Dark Blue Scirocco I's

[gatesj at mailblocks.com (John Gates)]

Yeah, I had to look that up myself.  I believe it's perforating rust...

John Gates
--
'85 Scirocco
'97 Jetta GLX

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Bennett <scirocco16vr32@gmail.com>
To: ken weidmann <glxtasy@hotmail.com>
Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Sent: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:53:24 -0400
Subject: Re: Dark Blue Scirocco I's

Tin Worms?!?

On 6/16/05, ken weidmann <glxtasy@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> For any of you old-timers like me, Jeff Fitzgerald's "Warhol" 
scirocco
> from
> European car started it's life as a dark blue rocco. Jeff went to the
> Warhol
> scheme after rolling the car & moving out to California with the car
> infested with tin worms. He used to say that the car was simply making
> itself lighter as he was driving so that it could go faster!!!!
>
> Haven't seen that car for several years now. He sold it to someone in
> Riverside who was going to use it for racing. Jeff was living in San 
Diego
> up in the mountains but had his house burned down during the big 
fires
> there
> a year or two ago. He was in the process of rebuilding last I talked 
to
> him.
>
> Ken
> 
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> Message: 8
> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:46:55 -0500 (CDT)
> From: "Jeff Toomasson" <area53@validpath.com>
> Subject: Re: scirocco in novel
> To: rapieper@yahoo.com
> Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
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>
> '78 and '79's did, but I have a hard time imagining it could fade 
_that_
> much! :)
>
> JT
> >Did Sciroccos ever come in dark blue?
> >
> >--- matt <matt@safearmy.com> wrote:
> >
> >>Here is what someone posted on a local VW board:
> >>
> >>This may not be very interesting, but I found the description 
funny. I'm
> >>reading a book called A Death in Vienna, by Daniel Silva. It's 
basically
> >>an spy/espionage book. Here is an paragraph about half way through 
the
> >>book.
> >>Notice the spelling...
> >>
> >>"Alfonzo Ramirez drove the last surviving Volkswagen Sirocco in the
> >>western hemisphere. It might have been dark blue once; now the 
exterior
> >>had faded to the color of pumice. The windshield had a crack down 
the
> >>center that looked like a bolt of lightning. Gabriel's door was 
bashed
> in,
> >>and it required much of his depleted reservoir of strength to pry 
it
> open.
> >>The air conditioner no longer worked, and the engine roared like a 
prop
> >>plane."
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Matt
> >>1981 Mars Red
> >>1984 Wolfsburg
> >>1987 8v Auto
> >>Louisville, KY
> >>
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