What's Your Favorite Car???
#23
01-25-2007, 01:55 AM
Registered Users
RE: What's Your Favorite Car???
1988 Volkswagen Scirocco 16v...the last year that vehicle was available in the U.S.
My first car purchased in the fall of '87....spun out and hit the barrier where the 405 and 710 meet....munched it pretty good (bent the frame), but walked away unscathed. The sherriff's deputy that witnessed my spin out noted that it was one of the best pieces of driving he'd ever seen. I had spun out and was facing on-coming traffic, when I had the sense to throw it in reverse and drive backward onto the shoulder. Ironically, another Scirocco (8-valve version) came spinning around the corner and kept on going moments after my accident. I responded to the sherriff (nice guy, didn't give me a ticket for leaving my front bumper and a rather long red streak on the city's property) that fear makes you do great things
and I guess the years of autocrossing in El Paso, TX finally paid off.
Tornado Red (LY3D)
2.0 ported/polished head w/custom ground intake cam
Lowered 1" w/Eibach sport springs/Koni shocks
Enhanced rubber (not polyeurethane....I didn't care to feel my teeth chatter in my head while driving) motor mounts
Neuspeed upper front and rear sway bars
Eurosport Shortened shift lever
Sachs sport clutch
Neuspeed spark plug wire set
Falken Ziex low profile tires
K&N filter
2.25" Borla exhaust
Kept her aesthetically stock and she was a real sleeper. Used to eat those old Civics for breakfast. Borrowed this pic from the 'Net, but my 'Roc looked exactly like this...
Don't think I would have been so lucky to come out that crash if I'd installed euro bumpers which are significantlynarrower than the stock bumpers. Damn I miss that car....RIP 'Roccy' 1987 - 2000.
My first car purchased in the fall of '87....spun out and hit the barrier where the 405 and 710 meet....munched it pretty good (bent the frame), but walked away unscathed. The sherriff's deputy that witnessed my spin out noted that it was one of the best pieces of driving he'd ever seen. I had spun out and was facing on-coming traffic, when I had the sense to throw it in reverse and drive backward onto the shoulder. Ironically, another Scirocco (8-valve version) came spinning around the corner and kept on going moments after my accident. I responded to the sherriff (nice guy, didn't give me a ticket for leaving my front bumper and a rather long red streak on the city's property) that fear makes you do great things
and I guess the years of autocrossing in El Paso, TX finally paid off. Tornado Red (LY3D)
2.0 ported/polished head w/custom ground intake cam
Lowered 1" w/Eibach sport springs/Koni shocks
Enhanced rubber (not polyeurethane....I didn't care to feel my teeth chatter in my head while driving) motor mounts
Neuspeed upper front and rear sway bars
Eurosport Shortened shift lever
Sachs sport clutch
Neuspeed spark plug wire set
Falken Ziex low profile tires
K&N filter
2.25" Borla exhaust
Kept her aesthetically stock and she was a real sleeper. Used to eat those old Civics for breakfast. Borrowed this pic from the 'Net, but my 'Roc looked exactly like this...
Don't think I would have been so lucky to come out that crash if I'd installed euro bumpers which are significantlynarrower than the stock bumpers. Damn I miss that car....RIP 'Roccy' 1987 - 2000.
#26
01-25-2007, 02:59 AM
#29
01-25-2007, 11:35 AM
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Clearwater, FL
Posts: 261
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
