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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