Re: Rear deck lid emblems

[four.rings@MCIONE.com]

Robert W Obrien wrote:

> Well, you -could- have a little fun with those- Audi A5, anyone? ;)
> After the "CS" fell off, thanks to Christian Long, mine became a 5000GT.
> No Turbo badge did it ever have. At least my badge games are more truthful
> than the '84 5000s "quattro" running around town...

If you're talking about Philly, PA, then it mastabin my old car, the
grey '85 5000s.
When the silver on the right emblem faded, I took it off and stuck a
"quattro" off a 4000 in it's place. The reason for it was that I
installed the large post-86 headlights and kept the paint and the whole
car in such a good shape that only the silly script "fuel injection" in
lower case italics gave away it's age. It had been annoying the hell
outta me all along, as if the car was built on GM, where they like to
write the whole spec list on the car panels: "tuned port fuel injection"
"twin overhead cam" "EFI" "ABS" "custom" etc. etc. Maybe for GM the
presence of fuel injection, overhead cams and ABS is such a big novelty.
On an Audi in 1994 it looked ridiculous.

Besides, the "quattro" badge off a 4000 has exactly the same script as
the "Audi 5000s". I just removed the residual silver from both badges
with a very fine sandpaper. The matte all black badges looked very good
on the grey car.

BTW, I bought that "quattro" badge for $1 at the Carlisle Kit/Import car
show, which happens every May and where I hope to see a lot of listers
next year.

OTOH once this badge played a nasty trick with me. One winter day I
tried to go around a UPS truck, which stopped in the middle of the
narrow road for a pick-up/drop-off and while doing so I got my nose
stuck in a 2' snow bank (on all-seasoned Y378 Yokos). I honked, the guy
showed up in a leisure manner and gave me a rather annoyed look:
-"You've got a Quattro, what's your problem?" 
I told him the badge was fake and he helped me to get the car out of the
snow.

Moral of this story? People_know_about_quattros!
  
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Igor Kessel
'89 200TQ -- 18psi (TAP)
'98 A4TQ -- on an 18-wheeler
Philadelphia, PA
USA