LAC! Dawn of the Type44 Dead

[Steve Sears]

Chris,
Funny story.  I'm sure we've all met them - the marginally insane that have
been released into the population with the hope that the "sanity" of the
masses will rub off on them.
I met one when I was bringing back my first DKW from Penn. years ago.  After
a day of meeting people's stares on the interstates and answering questions
at the rest stops of PA and NY as we returned to Ontario, we stopped at a
rest stop near Kingston.  A few people came up and asked what the car was
(most thought it was a Nash Metropolitan), this disshevled guy came up and
stared at the car on the trailer.  After a minute, he turned to me and
said....."Is it any good?"  I'm still unsure what he was asking.
Cheers!
Steve Sears
1987 Audi 5kTQ - Good?....yes.
1980 Audi 5k - Good?....sure!
1962 and '64 Auto Union DKW Junior deLuxes - Good?.....why not?
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----- Original Message ----- 
> At 3:32 PM -0700 4/12/04, Chris Dyer wrote:
>     My wee anecdote of this morning:
>
> So I'm at the dry cleaner gathering my clothes out of the back of my '87
> 5ktq. There's a scary looking and acting guy walking my way, but I
continue.
> I notice he's walking slowly towards me! Scary big-city moment. Where's my
> howitzer!? He approaches the trunk and in a very antagonistic tone asks,
> "Lemme ask ya sumthin. How in the HELL do you keep that thing RUNNING?! I
> had a 100, it was the biggest piece of sh!t I ever OWNED!" [insert
sarcastic
> door handle response here]
>
> I'm perplexed. Flee or fight? Does he want to kill me, or attack the car?
Or
> find the fountain of Audi youth? I continue on without answering...best
not
> provoke or confuse it. He walks away as if he never asked the question.
> Maybe he's headed over to the guy with the Peugeot 505? The lady in the
Fiat
> 124? Anyway, murder avoided. Weird Audi moment documented.
>
> Gotta love L.A. (it's the people I'm not so sure...)