..This is one of the "car guy rules" apparently, and i think it's true. But being when the time is right, buying the first car you fell in love with, at least sometime in your life. You may be thinking, "yeah, another one of steve's 'what should i buy next because i'm a self proclaimed car whore' threads." Well, i recently found out some relatively disturbing news with the gti, apparently, before i bought it, and before the guy who had it before me had it, it was in a passenger side front end hit. the person who owned it then had it rebuilt, thus the title status, didnt really bother me, car looked/felt solid. checking my oil today, i noticed the lovely passenger side front frame horn is a lovely shade of red under the lovely shade of black. so from a red golf they grafted the passenger side front end from under the strut tower itself, back to the firewall and forward to the bumper.

this is sort of where i draw the line. i dont really have a tendency to drive my cars softly, and i'm sure with coils, and poly bushings, it's going to impose much more stress on this part of the unibody, flat out, it concerns me, not because it was done, but because i dont know how well the work was done. so i'm thinking i might try to unload this girl and start on something i know is solid, or at least semi solid.

which brings me to this, i found a g60 rado(First car i fell in love with) in kissimmee with a detonated g-lader(who knew?) that the guy might be will to trade for the mk2. it will need some work, some de-ricing, but it looks to be pretty solid, going to look at her in person next week. i want to stay within the VW family, but i need to find out how people would feel about a rat 'raddo. it was repainted at one time(the one i'm looking at), and the mouldings and things decided to be red too, so i want to flat the whole thing, and somehow repaint the mouldings/trim their shade of black. but i was looking on vortex, and it seems most of the corrados are gorgeous show pieces that dont look like they are driven, and seriously, that's no fun. end result is the lader would come off, a turbo would occupy the charger's former duty, and it would be getting stuck on speedbumps, rubbing all over the place, and not reflecting any of the sunlight on it's paint. which, is of course, fun. what do you guys think? i've got the bike now, so i can work on something at a much smoother pace, without rushing, so i'm really liking the idea, i can do it how i want it, not how time permits me to.

so what do you guys think? i absolutely love corrados, and i would love to build one to my taste(all business). but i still need to go look at it, so i guess i'll know after that.

Steve