The End of my Scirocco days?

[rocco_crossing@hotmail.com (Rhett Farnum)]

I have to agree granted a month ago I put ins on the damn thing and haven't 
driven it since. LOL



Peace Out,
Rhett
Rocco_crossing
'83 Rocco (autocross ready, 20 days till season opener)
'92 Olds Cutlass Ciera (DD)





>From: "Erik Patterson" <jp43044@netzero.net>
>To: "Tyler P." <ty@festf.org>,"List \(E-mail\)" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Subject: Re: The End of my Scirocco days?
>Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 20:07:12 -0500
>
>It's a sign man, keep the bugger.  Just do what I do.  Let it sit and 
>dreamof the day.......
>
>Erik
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Tyler P.
>   To: List (E-mail)
>   Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 7:51 PM
>   Subject: RE: The End of my Scirocco days?
>
>
>   I guess my scirocco didn't agree with me.  Flat tire!  How's that for 
>discipline?
>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: Tyler P. [mailto:ty@festf.org]
>     Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 10:51 AM
>     To: List (E-mail)
>     Subject: The End of my Scirocco days?
>
>
>     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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