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My Scirocco and I were days away from celebrating our fifteenth anniversary together, yet I had never had the opportunity to keep my foot buried long enough to achieve maximum velocity -- something I've done in dozens of other cars through the years.
It's been a big year for my little Volkswagen Scirocco. Not only did it reach retirement age -- twenty-five years old, enough to qualify for California historic-vehicle license plates -- but its odometer rolled over the 100,000-mile mark. I spent months collecting parts and building a brand-new monster engine for it. And then things got really crazy when, in a conference call, senior web editor Phil Floraday proposed the idea of devoting an issue of the magazine to automotive fantasies.
Photo Gallery: Ultimate Fantasy 2: Volkswagen Scirocco - Automobile Magazine
Photo Gallery: Ultimate Fantasy 2: Volkswagen Scirocco - Automobile Magazine