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RE: Euros pass the test
What, and he didn't have a word with you for <grin> exuberance? Those
nuclear lights must act as a pretty good cloaking device....
-Ian Duff.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: quk@sievers.com [SMTP:quk@sievers.com]
>Sent: Saturday, March 15, 1997 7:21 AM
>To: quattro@coimbra.ans.net
>Subject: Euros pass the test
>
>Well, my Euros passed the non-dazzle test last night.
>
>I was returning from a quattro meeting through Leicestershire, down the old
>road between Melton Mowbray and Oakham. I breezed round a corner, and came
>up
>behind a traffic patrol (fully loaded) driving at 59.999mph.
>
>This was 01:00am - a time when Leicestershire police will stop any driver on
>the suspicion of having dirty wing mirrors. I didn't dare pull off, pass or
>drop back - I just rolled along behind for almost ten miles. They were
>obviously bored - they pulled into a layby and I went past, fully expecting
>to
>be followed and stopped. Not a bit of it - they just let me go.
>
>I'm sure if the driver had felt my lights were too bright, he'd have stopped
>me
>"for a word".
>
>--
> Phil Payne
> phil@sievers.com
> Committee Member, UK Audi [ur-]quattro Owners Club