OT: Vacation non-tech

[brianm@earendel.org (Brian McGarvey)]

Cathy..
If you dont install the passenger side mount you will as you have
discovered mangle a front MM in short order. BTW the front MM is like 5
bolts. If you did the Master clyn the front MM is cake.
brian


On Sun, 4 Aug 2002, Cathy Boyko wrote:

> Back from vacation.
> We raced at SanAir (near Montreal), and I realized I know absolutely no french
> words for engine stuff. Very frustrating. There was a nice black turbo ragtop
> Rabbit which made me realize this, Jim, perhaps the next project? There was
> one wicked fast Corrado, running 12's, and actually quite a few VWs, more than
> we see up here in Ontario. And a cool VW show truck (ex cabrio?) I did take
> pictures...
>
> Then off to the real vacation. I saw only one Rocco the whole trip, it was
> Mickey's, and the meeting had been arranged. But it was great to sit and yack
> about the cars with Josh and Mickey. Sorry I didn't get things arranged Rick,
> time was tight.
>
> Lots of comments on my car, from  "oh those were basicly garbage cars" to
> "really nice" .
>
> I got to drive a '96 5 spd VR6 Passat wagon, heavy but lots of muscle and
> really smooth. My cousin bought it when she was down for a vacation, but she
> didn't cope well with my rather "enthusiastic" test drive. She'll recover.
>
> The usual arrest story, on the way home in Syracuse again, like deja vu of
> last year ( the twin 90 mph ticket story). But I was determined not to pay a
> fine this time. I'd been cruising along passing in the slow lane, just pulled
> into the fast lane, and I saw the cruiser in the median. I wasn't really going
> that fast, I had really deserved it on the trip down though... My hubby was
> ahead,and said he thought HEd been caught, but they went after me instead,
> likely the sport compact thing.  I think the young cop was genuinely surprised
> to see a mature (ahem) woman at the wheel. Anyway, the usual conversation,
> informing me of my speed ( 83 in a 65), and asking for paperwork. So I explain
> that my speedo is only in metric, and the light was out so I had been keeping
> up with traffic estimating my speed based on the tach ( which has the working
> light) . Pretty well the truth actually. After the usual wait, it was "go and
> sin no more", and "get the light fixed"... I figure it would have been
> speeding AND an illegal speedo if I'd been young and male. And Julie, I had
> ditched the bra earlier, but the spandex was not in effect...( lucky this
> time, first time in the Rocc, the cops love the bug). Now I'm wondering if a
> switch could be put in to put the speedo light on and off as needed...
>
>
> Cathy, 1987 16V Rocc, with the newly mangled front motor mount and custom
> "dark" instrument panel! "the silver headache"
>
>
>
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