[s-cars] My butt momentarily in a BMW

[Peter Golledge]

Scott,

Team Golledge and the LT-1Q will be making a return this year, ready to
shave a few more apexes.  The Georgetown P-Car ice event is the weekend
after steamboat so I'll be preparing them for an LT-1Q Aussie 1st/2nd again
this year.  CO listers should really get to this event.  Nothing better than
a bastardized Audi 5000 frankencar beating all comers (C4/Cayenne/Subies
etc) on a frozen lake.

My wife has her photos of the RS4 (and LT-1Q) being published in
intersection magazine.  I'm curious to see what "Skinny" the journalist
thought of our motley crew.  The LT-1Q certainly gave him pause for thought.
:-)

Pity the RS4 had to go back on a flatbed dribbling coolant after Steamboat
last year.  That is the one downside of pretty much all of the newer
rides... fragility.  ;-)

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Subject: Re: [s-cars] My butt momentarily in a BMW

 
I don't envision to 'experience' a P car at Steamboat (though Bob D  may
bring his C4 this year...).  What makes the Urq an experience IMO, is
Steamboat Ice track, as it does things in the hands of a good driver that
causes  others to white knuckle the door pull.  And in that experience, is
the  story of the 
3200 miles out and back, in the worst midwest winter weather.   A true grand

touring coupe in every sense of the word, and with center diff  locked and a
set of blizzacks, hard to slow down for the 'other' guys  sake.
 
And with my various state of tune urq's over the years, showing up at  a
tarmac track event with 17's and big reds, putting a lot of more modern
machines in perspective.  A lot of faster cars on the straight, but a well
sorted urq with a stock suspension, defines an experience Larry.  I also
spent a lot of right seat time with Keith Anderson in his urq, even in 10vt
trim, *always* an experience.
 
IMO, a lot of the later quattros are 'cars'...  But there a still a  couple
that stir the soul like the urq.  My JNR drives in a tweeked RS6,  stock '01
S8 at MidOH, the RS4 carving the hills of MO, the group a 95 S2 Rally  car,
and a 4.2 5spd v8 conversion....
 
Come out to Steamboat Larry.  I promise you our impromptu urqgtg  will
include an urq 'experience' you won't soon forget?
 
Taka, wrt some of the other rides you reference.  I'm not a  scoobie-doo
guy, but did drive one hard at Blackhawk, it was fun, but no real  flavor
for my taste.  Pitzo's evo (or a '06 MRSE), now there's a twitchy  car that
looks great in black, and will bite and is as brutal hard as a  930.  The
Z05 and the
LT5 are two of my favorite 'mericans, but I'd rather  have the motor in one
of Bob D's creations frankly.  An LT1Q has the flare  and the best part of a
'vette=motor, which made for more stories than I could  recount (and still
do, since Golledge takes that thing to Steamboat every year  and flogs it,
then drives 'er home).
 
Scott J
Eventmaster Gruppe-q 2008
_www.gruppe-q.com_ (http://www.gruppe-q.com) 
 
 
In a message dated 12/6/2007 10:04:05 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
larrycleung at gmail.com writes:

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


 



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