96talonchick
Proven Member
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- Feb 3, 2016
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Chippewa Falls,
Wisconsin
I had set my sites on an affordable dream car and ended up wanting a 2g talon. My first talon was my baby for 9 years, by all means she is slow but purdy. Took far too long for my dream to be achieved mostly because my husband has an even bigger love for cars and his car took the forefront. I had originally set out this winter to do preventative maintenance on my n/t but quickly snagged up a 2g fwd tsi on Craigslist. Now I have THE dream car as I had always wanted a tsi talon but doing that to my n/t would have been a waste of time and money.
I picked up a 96 fwd tsi that was a non runner but a decently clean body. The night we picked it up I had noticed an 'minor' title issue and had been told that the car had just had the head rebuilt but wouldn't start. It took me almost 2 months to sort out the title issue thanks to the schmuck who had signed his name as the purchaser but no other information. Thank god for Facebook and my willingness to stalk the previous owners to track down the culprit. Once I made contact it was a speedy process, he drove 2 hours to meet me at the dmv and he had registered it and then signed it over immediately. Then my husband and I started to figure out why the car wouldn't start, didn't take us long to realize that we needed to do a tear down and see what the damage was.
I picked up a 96 fwd tsi that was a non runner but a decently clean body. The night we picked it up I had noticed an 'minor' title issue and had been told that the car had just had the head rebuilt but wouldn't start. It took me almost 2 months to sort out the title issue thanks to the schmuck who had signed his name as the purchaser but no other information. Thank god for Facebook and my willingness to stalk the previous owners to track down the culprit. Once I made contact it was a speedy process, he drove 2 hours to meet me at the dmv and he had registered it and then signed it over immediately. Then my husband and I started to figure out why the car wouldn't start, didn't take us long to realize that we needed to do a tear down and see what the damage was.