[V8] Of Honeydews and unwanted hitchikers

Thu Apr 19 12:12:41 EDT 2007

There are two auto V8s in my yard.

  As Q-ships notes, Mike Fisher had the black manual V8.  Last time I saw it was last fall in the lot behind Traverse Motors (Audi dealer).  Repair shop folks said it was leaking a pint of oil a minute from various spots.  I'd heard earlier that he was having oil leaks "fixed" repeatedly.  There was a big pool of oil under the engine the day I saw it.   I don't have his home contact, but he owns a company called Northern Stainless Fabricating, Inc., and apparently can be reached at  mike at nsfi.com. 

Lanier Pratt <lanierpratt at mac.com> wrote:
  I wish!! The '91 is not a 5 speed. I bought about a month ago as a 
parts
car for my '92. I may put it up for sale this summer. The only 
thing it needs
(per the previous owner) is a heater hose that goes into the heater 
core, a
battery and a good cleaning.

I spent many a day in Suttons Bay, Traverse City, Leland, etc... 
I've been
going up there since I was about 2. I'm 35 now so you can imagine 
that I
have a fairly good memory of the area.

Maybe you can help me out. There was a guy in Leland(or surrounding 
areas)
that had a black V8 stick. Used to race it a bit as far as I knew 
and had a
nice after market exhaust on it. I even think that the license plate 
said quattro.
I was talking to him about buying it some years ago and lost his 
contact info.
You wouldn't happen to know the guy and or what happened to the car?

Lanier

On Apr 19, 2007, at 9:22 AM, Ingo Rautenberg wrote:

> Ah, small world. I used to vacation in Leleand every summer. 
> Kneale's in TC and has at least one v8, and there's a few other 
> audifans there, though not on this list -- Elijiah Wood by Suttons 
> Bay (S-Car lister).
>
> Small world. Is that '91 a 5 speed? I'm sure Ron want's to know ;-)
>
> Ingo
>
> On Apr 19, 2007, at 10:12 AM, Lanier Pratt wrote:
>
>> I was just reading your thread and noticed that you mentioned 
>> driving back
>> from Traverse City, MI. I currently live in Minnesota, but moved 
>> here from
>> Lansing, MI. about 5 years ago. My family still has a house in 
>> Omena, MI.
>> I've only seen one other V8 while I've been back over there 
>> visiting. Sorry
>> to hear about your little visitor. Hard lesson to learn.
>>
>> Lanier
>>
>> '92 V8 Q Pearl
>> '91 V8 Q Pearl
>>
>>
>> On Apr 19, 2007, at 8:26 AM, Ingo Rautenberg wrote:
>>
>>> oh, the Honey-Do's -- I'm familiar with those. Don't need to be
>>> married for those. A serious girlfriend has a great command of 
>>> those
>>> as well ;-)
>>>
>>> I must have had my mind somewhere else as I'd picked up an unwanted
>>> hitchhiker (at least that's when I discovered the little critter) on
>>> my way back from Traverse City, MI last night (sorry we couldn't 
>>> get
>>> together, Kneale) when I stopped for gas and went to check the oil:
>>>
>>> http://www.pbase.com/ingor/image/77392165/large.jpg
>>>
>>> Drove all the way back with me, and I was hoping my wires weren't
>>> going to be chewed through and I was thinking how I'd get rid of the
>>> little bugger, but then he got nervous when I had slowed down in the
>>> city three and a half hours later and rang up some 7k rpm shifts.
>>> I'm sitting at a light two miles from my house and it's not well-lit
>>> outside, so all I can really see is my headlights on the road in
>>> front of me suddenly there's this moving silhouette running along my
>>> windshield wipers! So I turned the wipers on high and he's hanging
>>> on to the driver's side one, and I pop the clutch at 2.5 grand and
>>> make a sharp turn, flooring it and tick, tick, tick, woooeee!!!
>>> There he goes! Flying lesson anyone? Lol.
>>>
>>> Ingo
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Apr 18, 2007, at 11:38 PM, Carol, Dave, and Zach Weiss wrote:
>>>
>>>> Oh, honey, will you please >>>> here>.
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Ingo Rautenberg [mailto:ingo.rautenberg at gmail.com]
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 10:26 PM
>>>> To: Carol, Dave, and Zach Weiss
>>>> Cc: v8 at audifans.com
>>>> Subject: Re: [V8] who's got a factory 90 or 91 3.6 5spd..tally time
>>>>
>>>> Honeydews?
>>>>
>>>> On Apr 18, 2007, at 10:57 PM, Carol, Dave, and Zach Weiss wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> '91, black/graphite. Soon to be 4.2, though. Getting some
>>>>> honeydews taken
>>>>> care of before the engine comes out..
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Dave
>>>>>
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