does anyone know this car

this car is sitting in a field on rt 29 between Charlottesville and Lynchburg Va. i have left many notes on this car and no one is ever home at the houses around it.

i know what the car is i am trying to find owner

VW Scirocco. Somewhere around 1980, give or take.

i am looking for the owner of car i know what it is lol

In reply to Fletch1:

I suspect he means that car specifically, not the model.

Get on the county's GIS web site and get the property owners name and address. Send them a letter stating your interest in the car.

Also Google the race team name.

VWvortex would probably be the place to ask.

In reply to JohnInKansas:

I'll try actually reading more than just the thread title next time. Sorry. Carry on.

spitfirebill wrote: Get on the county's GIS web site and get the property owners name and address.

THIS.

I've been eyeballing an old Jap-o sedan 30 miles or so from my hometown (far enough that I don't know all the landowners by name), and I just tracked down who owns the property in under 30 minutes (most of which was spent trying to figure out what map/website I was looking for).

Now that I know who he is and where he lives, I've got to resist the urge to go talk to him about it.

Here's the HRE Racing eBay "About Me" page which includes info on his Scirocco habit and also has an email address. might be worth a shot!

http://members.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=hreracing

Then this one is probably the '80 Scirocco S...

It doesn't appear to be an S model---- they had a red stripe across the bumpers. Of course time could have erased that. The S model wasn't much really--- better seats, a bit of cosmetic stuff. Same oily bits as the others, although they may have had a bigger front bar. This car does have the ugly Kamei grille.

In any case if anyone hear picks it up, I may be interested in harvesting some of it's parts for my 76 Super Scirocco:

http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/project-cars/1976-volkswagen-scirocco/

i sent a email to HRE Racing we will see what happens next

Trevor of HRE Racing returned my email and yes it was his, he lost track of car. he is upset that its sitting in a field so now we are on a mission to save this car

Awesome-sauce.

I like the way this sounds! Keep us updated!

Trevor sent me pictures of car in its glory days

Glad you found the original owner and are trying to save it.

Sure doesn't look like the same car.

The one you found looks to be older. Style wise, it tells me 90's, whereas the late pictures appear to be 2000's. Plus the paint PLUS the rust- for a car that was re-sprayed- it would have had to been pretty bad for it to get so much sufrace rust.

I'm sure they did the car- but it just doesn't seem to be the same ones.

Paint is completely different (including on the grille) but otherwise it could be the same car, has the same little lip spoiler, decorative license plate w/ cover, I see at least one of the same plastic fender covers, same wheel setup...

it is the same car. Trevor sold the car in 2007 with that paint scheme on it. he is looking for pictures of it in that paint scheme. the car is red still but really faded. i am making a trip to it tomorrow. this car has a very proud racing history and should be saved

GameboyRMH wrote: Paint is completely different (including on the grille) but otherwise it could be the same car, has the same little lip spoiler, decorative license plate w/ cover, I see at least one of the same plastic fender covers, same wheel setup...

My issue is that the lower car looks fairly new, whereas the OP one looks old. From the time it takes for paint to wear away like that, and surface rust to just the style, and the kinds of advertising stickers.

Having same parts doesn't add much- it's not as if they are rare, and the wheels are used for a lot of cars.

The OP pics look to be a old car of that race team.

Cool story. I think it's the same car. You can't go by the rust. That hood was sanded to be painted, then left outside. And the guy who built it would recognize it.

My car's degraded similarly over a similar span of time and I was actually trying to take care of it.

spin_out wrote: Cool story. I think it's the same car. You can't go by the rust. That hood was sanded to be painted, then left outside. And the guy who built it would recognize it.

I was thinking it looked like engine fire. For some reason burnt hoods flash rust really fast, plus it would explain the car being in the field and the bizarre deterioration it's going through.

Get the VIN number and run it by the DMV in your area.