[V8] How many is too many

[Ed Kellock]

I have a letter from a previous owner which states that the original owner
paid 2500 to special order in silver.

Ed

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger Woodbury [mailto:rmwoodbury at roadrunner.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 10:08 AM
> To: 'Ingo Rautenberg'; 'Ed Kellock'
> Cc: v8 at audifans.com
> Subject: RE: [V8] How many is too many
> 
> 
> 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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