[urq] Pictures and upgrades , folluw up .

[Keith Lloyd]

Hey Pat
Get that nice crate of belgian beer off to UPS...all my switches still work and light up! ;-)
You do what you like....just keep the quattro on the road.
Regards
Keith

'87 WR 

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On 17 May 2013, at 15:12, "Patrick Carlier" <p.carlier at pandora.be> wrote:

> Well, I seem to get most reactions about 
> the led upgrades and get "flamed" on the flame painting idea; . 
> 
> Maybe I should elaobarte a bit  . 
> 
> I intend to get rid of almost alll light bulbs , and replace them with leds . 
> Not to make a "rice" car , but simply to avoid changing bulbs every couple of months . 
> Especially in the instrument cluster and switches those can be a real pita . 
> Fi the swiches left and right of the instrument cluster  are or were illuminated . 
> I'll bet a crate of fine belgian beer none of you have al switches still working . 
> I've replaced those tiny little bulbs on several occasions , only to have them brake down 
> again after a short period of time . A led , can be white or colored , cures this once and for all 
> and as a side effect it produces no heat . 
> So I guess I'm ok with that ? 
> I most certainly won(t be putting blue neon under chassis or anything like that 
> 
> 
> About the flames 
> Yes that's a difficult one , and I haven't fully made up my mind yet . 
> DId this on my first car , 25 years ago and some people in the village 
> still remember it . "Oh was that you with the flaming renault " 
> Nice . But then again I'm not 18 anymore am I . 
> So as I accept some the  arguements presentet here , I went to a toy store 
> yesterday and bought me a plastic Ur-q scale model construction kit .
> I'll dig upp the old airbrush , and I'll do the flame paintig on the scale model  first 
> and then see how it looks . 
> 
> About the rest of the modifications 
> Nobody seemed to have any objections to  the mechanical upgrades .... I wonder why :) 
> 
> 
> Thx for all the reactions , I'll upload some more pictures as I move on 
> 
> Pat 
> Belgium 
> 
> 
> 
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