[V8] How many is too many

[Roger Woodbury]

Actually special order colors are nothing new to European car makers.  In my
infancy I became kind of friends with a salesman who worked at Foreign
Motors in Boston.  In those days Foreign Motors was really old school, with
a big show room and storage building on several floors on Commonwealth
Avenue.  Service was around the back and underneath, and going in there was
like going back in time...modern lifts but the décor was definitely 1925
era.

Anyway, the salesman was a cool dude.  An engineer by training who had been
lured to this country by a company that promptly went belly up.  He took a
job at Foreign Motors because they sold Rolls Royce, Mercedes, BMW and
Jaguar, and they felt that his accent was just what they needed.

Anyway, he showed me all the order forms for special color orders for Rolls,
Mercedes and Jaguar.  Only BMW didn't do that at that time, but then, they
were just introducing the 1600, which began the Great BMW Revolution.  In
those days special order colors for a Mercedes could cost as much as $1500 I
seem to recall....1967!

Roger

-----Original Message-----
From: Ingo Rautenberg [mailto:ingo.rautenberg at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 12:00 PM
To: Ed Kellock
Cc: rmwoodbury at roadrunner.com; v8 at audifans.com
Subject: Re: [V8] How many is too many

Congrats, Ed!  Wow, you really did have a maaavelous weekend with  
Urq25 and your new acquisition.  Congrats on the new job, too.  I  
always wanted a V8 that color.  Didn't realize that one could order  
special colors in the US.  Guess they took the idea from porsche.

Ingo

On Aug 12, 2008, at 11:46 AM, Ed Kellock wrote:

> I agree and had a conversation about that with the seller, a Quattro
> dealer/service business in Denver.  I am considering storing this  
> car more
> than driving it for a while.  I doubt that I'll be able to do that in
> reality however.
>
> The only thing that would make this car absolutely perfect is if it  
> had
> black interior.  It is grey.  The silver/grey combo is a bit less  
> stunning,
> but it actually still smells new inside, even in the trunk, at  
> least as
> close to new as I can remember, so I really hesitate to do anything  
> about
> the interior, like a full swap with my black car.  Crazy talk.
>
> Ed
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Roger Woodbury [mailto:rmwoodbury at roadrunner.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 1:21 AM
>> To: v8 at audifans.com
>> Cc: 'Ed Kellock'
>> Subject: Re: How many is too many
>>
>>
>> Over the top, Ed.  But a '94!  Congratulations!  I too saw
>> this car on Cars.com and pondered about it about as long as I
>> could before reality set in, and I realized that two V8's
>> right now are too many for me.
>>
>> But I have been thinking about doing what you have done so
>> that my "next" car can be another V8.
>>
>> And it really isn't insane considering that there isn't
>> anything else being made today that is as nice, imho!
>>
>> Roger
>>
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