New to the list (or - Dan Bubb is the Man!)

[julie at menloparkrandd.com (julie@menloparkrandd.com)]

John wrote: "Hi." 
Straight and to the point. Thats John for you. Must be from Maine :)
But Julie says:
Hey! An d welcome to the list! Another MKI. Decent. (think you can get Dan to finish my MKI?)
I am down to 2 MKII's. Now thats depressing :) (just flaming guys)

>-----Original Message-----
>From: John Lagnese [mailto:jlagnese@massed.net]
>Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 09:50 PM
>To: ''aspodell'', Scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: RE: New to the list (or - Dan Bubb is the Man!)
>
>Hi,
>John
>87 16V
>Biddeford, Maine
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: aspodell [mailto:aspodell@cox.net] 
>Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 7:08 PM
>To: Scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: New to the list (or - Dan Bubb is the Man!)
>
>Greetings List!
>
>I've been reading for a few weeks now and I thought it was time to
>introduce myself. My name is Adam and it's my '81 that Dan Bubb has
>taken on as his one of his many projects! Hooray Dan!
>
>A little background: Almost a year ago, with little knowledge, but a
>great love for Sciroccos I bought (sight unseen) a rust free Arizona car
>that I thought was a solid base for a project. And it was, but I had no
>idea what I was getting myself into. Relying on my mechanics' advice and
>judgement I started the restoration. 
>
>Things went along fairly smoothly for a while (with the typical hiccups
>that I expected)...new engine, new paint, custom interior (not yet
>installed)...until they got to the wiring. I knew going into it that the
>car had had an electrical fire and needed to be rewired, but they kept
>telling me that they could handle it. So after months of searching, I
>found the harnesses I needed at a salvage yard. That was back in May and
>I thought everything was good to go and I'd be driving it anyday. The
>short story is that the mechanics backed out on completing the job.
>Those Jack-Bags! (That's my new word and I'm promoting it's use...try it
>out!)
>
>I was at a total loss as to what to do, so I turned to Mr. Paul Grimes
>for help (who had helped me find the car to begin with after he decided
>not to sell me his beautiful mk1). He put me in touch with Dan, who
>thankfully, agreed to take the job. Dan then enlisted Kirsten the
>funk-soul-kitty to refurbish and route the wiring harnesses. I was gonna
>take the car back to the jack-bags after that, but Dan-the-man came
>through for me again and agreed to finish the rest of the assembly for
>me! Damn, am I happy about that! Dan has found so many things that the
>Jack-bags missed and (Dan, I hope you don't mind me saying this) at a
>fraction of the cost the jack-bags would have charged me.
>
>So, once again, Hooray Dan! Hooray Kirsten! With a little luck, a few
>more weeks and I'll finally be able to drive my bad-ass Scirocco.
>
>BTW, I've named my car Anvil (a story for another day) and although I
>haven't been very good at documenting the progress, if you're interested
>you can see some pictures on Photobucket (the first 3 pics are of the
>mk1 that I had back in college, the rest are of Anvil).
>
> http://s30.photobucket.com/albums/c318/asp614/
>
>Adam Podell
>
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