I sold my golf TDI. I don't commute and I don't need a car that gets
45mpg. That left me with 3 other cars -- the "other" car, a VW cabriolet,
and my 145 and 142, both of which need minor volumes of money and some
time to put back on the road.

So the cabriolet (1986) is the only real functional car. It died the
day after I sold the TDI.

It will start and idle but will stall most of the time when I try to
rev it up past idle. Even if I get it to rev above idle, (once it does
it once it doesn't die, so I think it may be some cold-start circuit
that keeps it idle at first), the car makes no power at all and stalls
if the clutch is let out even if the car is rolling slowly down hill.

I took the air filter off and noticed that the flapper thingy on the
k-jet fuel distribution doodad hangs up and moves roughly. The ones I've
poked at in salvage yards moved smoothly over their whole range of motion,
not like this one at all. The car started running roughly then very
quickly went from running roughly and missing under load to this total
failure.

Ideas? Volvo doesn't make a cheap, simple old convertible, so I'd like
to keep the VW, even if it is all metric and front wheel drive and stuff.

chris