[V8] ROGER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Scott Simmons]

I don't mean to be snarky... but... there's a 1997 A8 for just about 
that price on eBay too.  Granted, it's a little rougher on the edges.

Just throwing it out there! :)

~SS

Roger M. Woodbury wrote:

>Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh, myyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!  Well, it did get my pulses up a bit
>anyway.  It is the RIGHT everything.  The right year: what could be better
>than a '94, possibly one of the last fifty imported.  This is only the third
>'94 that I have EVER seen advertised in the past three years or so.
>
>And there is the mileage.  How about those miles.  Miles add dollars to the
>price, don't they.
>
>And the answer is:  (drum roll, please:  the tension builds.  The pretty
>girl in the sequined thong and pasties traipses across the floor with The
>Envelope):  TA DAAAAAAA!!!!!!
>
>$6850.00
>
>TA DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
>
>And that gents, is ALL the money.
>
>The car has no history.  Failing ANY history, I think it is justifiable to
>question whether the miles are real.  On top of that the photos create a
>certain question mark.  Obviously the dash has been apart and the dash cover
>removed.  Note how the dash does not fit properly on the left side?  Is it
>possible that the car actually has more miles and that (gasp!) the odometer
>was changed?  Maybe not, but the dash has been apart.
>
>Yes, yes, there is the radio.  Or more properly, that miniature video game
>of a radio stolen from a flooded New Orleans whore house.  Radio:  indeed!
>Maybe that is the ONLY reason the dash has been apart.  Maybe.  Could be.
>
>And the owner doesn't know if, at just under 60k claimed, the car has had a
>timing belt.  He doesn't KNOW?  He doesn't KNOW?  Huh?  Well, ok.  He
>doesn't know.  The car is thirteen years old.  That means that the car needs
>its THIRD timing belt right NOW.  Do not drive to, let along pass, Go:  the
>car needs a complete timing belt service RIGHT NOW.  
>
>And then there is the really nice thing about digital photographs that are
>taken with pretty high resolution.  You can see a lot of stuff.  This car
>has been sitting outside for quite a lot of its life, I think.  I KNOW the
>finish is pretty good, but look at the trunk valence and admire the
>corrosion beginning to show.  Water stains on the pearl paint...
>
>And of course, look very closely at the close-ups of the wheel wells.  Looks
>like someone has done a bit of touch up on at least one side.  I wonder if
>this jewel might have been bumped just an eensie weensie bit.  I see a faint
>line of overspray like some monkey lad got tired with the tape, maybe?
>Maybe not.
>
>But the books are apparently in the glove box.
>
>But if this was really, really and truly the real deal, guess what should be
>in the armrest of the rear seat.  Oh, yes:  absolutely necessary to hit a
>home run.
>
>Otherwise:  Nope. $6850.00 is  ALL the money!
>
>Roger
>
>(And yes, the speculation is correct about the seller.  Maybe he'll have Kia
>next). 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ingo Rautenberg [mailto:ingo.rautenberg at gmail.com] 
>Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 5:18 PM
>To: PRR
>Cc: Roger M. Woodbury; v8 at audifans.com; 20valve at audifans.com
>Subject: Re: [V8] ROGER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>All I have to say is, "No Comment."
>
>On 3/30/07, PRR <pineridgeremodeling at adelphia.net> wrote:
>  
>
>http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Audi-V8-4-2-QUATTRO-1994-AUDI-V8-4-2-QUATTRO-
>56K-MILES-NICEST-YOULL-FIND_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ6055QQitemZ3000966551
>49QQrdZ1
>  
>