RE: NEQ Corral '97 - Audi-Mt. Washington Hillclimb

[steveb@falcon.kla-tencor.com (Steven Buchholz)]

I guess you must not have been follow the q-list traffic too much 
if you don't know what happened to the "blue storm fencing with the 
quattro logo" [you probably mean Audi logo].  Although I would 
deny knowledge of any activities, I can tell you that I saw some 
blue "storm fencing" with Audi logos on it at Devil's Playground 
at Pikes Peak on the 4th of July!  Frankly I was disappointed that 
Audi did not make an official appearance at the "Climb to the 
Clouds" ... and now I am downright pissed off at them that they 
would have such a reaction to the storm fencing incident ... What 
did they spend, $50 to make it!?  Michele Mouton was scheduled to 
attend Pikes Peak, Bobby Unser was the MC, and there was a short 
account of Audi's history on the hill in the ESPN2 coverage.  The 
fact that there was an Audi corral on Pikes Peak was noticed by 
other automotive groups as well.  Perhaps the whiners at AOA should 
check out the pictures on the web pages.  They should have paid the 
person that took it to PP for the advertising!  Wow ... this is 
really getting to me ... perhaps I should get rid of all of my Audis 
and give AoA the finger!  I vote for someone taking the "storm fen-
cing" back to the Audi folks and burning it on their front lawn!  
If someone does do this, make sure that someone from the media is 
present to report it ... AutoWeek might be a good candidate.

Hey Graydon, know where I can get the parts you've got on your SC?  
I've always had a desire to get the Cougar XR-7/5-speed version of
the super coupe.  Yeah, the Cougar can be the family car and I can 
find a Lotus to replace the urQ ... that's the ticket!

Steve Buchholz
San Jose, CA (USA)