Only about 2000 of the A3 VR6 quattro were made in 4 yrs for worldwide sales. Europe had the S3 and RS3 also so few were sold there. About 725 were made in Lava Gray which is what I own. I have a breakdown at home on production figures that Audi got for me two years ago. There are a few very rare ones in colors close…

Which is exactly why I bought the A3 Audi with VR6. Nobody notices it. R32 Golf with a little more wheelbase and rings added. With tune at 270hp and will buy mods to get it to around 300 in future. Just enough for me. From a distance people think its a Mazda 3 five door.

There is another reply with the true original purpose. It was for an ice axe. I’ve also used it for crosscountry skis when off the trail. I guess the next question will about daisy chains and nobody will know they were for attaching carabiners, chocks, pitons and wedges. You need to look at Yvon Chouinard and Royal…

This is the original purpose of those tabs. I guess there are too few real outdoorsmen here to come up with that answer immediately. I used to also use them for my crosscountry skis if you had to hike into or out of a snow covered area on dry trail. I did three years as a US Ski Patrol volunteer in the 90s.

I’ve eaten many a can of cold pork and beans during hurricanes when I lived in the Carolinas. Its not the best meat but we often kept Vienna sausage for such emergencies. Now I’m in the midwest and have a camping stove that we have used sparingly during winter storms the few times we’ve lost power. Its also nice that…

You now have the affliction, an Audi addiction.

I’ve been an ACNA member for 17 years now. I’ve owned 4 newer Audi 98 to 2012. However I’ve driven and been in various models from the 80's to present. I didn’t “get it” for years since I work in a Chevy dealer. Just took one drive in the snow with snow tires to convince me 20 years ago. In snow the newer ones just…

Saw one race prepped at Mid-Ohio sometime back at NASA races. It had an IMSA style front spoiler and had a nice turbo setup. Was racing same classes as Vettes, Nissan Z cars and P-cars. I only think the spotty rain limited it from placing. Looked fast when it was on dry sections.

Having been probably the only Oppo that actually purchased a Gremlin I support its removal from the bad car list. It was a new Gremlin at about $3500 new in 1972. Was far better than my high school friends Vegas and Pintos. I put about 50k on it and only replaced front brakes, tires and a diode-trio in the alternator.…

How different was the chassis on the FJ55? My sister had one back then and I worked on it a bit. Never did any work on any FJ40 or FJ45. My family was more into various Jeeps and friends had 60-70s Land Rovers.

You might need this.

So when I was a pit crew extra at Mid-Ohio for Koni Challenge and Continental Tire series races and many of the crew guys wore those or Sparcos , you’re saying we were posers? I don’t think so.

Its basically a Fiat and I fully support you on this. My first car was a Fiat Spider in the 70's. Get the issues fixed and keep it. I think its pretty hip.

One of my coworkers has a drone that can hit 45 or so peak speed. He wants to see how well he can follow my A3 on some back road curves. Haven’t figured out when we will experiment with it but I’d like to do it on a snowy day when I can get it a little sideways. Might not be this year because we are about 18" off on…

The footage has gotten so much better. I know there are some cameras and drones that can be set to track a single object so I’m just curious as to when this and better collision avoidance systems could be applied to drones. Each car could have its own drone tracking it at a set distance and height without someone…

I have a laces type key/money pouch that I’ve had since 1983. They’ve been around for years and the key on the laces idea has been around forever. Its on old Youtubes and runners blogs. The other old tips were to put it on one of the ties for drawstring waist runners shorts or on an elastic cord attached to the wrist.

True. College roommate had a Pinto. In two years I remember brake jobs, 1 small carb fire, two carb rebuilds, 1 transmission rebuild(my first) , tire, brakes, radio and electrical demons. I was so happy when he moved to Florida and I didn’t have to help him repair it anymore. Was amazed it even made the trip from…

I had friends that bought Vegas. Was once following one when the axle clip came loose inside the diff. The rear shaft walked it sway out of the housing until the tire rubbed the quarter panel. Don’t know how the shaft didn’t break or the tire blow up. With quality like that why would anyone even look at one these…

My wife wanted one in ‘96 and we ended up keeping it until 2008. Logged over 125k for us and went on under a friend owning it for 3 more years before the 3rd owner got it. At 105k we replaced a transmission solenoid, two sets of clutches and fluids because it would set a code from internal slippage when driving in the…

Back in the day I gave three of my nephews a 40 piece Harbor Freight ratchet set ( when they were $3) , divided a huge Stanley screwdriver set among them, pliers, crescent wrenches, got each a plug gap tool and along with a mess of my old extra tools put the pieces in some Plano tackle boxes. Two of them learned to…