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finally... (light Audi content)
I get through the one month of digest backlog that has accumulated while I
have been in-n-out of town. Wanted to catch up on all the latest threads
before potentially jumping in on a raging "discussion". Let's see how many
I can hit...
March 18-22 I was on a trip to Monterey for the bike race at Laguna Seca
(site of the Monterey Historics in August) traveling with friends in their
large smoky diesel pickup with camper. Yes, I was a truck/SUV driver. But
not while talking on the phone, and it did have a turbo so we weren't in
anyone's way (so it seemed). Why did I always get to drive Donner Pass? No
snow on road, but nice big snowbanks. This was before the gas price hike
hit, BTW.
March 24-April 5 I drove the Audi (look, Audi content) on a nice little
3400-mile trip as far south as Houston. It ran a little too well ($105
speeding tax in WY) with the summer tires on again, but oh the rush from
75-100 @7000' & 20F. Didn't seem to use any oil (20w50). Economy a little
below 25mpg. I gave (and received back) a thumbs-up to a white-bearded
gentleman driving a nice-looking debadged bamboo 5ktq with CO plates
somewhere around Amarillo, or was it Chillcothe.. I was expecting a little
better off-boost performance down at sea level, but the car didn't seem to
like the muggy air of Houston all that much - stayed even with a 4.6L
Mustang pulling away from a toll booth though. (Sans the one-touch-up
feature I had too few hands to get the window all the way up while
shifting, so it sounded like he was trying, anyway.) Mom was along for her
first Audi ride from Plano->Houston. She likes it, but isn't running out to
trade her LeSabre (with DynaRideTM). Unfortunately. Had a nice
teleconversation with Jason Palmer, but didn't call early enough to
exchange drives or meet other Dallas qlisters. Stayed in Denver with a
college buddy, we went skiing at A-Basin the 4th. He drove, his Scoobydoo -
an Impreza wagon with the little 1.8, commonly seen in the right lane doing
50 in 4th with the pedal to the floor. At least I got to watch all the
traffic traveling both directions. "Audi!" "Audi!" And that was the weekend
it got cold again, brr. Against a baseline of 24 hrs travel (via non-Audi)
from Idaho Falls to DFW, I managed 9(zap)+12 southbound and 11+8
northbound. Saw plenty of left-lane bandits (mostly light traffic) and
mostly just went around.
Then April 10-13 I ran over to Boise for another bike race, talked cars
with James Marriott and we drove each other's "little car" - his 4kq, my
GTI. He says I have to bring the 3B over next time (will be this coming
weekend) to compare to his chip's-in-the-mail K26 MC-1.
And no, I am not currently employed, just in case anyone was wondering
where the free time was coming from. Probably I need to change this
situation since one can usually have either excess time or money (choose
one).
just trying to entertain,
Henry Harper
http://www.srv.net/~hah
1991 200 quattro, 104k, bamboo metallic
1988 GTI 16v, 190k, tornado red