Howdy all! Is this where the 12 step program is held? (2nd try)

[redrocco at gcj.net (Martin Rodriguez- CJS/ELP)]

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cheers
Martin Rodriguez
85 Wolfburg
Juarez/El Paso

----- Original Message -----
From: "stetson" <tim@unrealexpectations.ath.cx>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 3:42 PM
Subject: Howdy all! Is this where the 12 step program is held? (2nd try)


>
> Hi,
>
> Been lurking on the list for about a week now so I thought I
> better take Patrick's advice and introduce myself.
> Hi my name is Tim.......and I'm a Scirocco addict. (Hi Tim!)
> I didn't start out this way or plan to be like this, but have had
> to come to the realization that when you have more Sciroccos than family
> members, a problem exists.
> The instigators of my condition should be held blameless as they,
> even though they have addictive properties, did not push themselves on me.
> I sought them out and spent exhorbitant amounts of time and/or money on
> either their purchase or rehabilitation and still do so on a daily basis,
> sometimes multiple times per day.
> I now realize that I have issues and am on the road to recovery as
> I have taken the first step towards maintenance and recovery in
> recognizing I have a problem, but it's sooooo hard as I have surrounded
> myself w/ beauties. Let me bear witness to the fine fillys in my care.
> The oldest and most deviously practiced of them is the Mars red
> (orig.) '84.5-'84.75 (small spare) 8v JH/4K. It's the one that started my
> decline into dubbin'. She is the apple of my eye since I rekindled my
> relationship w/ her early this spring.
> I'd broken it off w/ her after she continuously threatened to lose
> a CV and leave me stranded. I left her alone for 1.5 yr. but couldn't
> stay away and started turning an interested eye her way.
> This year I replaced the drive axle and then found myself buying
> her pretty baubles starting
> small w/ a K&N filter and a new sending unit, and before I knew it, the
> baubles started turning into estate jewelry like an Audi 5k TB w/
> accompanying Fox intake, 4-2 ex. mani. w/ Eurosport Flex/DP/2" Alum. cat
> back and hi-flow cat, leather seats from the boneyard, and 16v trailing
> arm w/ disks (which was completely reconditioned, as well as most of the
> others above).
> She now purrs at my touch, but I'm sure will demand more as time
> goes on to keep that attitude.
>
>
> The next one to snag my attention was a '87 16v that still dances
> on the edge of legitimacy due to the former owner never switching title
> from his purchase of her and leaving me w/ a "skip title" to track and
> alleviate by getting ahold of the orig. (1st) owner.
> Her attractively lowered Eibach/Bilstein <sp?> combo threw me for
> a loop and had me traveling to a different state (WI) to woo her into my
> home even though it was evident that she'd been roughly treated in former
> relationships (large dents in difficult areas and a poor maroon paint
> job).
> That her HP was yet again 1/3 larger than her 8v sister riveted my
> attention for a bit until I realized that she would be even more of an
> attention hog and that I shouldn't start REALLY working on her until I
> could devote solid blocks of time to her and her divorce from the PO
> was final. I did some cosmetic surgery but have yet to finalize the
> engagement.
> She is now a wall flower I tease weekly w/ a quick drive to
> keep her supple, but wanting.
>
>
> The 3rd (or 4th, depending on how you view things) in this
> addiction started as an internet affair via eBay as I was browsing for
> baubles to satiate the other 2.
> I'd found a 47k mi. 1.8L transplant engine auction advertised and
> when reading thru the immigration agreement found that the transplant came
> in the back of a fully functioning bronze '86 8v to bring it home. I
> followed the auction until it's end and was able to pick her up w/ the
> transplant for a wink and a smile. Her hook was that she was 2 states
> away. I bit the bullet and bought a bus ticket to rescue her from her
> Russian PO in Cleavland.
> She was all that I could have wished for and more as she whisked
> me back towards home in her strong presence w/ only 1 incident to remind
me
> that she, after all, was still a 'Roc and would demand attention as her
> due. I'm thinking she'll be impressed into winter DD duty as she
> has been the most reliable and patient it being that I still need to
> address her tattered rainment.
>
> Each of these houri have been impressed into forced participation
> in a web pages which chronical their rehabilitation and developement (I
> have to recoup their expenditure somehow, correct? It's not like there is
> no cost to their care and feeding) in various states of undress <wink>.
> They can be viewed w/o cost at the following locations, as I
> really can't justify charging for the pleasure until they are of world
> class quality:
>
> 84.(7)5 8v (the Lexicar or the red one)
>  <URL>http://unrealexpectations.ath.cx/scirocco/index.html</URL>
>
> 87 16v (the 16v or the purple one)
>  <URL>http://unrealexpectations.ath.cx/16v/index.html</URL>
>
> 86 8v (the brown one)
>  <URL>http://unrealexpectations.ath.cx/86_8v/86_8v.html</URL>
>
> The pictures are of high pixel rate and huge so dial-up browsers
> be forewarned!!! If you have HTML email you should be able to just click
> on the titles.
> If you see <URL> in front of any of those addresses, please
> ignore the beginning "<URL>", or ending  "</URL>" when you paste the URL
> into you browser.
>
> Thanks for listening to me vent! I look forward to the insight and
> news available from such a learned body such as yourselves.
>
> Luvvin' the dubbin',
>
> Tim
>
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