[urq] parts etc and a gtg

[Brandon Rogers]

I'm _not_ saying they do - I have absolutely no idea whatsoever - I was
just throwing stuff out there - the thought only occurred to me becuase
they know the "value" of so many of these parts and they are in the
business of selling/fixing Audis - especially older ones...

Brandon



-----Original Message-----
From: David Ritter [mailto:dave.ritter at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 5:03 PM
To: brogers at terrix.com
Cc: Urq List
Subject: Re: parts etc and a gtg


I don't see why Anderson's should have an exclusive, they don't seem to
participate in anything besides ACNA events.

Google is testing an online spreadsheet, maybe that will be a good
option for a parts reference.

Dave

On 8/4/06, Brandon Rogers <brogers at terrix.com> wrote:
> 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....
>
> the second reason he called was to invite any urquattros to Vail on 
> Sept 17 to show our cars at the Colorado Grande - a high fallutin' 
> (sp?) 1000 mile road rally through CO with some pretty rare and exotic

> old machinery - could be pretty cool - road trip up to Vail for the 
> day - maybe take Loveland Pass there or back...I'm sure we could stop 
> at Jim F's house and raid his frig...
>
> Brandon
> '84 ur
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