[s-cars] Win a trip to New York!Lorem ipsu[s-cars]NAC/Brits - and the problems of older Audis

[Adrian Hart]

Humor doesn't travel does it? Or maybe it just wasn't funny. Chris - I
wasn't ridiculing you guys, I was ridiculing us Brits, and those of us
addicted to what my wife calls our "stupid old cars".

Although I hadn't been smoking the carpet I had been ruminating over the
weekend on why the heck I was "wasting" so much time and money on a car
nearly as old as me. Restoring my TR6 has already cost me more than the urS4
cost to buy. And it's not finished yet. So seeing the brit car thread struck
a chord with me.

I suppose there was a vaguely serious point hidden in my Monday morning
ramble. Given the inclination it is still possible to keep these old british
cars on the road. I'll put it another way. Audi no longer supports many of
the spares you might reasonably require for the ur-q. That's the one true
classic they've ever made, and they've turned their back on it already.
Some of you guys on the list for a while might recall the saga of the
radiator. At one time Audi, having ceased production of this relatively
important item, kept my S4 off the road for four months while they decided
to make some more. That was three years ago, so the spares situation is
unlikely to get any better. (I can't believe I've been reading all these
S-car posts for nearly five years.)

OTOH, I can get any spare I want for the TR6, overnight. In a nutshell,
people are still enthusiastic about the things, despite their undoubted
failings. Will anyone still get worked up over the //S4/6 in forty years
time? I really doubt it. In fact probably the only people who'll remember
them are to be found on this list.

Anyway - Chris, I'm sorry you got the wrong end of the stick. One thing you
should understand is that, despite what some people may say, over here the
fact that we "only survive today because of U.S. intervention" is not
forgotten. I note you and I have both "suffered" since '87, so if ever we
can we should meet up for a beer. Even tho your car is from "the other
place". ;-)

Paul - with all those TR4s to sort out you need to know about this place -
www.revingtontr.com. Check out "specialist and new products".

Right, I'm back to "dormant" mode and good job too I hear you all saying.


Cheers for now,

Adrian