I feel old and insulted

[Steve Sears]

Tony,
I feel your pain.  I felt bitter ever since I went to the local dealer and
the parts guy told me that the Type 43 part numbers were stricken from their
catalogue.  Last summer I drove over to the place in my DKW to pick up a
part for my Type 44 - the sales floor emptied as the staff came out to look.
At least most of them had seen the History of Progress book and knew not to
ask if I stuck the rings on the grille from a wrecked A4.
25 years of quattro is almost half over - have you seen any of the
dealerships doing _anything_ to advertise the fact?  Cruise ins? Open
houses? Invites to owners of "vintage" Audis?  Party plans for a
quattroberfest?  Anybody?
Audi itself is making an attempt to organize all the marque clubs
(Audi/Wanderer/DKW/Horch/Auto Union/NSU) under the Audi Club International
banner.  They've briefly alluded to one of the benefits as making available
NLA parts - that would be nice to believe, although some in Germany (where
ACI is active) believe it's more of an attempt to exert some control over
the "brand clubs".
Sigh.....
Steve Sears
1987 Audi 5kTQ
1980 Audi 5k
1962 and '64 Auto Union DKW Junior deLuxes - the '62 was at Imports at
Carlisle 2005

----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Gerard <gerard at 2226.co.za>
> Subject: Re: I feel old and insulted
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> Andrew Duane wrote:
> > Well....
> >
> > Went to the dealer once to get something fixed, they said they won't
> > even work on a car more than 10 model years old. Shop policy.
>
> Same over here. If the model number doesn't start with an 'A', 'S' or
> 'R' then it didn't exist. But then again, we all know that Audi has only
> been making cars since around 1994. They're a new company, you know.