UDO sighting: you all are gonna think im NUTS, but....

[Kneale Brownson]

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This link leads to several photos of the V8/Taurus
beast:  http://caliban.sf.ca.us/img/audi/v8q-avant/


At 01:21 PM 05/10/2002 -0400, Brett Dikeman wrote:

>At 4:41 PM +0000 5/10/02, jim r wrote:
>>[unidentified DRIVING object]
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>>yesterday evening [5pm, still good daylight], in san francisco, headed down
>>geary, i notice a tan v8 coming up the hill toward me.
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>>as it passes me, something odd catches my eye - i glance in the rearview and
>>notice its a WAGON?!?!?!?!?
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>>it had a wagon back, very squared off, not like the 44 wagons - more like
>>the goofy tresser [if i remember] or audi one-odd v8 wagons they built for
>>diplomats or something.
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>There were never V8 wagons, only a V8 "lang"(Limo.)
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>>the car was a mess, very dirty and kinda beat-up.
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>Yep.  In the pictures I've seen, it looks like the owner lives out of it.
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>>a custom-fabbed wagon back on a v8
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>That's exactly what it is.
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>>weird. anyone know what that is? lister? or am i just nuts? [most likely]
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>This car gets spotted all the time...it is a V8q with the back end of
>a Ford Tarus wagon.  They probably did it because it was dirt cheap
>to buy the Tarus shell.
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>Absolutely insane.  I -pray- it isn't a manual; hacking a car like
>that, in that way, should be a crime.
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>Most folks just buy a 200q20v avant.  Miss the V8 punch?  Not after a
>chip, you won't.  Still not happy, despite the fact that the car is
>lighter and has more HP/Torque with the chip?  Fine, get the RS2
>goodies...
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>Anyway, someone on the list probably remembers where the pictures are
>of the monster, a lister once saw it and had a camera handy.
>
>Brett
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