Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:30:38 -0800
Reply-To: jon <jon@KENNEKE.COM>
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From: jon <jon@KENNEKE.COM>
Subject: Re: AWD
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Back "in the day" (early 90's), the large percentage of cars wiped
alongside I-5 in Oregon when it snowed were Audis.
Not that a Vanagon would do better, but something about snow, Oregon
drivers, and Audis don't mix.
Drive careful!
Jon
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Zeitgeist wrote:
> I love old-skool Quattros. I had an '89 90Q that I acquired as a wreck. I
> never got the chance to drive it, but damn, it sure was a kool kar. I now
> have a '94 100CS Quattro that has me chomping at the bit to get our first
> snow this weekend. I sure wish I could reverse the final drive and swap
> over the entire driveline into my Vanagon--awesome cars, fo sho!
>
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Ian Allan <ian.allan@bmts.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi:
> >
> > Late Friday so I gotta squeeze this in. Last summer I bought an 90
> > Audi 90 Quattro from the school teacher lady just down the road. Car
> > had a busted strut, the usual number of recently replaced parts and a
> > kick ass Apline stereo. Well, after replacing the strut with a salvage
> > yard unit, installing a rebuilt starter and fixing a gas return line
> > leak the Audi was set to go. We have had about 3 or 4 feet of snow
> > here so the roads look like bobsled runs. I cannot express how neat it
> > is to take one of these cars and run it wide open in the first three
> > gears down snow packed roads in the dark of night, full moon with the
> > Alpine supplying the background. If the Big 3....
> >
> > Ian Allan
> >
> > 94 Eurovan Westfalia
> > 86 Syncro
> > 85 Westfalia/Bostig
> > 02 Jetta 1.8t
> > 90 Audi 90Q
> >
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>
> --
> Casey
> '87 300TD
> '94 100CSQ Avant
> '89 Bluestar
>
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