[urq] parts etc and a gtg

[Buchholz, Steven]

Oh boy! I can't wait to hear the sort of markup Anderson Bros. will be asking for their "service" ...

There should be no question who the liaison should be ... that is if it is a responsibility he wants to assume ... and that would be the person responsible for the Audi [ur-]Quattro Registry ... Bill Bremer.  Bill is affiliated with ACNA (AKA quattroclubusa.org) and with the internet quattro owners.  

... everyone keeps talking about having us create a parts list ... the organization that should know best what parts have been ordered for ur-quattros is Audi!  They should have a record of usage over time ... if Audi isn't willing to do this for us then perhaps we can create something in google.  At one point I was hoping that something like that would be available in the audifans.com website, but there hasn't been much positive there lately either.  I suppose we could track it in the Wiki pages there ... 

Steve B
San José, CA (USA)
> 
> Guys-
> I got a call from the local ACNA Chapter head guy today - Dean Esmail -
> very active in the Club - and I'm not sure why he called me now,
> although we have talked in the past about getting the Urq guys to come
> to some ACNA events, and I was a Quattro, err Audi Club member for many
> years, but let my membership lapse recently, and anyway he called to
> talk about 2 things.  1.  Apparently ACNA _is_ talking with Audi and
> some clubs in Europe, UCI I believe, about making or getting parts for
> older cars available to ACNA members - they are fully aware of parts
> issues he said.  Now I don't know how this relates to "the big sell off"
> and I asked if he knew if parts for urquattros specifically were being
> addressed and he said they were, as the Anderson's of MN were
> representing.  I offered to be a liaison between the urq contingent and
> ACNA but he said he thought the Andersons were working on our behalf
> becasue they have several urquattros.  Maybe so they can be US
> distributor for all I know....anyway its not something that will happen
> tomorrow, I don't know if this will help us at all but I do think now
> would be a good time to put together a list of parts that are important.
> 
> As I've mentioned - I think a great solution woudl be to have a password
> protected site with a spreadsheet - one column with "Part in Concern" -
> hopefully with a p/n and the next columns woudl have either cross
> references to other mfgr p/n's for same part, substitute parts, and/or
> alternative solutions.  We'd end with a part list where you can get
> creative, and ultimately a list of parts with no alternatives that we
> could focus on trying to get small vendors to make runs for us....