Waterfest+memories...

[Larry C Leung]

Steve, 

It was a pleasure to meet you (oh so briefly) at Waterfest. I wish we had
the chance to see your car, but as you said about leaving the dusty
P-lot, if we had the chance to move, we did.....

LL - NY

P.S. Did I mention that the P-lot was DUSTY!!?!?!?!

On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 23:16:56 "Stephen Ankney" <ankneys at hotmail.com>
writes:
>Listers,
>I've finally made the trip back to Michigan from Waterfest. Lots of 
>interesting things done along the way. Recap:
>
>The good:
>Waterfest in general. My first time out at this event. Lot's of nice 
>VW's 
>and Audi's. Some of the cooler cars were in the parking lot(s). I 
>spotted a 
>couple of nice Audis out there including a couple of white 4000Q's, a 
>
>yellowish 90 Q with smoked factory hellas(kind of reminded me of 
>Neds)a 
>couple of nice type 44's, some coupe quattros, etc.
>
>There were generally very few older Audi's in the show. Most Audi's 
>were of 
>the newer A4/S4 type. There was a beatiful 85 4000 quattro with a 
>turbo 
>conversion in RS2 blue that was pretty sharp. There was also a nice 91 
>Coupe 
>quattro too.
>
>Vendor wise it seemed like alot of the "tuner" companies were there 
>peddling 
>all the newest and coolest stuff. Did'nt do me much good with my type 
>44. I 
>did however pick up some small used parts and a couple of Audi posters 
>from 
>one of the second hand vendors.
>
>One of the vendors there was a company called quattromotion. They had 
>a 
>pretty cool rally Audi 90 Q with a turbo conversion put in . They were 
>
>pretty nice folks and even fired up the engine so we could hear it 
>roar.
>
>The drag racing was pretty cool stuff. Two brothers from Manchester, 
>NH had 
>two type 44's that they were absolutely blasting down the track with. 
>
>Unfortunently for the one brother his radio fell out and wedged 
>between the 
>center console and his gear shifter so he could not get his car into 
>3rd 
>gear! He was then eliminated...
>
>I got to talk to Chris Semple and it was finally nice to meet him. I 
>plan on 
>ordering alot of stuff from him in the future:) I also got to talk to 
>fellow 
>listers Taka M. and Larry L. on the way out to the parking lot. I wish 
>I 
>could have had more time to talk to them. They both own beatiful type 
>44's 
>and I am jealous.
>
>Other good things that happened on the trip:
>
>To the braless girl changing her shirt in the back of that Ford Escort 
>in 
>Ohio: thank you...
>
>Eating at the Reading Terminal Marketplace in Philadelphia. Great 
>food/atmosphere.
>
>Hanging out at Love Park in downtown Philly with our feet soaking in 
>the 
>fountain on a hot summers day.
>
>The drive through Pittsburgh. What a cool area! Lots of good stuff to 
>see.
>
>Driving through the double tunnel on I-76 at 3 am going 120 mph with a 
>
>caravan of 8 VW's. Stupid....but fun.
>
>Camping. Illegally of course. Picthing a tent at the Harrisburg, PA 
>reststop 
>on I-76.
>
>Hanging out at the hotels the night before Waterfest and watching all 
>the 
>kids go nuts. Drag racing, burn outs, drunken fights, you name it...it 
>
>happened.
>
>Listening to my friends Corrado G60 with a Lysholm supercharger in it. 
>
>Sounds like a fire truck.
>
>The bad:
>
>The dust fields used for parking at Waterfest. The 1 hour wait to get 
>out of 
>the parking lot...
>
>The foolish kids that hit the police car at the Ramada while drag 
>racing...
>
>The kid in the neon who peeled out and almost ran over the Mt. 
>Arlington 
>police officer at the Sheraton...
>
>The accident on 46 coming in to waterfest. I heard that a kid slammed 
>his VW 
>under a semi truck. OUCH!
>
>Getting busted by Mt. Arlington police for pitching an illegal tent. 
>They 
>crept up on us in the middle of the night and caught us off guard. 
>After 
>some initial confrontation and a search we were told that it would be 
>ok to 
>continue camping were we were but we should watch out for bears and 
>deer. 
>Deer?
>
>I-80 traffic which generally....sucks.
>
>The cops at the Del Water Gap. I've never seen so many cops looking to 
>give 
>out tickets. They were using maroon unmarked Chevy's...
>
>The heat. We had no A/C there and back. Lots of water ingested...
>
>Waterfest being a one day event. Needs to be broken up a bit...
>
>
>
>
>I recommend anyone who is interested in VW/Audi to attend if they 
>can.
>
>Steve Ankney
>88 5000
>Holland, MI
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