[s-cars] 1988 Trans Am footage

[Jason Mawhinney]

Damn fine footage.  Thanks for sharing some fine old school video!
Jason Mawhinney


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brett Dikeman" <brett at cloud9.net>
To: <quattro at audifans.com>; "200q20v List" <200q20v at audifans.com>; "list 
s-cars S-CARaudifanscom" <s-car-list at audifans.com>; "List Urq" 
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Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 12:43 AM
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 Please do NOT publish on any bittorrent tracker sites or such, but  feel 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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