When are you jerkys gonna learn some Audi history?!?! :-P
05-04-2003, 05:21 PM
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When are you jerkys gonna learn some Audi history?!?! :-P
If you own a pre '85 Audi, look at the production
sticker in the drivers side door jamb. What's the name of the manuafacurer?
On the cover: Mercedes and Auto Union (note the 4 rings on the nose) streamliners on the banking at Avus (pronounced: ahvoos). They were hitting 240mph(!!!) on the straights with cotton ply natural rubber tires!!
Speeds were so high that the front ends were lifting off the GROUND!!!!!
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/41804/imag0002.jpg">
Seen here at Donnington Oct.'38, left to right are:
Seaman-Mercedes W-154, von Brauchitsch-Mercedes W-154 (he died recently),
Nuvolari-Auto Union D-type, known as: "the great little man" (he saved Auto Union in '38 after Rosemeyer died doing 270mph! on the autobhan in a record breaking attempt)
And Lang-Mercedes w-154
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/41804/imag0008.1.jpg">
sticker in the drivers side door jamb. What's the name of the manuafacurer?
On the cover: Mercedes and Auto Union (note the 4 rings on the nose) streamliners on the banking at Avus (pronounced: ahvoos). They were hitting 240mph(!!!) on the straights with cotton ply natural rubber tires!!
Speeds were so high that the front ends were lifting off the GROUND!!!!!
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/41804/imag0002.jpg">
Seen here at Donnington Oct.'38, left to right are:
Seaman-Mercedes W-154, von Brauchitsch-Mercedes W-154 (he died recently),
Nuvolari-Auto Union D-type, known as: "the great little man" (he saved Auto Union in '38 after Rosemeyer died doing 270mph! on the autobhan in a record breaking attempt)
And Lang-Mercedes w-154
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/41804/imag0008.1.jpg">
05-04-2003, 05:38 PM
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I agree with you, eelpie. Not appropriate. I like "denizens" Much better.
Besides. I have a good grasp on the history of Audi. I even made it a point to attend MH99. Reading about the cars in books and seeing, hearing and smelling that 6 wheel 16 cylinder hillclimb car are two different things. Not to mention a personal correspondence from Michele Mouton IRT the UPG party I'm throwing.!
"if you really had *****, you'd race back DOWN the hill"
Michele Mouton on Pikes Peak
"if you really had *****, you'd race back DOWN the hill"
Michele Mouton on Pikes Peak
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05-04-2003, 06:41 PM
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As I understand it, "jerky boys" & humour are different concepts altogether . . .
I have never been exposed to 'jerky boys' but what I have heard of them would lead me to believe they're the epitome of low-brow, crass, mindless humour, if humour is indeed the right word.
Ergo my discomfiture with the term . . .
Ergo my discomfiture with the term . . .