the
> door and there is a hole in the top of the
> passangerside front fender. 
> I think it is a 81.  The engine has carbs :(.  The
> car has not been
> wrecked, but the rust is a worry.  What do you
> think?
> 
> Kervin
> 
> 86 8v
> 

If it were me, as long as the car structure is  sound
(i.e the frame), then I would go for it. My first
Scirocco was a 77 MK1. I paid $700 for it only to
find, several months down the line, the frame was on
the verge breaking in half.

=====
Jorel Jackson
1987 16v & 1985 8v Sciroccos
2000 Neon ES

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