[s-cars] Sciroccos and Audis

[Pasqualoni, James E]

Believe it or not, I've got an 86 5k cstq with a hero e-brake that can
pirouette on a dime and just might still be known to perform maneuvers
like this.  Right PK??? 

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That is awesome. I once pulled an ebrake-into-a-parking-spot manuver
myself in the rain in York Pa @ York college in front of a bunch of Frat
monkeys who were- ere we say eating fungus that day (they called it the
magic bus ride, I won't confirm if I was on that TRIP or not) in my 85
URQ. One of them still lives down there and overheard the story being
told at a bar a couple years ago, which was a good five years after it
happened. Good times.
PB
3 Audis
 
 
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Sent: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:28 PM
Subject: [s-cars] Sciroccos and Audis


My Scirocco was a '77 which I bought new as a college kid after my bro
totaled my Honda car, cobalt blue with tan inside; I even rented a
garage off campus so I could lavish attention on it during the winter
months. I was in Boulder CO and worked up at Winter Park 2 days per week
- my winter driving skills were very well honed.  Used to take pride
that I went 150k miles w/o snow tires, and used chains only once.  In
those days the hwy dept used to place retirees in lawn chairs with
blankets and thermos bottles in the middle of the 2 lane highway to stop
traffic (can you believe that) and verify that snow tires were in place
before heading over the pass.  I used to pull up and say, 'snows all
around' and they would wave me through - I'm not sure they knew what a
tire was, much less the snow version.  Handbrake turns were a marvelous
aspect of this car, too, and I used to be able to spot a parallel
parking spot on the other side of the road and execute a 180 right into
position.  It was very cool.  I recently attempted this on a biz trip in
a rental Toyota Corolla - 30 years later -- in Spokane, WA right in
front of a coffee shop I was to visit.  Bad idea: no damage, but no
friends made either.  Fortunately my appointment had not yet arrived.

A BMW 3.0CS, 944, Turbo Volvo, Turbo Saab later I find that the S6 is
the only car since that has rekindled the kind of fondness I had for the
Scirocco.  It's the combination of engineering content and performance,
sure, but there's somehow a soul to the car that I think stems from
understated competence and exquisite design - all at once.

BTW, I can see why the S8 guys are getting  their rocks off.  I think
the S8 has much the same persona, but with V8 torque.  My concern is for
mileage, and I don't think the trans has the personality of the new
stuff, does it?
Related, I drove a friend's VW Eos with the V6 and auto/manual
transmission.
Can't say enough about how well this trans worked - I really is a
different experience from the auto-stick that we've all experienced in
the rental fleet - nice (fast) 6 speed shifts, rev matched downshifts,
multiple programs - an engaging driving experience.  While I'm a
die-hard for manuals, I would consider the new VW/Audi boxes as an
alternative and I NEVER thought I'd say that.

Thanks for the memories,

Steve, soundin' old but not so very old as I sound, V.

95.5 S6 Seattle

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