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Old 9th August 2012, 09:57 AM
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As there is no such thing as a fair fight I thought I would get in early with my insults and inuendo before Neil (Architex Ma8tey) does!

Your raving and romping reporters, accompinied by RanjS8 and Notorious will be meeting up this evening to talk stratergy and advanced bo££ox while drinking diet water and lo cal ice. Ferry tomorrow and then a mad 3.7 litre crawl across europe to Germany hoping to get there before we have to come home.

More to follow.................
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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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Old 9th August 2012, 10:31 AM
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As there is no such thing as a fair fight I thought I would get in early with my insults and inuendo before Neil (Architex Ma8tey) does!

Your raving and romping reporters, accompinied by RanjS8 and Notorious will be meeting up this evening to talk stratergy and advanced bo££ox while drinking diet water and lo cal ice. Ferry tomorrow and then a mad 3.7 litre crawl across europe to Germany hoping to get there before we have to come home.

More to follow.................
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If you drive too fast you know you'll prang it!!
the crawl will be slightly less of a crawl now that my manifold flaps arent sticking!!! OK now all you folks be sure to look after the shop while your top team are checking out the competiton!! I want to see lots of reports and pics from both Audis in the Park and also the Classic German Show at Wigan!
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Old 9th August 2012, 10:52 AM
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Lucky gits, have fun. I'll be heading up to AITP so will grab some photos. Edersee looks like a beautiful place, be safe on the autobahns, and if you see an RS 6 - don't bother racing it.
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Old 9th August 2012, 12:42 PM
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If you drive too fast you know you'll prang it!!
the crawl will be slightly less of a crawl now that my manifold flaps arent sticking!!! OK now all you folks be sure to look after the shop while your top team are checking out the competiton!! I want to see lots of reports and pics from both Audis in the Park and also the Classic German Show at Wigan!
This is one of those weekends where I really wish I could be in more than one place at the same time - have fun at Edersee and AITP guys. The weather is even looking ok for Wigan...
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Old 9th August 2012, 01:25 PM
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Enjoy! I'm afraid work commitments and just being too close to my "real" holiday meant I couldnt make the trip. Maybe next year.
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Yes enjoy yourselves you lucky people as am well jealous!!! I am just going to slum it with Amar and the other boys at AITP .........don't forget we want lots of piccies
Ohh and the autobahn is as fast as you can do
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Old 9th August 2012, 09:32 PM
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As there is no such thing as a fair fight I thought I would get in early with my insults and inuendo before Neil (Architex Ma8tey) does!

Your raving and romping reporters, accompinied by RanjS8 and Notorious will be meeting up this evening to talk stratergy and advanced bo££ox while drinking diet water and lo cal ice. Ferry tomorrow and then a mad 3.7 litre crawl across europe to Germany hoping to get there before we have to come home.

More to follow.................
CtL


The fun starts and the ferry hasnt even left yet. I knew I should have come along. I just had to rest as I came back from a drive round Europe last weekend.
Cant wait to see the report & pics.
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Old 10th August 2012, 07:16 AM
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Hello again all
This is your romping reporter. I'm sat opposite your raving reporter and Ranj -

Well after much merriment and talking expert car bo££ox we are all safely on the ferry and holed up in the club lounge bar. :-)

The hot sunny weather we ordered is delivered and Mike has 35 miles of fuel showing as remaining on his DIS and it is 37 miles to the filling station in Belgium that he wanted to use!

We have installed a couple of screen mounted video cameras in both our cars so watch this space!!

Tune in for the next exciting episode!
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Old 10th August 2012, 10:31 AM
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Ohh and the autobahn is as fast as you can do
Yes, but only in the bits marked as derestricted....

... and they can still do you for dangerous driving above all else if you are driving like a plonker.


Oh, and they really, really dont tollerate any sort of racing....
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Old 11th August 2012, 04:14 PM
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With 2 Grossen bier Bitte in front of your raving and romping reporters, we have completed the tasks for today. Badly!

We set out to document all the 8s, talk to as many owners as we could and talk german car Bo££ox. Unfortunately, baggy heads, lack of German language and baggy heads made it all too difficult. So we took some photos and headed back to the bar where Sergay proved useful as a spy! He is Russian after all. Notorious and RanjS8 have headed off to the Germany.DE meeting 65Km away and Neil and I remained to carry away 40% of the prizes on behalf of the UK. Neil came second in the attendees choice for best 8 and I won longest distance travelled to get here (1230Km) and I still have to go home! 25 cars attended on the saturday drive out to a Schloss (castle to you) and it was an 'intersting' and ring peice adjusting drive! There is video of me who, after a spirited (read stupid) overtake followed by a test of the ABS on a blind bend, Once again adjusting the ring peice and we continued on.
A photo or two to follow.................
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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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