> Langford...nice paint job....sooooooo how's things at SnF ??? I don't know. I'm sitting in my office at the moment. I'll leave Friday morning with Doug Steen, in order to make the CorvAircraft get-together Friday afternoon.
One more thing I should mention about the Scirocco. Sometimes I just have to take a break from one thing and get something entirely different accomplished. The Scirocco was one of those things that I'd let get too far gone for my own comfort level. It had developed a leak, so I couldn't drive it in the rain, which limited its usefulness as the family spare car. I try to keep cars in "like new" mechanical condition, because as soon as you start letting things go, the more likely you are to wake up some day deciding that it needs to go to the junk yard. While in the repaint process, and wanting to do it right, I completely removed the sunroof and rebuilt it (which is not a trivial excercise), but eventually discovered the leak had been at the taillight seal. I also filled in a pair of useless channels in the roof that had been filled with a plastic cover (covering seam welds, I'm sure). And I removed some ugly side molding. And best of all, it's not pink any more! My point is that I took an 18 year old $1500 car and added $220 in paint, to give the car a new lease on life. The thing still corners better than my GTI (the CG is several inches lower, and it weighs less), and is a hoot to drive, so I drive it almost as much as the GTI now. And with that little mission accomplished, my "actually-did-something-constructive" battery has been recharged again. Looking at the plane, it's hard to see what I actually did on it after a day's work. Looking at the Scirocco, I feel like I got something done... Mark Langford, Huntsville, AL N56ML at hiwaay.net see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
