[s-cars] 1988 Trans Am footage

[Lee Levitt]

Wow, that seems like a lot of work to watch a short video. And
philosophically, I'm against loading yet another piece of software on my
machine to conduct a single, one-time task. Pen and paper covers most of
those.

Just one user's feedback. :)

Lee 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com 
> [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Brett Dikeman
> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 12:43 AM
> To: quattro at audifans.com; 200q20v List; list s-cars 
> S-CAR at audifans.com; List Urq
> Subject: [s-cars] 1988 Trans Am footage
> 
> Hey all- a little friday evening treat; footage from Sears 
> Point back in '88, with the 200 quattros ripping up the track 
> (and then doing some serious power drifts in the rain...and 
> some so-so AWESOME roaring 5 cylinder sounds!) You MUST have 
> a bittorrent client to download (popular ones: the "official" 
> client, uTorrent, and Azureus.  uTorrent is a very small 
> download, about 130kB: http://
> www.utorrent.com/download.php)
> 
>    There are 3-4 of us seeding the file, so there should be 
> decent bandwidth available.  Yes, it's from a website, but I 
> wanted a lot of people to see the file without swamping the 
> guy's webserver, and bittorrent does that sorta thing well 
> (your computer shares back to others pieces it has already 
> downloaded.  If you want to speed up the download for others, 
> continue to leave the bittorrent program open after the 
> download is complete; you can adjust how much bandwidth it uses, too.)
> 
> Here is the Bittorrent metafile (NOT the video- this is the 
> file you use to tell the bittorrent client how to download 
> the video file):
> 
> http://24.91.173.75/~brett/1988searspointaudi.torrent
> 
> Save that file, open it with the bittorrent client, and it'll 
> download a windows media player file (sorry, only format it's 
> available in) that is about 24MB.
> 
>    If you are behind a home router, you will get much better 
> speeds by forwarding the correct port number (which varies- 
> uTorrent tells you which port , and allows you to 'test' it.) 
>  If you need further help, please do NOT post to the list or 
> ask me....google "bittorrent FAQ" or similar...there are 
> literally dozens of guides out there to explain it all.
> 
> Please do NOT publish on any bittorrent tracker sites or 
> such, but feel free to share on Audi/car enthusiast email 
> lists (and please mention my request not to post/publish it 
> on trackers.)
> 
> Brett
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