200'000 mile club

[Huw Powell]

  I think that's a about a million miles on the clock.  The Moon and 
back, twice.

On 5/2/2014 9:09 PM, Huw Powell wrote:
> I guess it's time for me to chime in ;)
>
> I've been driving Audi 5 cyl cars since 1986:
>
> 1. 1980 5000s, I think it had about 150k miles, abandoned after I
> lightly rear-ended someone in the snow and the car felt "loose and
> rattly" afterwards, so I let the insurance company buy it from me.
>
> 2. 1983 5000 turbo.  Great car, it was like driving in the palm of a
> great silverback gorilla's hand, it did whatever I wanted when I wanted.
>   Sold it to a Boston drug dealer when it was having wastegate issues.
> Stuck open, an 85 hp pig.  Stuck closed, an undriveable race car.
>
> 3. 1982 Coupe.  It's out in my field still, last time I tried to start
> it it would only run on ether.  Sidelined due to most of the brake lines
> rotting away.  315 K, despite dead odo years.
>
> 4. 1989 90Q (black).  Used it for over a decade, abandoned due to very
> old body work decaying, at 290 K.  The engine went to Force 5 to repair
> an 87.5 coupe.  Chris: "it's an Audi five cylinder and it ran when you
> parked it?  It's good."
>
> 5. 1988 90Q (grey, but mostly undercoat), the current machine.  Odo was
> dead, of course.  Stole the cluster with repaired odo from the black car
> first thing.  It's at 305 K now.
>
> - Huw