[urq] 30 years and counting...

[Geraint Lloyd]

Dunno If it counts, but I have had VWs forever.
1st was an 1979 Passat (so basically a series 1 audi 80) that I bought from
my parents in 1989. My dad bought it in 1981 to replace an R reg Dolomite
1850 that failed its 1st MOT at 3 years old because the floor had rusted
out.
We have had a minimum of 3 VWs or Audis in the family ever since (currently
4). I keep trying to get my mother to buy a Skoda Octavia though.

The other long termer that we have is a 1962 AH sprite that my dad bought
from Colliers in Abertillery in 1963, oddly enough it apparently used to
belong to Eddie Butler's dad if you follow the rugby on the BBC.....



Geraint Lloyd MPhil, BSc (hons)
Infield GeoServices
Tel: +1 514 690 4747

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Myers [mailto:rmyers at maxboostracing.com] 
Sent: May-14-12 3:26 PM
To: frank j. bauer
Cc: audi at humanspeakers.com; bradyzq at hotmail.com; quattro at audifans.com;
'Denis Joncas'; geraint.lloyd.geo at gmail.com; urq at audifans.com; 'Eric
LeFrancois'; yrichard3 at videotron.ca
Subject: Re: 30 years and counting...


I can top that a bit, Frank.  Got my first Audi in 1983, nearly 30 years
ago.  Nothing else since except for the better half's cars which have mostly
been Japanese.

Bob




At 03:12 AM 5/13/2012, frank j. bauer wrote:
>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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