[urq] 30 years and counting...
Steve Marinello
smarinello at entouch.net
Sun May 13 10:05:30 PDT 2012
Memorial Day is my 24th wedding anniversary. I got my '83 urq about 15
months before I MET my wife. Bought it Mother's Day weekend 1985, so this
weekend is the 27th anniversary of a day that certainly turned out to be
eventful, with the many quattro's since, and the current count at four.
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Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2012 2:13 AM
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Subject: Re: 30 years and counting...
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/
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