Slegato acquisition - part 1 (long)

[area53 at validpath.com (Jeff Toomasson)]

I'll reserve congrats until you get Gino (lol) stateside, but I can't think of 
any one more fitting to own one of the rarest of from-the-factory, North 
American Sciroccos...

Good luck the rest of the way!

JT

> It's been a long journey to get this far, but I now possess
> a Paprika Red Slegato.
> 
> A few of you might remember the failed attempt to retrieve
>said car from Montreal in March - and promptly blew the
> transmission in Mark F's Audi before even leaving Hamilton.
> 
> Finally over this past weekend, I snagged mom's F-150 and
> headed north of the border, using Cathy's as a base of
> operations.  She and I headed out on Sunday afternoon for
> the 7 hour drive to Marc's.  (We knew it was going to be
> either a really good trip, or a really bad trip by the
> parasol umbrella we saw within minutes of leaving that was
> gently wafting down to the ground from 200-300 feet in the
> air.)
> 
> We met up with Marc for a few minutes Sunday evening (after
> a couple wrong turns in scenic Montreal) and checked out
> the car.  It's a wee bit rough around the edges, but it's
> quite solid enough to work with (almost no rot underneath),
> unhit with original paint, clean interior and mechanically
> taken care of.
> 
> Monday morning we met back up with Marc in search of
> breakfast and a tow dolly. (while acquiring the dolly we
> had a dual Scirocco sighting at the shop next door.  We
>spoke with the mechanic who owned both and he knows about
> the list but has no web access at home...)  With breakfast
> and dolly both acquired, Marc did the honours of driving
> the Slegato up onto the dolly and then he and Cathy stood
> around taking lots of pictures while I cinched "Gino" to
> the dolly.  (Normally I don't name cars, but this one stuck
> from the first attempted retrieval and it seems to fit.)
> 
> The trip back to Cathy's was relatively uneventful, with
> her occasionally asking questions like "is that damn red
> car still tailgating us?"  Gino towed wonderfully, and we
> arrived back at Cathy's exhausted around 10:30 Monday
> night.
> 
> Now if the importer wasn't on vacation, I'd leave Gino on
> the dolly and take him home.  However, it looks like yet
> ANOTHER trip to Cathy's (oh darn!) is in order before long.
>  This might give me time to actually diagnose the coolant /
> oil mixing and fix it so I don't have to tow him the rest
> of the way back to Ohio.
> 
> Huge public thanks goes out to Cathy for everything she's
> done so far, and allowing me to leave Gino with all the
> rest of her "fine German scrap metal" as she puts it.  Also
> thanks to Marc for the immense amount of patience it
> required to actually get the acquisition accomplished after
> what, seven months?
> 
> I just can't stomach the thought of a seven hour drive home
> today after living in that F-150 since Friday.  Besides, I
> have a new toy to play with, home can wait another day....
> 
> 
> Daun Yeagley - Wilmington Ohio
> '81 Scirocco S               '85 Scirocco 8v
> '86 Scirocco 8v              '88 Scirocco 16v
> '88 Scirocco Slegato *still Canadian, but on it's way Stateside*
> '96 Passat GLX Wagon         '56 Cessna 172
> The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts -
> Ehrlich's Law.
> 
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