[urq] 30 years and counting...

[frank j. bauer]

WERD!

just passed 27 years of continuous quattrownership...
(no urq yet)

Huw Powell wrote:
> How do you click "like" on a mailing list?
> 
> On 5/13/2012 12:06 AM, laraa at sympatico.ca wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> May 1982 was a big month for me.
>>
>> I got my first job, a McDonald cook, that very month. On my first 
>> training
>> day, it was a Saturday afternoon, I had the opportunity to "take a 
>> break" in
>> the staff room after 2 hours of training. There, I switched on the TV 
>> set,
>> one of the CRT variety complete with a rotating knob to select the 
>> channel
>> and the volume. The image I saw on the screen made my heart stop : Gilles
>> Villeneuve had an accident, he was between life and death in an 
>> hospital. I
>> was 17, this was my first job, GV was my hero. Sad, sad day.
>>
>> 19 years later, on September 10th 2001, I bought that magnificent 1983 
>> Mars
>> Red Audi Quattro, the first one I ever saw in my life. When I looked 
>> at the
>> VIN plate, the built date was 05/1982. At the moment, I didn't 
>> realized that
>> this was "THE" month. It's only last week, when I said to "Honey and the
>> Girls" (my own family) that my red sports car was 30 years old that they
>> made me realize the connection with GV's death.
>>
>> I don't know the exact built day, but it's not important. Today, 30 years
>> after Gilles's death, 30 years after the Quattro left the assembly 
>> line, I
>> took her for a spin and I'm still in love.
>> That's what's important.
>>
>> Salut Gilles !
>> And long(er) lives the Quattro !
>>
>> Louis-Alain
>> Montreal, home of the Gilles Villeneuve Circuit.
>> http://www.circuitgillesvilleneuve.ca/