1988 scirocco project (shortened bumpers too) by JonnyPhenomenon

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so yesterday I went out to my garage to put away some tools, and I found my mountain bike on the hood of the rocco. 

my previously immaculate hood now has a massive dent in it, sevreal smaller dents, and paint chips and scratches all over it. 

my garage is impossibly small, and the only way I can fit anything in there is to stack it up on the walls or hang it from hooks. well I tried to get the bike out of the way in order to get at some screws I needed on a back shelf, and then I left it there. 

I havent taken any pictures of it because I am too upset to even look at it. 

12-6-2009

true... I finally messaged my father about it yesterday. I was too ashamed to tell him in person.  

he texted me back and said "it can be fixed"...

I looked at it again today for the first time. its pretty nasty, but it looks like it only got the hood and not the fender and bumper, so at least theres that...

12-8-2009

thanks guys. your generous compliments and positive reassurement is very helpful. 

it might be spring time before I can get the rocco up to my folks for repair. Snow is flying now and I dont want to risk getting the undercarriage covered in salt. 

I could always take the hood off and bring that up in my bus, but there are other things I would like to have touched up on the body, like rock chips on the bumpers, valence, fender trim and so on.

4-20-2010

thanks for he compliments guys  I actually won "Best of Show" at the "New England Dustoff" this weekend. Im pretty pumped about it. 

and now that I have some more spare time, I am going to get to work on a few things Ive wanted to address for a while now. first of all, since PCV oil catch cans are ridiculously expensive, I am going to make my own. havent decided what Ill makeit out of. it might be just pvc pip and caps. it will be hidden anyway, so it doesnt matter what its made out of.

and next up on my list: I ordering some alluminum sheet metal and I'm going to make a new brake fluid resovoir. the hunk of dirty old plastic on top of my booster is a total eyesore. I figure I can make a nice tank to match my coolant and PS tanks easy enough.

I have never tig welded before.... but how hard can it be?

wish me luck guys!