quattro digest, Vol 1 #4515 - farewall to the 91 200q20v avant (Dan Simoes)

[Joseph Pizzimenti]

List,
I'll never forget the first time I met Dan.
It was right after a meet around Bear Mountain and he
pulls up in his supersexy lime green jetta tdi and
says,

"You know, it's funny.  I was expecting a big, fat
guinea."
"Sorry to disappoint."

:-)

Dan, e-mail me.  We gotta go out for beers, you're too
damn close and Audiotic to not hang out with/borrow
tools from.

Joe "dat not so fat guinea" Pizzimenti
--- Larry C Leung <l.leung at juno.com> wrote:
> Dan,
>
> Sorry to see your last Q go, although I can
> understand
> that chasing around leaks (some fluid, some
> electron)
> around a time challenged car. I know you'll be back
> with
> another Q when the time is right. In the meantime,
> at
> least the Jetta is still VAG. And at least it's easy
> to tell
> when it's you going by (yet to see another Jetta in
> your
> car's color....)
>
> LL - NY
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > From: Dan Simoes <dans at audifans.com>
> > To: "200q20v at audifans.com" <200q20v at audifans.com>,
> >         quattro at audifans.com
> > Subject: farewall to the 91 200q20v avant
> >
> > I'm still trying to come to terms with this...
> >
> > I've agreed to sell my Avant to lister Ben Swann
> who flies in
> > tomorrow
> > to pick it up from me.
> >
> > I love the car, especially watching the faces of
> hopped up Civic
> > owners
> > and the occasional Mustang/Camaro as I blow by,
> but the duties of
> > work
> > and parenting two young daughters along with
> owning a home are just
> > too
> > much for me to find time to spend 2 hours here, 4
> hours there
> > fixing
> > things like leaking power steering hoses, fuel
> leaks, etc.  It's
> > the
> > definition of vintage Audi ownership, ain't it? :)
>  Let's face it,
> > the
> > car is now 13 years old, and nothing lasts
> forever.
> >
> > So, I'll stick with the (mostly) reliable Jetta
> TDI for now, and
> > maybe
> > in a few months I'll be tempted by the revised
> WRX, or a deal on a
> > used
> > one.
> >
> > This won't be my last Audi, though I'm having a
> harder and harder
> > time
> > finding an Audi that excites me for the price I
> can afford.  A used
> > neu-S4 perhaps, or maybe a used TT225 alfresco?
> We'll see.
> >
> > Thanks to the guys on the 200q20v list for helping
> me diagnose and
> > fix
> > problems and provide emotional support throughout.
>  I'll stick
> > around
> > for a while, don't worry.
> >
> > Special thanks to Peter Schulz for finding the car
> for me in the
> > first
> > place, as well as to Scott Mockry of SJM
> Autotechnik fame, who
> > continues
> > to show an uncanny ability to diagnose problems
> sight unseen over
> > the
> > internet :)
> >
> > | Dan |


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