90Q20v LOVE!

["Royal,Paul" <royal@bos.msmail.idx.com>]

Hi Folks,

 As the owner of two Audis and the former owner of two Fiats (yipe!) I am   
painfully aware of the problems encountered with ownership; and this list   
is a great way to share fixes and find a sympathetic shoulder to cry on.   
 However, I thought I'd take this opportunity to share with you and help   
some of you remember what it was like in your more formative years.  Last   
week I took delivery of my new 1990 90Q20v and this weekend gave me my   
first opportunity to really drive "Quattro."  Allow me this indulgence   
just this once.
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   We begin Saturday morning at 5:00 AM and slip some live Pat Metheny   
into the CD player at low volume so as not to drown out the wonderful   
engine harmonics.  We're going into the Mount Washington Valley in the   
White Mountain National forest and this morning we've got time so we're   
taking to the back roads.  Head out of my home town quickly young man for   
there is no fun to be had when the place is loaded with Johnny Law.  Take   
the back road through Lee, NH and watch the University of NH farm fields   
go by in a blur.  Take the revs up to six grand on that favorite curve   
and hope the tractors aren't out early....laugh like a schoolgirl when   
you apply pressure to the accelerator and hit the apex of the curve just   
right.  I love my Quattro....any buyers remorse is left back in the trunk   
of my old 5000s.

 Blow out to Route 125 and go towards Rochester...past the old country   
store that sells the great smoked cheese....don't stop today, too much   
fun going on.  Leave that tailgater in your dust on that decreasing   
radius turn that turns 125 into Route 16.   Leave the on ramp going way   
past what the law allows.  A straight shot to the mountains now and they   
grow by the minute...you can't wait for more twisty-wind-dees.

 Hop into your buddy's Nissan to climb Mount Washington...(he insists as   
he is running up the auto road today and you have agreed to bring him   
down.....curse his Nissan, curse his Nissan).

 At last, you are reunited with your now beloved Quattro and it begins to   
rain...you secretly delight of the drive through the valley in the fresh   
summer rain.......the Quattro sticks like glue....you laugh NOT like a   
schoolgirl this time, but like the devil himself.  Your friend who   
follows remarks on the odd "tightness" of the water spray in your wake.   
 You comment, "no kidding?," and smile big as a house.  You and your   
friend go separate ways and you know that you'll be having fun while he   
is just driving.

 Take the long way home....the one recommended in the motorcycle   
books...the one that twists like a snake with an ulcer.....153.  Laugh   
all the way home and remind yourself just once that while the Quattro is   
good she will not overcome the laws of physics.  Get home.....grill a   
steak...watch a little Lemans on Speedvision...fall asleep and dream of   
curves.
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 Somebody remind me I wrote this when I start complaining about the
Audi Gods.  Have a GREAT week everybody!

   Paul Royal
   ROYAL@BOS.MSMAIL.IDX.COM
   1990 90Q20v
   1987 5Ks (248,000 miles)
   1967 Camaro SS/RS