Interesting Audi "supercar" article link

[Thomas J. Donohue, Jr.]

Well, a few details...I had a stripped down 66 230SL bought new @$4900 at the
end of the model year.  No power steering...no steel roof.  White with dark
blue vinyl interior.  A bitch to park with the "wide" tires at the time.
Decided to order a new 68 250SL, maroon, with black hard & soft tops, black
leather and POWER STEERING!  Sold the 66 for $4500 and bought the 68 for
$6850(!!!)  Drove it for a year or so and a friend of mine, who worked at the
dealership where I bought the above SLs, acquired a 55 gullwing from a local
doctor, then promptly was sued for divorce.  It got nasty and he had to sell
the gullwing.  I sold the 68 for $6,000 and bought the gullwing for (I still
can't think about this for too long) $5,000.  What a blast!  Silver with kind
of tricky blue vinyl rolled & pleated covers over cloth(!) seats.  You could
put it sideways with a hard shift into 3d gear.  Then I sold my house in the
suburbs and decided to move into a highrise building in downtown Philadelphia
while we looked for a house in the historic area.  Decided that the gullwing
was not a good center city car.  Advertised it.  Guy came down from Brooklyn
and peeled $6,000 from a much larger bankroll, slapped it on the hood of the
Benz and said "Take it or leave it."  Still can't believe I took it!  Can't
talk about this any more (sob). Tom

Kneale Brownson wrote:

> At 03:44 PM 09/13/2000 -0700, The Quattro King wrote:
>
> >You sold a Gullwing?????  You should be shot.
> >
> >Shayne P.
>
> Add me to the firing line.  I didn't actually sell one, but just as bad, I
> failed to acquire one.  Guy wanted a '69 911 I had so bad he offered me his
> gullwing AND a Beetle to drive in exchange.  I almost did the trade but I
> took the gullwing on a 60-mile trip to have a really familiar wrench look
> it over, and he found a bunch of things in poor condition.  I got such a
> terrible headache from the unbalanced tires and the exhaust leaks into the
> cabin I just couldn't see taking on the trouble.  That was before the
> Porsche developed the first of two burned pistons from an intake manifold
> casting that was porous and opened up when heated up.  Had I only
> known.....  The SL I ended up with was a 230.