Scirocco Links

Useful Scirocco Links

Hand-picked links for your browsing pleasure, sorted by country of origin. Sites marked with an asterisk (*) are particularly recommended for interesting content.

UK

• The Scirocco Register*
  UK Club celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2006
• Scirocco World
  UK Club
• No-Rice*
  UK Club and forum where I'm usually to be found hanging out with the 'Rocco Mafia'
• The Rocco Mafia
  mr.brown's home on the Interweb. He's owned more Sciroccos than I've had hot dinners and I'm hard pressed to think of anyone in the UK who hasn't bought some parts from him at some time.
• Scirocco UK
  Home of the Scirocco UK Yahoo! group
• Eric's Scirocco and Corrado Pages
  Better known as Tempest, Eric Coolen is a minor legend with his Rieger-kitted Mk1.
• Dr. Dub's Storm Site*
  Great run down on just about every model of every Scirocco built.
• The Electric Scirocco
  Paul Compton's conversion of his 1984 GTi to an electric motor
• Scirocco 20v
  Geordie Lee's 20v 1.8 Turbo powered Scala
• Jez's Scirocco Storm
  Jeremy Bromley's Storm (he has a rather nice Corrado too)

USA

• scirocco.org*
  US Rocco site with a lively eMail list
• driversfound.com*
  US-oriented Rocco site, but it has a useful collection of UK brochures.
• VW Vortex: Scirocco Forum*
  Huge US VAG enthusiasts' site with a thriving Scirocco section
• Vintage Watercooleds
  US-based new home of Patrick Beaueau's legendary ATS Tech Notes.
• funksoulkitty.org*
  Kirsten's Mk1-oriented site. She's also re-manufacturing Mk1 indicators in amber, clear and smoked varieties. Check out her tattoo!
• DuRocco
  Anson's awesome home-brew twin-engined beast
• MyScirocco.org
  An interesting little collection of Mk1s
• Project Feather
  Ryan Hockenbury's lightweight 16v with some useful tech
• scirocco16v.com
  Shannon's 1987 16v, now sadly gone. Handy tech notes.
• Callway Turbo Scirocco #10
  One of 36 Turbo specials built by Callaway Cars of Connecticut

Germany

• Dirk Schneider*
  German Rocco site. Great guy, loads of pictures.
• Sciroccoforum.de*
  German Rocco forum. They have an English language section
• Crazy Scirocco
  German club. Warning: High Mullet quotient.

France

• la.scirocco.free.fr
  French Rocco forum. Lots of smileys.

Switzerland

• Scirocco Club SG
  Swiss club. The very handy Tuning page is well worth a visit.

Netherlands

• SciroccoForum.nl
  Dutch forum
• Joost Eimers*
  Joost's striking 16v GTX and custom Scirocco trailer. Tech info, with a run-down of all the engines available on Sciroccos and his explanation of the MFA especially are worth a look.

Hungary

• Scirocco Club Hungary
  Hungarian club

Poland

• Scirocco Corrado Club Polska
  Polish club
• SC Scirocco Corrado
  Polish club

Russia

• scirocco.ru
  Russian-language Rocco forum

Sweden

• desertwind.se
  Mats Karlsson's 1981 Mk1 GTI

Canada

• the Scirocco GTD
  A turbo-diesel conversion

Other fine VW-related sites

• London & Thames Valley VW Club*
  The "official" London VW Club :-)
• Edition 38
  UK Club with an increasingly impressive annual show.
• The Corrado Forum*
  UK online forum
• Club Polo
  UK club with an online forum
• Volkszone/VZi
  Huge UK online forum. Mostly aircooled.