[s-cars] My butt momentarily in a BMW

[LL - NY]

After having driven a mere '73 P-car and a couple of UrQ's that I was
considering buying
(an '84 Silver one, bad tint job,  no A/C and a much nicer Helios Blue one,
with A/C, both
were at the same P-A-VW franchised dealer (okay, that dates me, but who
cares?) and
all I can say is...although the UrQ's were nice, they were...cars. The P-car
was an experience.

LL - NY

On 12/6/07, Taka Mizutani <t44tqtro at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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 'nd 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
> >
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