A4 4.2L ???

[Brett Dikeman]

At 9:04 PM -0400 4/18/01, Lee M. Levitt wrote:
>It's true. I saw one in the basement of the Charles Hotel in Cambridge.
>
>I didn't get a chance to lift the hood and see how the 4.2 was
>installed...but I think the owner may have done some other work. In fact,
>the vehicle looked a *lot* like an A8 with some curious badge engineering.
>
>*Just the "8" removed, poorly, with a "4" in its place.
>
>Pretty humorous. Car was otherwise nondescript.

Sounds like the "diesel" badges on Phil's 5kCSTQ, and the lack of 
S-badges on Dan's wagon, before he sold it.

Still, you'd have to be pretty wacked out to not see the car was an 
A8; the differences are obvious and it's well known that the A8 is 
the top, big model, the A4, the low end small model....

B