[s-cars] Worthy projects (was Alum..was UrS $)

[Phil Mische]

Easy there, big fella.  The cars you mentioned are mainstream, known fast cars.  S-cars are less known and more stealthy and more Q-ship-like, in my eyes.  I certainly don't mean to imply you're a mainstream guy, or not crazy, or likely to do conventional things.  My comments are directed along the line of things you've stated in this thread, they extend no further than that.

Now suck the coffee off your shirt & let's get back to work!  I've got an S6 with a blown POS to fix....

P
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: QSHIPQ at aol.com 
  To: pmische at comcast.net ; pkrasusky at ups.com ; s-car-list at audifans.com 
  Cc: ingo.rautenberg at gmail.com 
  Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 11:50 AM
  Subject: Re: [s-cars] Worthy projects (was Alum..was UrS $)


  Another one?  "Mainstream"?!  That's as good as Elijah's!  You miss the point, and haven't been for a ride in any of my projects kind sir.  I would think that just my deviant behavior in organizing Steamboat every year would give me a lifetime copyright to "qship".  And sneaking in a LT1Q MP/MP wagon chasing supercharged Landcruiser to the party 2 years ago sure kept me out of the mainstream.

  You didn't ride with me on my 951 excursion last week, or my group a S2 "odo checks", or my RS6 test drives, or the stunt driver for Apikols cover shots of the 90 at steamboat this year (chad did).  Then again, you also didn't see the type 44 Steamboat car I built that 'looked' mainstream.  

  These ascriptions are all keepers.  I assure you, your and Elijah's ascriptions couldn't be further from the reality of my style, constructs, design, or driving styles.  Please don't mistake my mission of looking for the stories, with a desire to see less craziness.  I've been living that longer than this list has been around.

  With all due respect, another coffee spitter.  I gotta stop wearing these white quattro shirts....

  Scott "mainstream" Justusson
  In a message dated 4/23/2007 9:38:56 A.M. Central Standard Time, pmische at comcast.net writes:
    I don't think open minds are the issue here - everyone knows there are great 
    cars being built right now, and everyone knows what they are: M5s, RX8s, 
    996s, etc....we're enthusiasts!  You can feel you're done and movin' on, and 
    that's great - go build something fun, but there are those of us who will 
    continue to get a kick out of running fast in something that's just doesn't 
    look fast.  There are many forms of JNR - not all are the searing 
    hot-ohmygodwe'regonnadie unadulterated speed JNR, this is more of the 
    whatsupwidat why is this happening JNR.  I don't need to have little kids 
    point at my car and gawk.  I like it when things are not as they appear.  MP 
    is user-friendly performance in a stealthy package, the Avant even better. 
    It's weird, it's geeky, and it's stupid, but I think it's cool.  I don't 
    look down my nose at ricers and kids who slam their cars any stick sewer 
    pipes out the back - I think that's its own kind of cool too, but I don't 
    want to do it.  And when I want to go really scary-fast I jump in my shifter 
    kart.

    If you get any closer to the mainstream you're gonna have to lose that 
    "Q-ship" moniker - it ain't a Q-ship if everyone expects it to go like hell.

    PJM






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