[urq] "Team Door handle"

Sun Jun 18 19:03:13 PDT 2017

This thread is like a reunion. Who else can we get out of the wood work?

Wylie Bean
Central NC
90 Coupe
91 90q20v
91 200q20v
92 UrS4
00 S4
08 Q7

----- Reply message -----
From: "Robert Myers" <rmyers0511 at gmail.com>
To: "Ingo Rautenberg" <ingo.rautenberg at gmail.com>
Cc: "V8 Audi Fans" <v8 at audifans.com>, "Quattro List" <quattro at audifans.com>, "URQ" <urq at audifans.com>, <200q20v-owner at audifans.com>, "DeWitt Harrison" <dewitt635 at gmail.com>, "The Corbs" <c.corbishley at comcast.net>
Subject: [urq] "Team Door handle"
Date: Sun, Jun 18, 2017 8:33 PM

I'm also pleased to see that at least some of us old farts are still
hanging around.  I'm still running my old '95.5 urS6.

Bob Myers

On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 6:33 PM, Ingo Rautenberg <ingo.rautenberg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Ha -- thanks, John! Incidentally, your old '83 Urq will be making the run
> up Pikes Peak again next week by David Hackl. I think it's the 4th attempt
> (can't make it this year, unfortunately). I would attach a photo, but it
> would surely be be stripped from the lists (so I'll give the link from my
> Instagram page  from last year instead):
>
> Ye old '83 Urq:
> Https://www.instagram.com/p/BHBH_9tgYYT/
>
> Cheers!
>
> Ingo
>
> On Jun 18, 2017 6:15 PM, "The Corbs" <c.corbishley at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Great to see your name Ingo.  Best.  John Corbs
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: urq [mailto:urq-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Ingo Rautenberg
> Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2017 5:09 PM
> To: Ed Kellock
> Cc: V8 Audi Fans; URQ; DeWitt Harrison; Quattro List;
> 200q20v-owner at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: [urq] "Team Door handle"
>
> Well, I'll admit -- I no longer own a single Audi -- though I had 5 at one
> time, including two V8 5 speeds, an Urq and a 200q29v. I still stay on the
> lists, but as to new insight -- pretty sure we've covered 95% of what we
> routinely and not-so-routinely have encountered over the years. It is sad
> that the archives aren't as search-friendly as they could be. Perhaps
> that's where efforts should be made. I know I need to move on, but also
> know there will be another Audi in my future. Crazy, I know. Such is this
> disease. Ha!
>
> On Jun 18, 2017 4:58 PM, "Ed Kellock" <ekellock at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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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