PacoT
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Nice. I believe it is the TDI, isn't it?
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Yup highline 2015 6sp manual timing belt water pump done 35000 left on emissions warranty plus two yrs corrosion warranty car drives like new and is spotless
I had a Corrado. I loved that car, but I got hit by a car turning left into me and it was never the same. Girls would yell at me on the 405 in LA doing 70mph asking about it. I still sometimes look for Corrados on Marketplace.
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Not proud of it, but I've been on tires a lot worse. After 15k I'm surprised those tires look as good as they do. Do you know that he is the original owner?
@adri - I'm glad you're OK. Looking at the size of that truck - if I were you I would go out and buy a lottery ticket. Imagine if one was on a bike. It's one of the reasons I hate riding in the city. Every stop is an opportunity to get rear ended.
A pretty simple shape but still by far the coolest thing VW has ever made
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Special car.
When I moved back to Toronto I had it trucked home from LA. I had talked to VW and they told me it would be no problem and they would support me with working through Transport Canada (I think).
Then when it gets here, Transport Canada asks for proof that the US Corrado has the same bumper protection as the Canadian model. The US model specified some statistic in mph whereas the Canadian specifies in km/h. I don’t remember the numbers but if you converted, the Canadian number was higher than the US equivalent. Government told me they didn’t care, VW needed to give me a letter confirming. And then VW screwed me over by refusing to give me that letter, but only after several months of back and forth. TC told me without the letter the only way they would accept it is if they crash tested the car at my expense. And without all that, I wouldn’t be able to insure the car in Canada.
A friend of my Dad’s was a US car dealer and in town for a show, so he took it for a ride downtown. We were *flying* on hospital row, the fastest I have ever been in a car downtown. A few days later I drove it to Buffalo and handed him the key.
I *still* keep the spare as a memento.
I wanted a Corrado VR6 but they were way more money than I had at the time so I settled on a Karmann Ghia edition Scirocco that I traded my 84 Z28 for. Loved that little car. Only pic I could find at the moment was the hatch area. Four 12” subs with the little Punch 40 on display for distraction to competitors and I had a 1000watt MTX amp hidden away that really drove the subs.
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You mean to say that you didn't have that little punch bridged to mono running into 1/4 OHM?
Cheater.
Mad Mike
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I moved from LA to Toronto in 86’, brought my 84 Quattro back with me. I had zero issues at the border. Did the same in 01 when I moved back again, brought back my Wolfsburg Beetle and a Jag with no issues.
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Thanks for the well wishes and kind words everybody.
My head feels lucky enough I guess, but a little foggy still. My ribs feel very unlucky.
Re: Tires - I wouldn't even allow those tires in my garage lol. I don't know if he was the original owner, but those were the OEM original tires. Hopefully whoever bought the bike has replaced them by now.
Re: Accident - Go figure this happened in a country road, and that probably made things worse... Ain't no way the Buckhorn Sand & Gravel Septic truck is going to have enough time/space to get up to 100 km/hr to rear end you in the city, but out in the country he can do that, send some texts or whatever he was doing, and plow right into you at 100 km/hr... I think in the city my father in law would've been checking his mirrors more often too... Yeah, maybe more risk of slower impacts in the city, but more risk of higher speed ones in the country. I don't think this would've been half as bad at half the speed.
My head feels lucky enough I guess, but a little foggy still. My ribs feel very unlucky.
Re: Tires - I wouldn't even allow those tires in my garage lol. I don't know if he was the original owner, but those were the OEM original tires. Hopefully whoever bought the bike has replaced them by now.
Re: Accident - Go figure this happened in a country road, and that probably made things worse... Ain't no way the Buckhorn Sand & Gravel Septic truck is going to have enough time/space to get up to 100 km/hr to rear end you in the city, but out in the country he can do that, send some texts or whatever he was doing, and plow right into you at 100 km/hr... I think in the city my father in law would've been checking his mirrors more often too... Yeah, maybe more risk of slower impacts in the city, but more risk of higher speed ones in the country. I don't think this would've been half as bad at half the speed.
Glad you're healing, (enough to complain about the condition of the tires on the bike you DIDN'T buy
).You make a great point about riding/driving on rural roads. People tend to relax, believing that the infrequent passing vehicles, and lack of visible police presence means that there's nothing going on that could endanger them.
In the last 20 years of living/riding in rural Ontario I've come around a blind corner near Algonquin to find a mother and calf moose standing in the middle of the road, crested a hill on a concession road to find a combine broken down blocking most of the road, sat through "my turn" at 3 and 4 way stops MULTIPLE TIMES watching another vehicle blow through without stopping, had to panic brake and prepare to swerve onto the shoulder as the vehicle in front of me stops unexpectedly in the lane on an 80kph road to take a picture of horses, and had to emergency brake after dark because of a tractor trailer without lighting or reflectors blocking the entire road as he backed into a field. And that's just summer time.
That just scratches the surface. Add in unpredictable bicycle riders, weekend getawayers getting an early start drinking beer/smoking dope on the way to wherever and a massive deer population to the distracted drivers, overly aggressive drivers, impatient 401 drivers who have been diverted off the highway because of frequent closures out here and you quickly realize that it takes just as much attention to safely navigate the roads out here as in an urban setting.
On that note, I came around a blind corner yesterday and an asshat in a miata was parked in the middle of the road admiring the scenery at the corner exit. F that guy. Not even an attempt to pull onto the shoulder. Sometimes you wish for Buckhorn Sand & Gravel to reinforce that stupid behaviour can be painful (I am not saying Adri's FIL did anything wrong, but that Miata guy deserves a beating).Glad you're healing, (enough to complain about the condition of the tires on the bike you DIDN'T buy
You make a great point about riding/driving on rural roads. People tend to relax, believing that the infrequent passing vehicles, and lack of visible police presence means that there's nothing going on that could endanger them.
In the last 20 years of living/riding in rural Ontario I've come around a blind corner near Algonquin to find a mother and calf moose standing in the middle of the road, crested a hill on a concession road to find a combine broken down blocking most of the road, sat through "my turn" at 3 and 4 way stops MULTIPLE TIMES watching another vehicle blow through without stopping, had to panic brake and prepare to swerve onto the shoulder as the vehicle in front of me stops unexpectedly in the lane on an 80kph road to take a picture of horses, and had to emergency brake after dark because of a tractor trailer without lighting or reflectors blocking the entire road as he backed into a field. And that's just summer time.
That just scratches the surface. Add in unpredictable bicycle riders, weekend getawayers getting an early start drinking beer/smoking dope on the way to wherever and a massive deer population to the distracted drivers, overly aggressive drivers, impatient 401 drivers who have been diverted off the highway because of frequent closures out here and you quickly realize that it takes just as much attention to safely navigate the roads out here as in an urban setting.
This happened to be in the hammer but probably I wouldn't be surprised if the forks was part of their loop.
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The bike that out-VFR'ed the VFR, with the added benefit of much simpler servicing over a V4. The ad is pretty minimal, and the photos are crap, but if this as clean as it appears, $3k is a huge amount of Swiss-Army-Bike for the money...
Glad you're healing, (enough to complain about the condition of the tires on the bike you DIDN'T buy
You make a great point about riding/driving on rural roads. People tend to relax, believing that the infrequent passing vehicles, and lack of visible police presence means that there's nothing going on that could endanger them.
In the last 20 years of living/riding in rural Ontario I've come around a blind corner near Algonquin to find a mother and calf moose standing in the middle of the road, crested a hill on a concession road to find a combine broken down blocking most of the road, sat through "my turn" at 3 and 4 way stops MULTIPLE TIMES watching another vehicle blow through without stopping, had to panic brake and prepare to swerve onto the shoulder as the vehicle in front of me stops unexpectedly in the lane on an 80kph road to take a picture of horses, and had to emergency brake after dark because of a tractor trailer without lighting or reflectors blocking the entire road as he backed into a field. And that's just summer time.
That just scratches the surface. Add in unpredictable bicycle riders, weekend getawayers getting an early start drinking beer/smoking dope on the way to wherever and a massive deer population to the distracted drivers, overly aggressive drivers, impatient 401 drivers who have been diverted off the highway because of frequent closures out here and you quickly realize that it takes just as much attention to safely navigate the roads out here as in an urban setting.
We were definitely on the weekend gettawayers part, though with no drinking/smoking, also it was on a Tuesday. But I think ti's still relevant because we found out after the accident that apparently accidents along that stretch of road are quite common...
As non-residents just out to buy some corn, we had no idea. I'm assuming the Buckhorn Sand & Gravel guy should have known better, but then again that idiot didn't even know to look where he was driving, so...
Anyway, I'll get a little Husky some day. Right now I'm just gaging my progress by how much effort/pain it takes to lift my bike off the side stand in the garage once a day. Hoping to at least be able to ride the Vespa, or at least an ebike around the block by the weekend. Maybe. We'll see.
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