RE: Audi bumpers are made of granite

["Browning David (TVCS)" <BrowningD@tce.com>]

Just a note on stop signs:

I, too, STOP at STOP signs.  Haven't been hit yet, but I see several people
mumble curse words at me through the mirror.  These "California" stops?
should be generalized to "American" stops.  Everyone does it (or doesn't as
the case may be.)  If they didn't intend for us to stop they would put up a
YIELD sign!  But they didn't.  It says STOP.  Maybe more people should watch
Sesame street.  

Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

dB
'86 4000s
'89 944
'55 Austin-Healey
Hopefully '00 A4Q in the next few months (good news about the bumpers, too.)

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Igor Kessel [mailto:four_rings@worldnet.att.net]
>>Sent: Friday, July 30, 1999 1:00 AM
>>To: Audi Q-list
>>Cc: Audi S-list
>>Subject: Audi bumpers are made of granite
>>
>>
>>Folks,
>>some bizarre events in our lives make even this atheist physicist want
>>to turn three times around and throw some salt over the left shoulder.
>>See for yourself.
>>
>>The ink has barely dried out on my Tue post about the indestructible
>>44-chassis Audi rear bumpers as the very next morning my wife's A4 got
>>baptised by a "huge American car" as she described it.
>>My wife has a habit of coming to a complete stop at stop signs. The
>>driver behind her evidently expected a "California stop" and slammed
>>into her car throwing it several metres forward into the crossing
>>street. Fortunately the street was empty at the moment. 
>>She is absolutely fine, thanks to the racing Cobra Daytona 
>>cocooning her
>>all around with the heap and shoulder bolsters and extending up to the
>>top of her head.
>>
>>The A4 does not have a single scratch on the bumper! And that 
>>bumper is
>>Pearl White of all colours. So now it's official: the A4 
>>proudly carries
>>the safety banner of her bigger brethren.
>>
>>-- 
>>Igor Kessel
>>Two turbo quattros.
>>