No additional Audi for now...

[Donald Lamond]

Tom:  I hope you don't mind but I am about to make about a dozen copies of you
last post.  Now when people come through the door of my apartment and start
comparing it to  a junk yard and saying I must be the only one in the world to
be living in such a mess;  i'll just pass them a copy of your post and explain
to them that I belong to a very exclusive world wide group of avant guard
artists who work with a very restricted medium called Audi.  And that when they
passed through  the door, they were actually entering my studio, which, in
itself should be considered an honour. If I detect a slight note of disbelief
in their voice, I will hand them a copy of your post and may even hand them a
collection plate which would have a large sign reading, CONTRIBUTIONS (For the
exclusive privilage of seeing great artistic work in progress)

Sincerely,
Donald

84  4Ks
Tom Nas wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Looked at an '82 or early '83 CGT 5E yesterday, for sale at the local
> scrapyard. When I first saw it (though atmittedly only briefly) it looked
> like a good buy because the front-end damage looked to be easily repaired.
> Anyway, on closer inspection the damage was a little more than it first
> appeared. The whole front end had apparently slid under a truck, because it
> was badly out of alignment and the whole front end was angled down. The
> hood hadn't suffered much and even the slam panel looked like it would not
> be too hard to knock it back into shape, but it had been pushed into the
> timing belt cover anyway, and the steering pump had been hit as well.
> Shame, as these four-headlight cars (though not exactly valuable here) are
> getting scarce and the scrapyard didn't want an extortionate amount for
> what was otherwise an original and unadulterated car. It's also a shame
> that the car will be broken up now, I'd have loved to add it to my stable-
> early CGTs are real eyecatchers. It even had its original 'snowflake'
> alloys in perfect shape, with new tyres.
>
> It wasn't a wasted day anyway- in a different scrapyard, we found two rare
> 15x7 R8s which I added to my collection, as spares for the wheels on my
> 90q. They need some refinishing but are straight.
>
> Also finally got my collection of spares and wheels out of the house and
> into storage, it's incredible how much 'junk' (depending on your views) you
> accumulate and how great it is not to have three stacks of wheels in the
> hallway anymore, never mind a passenger door in the bathroom or a set of
> springs next to the toilet bowl...
>
> Tom
> two Audis for now
> The Netherlands