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    Look What Followed Me Home

    So I went to Sacramento with a buddy to watch some VW PRA drag racing (that guy that crashed his FastFiat you may have seen on YouTube or PutFile) and while we just happened to be in the nieghborhood, we went to look at a TC. It's a 5spd 16v CAR (big suprise right ) and the deal kinda went south for 'just the drivetrain' we were gonna load into my buddy's truck. Guy would only sell the whole non running car, fine by me, not so fine with the Wifey. Something about too many cars around our house are an embarrassment for her I'm like "Jeeze hon, they're covered up, sheesh!"

    Anyway, this is what followed me home. My TC I've been restoring/upgrading for years is an 89 non Airbag car (it's closest to the camera in the pics) the 'new' car is a 90, airbag and it has the little oval Italia sticker on the back.

    Here is the trouble. The 90 (new car) is SOOOO MUCH cleaner than my 89 that already has 100's of hours of work into it, the only thing that makes sense is to transplant the engine, trans, axles, shifter, RT brakes, swaybar, upgraded K frame, boost gauge, AF gauge etc etc etc into the new car. No small task here, probably 30-35 hours of work easily Still new car is NIIICE campared to the old friend

    Blue/yellow rail has a Turbo VR6 motor, not quite sorted but high 8's

    Red Baron is Eric Calabrese, one of the niceset guys in VW racing and it runs 8.50's and still improving!

    Other rail with twin turbos was only on 'tuning' passes, shutting off at 900-1000 foot an 8.0 should be low 7's easily. Thast's the Laufer family, they run VW Paradise and have other record setting drag vehicals. Chris just survived a crash that flipped too many times to count and broke three ribs and four other bones and he is back in the driver's seat Hardcore racing family, legends in the VW scene...
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    AJ (no More Alan) 84 Rampage RT TIII/568 Quaife 87 GLHS dealer optioned Red 16V Masi/568/Quaife
    90 Masi 16V White/Ginger/Black
    89 TC Masi 16V Red/Ginger/Black
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    Re: Look What Followed Me Home

    Let me know when you need the help, I'd be more then welcome to come over and wrench on it.

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    Re: Look What Followed Me Home

    Jeeze alan, can't you get another color?? hehe

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    Re: Look What Followed Me Home

    Quote Originally Posted by GLHNSLHT2 View Post
    Jeeze alan, can't you get another color?? hehe

    Alan likes that old man look

    On a serious note. Are you interested in selling the car without the drivetrain?

    LMK as your neighbors are already calling the city about another one of those "damn cars" in your driveway

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    Re: Look What Followed Me Home

    I would have tried to loose it in the turns
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    Re: Look What Followed Me Home

    Quote Originally Posted by ShelbyMotorsports View Post

    On a serious note. Are you interested in selling the car without the drivetrain?
    24 hours later and the answer is.............

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    Re: Look What Followed Me Home

    Quote Originally Posted by ShelbyMotorsports View Post
    24 hours later and the answer is.............
    Don't have the plan yet but unlikely. I'd like to mothball it with a friend for future use (like if I stuff the 90 in a tree or something )

    Besides you hate yellow

    AJ (no More Alan) 84 Rampage RT TIII/568 Quaife 87 GLHS dealer optioned Red 16V Masi/568/Quaife
    90 Masi 16V White/Ginger/Black
    89 TC Masi 16V Red/Ginger/Black
    86 GLHS #110 RoadRace Built 89 CSX-VNT Recaro Car
    89 Turbo Mini 'Woody' 85 GLHT 'RedBox'
    2014 Explorer DD'r 3.5Twin Turbo Ecoboost AWD and 500HP
    My profile page has over 20,000 views, I'm somebody LOL

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    Re: Look What Followed Me Home

    Quote Originally Posted by 2.216VTurbo View Post
    Besides you hate yellow
    No not for me. I'm not really a vert person.

    Know someone who is and since you were going to leave the body up north figured it may have worked out.

    I'll just wait for your must go sale when those OC zoning laws to catch up to you.

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    Re: Look What Followed Me Home

    Another "score" for Alan!
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    Re: Look What Followed Me Home

    hope the price was a steal, thats a very clean looking 16V very nice, even burl wood knob

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    Re: Look What Followed Me Home

    Quote Originally Posted by Xtrempickup View Post
    hope the price was a steal, thats a very clean looking 16V very nice, even burl wood knob
    I'm just trying to keep up with your TC collection...

    AJ (no More Alan) 84 Rampage RT TIII/568 Quaife 87 GLHS dealer optioned Red 16V Masi/568/Quaife
    90 Masi 16V White/Ginger/Black
    89 TC Masi 16V Red/Ginger/Black
    86 GLHS #110 RoadRace Built 89 CSX-VNT Recaro Car
    89 Turbo Mini 'Woody' 85 GLHT 'RedBox'
    2014 Explorer DD'r 3.5Twin Turbo Ecoboost AWD and 500HP
    My profile page has over 20,000 views, I'm somebody LOL

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    Re: Look What Followed Me Home

    you are doing better than me, well, i got 6 vehicles now, cant get anymore til something goes. I do like all my cars. these TCs are neat, being i've driven the white one, I see what the draw is, pretty peppy for a old man's car. that car you got was defiately a clean car and i bet similar in price to my white on i stole

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