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Germany 2018 - An attempt at valid journalism.
As the clouds darken, crows gather in great hosts; a wolf in the distance howls at the moon.
Romping and Raving are on the move again. As Romping finishes his breakfast, Raving has tactically recconoitered in advance and is dug in just off junction 12 on the M25. Our strategic lift ship will collect the heavy armour and light support vehicle at 1400 proceeded to deposit us in fortress Europe without a shot being fired. Joining your intrepid in-house reports for our biggest European mission yet is semi amature reporter and full time magazine editor Frankly Strange; ably supported by his delightful assistant Charlie, whose speciality is being sawn in half and disappearing when it's her round. With this mighty journalistic team, the truth will still be of low inport in our infrequent reports! Next report from the strategic lift vessel, MV Europeherewecome.
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Conan (the Librarian) Watch it if you dare Currently, 2000 S8, Merlin Purple, Leather Pack 1, Winter Pack 1, SPAX adjustable suspension, AP Racing 6 pot front caliper, 385mm fully floating disks, EBC Yellow Stuff Pads, Black Diamond grooved rear disks and predetor pads, D2 Doctors Brake Block. 1997 4.2 A8SQ - the Projekt. 12 years and ongoing! 1997 4.2 A8SQ - Ming Blue. Restoration sat waiting; saved from the Scrapyard 2003 C5 Allroad 4.2Q - Cobolt Blue. Towing car. Laid up awaiting manual conversion. 2005 C5 Allroad 2.5TDi FE - Grey - Workhorse. 2015 Q3QS SLine - Daytona Grey. Lots of extras! Long Haired Admirals cutter. Previously 2003 C5 A6 1.9TDI FWD - Loaner from D2 Doctor Lifex 1997 S8 - Ming Blue. Loaned out and written off. I loved that car. My first engine swap after cambelt failure. 1996 4.2 A8SQ - Ming Blue. 178k on a cambelt! Trader's 8. Delivered to A8Parts at Lifex. 2003 2.8 A8SQ - powder blueish. Fill in for a while. Sold on. 1998 1.8T A4 Avant FWD. Ming Blue (there's a theme here), PEX for the 97 S8. And a list of non VAG going back 40 years before I saw the light. |
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I'm sorry dear readers but our strategic lift ship, state of the art RoRo designed for hostile environments, lacks some basic things like tactical, operational, strategic communications! Yes, no internet. So no update. I'm almost sorry.
But, we made it ashore, not a shot was fire, we evaded the French authorities hunting us and made it to Holland without detection. We are now dug in, in a strongly defended position at Eindhoven. Currently eating cold rations, sorry, drinking cold rations awaiting our MREs. More later.
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Conan (the Librarian) Watch it if you dare Currently, 2000 S8, Merlin Purple, Leather Pack 1, Winter Pack 1, SPAX adjustable suspension, AP Racing 6 pot front caliper, 385mm fully floating disks, EBC Yellow Stuff Pads, Black Diamond grooved rear disks and predetor pads, D2 Doctors Brake Block. 1997 4.2 A8SQ - the Projekt. 12 years and ongoing! 1997 4.2 A8SQ - Ming Blue. Restoration sat waiting; saved from the Scrapyard 2003 C5 Allroad 4.2Q - Cobolt Blue. Towing car. Laid up awaiting manual conversion. 2005 C5 Allroad 2.5TDi FE - Grey - Workhorse. 2015 Q3QS SLine - Daytona Grey. Lots of extras! Long Haired Admirals cutter. Previously 2003 C5 A6 1.9TDI FWD - Loaner from D2 Doctor Lifex 1997 S8 - Ming Blue. Loaned out and written off. I loved that car. My first engine swap after cambelt failure. 1996 4.2 A8SQ - Ming Blue. 178k on a cambelt! Trader's 8. Delivered to A8Parts at Lifex. 2003 2.8 A8SQ - powder blueish. Fill in for a while. Sold on. 1998 1.8T A4 Avant FWD. Ming Blue (there's a theme here), PEX for the 97 S8. And a list of non VAG going back 40 years before I saw the light. |
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Here we are later. Still dug in; making full use of the eat all you can breakfast.
We are now waiting in our 4 star dugout for the light support wagon to catch up. We've been joined by an elite Dutch special weapons team, and have increased our heavy armour by a W12 and a scouting vehicle, an Audi Cabriolet. Once the light support vehicle catches up, our plan is to break camp and commence s lightning strike across the border. We will send the scout ahead to draw fire and if it receives any divert to avoid that hotspot! Our number now includes an A8, 5 X S8s and a W12. Germany here we come.......
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Conan (the Librarian) Watch it if you dare Currently, 2000 S8, Merlin Purple, Leather Pack 1, Winter Pack 1, SPAX adjustable suspension, AP Racing 6 pot front caliper, 385mm fully floating disks, EBC Yellow Stuff Pads, Black Diamond grooved rear disks and predetor pads, D2 Doctors Brake Block. 1997 4.2 A8SQ - the Projekt. 12 years and ongoing! 1997 4.2 A8SQ - Ming Blue. Restoration sat waiting; saved from the Scrapyard 2003 C5 Allroad 4.2Q - Cobolt Blue. Towing car. Laid up awaiting manual conversion. 2005 C5 Allroad 2.5TDi FE - Grey - Workhorse. 2015 Q3QS SLine - Daytona Grey. Lots of extras! Long Haired Admirals cutter. Previously 2003 C5 A6 1.9TDI FWD - Loaner from D2 Doctor Lifex 1997 S8 - Ming Blue. Loaned out and written off. I loved that car. My first engine swap after cambelt failure. 1996 4.2 A8SQ - Ming Blue. 178k on a cambelt! Trader's 8. Delivered to A8Parts at Lifex. 2003 2.8 A8SQ - powder blueish. Fill in for a while. Sold on. 1998 1.8T A4 Avant FWD. Ming Blue (there's a theme here), PEX for the 97 S8. And a list of non VAG going back 40 years before I saw the light. Last edited by Conan_the_Librarian; 10th August 2018 at 04:25 PM. |
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Autos Autos everywhere... (1) 2015 Tesla Model S: (was 85D, now 90D ). Silent and deadly, and very fast... But not as fast as Ian's M3P- (2) 2002 D2 S8 Final Edition: Bulletproof and faultless: Brilliant Black with Extended (Red!) Leather. Three-times winner of Best D2 1st prize (3) 1997 Fiat Coupe 20v Turbo: Scots (! ) Green. Fragile, but beautiful. (4) 2010 Fiat Panda 100HP. White Pandamonium (Final Edition!!). Pure old-fashioned 6-speed go-karting. |
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However Mike, isnt the invasion of Europe line of journalism slightly (!) inappropriate when you are driving an Audi to a German car meet ? What happens with the first contact report? Keep up the excellent reporting!
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2002 D2 S8 – Ming Blue, Valcona leather, Vavona wood insert, solar sunroof (to be fitted), Heated rear seats, extended leather pack, 18” Avus, ski hatch, Bose, auto dim rear view mirror, rear blind. |
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For those of you without the latest data; I attended the German 2018 War retaliation meet. It was bloodie wonderful, or should that read wonderfully bloodie?
Thursday 9th August 2018 19:00 Arrived home from Edinburgh tour. Ate a piza and went to bed. Friday 10th August 2018 00:01 Woke up and dressed 00:10 Departed in my A8 05:10 Arrived EuroTunnel, Folkestone 05:36 Train departed for Calais 10:10 Drove past Eindoven, thinking everyone would have left I kept going, hoping to secretly catch up with the convoy and quietly slip in behind them. Miserable sods had a lie in. 14:45 Stopped for Fuel 20 Km before the hotel (first time out of the seat). 15:10 Arrived at hotel. First A8/S8 there. Slowly the others arrived, first a few Germans, then some more Germans, then the English attackers complete with support vehicles and finally some more Germans. Surprisingly, without shots being fired, peace was declared and I received lots of very welcome hugs. Car bollocks started, drinks were drunk, more car bollocks and food digested followed by more drinks and car bollocks until deep into the night. I was unable to stay the pace and fell into my bed before midnight. Sorry that I let the side down but my old body was well knackered by then and I wanted to be awake for breakfast and more CB. Really interesting convoy run to the Edelsee, nice boat ride followed by two goes at the Summerollerbahn. Think about an inspection trolley with a very weak brake hurtling down a steel half pipe. Good fun. Followed by a barbecue and prize presentations. We won best car (Dean in a red T shirt) and furthest travelled. The intrepid Vera won 3rd best car. Somehow a German won second best car. Quiet drive back to the hotel and the usual evening shenanigans with lots of liquid plus CB. Sunday after breakfast people started to depart but yours truly could not because my keys were in the locked boot. Vera stepped forward and managed to organise rescue of said keys by the Local bright yellow uniformed ADAC operative. Whilst this erstwhile man did the dirty on my car Vera and I retired to the hotel and took part of a nice lunch. Car restored to operational capability and Vera and I set off northwards, sort of, parting ways at a Junction where I peeled off northwards for twenty minutes arriving in Bielefeld for coffee and cakes followed shortly by a heavy dinner, and a short drive to my old abode. Couple of days visiting old friends in the area and today I have driven via Viersen, visiting an old Army buddy, and am currently ensconced in my hotel room in Valkenburg near Maastricht in Holland. Must remember to book my return rail journey for Friday night.
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Ray at Wigan Pier 2014 A8L D4 4.0TFSI Gold (Sticker says "Beige") Can't leave you in a black smoke cloud anymore.. In progress, Nothing left to do. Gone 2004 A8 D3 3.0 TDI. Ebony Pearl Black (with little bits of other colours and glitter) |
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An enjoyable few days with good company, good cars, good food and drink.
Started with a nice cruise over to Eindhoven on Thursday afternoon. The hotel there was excellent and makes a good stop off location if you are getting an evening ferry/train and have a long onward journey east or south to make the next morning. We continued our journey to Kassel late Friday morning after Bert and Charlie's arrival in the Subaru support vehicle with Tjalling joining in his D2 W12 and Fred in the Audi Cabrio joining the convoy. Not too much excitement to be had on the autobahn and major roads when we hit a couple of slow patches and eastern European lorries are more than happy to just pull out into your lane ahead when you are doing 100mph. Saturday's boat tour on the meandering Edersee lake was interesting and very civilised, taking in the famous dam, and then continuing our journey to the toboggan. I missed the prize giving ceremony as I was having a few extra runs on the toboggan but Ray won furthest distance traveled, with Dean winning best car overall and both picking up handsome trophies so well done to them. The BBQ and buffet laid on at the toboggan area was fantastic. Less fantastic was the wasp problem! One obvious observation about the cars is that the Germans certainly aren't afraid to modify their 8's whereas we seem to prefer to keep ours stock and original. Spoilers on a D2, 22" Range Rover wheels and air-ride on a D3, full custom paint on a D4... anything goes. Sunday morning we all departed for Dunkirk in convoy. Lorries cannot transverse the country on Sundays (I think I've got that right?) and cars on the autobahn were quite sparse in places so when a lovely straight piece of road ahead presented itself I took it as an opportunity to stretch the car's legs . I got to 177mph which read as 285kph on the digital display and don't mind admitting I got a bit scared and only lasted a few seconds at that speed but the car was still wanting more. I backed down to 120mph or so before a British Prius pulled out on me and put an end to that fun. I did find something in VCDS a while ago which lifted the speed limiter 1mph at a time so my tinkering with that has obviously worked. It leaves me wondering what the true max speed is though... I selfishly didn't take many pictures because I saw lots of others snapping away and taking videos so knew there would be some good memories of the weekend appearing soon after.
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Currently '8-less Previously: - Aqua Blue Pearl D3 S8 - Kamut Beige leather, ACC, B&O, factory RSE, solar sunroof, electric blinds, ski bag, Homelink, comfort headrests. - Aqua Blue D2 S8 - Grey leather/Alcantara - D3 A8 3.0 CVT - D3 3.7 V8 Last edited by Conquistador; 17th August 2018 at 09:37 AM. |
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Great Video from the Germany meet here from Robert at A8-Freunde -
https://youtu.be/xp3OOfkyNnA
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Confidence is the feeling you have before you know better . . . . Audi A8 D2 3.7 Quattro Sport 1999 FL - Melange 2nd Place Winner - A8-Freunde Annual German Meet 2012 at Edersee 20" x 9" Bentley GTC Wheels with 385mm W12 Front Discs & Bentley Caliper Covers, Front Lowered on Coilovers, Xenons, Combined DRLs and LED Foglights to modified OEM front fog lamp position, Alcantara/Leather, Full Black Alcantara headlining + pillars and blind shelf, Bespoke Flat Bottomed Sports Steering Wheel, Dark Myrtle Wood, Autodim Mirrors, Bose, Blinds, Digital TV, Ski Hatch, Modified rear exhaust section for extra V8 Burble Audi S8 D2 Final Edition 2002, Avus Silver with Red Leather Interior Tiptronic with Sport mode button, Sony rear entertainment package, Bose sound system, Audi Navigation Plus, 20 inch Final Edition alloys, Full Cat Back Stainless Milltek exhaust, giving a great V8 burble Audi A8L D2 4.2 Petrol with LPG - Ebony Black Audi A8L D4 FL 4.0T Petrol twin turbo - Havana Black Audi A2 1.6 FSi Sport - Dolphin Grey with Votex body kit and Red Leather Interior and some other A8's A8L's and Mercs |
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Great Vid Neil - Thanks for sharing
Some tasty looking 8’s in there
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2002 S8 - Irish Green Pearl. Cat N (saved by the D2 Doctor ) 1988 E30 Coupe - Royalblau Metallic 2003 S4 Avant - Light Silver Mettalic 2016 S5 Coupe Black Edition - Ibis White |
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Our German Friends make some awesome videos from the meet - here are a few from previous meets including one by our very own DelBoy. . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClxVudAp3uY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt7WO1O2hBU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPwlAsbFVrk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLzhsg6AxI4 Makes you want to come along next year eh?
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Confidence is the feeling you have before you know better . . . . Audi A8 D2 3.7 Quattro Sport 1999 FL - Melange 2nd Place Winner - A8-Freunde Annual German Meet 2012 at Edersee 20" x 9" Bentley GTC Wheels with 385mm W12 Front Discs & Bentley Caliper Covers, Front Lowered on Coilovers, Xenons, Combined DRLs and LED Foglights to modified OEM front fog lamp position, Alcantara/Leather, Full Black Alcantara headlining + pillars and blind shelf, Bespoke Flat Bottomed Sports Steering Wheel, Dark Myrtle Wood, Autodim Mirrors, Bose, Blinds, Digital TV, Ski Hatch, Modified rear exhaust section for extra V8 Burble Audi S8 D2 Final Edition 2002, Avus Silver with Red Leather Interior Tiptronic with Sport mode button, Sony rear entertainment package, Bose sound system, Audi Navigation Plus, 20 inch Final Edition alloys, Full Cat Back Stainless Milltek exhaust, giving a great V8 burble Audi A8L D2 4.2 Petrol with LPG - Ebony Black Audi A8L D4 FL 4.0T Petrol twin turbo - Havana Black Audi A2 1.6 FSi Sport - Dolphin Grey with Votex body kit and Red Leather Interior and some other A8's A8L's and Mercs |
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