Re: Scirocco Fantasy - let's go back in time..

[Dave Hellekson <dave@waterfordbikes.com>]

Absolutely glad! Go back to 1989, My story was similar except I was driving a
Honda Accord during spring break and saw the Silver '87 16v on the lot with less
than 30k. I was 21 and always wanted a scirocco...that day I just finished a
test drive in an Integra. Once I slipped into the seat of the flash silver
beauty and kicked it over  I was beaming...this could be mine!  Ten minutes
later I was on the side of the freeway explaining to an unmarked Wisconsin State
trooper that this wasn't my car and I didn't work for the dealer and why I was
doing 85 in a 55 zone.  He let me go...I bought my first Scirocco.

Dave
88 TT 2.0 16v



RoccoPhil wrote:

> I have 3 roccos, all of them second-hand or even 3rd.  No problem there.
> But I never got to do the following.  Just imagine doing this, if you will,
> for those of you who never have.....
>
> **************************
>
> It's a crisp late-autumn day.  Sunny but a definite chill in the air.  The
> new models have just come out and you drive up to the local Volkswagon
> dealership in your GTi, which you love and has been a blast, but...  You've
> got about $5k in the bank and you're all set for all the other crap at this
> point in your young life.  So you've decided to invest in a Scirocco 16v.
> You've already testdriven it a few times.  You've done the paperwork and
> it's a done deal.  Soooo......
>
> There it is - a sleek silver Scirocco sitting at the end of one aisle of
> 'other' VWs.  Next to it sits a Black 8v Scirocco and a Tornado Red 8v
> Scirocco on the other side.  But the silver one is a 16v, and you've heard
> about those, and now you know....
>
> You open the door and climb in.  It's quiet inside, punctuated by the new
> car smell.  The dash gleems jet-black with a nice little 16v on the glove
> compartment lid.  Seats are perfect, clean, supportive, new.  "Thanks,
> Recaro", you say to yourself.  Steering wheel is clean, supple leather
> without any marks. The carpet and headliner are new, clean, unblemished.  As
> you look up, the silver hood sparkles in the afternoon sun.  You're glad
> you're off work today.  No better thing to do right now.
>
> The key slides into the ignition.  You tighten your grip on the wheel for a
> second.  Right hand on the gearshift - yes, neutral.  Hold your breath.....
> light turn of the key..... *gr-RUUUUMMMM!!*  the engine jumps and lights
> up - the car comes alive.  Oh yeah... Good ol' Ferdinand.  Clutch smoothly
> disengages, 1st gear finds itself perfectly, clutch engages and you squeeze
> that accelerator.....  graceful, smooth glide as the Scirocco heads out of
> the space, picking up the pace, down the lane, and out towards the
> highway..................
>
> No traffic.  Perfect sky, bright sun, cool shades.  Crack the window for the
> autumn air, turn on the VW stereo for sweet tunes...... engage first again,
> out into the lane the Scirocco glides effortlessly.......... it's so sweet
> today, you think, as the engine climbs higher, so nice you think you will
> just....
>
> NAIL IT!!!!!!!!!
>
> Bam!, second gear grabs ahold of the engine and the torque starts winding
> up - you listen to the engine work, flawless, new, no carbon, new bearings,
> yeah.... second gear torque soon peaks and you hold it for a millisecond
> listening, feeling the power, yes world, this is MY new Scirocco - she's
> mine........ you throw that third gear shift, knowing what comes next, and
> you ride third to insanity as the engine starts it's relationship with you,
> bitching at you as it works harder and harder, four pistons pounding
> away.........zip, zip, things are starting to blur in your peripherial
> vision now.......then you find fourth easily as the gearshift drops into it,
> like it was made for fourth, the Scirocco skating away down the highway now,
> feeling like it's trying to break gravity's stranglehold....... RPMs racing
> in fourth now.............. yeah,,,,,,,,,,oh yeah,,,,,,,,, "we're gonna be
> together for a long time, babe", you think, as you let her relax into
> fifth...............
>
> and now.....
>
> Aren't you glad you bought a Scirocco?!!
>
> HELL YEAH!
>
> ***********************************
>
> (and don't give me any crap about how you shouldn't treat a new car that
> way - it's a FANTASY, baby!  Someone throw me a towel!)
>
> -Phil Kerschner
> '85 Scirocco (the Loyal One)
> '87 Scirocco (sickee)
> '87 Scirocco 16V (BIG ol' project)
>
> "Sciroccos - 'til Death do us part!"
>
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