[V8] The End.

[Dave Saad]

You have to what you have to do Maurice.
I remember when your wife was hit.  I hope she is coping as well as  
possible.
I managed to spiral fracture my leg last week taking out the trash.   
It was a freak thing to happen, and my life is totally upended for a  
while, but I will recover. I can only imagine how your wife feels.

On another somber note, having just fractured my leg, (I slipped on  
ice on a steep driveway, leg got trapped under the trash can, badly  
fractured, and then had to lay there for an hour to be "rescued") it  
was particularly difficult to watch footage from Haiti.  I saw lots of  
people sitting on the roadside holding fractured body parts and I know  
exactly how much pain they are in.  The difference is the ambulance  
came for me. It won't for them.
Sad.

Dave

On Jan 14, 2010, at 8:06 AM, Maurice & Darla Greven wrote:

> I am having sellers remorse. I sold my '90 V8 last night and had to  
> hold
> back the tears as it drove away. I don't cry easily (except at Lassie
> movies), but when I heard her throaty sound of acceleration going  
> away, and
> fading in the distance. I though "What the heck did I just do?". I'm  
> sure if
> I had sold it for $7000, the feeling would be different, but maybe  
> not.
>
>
>
> So with that I say to the Audi List. "Good Bye and THANK YOU" You  
> all have
> been a great, unspeakable how much, source of help, and even though  
> I've
> only met a couple of you in person, over the past ten years you have  
> been a
> source of camaraderie, my "brothers" in the battle of life with a  
> picky
> woman. Sometimes we refer to her as the "beast", the only car I've  
> ever had
> such a love/hate relationship with.
>
>
>
> I've thought about becoming an armchair quarterback, kind of like  
> Roger, who
> told us all how is was, even though he wasn't betrothed to V8, but  
> then with
> enough words about it, bought another...
>
> Or I could sit and watch from the sidelines and smirk as you all  
> discuss the
> same woes at the same times (don't these cars all do the same things  
> in the
> same seasons.), OR I could delete my archive if literally 15,951  
> Audi V8
> list e-mails.
>
>
>
> I should have had you all tell me "Don't do it" last week when I was
> thinking about selling her, but I wasn't being fair to her. She only  
> has
> driven me about 8000 miles on the past 5 years, and I have let  
> others use
> her for about the same. An Audi V8,even as by far the ABSOLUTE BEST  
> car I
> have ever owned, is not a good car for moving about if you are in a
> wheelchair (my wife is after we were hit by a drunk driver in 2003).
>
>
>
> Enough of my sorrows. If you have are ever thinking about selling  
> your V8,
> be wise little grasshoppers, for when she goes, you will be sad as the
> summer hay when it is cut and laid baking in the sun.
>
>
>
> Thanks V8 Guys !!!!
>
>
>
> Maurice
>
>
>
> PS.. I still DO have an old VAG-Com adapter (serial port, not USB)  
> and a
> licensed copy of VAG-COM that I will sell if someone is interested.  
> I don't
> know what it's worth yet, haven't even looked. Make me a good offer  
> (Good
> for you AND good for me)..
>
>
>
> Here's some pics of her , so you can see what I'm losing .
> https://greven.homeserver.com/photos/
>
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Audifans V8 mailing list
> Send posts to: mailto:V8 at audifans.com
> Manage your list connection: http://www.audifans.com/mailman/listinfo/v8
>
> You can help keep the audifans site running by shopping at http://audifans.com/shop/
>
>