skiracer1313

<center><img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/97873/pict0013.jpg"></center><p>The steeds and their owners - many more pics to follow. What a great time had by all.

skiracer

Thanks to Skiracer1313 for his most excellent hospitality!!! Great time!!

TerminA8r

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Always Overcharged

Great photo-almost in the words of Pink Floyd-Wish I were here-have fun

ohbw

Jim's street sagged under the weight of A8s and S8s:

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Our host won the award for both Best Basement Imitation of a Professional Ski Shop and Most Excellent Wheels Under Tree-Fiddy:

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Ali A8 received widespread GPS envy for his nifty, totally pro, jewelbox center vent nav mod:

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Professor Emeritus Tozo generously allowed us to drive his silky smooth short-shifting 6MT and demonstrated his in-dash 42" LCD Cray nav/entertainment center/backscratcher.

Otherwise, there was nothing to see or admire except a bunch of guys with nice cars, great personalities, and handsome families.

Thanks for the million dollar view and manning the grill, Jim!

PaulW

I've met:

Jim
Gabor
Steve
?
Must be Brian
Doug
?
?

Very cool!

pkrasusky

Ben - your car looks INSIDUOUS with those wheels and tint. What a stance!

Your bixenons rock Jim - I hate you 8-).

Great to see you all getting together and having fun. Keep up the good work! Great of you to organize / host Jim.

Me &amp; gtreng1 missed e/o here yest., he's up from FL but got jammed up working. Maybe lunch today. Funniest is explaining to wife I'm meeting some internet dood for beers. "Do you know him???". Not yet! Heh heh - great folkz here...

ohbw

Ben's car is nice indeed, but you should see the movie star head of hair on that lad of his.

skiracer1313

Even though my wife couldn't attend the gathering (ladies book club nite- kinda lame excuse, but what can I say?) we had 8 show up and every car was a unique color. Wifey's Avus would have been the 9th and another unique color.

Here is SWiseman's Silver '99:

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Next in the lineup we have jfrahm's Green (97 or 98?) D2

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Then there is ohbw's gorgeous Melange '99 w/ that superb stereo upgrade (his car still has that new car smell - go figure!)

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Skiracer showed up w/ his full family in his Brilliant Black '03 S8 sporting a new sub-woofer

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Next we have our vacationing guest of honor, TozoM8 and his freshly painted '97 w/ a 6-speed manual tranny and enough electronic gadgetry to make even ohbw blush with envy

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Skiracer1313's Ebony Pearl '02 S8 was the closest we had to a color match w/ skiracer's Brilliant Black - close, but no cigar

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Ali A8 acquired his '97 from a co-worker's wife who pampered the car- amazing how nice a 10-yr old German Pearl White paint job can hold up

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And last but certainly not least, is BLT4SPD's stunning '02 S8 in Andorra Red over charcoal alcantara. It's actually his wife Valerie's car and for the second year in a row a lady's D2 stole the show w/ the most elegant D2 present. PaulW- this is the car you sent skiracer and ohbw to scout out for you, but Ben was a step ahead and snagged it first

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tozoM8

It was a pleasure see some familiar faces and to meet Doug, Ali, Joel and Ben.