RE: New Audi ad

["Geoff Jenkins" <jenkinsg@pilot.msu.edu>]

> One small correction, Brett.  Unless they did this
> commercial for two
> different models, it was a red '88 90q.  Exactly like
> the one I bought back then.

Actually, don't blame Brett, the reference to that commercial
was mine, not his.

BUT... Is it really a 90q? I found the tape this morning, took a
pair of digital snapshots of it, and posted them to:

http://www.msu.edu/user/jenkinsg/whataudi.htm

The pictures are ultra-low-quality (so's the tape they come
off), but it doesn't look terribly much like a 90q to me, but
maybe I'm just not au fait enough with the older 90s...

Anyone care to call it?

[Snip]

> BTW2,  Who you callin' a BHOF?  (Bald headed old, uh,
> fellow - yeah that's
> it fellow.  :-)  Just because I *am* one doesn't mean
> I hafta be called
> one.  :-)

[Well, he [Brett] is ___way___ off in his estimate of my age and
general readiness for senility]

> At 09:58 AM 7/10/98 -0400, you wrote:
> >>My favorite one of all was from the early days of  the 5000,
with
> >>a wheeel starting to turn on ice, and as the camera  panned
out
> >>you could see that it was a 5000. As the camera retreated
> >>further, you could tell that it was climbing a hill.
> >>
> >>Only at the end of the commercial could you see that the
5000
> >>was climbing up a ski-jump slope!
> >
> >Sorry, but considering I was watching Sesame Street  and
other quality
> >(non-commercial) programming around that time, I  never saw
that commercial.
> >Until I got fairly older, all I was allowed to watch  were
the two PBS
> >stations(2+44) and saturday morning cartoons :)
> >
> >I thought it was fairly amazing that I was driving a  car(87
5kCST) that was
> >more than 1/2  my age.  Betcha you 40-somethin  fellows out
there can't pull
> >that one off! :)
> >
> >
> >Brett

Geoff