[urq] "Team Door handle"

[Ed Kellock]

Seems to be coming true. I too am beginning to feel the flicker of the
enthusiast flame. It may have made a little sense at the time but now, the
splitting of the list into model-specific lists, in my opinion, was the 1st
blow. Prior to that rather transparent self-serving effort by one
particular individual who has since moved on completely, there was a
collective camaraderie among owners of all models that kept things going
when there was a lull. Now, not. I still find the forum-based entities to
be far less useful simply because it is so much easier to post any little
glimmer of a brain fart, so that the content is overwhelmingly virtually
(no pun intended) useless without onerous searching and wading through
suffocating bullshit.

Ed

On Jun 18, 2017 2:43 PM, "DeWitt Harrison" <dewitt635 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Jun 2017 17:08:21 -0400, TWFAUST at aol.com wrote:
>
> > Trying to recall a fix for a problem I had with my '82 GTC I  went back
> in
> > the archives to when this was forum was "team door handle" and all  posts
> > concerned CGT's and 5KTQ's. I found this:
> >
> > I  have, myself, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is
> > neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made,
> we
> >  shall prove ourselves once again able to repair our Audis, to ride out
> the
> > storm, and to outlive the menace of outrageous costs, if necessary for
> > years, if  necessary alone. At any rate,  that is what we are going to
> try to
> > do. That is our resolve, of every man of us.  That is the will of the
> nation.
> > The members of the "List", linked together in  their cause and in their
> > need, will struggle unto death, aiding each other like  good comrades to
> the
> > utmost of their strength. Even though large tracts of  pavement and many
> old
> > and famous States have passed beneath us, we shall not  flag or fail. We
> > shall go on to the end, we shall repair on the seas and the  oceans, we
> shall
> > repair with growing confidence and growing strength, we shall  defend our
> goal
> > of autarky, whatever the cost may be, we shall repair on the  beaches, we
> > shall repair on the landing grounds, we shall repair in the fields  and
> in
> > the streets, we shall repair in the hills; we shall never  surrender.
> > With  special thanks to "The Last Lion"
>
> Brave words, indeed. Many, most, have fallen away during the intervening
> years, apparently having given the last measure of their devotion.
>
> This has been brought home to me recently. Traffic on the qlist has nearly
> ceased. Our go-to Audi recyclers have no market for parts for the old cars:
> no demand and less supply. And when I displayed my 5ktq at a recent, large
> charity concours event in Littleton, CO, my car was the only older Audi in
> the show. The Audi Club judges couldn't find the battery. I'm beginning to
> understand how the veterans of Pearl Harbor are feeling these days.
>
> DeWitt
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