The End of my Scirocco days?

[abatzis2@hotmail.com (Michael Abatzis)]

heh heh. there's plenty of time to work on sciroccos in medical school :)


-Michael Abatzis
Hotlanta! GA
1988 Scirocco 2L 16v RIP-->parting, finally taking orders: 
www.learnlink.emory.edu/~mabatzi/mikes_page1.html
1987 Scirocco 2L 16v...




>From: "Tyler P." <ty@festf.org>
>To: "List (E-mail)" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Subject: The End of my Scirocco days?
>Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 10:50:33 -0800
>
>Here's my dielema.  I will be going back to college this fall and only want
>to keep one vehicle.  Currently I'm driving the 84 scirocco daily and I'm
>fixing up an 81 rabbit diesel.  Well, as much as I like the scirocco the
>fact is that most of the benefits are leaning towards keeping the rabbit 
>and
>getting rid of the scirocco.  Reasons for this are that I fit much better 
>in
>the rabbit, its easier to work on, and the mk2's seem to have some issues
>with build quality (cracking frames).  Also, I will be putting a turbo on
>the diesel and even without that, the engine is pretty peppy for intown
>driving, just the freeway speeds are slow.  The only benefit with the
>scirocco is that its rare and pretty and I'm attached to it but frankly
>being 6' 3" with an extra 2-3" of hair height makes it so I have be
>pratically laying down to not have my head touch the roof.  This makes
>controlling the car kind of tough because I'm not in the best position to
>have any leverage at the wheel.  Also, I've been running it with no center
>consol for half a year for much needed leg room!  Additionally, even though
>my car's motor was rebuilt and I've put a lot of work into it, it still has
>always had problems with rough idle and running rich.  The diesel is so 
>much
>simpler, I fit into it, and I can transfer my suspension over to it, and 
>the
>turbo should make it a fun car to drive.  Both cars have straight bodies on
>them so I don't know what to do.  I figure I can't get too much out of the
>scirocco, maybe $2000 if I keep my stuff on there but I'm going to take
>every upgrade off of it and transfer those to the rabbit if I do sell it.
>Even so the $2000 really isn't that much money so it wouldn't be worth it 
>to
>give up the car.  Another thing I was thinking about is maybe insuring it 
>as
>a classic but there is the question of how old does the car have to be to 
>do
>that and get super cheap insurance on it (20-25 years?) or even not insure
>it at all (our state now tows the car and fines you instead just fining
>you).  The problem here is that I'm going to try and get into medical 
>school
>in 2-3 years so I don't know if I want to just have the car sit around for 
>7
>years.  Its just not pratical.  I suppose it would be nice for a backup
>vehicle and would be fun to turn into a project after I get out of school
>and start making money (2 liter turbo!!!???).  So my dilema is that its not
>worth it to sell it, and its not too practical to let it sit for 7 years
>when I'm not sure I'll have a place to keep it.  My moms house has no yard
>or driveway (patio home) and my dad may move down to arizona for Harley
>Davidson school.   The other thing is that it may be harder to return to 
>the
>scirocco world in 7 years.
>
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