U-V8Q

[cobram@Channel1.Com (Cobram)]

  Today the V8Q become an amphibious vehicle.  Going down
  the Mass Pike, traffic backed up, arrive at the problem,
  seems to be about 3 feet of water under the overpass.
  Slip the V8Q tranny into "M", shift into 1st, close
  hatches, extend periscope and dive right in.  Was doing
  just fine (water was shallowest in middle lane) when the
  minivan in front of me dies, with few seconds to react,
  I pass on the right, water was a bit deaper, went OVER
  the hood of the my car, thought that's all she wrote, but
  no, made it to the other side of the "Red Sea" without
  Moses's assistence.  Slipped selector back into "E" and
  cruised to my exit at a few over the limit, dodging the
  bodies of those (mostly Japanese) cars that made it
  through but didn't get far afterwards.  I thought the
  V8Q had gone unscathed through the ordeal, but NO, being
  the 13th and not checking with the Audi gods before
  christening the V8Q as  U-8Q, it seems to have developed
  a problem.  The car is driveable, but when full throttle
  is applied, it's like hitting a brick wall, no acceleration
  whatsoever.  It can be "milked" up to higher revs by
  shifting manually and pumping the accelerator, but full
  throttle bogs down dramatically.

  Any BTDT's that I can fish for first when the rain
  stops and she goes into drydock tomorrow?

  Going to check the Boston papers tomorrow, there was a
  woman photographer (gutsy babe) dressed in hurricane
  gear and taking pictures waist deep in the water and wake
  of the cars. If there is a picture of a Pearl V8Q doing
  the "Gibraltar" rush through the water in tomorrows
  papers you,ll know who.

  BCNU,


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