[s-cars] Crap, I gotta sell

[Tom Green]

Harold and fellow listers,

This is indeed a predicament for Harold, but what is with all the off  
the wall
suggestions to move to all this different iron?  True, the bar has  
been set a
little high with the quest for a Europa Blue or Cashmere sedan, but  
where is
Mr Chips?  He sets with a spare Cashmere sedan in his garage that hardly
sees daylight anymore.  It might need some of your parts, but IIRC  
it's RS2
tuned already.

There is a Europa Blue sedan at Patterson AW in Cochranton, PA, serial
121802.  It's missing some body parts and T-boned somewhat  severely on
the passenger side, but it's a start.  :-)  You can even have the  
engine from
my garage and the front seats that are in my avant - plain jane  
platinum,
though.

If you can get by that aversion to black, white, red, green, etc, you  
could
probably just arrange an swap with a lister for a US spec car.  What  
could
be easier and perhaps the color of choice is just waiting?  There are  
some
states that aren't going to have this OBD-2 problem.

Some of these ideas are not right on the mark for your wishes, but I  
don't
think any of the other possibilities are either.  But, of course,  
maybe you have
just been waiting for an excuse to move on to something different?

Tom

> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:56:43 -0400
> From: "Harold McComas" <HaroldMcComas at comcast.net>
> Subject: [s-cars] Crap, I gotta sell
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> I got a '96 S6 bought in 2003. Recently NH started doing OBD2  
> inspections
> for emissions, starting with, ta-da, '96 and newer cars. So it  
> looks like by
> Nov I have to be rid of the car (inspection due by then). If I was  
> living
> back in ND this would not even be an issue.
>
> I wrote the state asking if I could get an exemption and they in turn
> contacted EPA who basically said: " I would have to PROVE that the  
> car was
> legally imported" and around inspection  time I would need to  
> produce such
> documentation. Problem is, I don't think the car was ever legally  
> imported.
> Some Canadian bought it , took it to TX . I assume he worked there  
> a couple
> of years then sold or traded it, then it went to a guy in Mass and  
> now I
> have it.  I contacted a Registered Importer, one who has specifically
> imported a 1996 S6 and he pretty much told me I was SOL or I could  
> spend
> 5-10k to try install OBD2 ( ya right).
>
> So, the question now is what to replace it with? I want to stay in the
> VW/Audi family, I still like the S6. However I really, really want  
> a Europa
> Blue sedan none has come up in the last 6 months or so. Another  
> Cashmere one
> would be OK too. Don't really care for the Black ,Pearl White and  
> Red. My
> dad had 3 green cars in a row so I don't want one of those either.  
> I could
> swap some of my parts on the new S6 depending on what it came with.
>
> A newish A4 w/ 1.8T or 2.0T and quattro might be another  
> possiblilty. My
> friend is going to let me borrow his 2006 GTI for a week, that  
> would let me
> know if I would even be interested in the newer GTI/GLIs. I had a  
> '85 GTI
> for 16 yrs and put 240k miles on it.
>
> I would have to buy another car first as this is my only car.
>
> Harold M
> 96 S6  Cashmere Gray
> Manchester, NH