[V8] Future of....misc. ramblings

[Roger M. Woodbury]

On 1/20/2019 7:59 PM, dconner at gmail.com wrote:
> Roger,
>
> I meant to ask ...
>
> Would an an A8 serve your purpose?  I sort of lust after one of them 
> since taking one for a spin a few years ago. Something tells me I 
> would regret it when I realized the cost of ownership/maintenance on 
> an older one, which would be the only thing in my price range.
>
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 7:51 PM <dconner at gmail.com 
> <mailto:dconner at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hey Roger,
>
>     It's good to hear from you.  I'm still here, too, also with two
>     Audi's in the stable that don't get driven much.  One is a clean
>     rust free '92 S4 (RS2- Colorado car) that I can't bring myself to
>     expose to the salty brine of Ohio's winter roads, so it sleeps in
>     the garage these days.  I do have a set of snow tires for it,
>     though, and there is a little voice inside my head urging me to
>     put them on and drive it, salt be damned. I'm a semi regular
>     visitor to Toronto and there are some treu Audi nuts there who I
>     stay in touch with.  They urge me to do just that, and bring it to
>     one of their ice "racing" events.  Maybe I will do just that.
>
>     The second Audi is an '87 5ktq which always seems to need a little
>     work, having survived 30+ Ohio winters, currently needs new tie
>     rods and an alignment, but not much else.  My daily driver is a
>     2016 Ford minivan.  I don't mind exposing it to the salt since it
>     has no soul :-o
>     - -
>     Dave C.
>     Columbus Ohio
>
>
>
Well, sadly enough I've gone beyond my A8/S8 fantasies although there 
were many of those once upon a time.

Just now I'm really mostly inclined to a Cadillac CTS4 sport wagon.  I'm 
watching and I see them more and more in the $12-15,000 range with 80K 
and fewer miles.  Unhappily they're all a thousand miles from here so 
just running out to look them over isn't easy.  I'm in no hurry.

I hate to say it but I think the German's and I have parted company for 
good.  The complete brake job on the truck, from calipers and rotors to 
ALL the brake lines was an expensive $1200...or so I though. On the 
other hand I did discuss it with the wrench and he reminded me what it 
cost to do the same job on the V8, and i well remember how much it was 
going to cost that time I thought I'd replace the UFO's with something 
else.  It was fun doing those things back when my cash flow was 
adjustable and an ongoing gusher form time to time, but those days were 
back then and now is now.

So all the reviews of the CTS4 sport wagon make it seem more "German" 
than 'merican station wagoney.  Now I need to find one sitting on a lot 
somewhere withitn 250 miles so I can go see one and actually sit in it. 
I have a trip to Massachusetts coming up in April so maybe that will be 
the time to go Caddy shopping.

Roger