I bought this 16V Scirocco Spring 05, it was advertised in the Scirocco Classifieds for $1000 and was located in Houston TX, it was in really nice shape except the buy thought it had a cracked head. It had been lowered (just springs) and supposedly the head had been "worked" by some shop. He lowered his price to $500, and another person tried swooping it from under me so we settled on $700 and I'd have my friend pick it up and store it at his place for a few weeks until I could pick it up.
The car was in nice shape, the paint was a little oxidized (came from AZ) and the dash had a crack or 2 in it (again AZ). But overall it was a nice condition 16V, and it ran too! Just had an overheating problem. So I towed it back to Metairie with the Girlfriends Pathfinder and sat on it for a couple weeks, I'd start it up and drive it around the block to charge the battery until one day the head gasket really let go, so I took it all apart and put a rebuilt head, new head gasket, t-belt etc etc on the car. Turned out there was no cracks in that old head and there was no evidence of any headwork ever been done other than a gasket replacement (with a shit gasket I might add). I have yet to finish installing all the drive belts and get her running agian though. With the summer heat here and the fact that I Bought a Go-Kart and now a Miata this project has been derailed for little bit.
UPDATE: I finally finished her! I can't believe I didn't finish it sooner. All I had to do was tighten up a few hose clamps add coolant and tighten up some bolts and nuts on the accessory and timing belts. I had the timing way retarded and the car sounded like one of those lopy idling big blocks, but after I figured out my error I set it got her set dead nuts on at 6*BTDC and she's running like a raped ape. Infact the motor pulls quite a bit harder than my Miata. The car doesn't handle half as well though :( . That's why I put her up for sale, and after 1 day already found someone who want to buy it. After I sell this I'll only have 1 VW left.
Check it out the car won a trophy at a VW show the new owner took it too just a few days after I sold it!
