[s-cars] My butt momentarily in a BMW

[Taka Mizutani]

Thanks for the input, Scott- I got bitten by the P-car bug after driving an
'87 Carrera back in '90 or '91. Unfortunately, I never got a chance to drive
an UrQ, although I very nearly bought one back in '90, Helios Blue '83 UrQ
from the local Porsche-Audi-VW dealer.

Actually, I'm kind of glad in hindsight that I never owned that UrQ, because
if I did, I would probably have crashed it and the repair bills would
probably permanently turn me off of Audis.

You ever drive a late model Corvette? C5 FRC, Z06, or C6 Z51? (In English,
that's a '99 or '00 Corvette hardtop, '01-04 Z06 or '05-current Corvette
with the sport suspension)

Taka


On Dec 5, 2007 11:35 PM, <QSHIPQ at aol.com> wrote:

>  Cody
> Thinking back on one of my first visits to Mr. David Jones back when he
> had his own (first) shop.  One of the toys he was tinkering with was
> a new 318is coupe with the same Nacelle you picture.  Those 2 extra
> cylinders should sure do it, but I suspect that an AAN equipped urq would
> total less investment and yield a better return for it.
>
> I like the E30 chassis from a handling standpoint, and a lot of power in
> it makes it a handful to drive.  Fun yes, but the same percentage increase
> in an urq is more fun to drive in a much more gentlemanly effortless grand
> touring coupe kind of way.  Then again with 2.5 of the urq' s myself, and
> another few thru the stable, shirley I'm biassed.
>
> Taka, urq horder and Porsche collector David Hackl allowed me to drive
> both his Damien Black 79 911T and his bark brown 75 911S at a few tracks in
> the midwest.  One of my most memorable JNR rides was feeling Lucifer on my
> neck as I almost wrote the article on LTO in Turn 1 at Road America.
> Bringing a laggy turbo back up to power was some of the longest seconds of
> my life...  One of my other most memorable rides was in his 911S at Mid OH,
> chasing down some heavily modded S cars with a totally stock 25year old
> classic.  For LT1Q beast-like brutality the 911T challenges the best
> drivers.  For urq like grand touring effortless style, the 911S is my
> favorite of the marque.
>
> Like Paulie, I'll take anything for a ride, just for the stories, laughs
> and point of reference in the world of dynosaur fossil fueling.  In my 30
> some years of this quest, I fully admit being one of the luckiest guys on
> the planet in this regard.  From rally school back in 81 with Buffum,
> Shepard and Woodner as co-diver/teachers, to scrutineering the Buffum and
> Millen machines before competing myself.  As recently as 03, laughing my
> butt off as Pobst drove us off Brainerd turn 6 with Beddor's Sport so intent
> on catching the 5ktq race car I just finished prepping, he almost hit us.
>
> Steamboat stories are a book, Monterey 99, Pikes Peak 97, Main
> Forrest 99 buying Blomqvist a Budweiser as he told SQ stories and spoke to
> Torsen boy on torsens!   Exciting odo cks with Bob D in the MTM/SMS 95
> Groupe A S2 with 3 diffs locked solid.
>
> But I always come back to my urq's knowing fully that what we drive now in
> any awd form, owes it's roots to this grand touring coupe.  And, as I drove
> one of these fine machines to almost every Steamboat Event for 14 years
> (save a couple), getting there with cruise control and fine style, really
> shows the dual purpose of the mistress we call quattro.
>
> Cheers
>
> Scott J
>