Close call

[John S. Lagnese]

A Christmas tree at 50 would be bad.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Defferding" <mstrblastr at quidnunc.net>
To: "John S. Lagnese" <jlagnese at massed.net>; "LL - NY"
<larrycleung at gmail.com>
Cc: <quattro at audifans.com>; <200q20v at audifans.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 12:00 AM
Subject: Re: Close call


> To continue the quattro tales:
> Before we bought our '91 200Q we had a 4KQ and returning from skiing one
> night on 2 lane road with ~2-3 inches of snow and snowing I started to
pass
> very slow moving traffic and accelerating in left lane from 30-35 to 50 or
> so and saw something dark but sort of sparkling in left center portion of
my
> lane.  I was now up to speed and recognized the large butt of a tossed
> Christmas tree with tinsel and I was coming alongside a large SUV.  I knew
I
> had to move or take out my headlight/fender and who knows what else would
> happen.  I snapped wheel right-then left-then straight and paralled the
SUV,
> but closer now and brushed the branches, but missed the large butt of the
> tree.  Ended up losing an auxilliary driving light and a bit of rubber
trim
> on that side and a few minor scratches to paint.  I was also power on and
> was totally amazed at how stable the car was and that I didn't hit
anything
> really bad or lose control.  Those few seconds seemed like a minute or two
> at the time.  Certainly didn't get sleepy on the drive home after that!
> Dave D
> '91 200Q Pearl w 134K on the clock
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John S. Lagnese" <jlagnese at massed.net>
> To: "LL - NY" <larrycleung at gmail.com>
> Cc: <quattro at audifans.com>; <200q20v at audifans.com>
> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 8:31 PM
> Subject: Re: Close call
>
>
> > Based on today, I'd say it was the difference.
> >  ----- Original Message ----- 
> >  From: LL - NY
> >  To: John S. Lagnese
> >  Cc: 200q20v at audifans.com ; quattro at audifans.com
> >  Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 11:03 PM
> >  Subject: Re: Close call
> >
> >
> >  Did something similar many, many years ago. Two laner in Maine, roads
> > damp and
> >  drying. Fully loaded 4KQ for a week of camping with the then GF. Car in
> > front of me
> >  slows and starts to pull off to the right, no signal. I assessed they
> > were pulling off, as
> >  they then put thier brake lights on. Pull out into the left lane (no
> > oncoming traffic, so it
> >  appeared safe) and accelerated. JUST as I was passing the now stopped
car
> > (halfway
> >  off the road), it suddenly turns LEFT into my path (no signal, and
> > obviously, not look either). Horn, swerve (now close to 70) and 3
vicious
> > fishtails (at least I had the presence of mind to keep the power on or I
> > would've looped at 70!) and I then was able to smooth things out. We
> > missed by no more than 2 feet. Things were rather silent in the car for
> > the next few minutes while we both checked our collective shorts. I feel
> > your exhiliration (?) at your survival, and have learned not to trust
> > anyone anymore and anticipate some stupid manuvers. I've wondered how
much
> > quattro helped there, since I was under power during the recovery.
> >
> >  LL - NY
> >
> >
> >  On 2/17/06, John S. Lagnese <jlagnese at massed.net> wrote:
> >
> >    Hi,
> >    While casually driving home today on I 95 just south of the Hampton
> > tolls in
> >    NH I got a major scare. It was extremely windy, 65 mph gusts, I was
> > speaking
> >    to my wife with the using my cell phone with the headset. I saw a
> > tractor
> >    trailer about an inch from my car, a 92 Audi 200 Turbo Quattro. It
was
> > still
> >    moving into my lane, getting blown by a big gust. I yelled Holy F#$k,
> > then I
> >    jerked the wheel about 120'.
> >    The Audi jumped into the other lane. I was sliding at a 45 ' angle at
> > about
> >    80 mph. I straightened the wheel. The car did a  couple of fishtails
> > and
> >    snapped straight.
> >    I really would not have thought that the car could do that. I have
> > never
> >    been so happy to be wrong.
> >    I'm still thinking I was lucky to be writing this now!
> >    BTW I bought a couple of lottery tickets considering that this must
be
> > my
> >    lucky day!
> >    John
> >    87 Scirocco 16v
> >    91 200TQ20V
> >
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