[urq] From the road...
Martin Pajak
martin at quattro.ca
Mon Dec 20 08:18:27 EST 2004
Eric,
Nicely done!
Can't wait to hear all the details of the "red tape cutting", might have to
be doing that soon ;)
Happy motoring!
Martin Pajak
http://www.quattro.ca
1983 Audi Ur-quattro (305,000 km) In storage
1985 Audi Ur-quattro (203,000 km) Euro spec. import mit 3B ;o)
1986 Audi 4000s quattro (266,000 km) winter car
1971 Porsche 911T (45,000 mi) all original
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From: urq-bounces+martin=quattro.ca at audifans.com
[mailto:urq-bounces+martin=quattro.ca at audifans.com]On Behalf Of
racingiron at comcast.net
Sent: December 20, 2004 01:39
To: urq at audifans.com
Subject: [urq] From the road...
The adventure is now in full swing. Elizabeth and I picked up the '86 on
Saturday, then headed for the border. I didn't want to put my TN plate on
it until after passing by the feds (because it's not exactly valid for this
car). A brief stop brought attention to the plateless car from a young
RCMP. His check of the VIN revealed a clean history (whew!), and the
paperwork satisfied him. We had a nice chat thereafter.
At the border, it took a while to find an agent who knew anything about what
we were trying to do, or even cared. We dulled a pair of scissors on the
red tape, but eventually we got the stamp. The weird part is that none of
the feds ever looked at the car we brought in. Every other vehicle crossing
into the US got a strip-search, but we could've had a pinto packed with
uranium.
Heavy traffic back to Seattle meant that we'd get little else done on
Saturday. We got an early start this morning to head east near Mt Rainier,
then down into Oregon and Idaho, where we stopped tonight. Looks like we'll
be in CO tomorrow evening. Below are some pictures so far, but the lousy
camera and lack of decent editing s/w is cramping my style.
Stay tuned!
http://home.comcast.net/~racingiron/border1.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~racingiron/border2.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~racingiron/rainier.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~racingiron/cowboy.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~racingiron/lake.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~racingiron/lake2.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~racingiron/oregon.jpg
Eric Renneisen
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