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Oddball Scirocco
I dunno, it has the E1 in the glass like the rest of the car and German
writing all over it.
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From: "Foxx (in a box)" <foxxinabox@excite.com>
To: <jp43044@netzero.net>; <Scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 11:29 PM
Subject: RE: Oddball Scirocco
>
> Last week when Josh was out to pick up my cams, we figured or have assumed
> that I have an oddball Scirocco. Or maybe we're just dreaming. But the
two
> differences that stick out the most are the 9th digit in my VIN are X and
> rather than the hand cranked moon roof it would seem I have a Factory
> installed flip-up sun roof with sun screens. Has anyone else come across
> any of this? From what I can tell I have a early or mid year production
88
> 16V. I ran a CARFAX tonight and everything came up clean back to 1990. I
> tried VOA to no avail, Anyone have any idea's? If it is something
> not-of-the-norm I guess I'm lucky I didn't strip out everything.
>
> i have seen the 'x' before on a couple of sciroccos. the 9th digit is
simply a factory check digit. more common are 1, 3, 5, 7. as for the
sunroof, it may have been a dealer accessory at one time. that or someone
get very lucky in finding one the same size aftermarket. according to the
etka, it's always been the standard steel, tilt & slide.
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