[lit-ideas] Re: Soliciting Funds
- From: Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 23:19:05 -0800
David Ritchie wrote:
Oh dear. The weekend before last I was sorely tempted by a 1997 Audi A
8, being sold for a mere ten thousand dollars. I drove it. Fine
shape. I called the mechanic I know who owns one.
"On no account touch it with a bargepole. The Audi dealer here is crap
and no one else has a clue how to work on them."
"So what do you do?"
"I do all the work myself."
[long pause in which he did not volunteer to look after my potential
whizzy, all-aluminum, fab car]
Well, it takes all kinds. We have a 1998 A6, which David probably
doesn't remember having ridden two blocks in last year. (He may have
been overcome by the oxygen-enhancement system or by the genuine vellum
seat covers.) It is coming up on 70,000 miles, and since we got it has
been worked on only by Kurt Leipzig (you expected Pierre La Roux?) of
Marque Motors Porsche-Audi (now Porsche-Audi-BMW-VW) where I've been
taking Audis (four) since 1985. Our Audi-before-this, a 1986 4000S
quattro, was maintained by Kurt for the seven or eight years we owned
it. The odometer became stuck on 144,000 miles soon after it came into
our care, and 200,000 miles is a fair estimate of how far it had gone
when we gave it to L's nephew, who drove it off at a fast clip.
$10,000 for an A8 isn't bad. Kurt and his certified technicians would be
glad to inspect it. For a price, alas.
Robert Paul
The Reed Institute
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