Musicman

A good one: upward £600-£700, though I've seen minty ones go for less on occasion. Prices seem to have flattened out over the last 12-18 months and £200 bargains are getting thin on the ground. A grand should get you a very nice example. Personally, I'd go for an injection engine over a carb-ed model, but fun can be had with either. Stuff to look for: http://www.sciroccoregister.co.uk/as/as_lookfor.htm http://www.sciroccoregister.co.uk/as/as_mark2.htm High idle on carb-ed models - can be just a few quid to sort (waxstat adjustment) up to £££ if you replace the Pierburg with new. Weber replacement carb is a common option. Rust on door edges. May also be hidden on wheel arches behind the body kit and plastic arch liners. Checking the seams along the lower part of the sill can give you a reasonable indication. Fuel filler pipe corrosion. Common problem and it's an awkward part to get hold of. Rust falls into the tank. Worst case symptoms: engine cuts out after a few miles motoring. If you can get a look at the inside of the tank or fuel filter all the better - shine a torch in. Reach behind the arch and feel around for corrosion on the pipe. Dip a magnet in on a string and see what comes out. Bulkhead where the clutch cable goes through is often prone to failure and should have a reinforcement plate fitted - check for splits/corrosion and/or poor welding. The clutch is normally very firm, but should not 'grate' underfoot. Rot around rear strut towers (MOT failure). Other than that, the usual things to look for on a 20 year old car. Brake and fuel lines properly intact, etc.

13/19 :?

WTF? :shock: :cuckoo:

Hello! fancy seeing you here I'm cybertect from U75 ;)

^^^ Yep

Would a chapati or roti do as well? :)

All I know about them is that Ford bought the name from the Brazilian company who produced a tasty looking VW-based sports coupé in the 60s and 70s. http://wj2d.100megsdns.com/home.html

Corn, I know, but the AM Virage had Scirocco rear light clusters :) http://www.astonmartins.com/virage/virage.htm

Could have interesting implications for the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 if they win this one... [that's the law that requires you to hand over the unlock codes for any encrypted documents when requested to do so by the Police or face 2 years in gaol - not having the unlock codes in your possession is not an adequate defence, BTW as you have to prove you don't have them, which is logically impossible]

One of the guys on no-rice was booked earlier this week for 34mph in a 30. :shock:

That's because VW discovered too late that it was hideously expensive to produce. :D

FWIW I don't think the police *need* to rely on a speed gun if it's the officer's expert opinion that you were exceeding the limit. The speed gun makes it a lot easier to secure a conviction, especially where it's a relatively small level of excess speed (34mph in a 30 zone, for example). 46 mph in a 30 zone would be be difficult to contest though.

A couple of VW vids http://www.autoblog.com/2006/08/25/vide ... c-concept/ Dunno. It looks like a Gerry Anderson car. Which can only be a good thing :D

FWIW, word in the online press is that prices would start at £22,000 ($26,000 in the US).

I think I paid 103.9 for Optimax when I filled up last weekend, and this is Surrey.

Car magazine's report has a bit more detail http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/first_offi ... 118&page=1

Should be available around the end of 2007. http://www.leftlanenews.com/2006/08/24/ ... c-concept/ :? VW picked Viper Green from the original Mk1 colours to debut their Iroc concept (sc-IROC-co - geddit?? :roll:) Mixed feelings. Looks a bit like a squashed MkV Golf or the TT Shooting Brake. It ain't a proper coupé. But, it's growing on me. I like the way the air intakes at the front are mirrored by the exhaust at the rear, and the interior is quite cool. I don't like it at all in Viper Green. I chopped it into red.

For some reason it reminds me of the Ford Edsel (often at the top of the Ugliest Cars Ever Made list)

Transport for London are trialling RFID for the western extension of the Congestion Charge zone. They got the go-ahead from the government for trials last year. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/21 ... ing_plans/

At A4, 150 dpi will probably be on to the boundaries of acceptable. Personally, I'd be inclined to favour 200 dpi as a minimum, but I'm a bit fussy and your mileage may vary. It's largely down to viewing distance. You're not likely to be looking at an A4 page from much further than 60 cm, quite probably closer, so you'll notice any pixillation in the image. 48 and 96 sheet posters (the big ones that you see in the street) can go as low as 30 dpi because you're looking at them from tens of metres away. The other factor will be that the quality of the capture from a camera-phone or cheap digicam may not bear close examination because of the high levels of JPEG compression that they usually apply, which will reduce the apparent resolution of the image. Your eye is much more critical and will notice this kind of thing on a print more than you do on screen. :lol: :lol: :lol:

I'd hazard the suggestion that 300 dpi is a good working value for better quality colour prints, 150 dpi to be the minimum for reasonable photographic quality. Top end magazines like Vogue will work with 300 dpi continuous tone images for output on 2400 dpi equipment. 150 dpi input is more normal for newspapers, for example. On that basis, at 150 dpi, the minimum resolutions you need for each paper size are A4 (297 x 210mm): 1754 x 1240 px ~= 2.1 megapixels* A3 (297 x 420 mm): 2480 x 1754 px ~= 4.3 megapixels A2 (420 x 594 mm): 3508 x 2480 px ~= 8.6 megapixels A1: (594 x 841 mm): 4967 x 3508 px ~= 17.4 megapixels [* the rough equivalent size of a camera's advertised 'megapixel' rating] There's maybe a bit of room for manoeuvre with the larger sizes as you're more likely to be viewing them from several feet away. If you were to drop to 120 dpi for A1. 3969 x 2806 px ~= 11.1 megapixels

Bit of a curate's egg of an evening then :? The prang's rather unfortunate, but you're in one piece, which is the important thing.

Oh, it's certainly a chop.

Well, Leo Fender's Musicman basses, yes ;) I have a 1980-ish Sabre.

Hmm. The Scirocco's (officially) supposed to be back in 2007 - I though VW had already been through having two coupes on the market at the same time and thought it was a bad idea :D