I can so relate to this entire post. A friend and I from car club were at a Pull-a-part in Ohio taking cylinder heads off an Audi when we realized that a guy working on a VW nearby had taken some parts we had removed from the engine and sat in a pile. He looked like a real dirtbag as did his buddy so we didn’t try to…

I being an original gangster here can verify all the above. In the 70s I had a TR4 and joined a British car club for the Tidewater area of Virginia and northeast NC. Everyone of my friends loved their cars but hated their cars. I learned early on that a wire can show continuity between point A & point B but not light…

Didn’t really hate it , but I’d say least favorite was a 1979 Buick Regal Limited with the Pontiac 301 motor. The valve train noise could rattle the teeth out of your skull. We had to run Castrol 20w50 in it just to keep it somewhat calmed down.

Exactly. I have driven more than a few cars, WITH the owners consent only. Once when I was only 20 I delivered a shiny new black Javelin AMX to its owner. He wasn’t home to receive it and his housekeeper let me use the home phone to call work. Our shop told me to hang out OR DRIVE AROUND his neighborhood for a while…

I’ve live in NC and Texas around a lot of good ole boys and have a million stories but this was one of the best. When tuning a Jeep the guy at a corner gas station near my work swapped a fuel vapor line with a vent hose going onto the distributor cap. When it started it the vapors explode and drove part of the cap…

I’ve worked in shops for 30+ years and only know of one time any employee even came close to wrecking a customer car from screwing around. It happened because he couldn’t handle RWD high hp in the rain and then only thing damaged was the tire and rim on a Vette.

True. Got a brand name sports coat a couple years ago and expected to cut the threads to open the pockets. It only had flaps, faux pockets FTL.

Exactly my thoughts, its not exactly like they are just giving the service away. They try to make it sound like its almost a freebie.

Why isn’t this talked about more? How are other car companies being sued but GM left out?

GM knew they were bad before anybody, but they were cheap and thats all that mattered.

Seriously, you can call bullshit but it was real. It was about 10 years ago and installed in Toledo. Had an in glove box dedicated tuner wired in. Looked like Ford ones by Steeda, the SCT ones. It had 6 selections of tune. I’ve worked in a Chevrolet dealership for 30 yrs and had never seen anything except where you…

I remember him first in Weird Science.

Very cool. I love that type of stuff. It seems like many of that sort of cars are what people care for and last longer. When I’ve been to a few Nationals events for domestic or foreign you hear of these rarities and get the chance to see a few.

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…