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Germany Meet Report 2016
Ok guys and gals this is your romping reporter going solo on this one - your raving reporter, being completely raving decided to throw himself out of a tall tree 2 days before we were going to Germany, which resulted in much pain and humiliation for him, and he had already told me we were going in my D3 because someone had attacked his D2 with another car and it was out of action (some people just dont get the hint the first time eh?)
So myself and Chris from the Audi Owners Club (who has a D3 a8 3.0 Tdi) decided to both head over in my car together and Sergey carried out a pincer movement with his D2 via a couple of stop offs with his family on the way and afterwards. As usual there was over 50 A8 & S8's attending including a nice D4 S8 and a W12 6.0 D2 A8 from Holland. Fred, the owner of the D2 W12 hadn't driven the car for 4 years and had just maintained it and looked at it before deciding to drive it to Germany for the meet. It is very low mileage and still smelt of "new car leather" inside, and was in superb condition (even Sergey had to admit it was in amazing condition!). Fred has decided he would like to come with the car to our annual meet next summer which will be a treat for everyone to see! So in Germany the meet was just a social on the Friday evening, with more cars arriving still on Saturday morning, and then a cruise to a local riverside campsite / pub where the voting took place for best cars, and also the German equivalent of the IAM (ADAC) turned up and did a small "auto-test" which consisted of a couple of "gates and Garages" to drive around and into in the fastest time, with points deducted for not being accurate etc. We then had the presentations for their trophies, and then cruised back to the hotel and had a group photo etc before evening meal and more social and car chit chat! As Mike didn't make it you'll be pleased to hear that I scooped up the "further distance travelled to the meet" trophy for my sins despite my car having an air suspension fault and sitting too high in an emergency locked off position. (later turned out to be the 40A fuse under the passenger foot area was blown thereby stopping power to the compressor!) To Chris and Sergey & his family - thank you for coming along, and to all of you that didn't come - you really NEED to come along! There is nothing finer than seeing 50+ A8 & S8's rolling along the road together, and our friends in Germany are good and friendly hosts, so thank you to all of them at A8-Freunde and A8.DE for being so welcoming, and particular thanks to Viktor, Claus and to Vera (who came to our annual meet this year also) for being so helpful with translation and good company Enjoy the pics - more to follow
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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 Last edited by Architex_mA8tey; 31st August 2016 at 04:04 PM. |
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Good one Neil.
We had planned on attending but I'm afraid this year has gone wrong. Another trip to Chepstow on Friday for a funeral. We'll try better next year.
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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) Last edited by tc4332; 31st August 2016 at 05:50 PM. Reason: dyslexic word order |
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It looks like you had fun! I would love to go one day, maybe next year as my brother is looking to buy a house over there so I'll have another reason to go!
Who parked the wrong way around in picture 5?
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Cars... '93 Audi Coupe 2.0 Alpine White (sold) '99 Audi S4 Merlin Purple - K04 upgrade to 412hp (sold) '00 Audi S8 Agate Grey (Sold ) '11 Audi Q7 4.2tdi Unknown Red (Classic Red Pearl Effect - thanks MJ) |
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Pictures Part 2 -
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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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Pics Part 3 -
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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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Wtf is going on in the boot of the grey one???
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Is it a spare werewolf?
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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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Date for 2017?
Hi,
Pics look good and the scene seems like folks don't take themselves too seriously! When and where for 2017? Thing is I've got a good pal who has "hosted" me at MG Owners' Club Rallys in exotic locations for the past couple of years. Patley Bridge. Twice. So the least he (and another couple of fruit-loop pals of mine - getting a picture here?!) could do is come on a PROPER car rally! Robert
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Some very nice shots there Neil, thanks.
You are correct about the Dutch machine, she's beautiful. The chap in clink in the boot is proof that in spite of all comments to the contrary some German's do have a sense of comedy. The German blokes that worked for me in my Army days out there were pretty wicked. I see that you did not brave the Chunnel, went via Dover and the ferry. I've booked the train at the end of the month. I have used both with coaches but then they load into a different part of the train. My mirrors are repaired and fold now (thanks Scott) so I should be OK
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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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It will be sometime around the 2nd week in August 2017, details tbc in our diary!
Bring him to our annual meet which will be early June and hopefully somewhere oop north Quote:
So we went from Calais to Dunkirk and back and I was impressed it was a lot better than I found Calais last year
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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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