Dark Blue Scirocco I's

[glxtasy at hotmail.com (ken weidmann)]

Sorry about that bit of old car lingo.  Comes from my dad and all the old 
hot rodders.

They would call rust "tin worms" because you couldn't see it but it was 
working below the surface making holes so that eventually you would see 
holes starting to appear on the surface.

>From: John Gates <gatesj@mailblocks.com>
>To: scirocco16vr32@gmail.com, glxtasy@hotmail.com
>CC: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: Re: Dark Blue Scirocco I's
>Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 07:10:06 -0700
>
>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
>>Message-ID:
>><53542.198.93.156.32.1118954815.squirrel@www.validpath.com>
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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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