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//SFest'09

As unusual a month has passed since we closed the gate 8/29 on yet another impossibly amazing //SFest and I’ve found mesself reflecting back on all things Awesome. Eight Augusts ago I assembled 20+ urS cars and ~ 30+ ‘other’ cars in my unassuming yard here in sunny CT, delivering //SFest unto the world - and it was Awesome. Seven successive successful events later and //SFest...

Oct 1st

GoF 9/26/09

Sep 26th

1995 928 GTS 6,700mi - 63rd of last 79 made

Sep 21st

Watkins Glen SVRA Vintage Festival

Sep 11th

e28 ///M5

Sep 2nd

Then, and now… and *NOW* - 997 GT3 MkII

A late evening 930 blast over to my bud’s has me contemplating ‘Then’ via boosted revs thru the 4spd. Then was ‘Now’ when the 930 debuted in late ’74, but Now was redefined with the ’04 arrival of the elemental supercar experience – back to basics with the 996GT3. Six years later and ‘NOW!’ redefines redefinition and the 997GT3 awaits my invocation, sitting seductively in a willing friend’s…...

Aug 24th

n/a in NA - Audi //S6Plus

Somehow I’ve found me slimyself trading cars for a few daze, my //S8 for another //Scar - seems fair and otherwise insignificant but… BUT …the trade is for a 1997 //S6Plus Avant - *the* only one in North America no less. Trade for a few? If you insist… Being the first product of Audi’s newly formed special interests arm Quattro GmbH, the //S6Plus is not...

Aug 16th

turboPALOOZA 2009

Elementary mathematical equation: Fifteen 930s + Carolina Motorsports Park DE + WOT mountain caravan in and around Tail of the Dragon = Just Not Right. Build It - And They Will Come…. the best events beat this drum. 2300mi added to my odo in 4 daze certainly says so. I departed CT Thursday destined to join 15 fellow nutty 930 owners for turboPALOOZA 2009 in Charlotte, North...

Jul 7th

Bizarroland: 4C19H or D3S8? Audi D3 S8

I knew my bud’d been alookin, I did. But he’s always alookin. Welp, he gone and done it… ‘09 Daytona Gray over Black / Silver with deviated stitching. Carbon Fiber baby. Got the call it’d landed hours prior and RUN out the door dinner in hand I went (on kitchen plate, mind you - literally). 4C19H, yeah that’s the ticket. D3S8 just seems too similar to...

Jun 11th

Nov 18th

DBS →

It’s Just Not Right, I tell ya. Welp, its long awaited arrival finally culminated in a Paulling. It was intended that I bomb down to my bud’s Fri. night in the 930 for some gratuitous pics with it but the all-day steady drizzle drizzled that angle. Ah well. So door to door @ Alumibitch WOT in the drizzle didn’t exactly suck. Whattacar, I keep saying, whattacar. I arrive to...

Nov 14th

BMW Breast Cancer Event →

Nipples are rising, while Buttocks remain firm. Just returned from like my 12th annual BMW Susan B. Koman Breast Cancer gig, one of the better I’ve attended esp. in recent years. Mebbe had something to do with the fact that about EIGHT of us bore down on the place at once - muwha! JNR? Guaranteed, Grasshopper. Maiden voyage in the X6 - an all around likeable rig really. Decent paddle...

Sep 30th

///AMG Event →

Tale from the Dark Side: Bombed down to scenic NJ yest. for the AMG event, a beautiful sunny Aluminum blast down NY’s twisty parkways unfettered with traffic at dawn’s hour. Set up in the side lot of local college, a large catered tent greeted us and provided interactive multi media info presentations. Briefly sit in Tomacco Red CLK63 Black Series… look ma no rear seats! ...

Sep 14th

Watkins Glen Vintage Festival →

Longtime friend and permanent MADMAN Mikee Platt towed me TR3 out to the Glen with his Hemi Magnum, I’d met him way out on MA Pike West late Thurs. We arrived 4a.m. and caught 3hrs to get to our 9a.m. event on time. Triumph was this years’ featured marque there so they had a 115 car caravan meet up 20mi from the Glen to parade back, with Mikee me navigator - follow the car in front...

Sep 5th

Aug 23rd

//SFest '08 →

A week has passed since we pulled the plug on //SFest ‘08 and the realities of what exactly just happened have finally settled in. I’m left again awestricken… that… somehow someway we managed to surpass our own high expectations - and yours - and knocked the ball out of the park on an immensely successful 7th annual //SFest. How’d that happen??? I’ll tell...

Aug 23rd

F40 Motorsports - May Coffee & Cars →

Sat. was picture perfect here, worked out well for the Coffee & Cars gathering held @ F40 Motorsports here in CT. Four of us local idiots met up @ varying spots on the highway and bombed down together in resplendent fighterplane style. I imagine that provided quite the scene for passersby, hmmm - 2 screaming red 930s, GT3 with full cup car set up - including graphics, and a crazy Jamaican in...

May 16th

Gathering of Fewls →

Well, Fewls Gather’d… and Just Not was as alwayz Right’d. Or something. Muwahaa / JNR. Good timez… Did that just happen? Carazy.

Apr 26th

930 pre-production prototype from 1974 Paris Auto... →

…_W_T_F_ am I doing a mere _LENS_LENGTH_ from the yes *THE* 1974 Paris Auto Show Pre-production Prototype 930 - yes the one with the (then) wooden motor (now full RSR). Yes the one rumored to have transpired @ ~ the @2MM mark. Yes the one featured in the three volume Encyclopediatic 3 volume set “Excellence Was Expected”… I wonder???

Apr 23rd

//S8 v. Z06 →

Funny encounter commuting home last evening. Thick but moving traffic nearing my hometown, cruising innocently in left lane @ 71 maybe, go by a blue Mk1 Z06 coupe in middle lane that’s just trodding along. Good looking car, I dig them and that color personally. Soon as I’m next to him I see the window go down, and a kid starts making all these goofy ‘what up homey’ type...

Mar 30th

Paulland, Paullywood →

Let’s play a game: count the houses in this 45 lot now two yes 2-year old paved (mostly - the left ending straight can be um interesting heh heh) subdivision - hint, there’s one resident. Complete yes with rounded curbs that I’m ohhhhsotempted to head out next time equipped with red / white rattle cans cause yesohyes can you ‘clip them’ ohsokindly??? There’s a...

Jan 6th

F40 Motorsports - January Coffee & Cars →

So Markymark Besso here invited me last week to join him Sat. for the monthly Coffee & Cars gathering held here @ F40 Motorsports. Sorry to those localyocals I’d normally *insist* join me for such shenanigans but I hadn’t known if I were really going or not until late Fri. night. It was a clear 40 degree morning so I was able to fire up the 930 for the sunrise whirl down there. ...

Jan 5th

RS6 →

//S5 who? //S8 what??? ARE ESS SIX!!! Jah mon!So it finally happened. I finally got to take an RS6 out for a poke in the whiskers - yes, oh yes, finally. This had been a long anticipated moment. I’d vowed to notch me bedpost with twin turbo’d 4.2ness since their launch too many years ago. I’d sat in them. Caressed them. Finger banged them. Had them rev in me face even. But not...

Nov 28th

//S5 →

I really didn’t want to like the //S5. Nope. Uh uh. Pictures did it no justice in mags or online. Seeing it upclose and personal @ NYIAS earlier this year proved it easier on the in person eyes than virtual, but being red didn’t help. Sitting in it evidenced one of Audi’s finest cabins yet. It just looked more than a little too “BMW”. But “good” BMW....

Nov 21st

930 →

I felt it best to get a few tanks of fuel through my right foot before I provided any impressions. Got it reg’d / insured last Fri. finally and have been commuting in it all week. The reality sorta took some time to settle in. It all happened so fast I wasn’t really prepared to be excited. I mean, I was, but was sort of numb by the shock I guess. Couple tanks of gas later, and...

Nov 1st

930 & 997GT3RS →

My 2nd brother I don’t have came up for a romp around Paulland (don’t ask - my secret proving ground 3 mi. up der road) and traded some blowing of e/o skirts up on the interstate. MAN does that thing sound simply like pure «<DEEP»> evil when it goes by you WOT and you got your window down. MUWUahahahahaaa evil. More greatgreat timez in Paulland, Paullywood.

Oct 21st

911RSR @ CMC →

Being the P loving petrol head I am, I met up with my bro’s colleague after work tonight - see he built this orange monster of an RSR clone my bro’d told me about and I had to see it. We met up @ http://coventrymotorcar.com, site of //SFest2007 around dusk for some general all around finger bangin’ fun. Met with Spacesuit Rossato and his 951 colleague Bys, my 951 IT guy @ werk...

Oct 1st

//SFest 2007 →

Aug 24th

997GT3RS →

//Sooooooooooooooooooo… With //SFest planning in Top Gear, Mr. Let Me Lime Rock His 996GT3 got his 997GT3RS delivered whilst I was away beaching for 2 weeks - yes - to *add* to his 996. Oy, is right. Come on down, he says, whenst we arrived home Friday. Oooooookaaaaaaay. The two garage doors go up and reveal a fiiiiiiine pair of ohso similar yet ohso different arses - my knees shudder....

Aug 18th

NYIAS 2007 →

NYIAS, my first experience of *any* major auto show. The show? Meh. Too many ahem dirtypeople clogging the shoulder room, and sadly (ok fortunately) for me, I strive for daily life to be NYIAS but with gas / rubber being burnt so pardon my jadedness. But there were a few highlights. The first will be the last - the commute. We BOMBED down Rt. 15 in der //S8, I chucked the keys to my personal...

Apr 14th

e60 ///M5 →

Four years and 50WOTk in my beloved e28 ///M5’s prepared me all too well for the e60 that’s about to ensue. First, the obligatory: MUWHAAHAHAhahahaahahaaa - damn - Just Not Right. With that out of the way, I finally found my slimyway behind the perfectly sized and shaped paddleshifter equipped wheel of der ‘06 e60 ///M5 last night - JNR style butofcourse - no tire kicking window...

Mar 29th

“I arrived to the orifice yesterday to an email from an equally (is this...”

– “D.B. Cooper”, CPA

Feb 15th

B6 //S4 Avant →

I clicked off many WOT miles (is there any other kind, really?) in Jim Pasqualooney’s former B6 Avant. I really really liked it as an overall package. Sure there were a few quibbles here / there, but none overly glaring. The power is nicely elastic, the gearing is great, the shifter fantastic, the steering and balance confidence inspiring. Could use a bit more torque, if anything. I...

Feb 1st

As The World Turnz →

Random //Scenez (minimal JNR content - which - is sometimes good) as played out Fri. - Sun. here on As The Audiworld Turnz in CT (long-ish / pointless-ish): - Friday: Lunch with Bob D’Amato for unneeded / unnecessary pick up of (8) 4kq wheels / tires as my unuse for them beats Bob’s binning them. They fit in der //S8 with room for maybe oh (8) more. Discussion revolves around that...

Jan 30th

"So, do you Golf? Any hobbies?" →

Somehow you just gotta love it. Those days when you stop and listen to yourself, as you explain things to an inlaw or something during a weekend bday party for the kids. Those daze… just another day in CT: “Did you know there’s a guy in your garage?” Oh yeah that’s Jim from Maine. “MAINE!? What’s he doing out there???” Welllllllllll… ...

Jan 22nd

//S8 - Alumibitch →

I picked up a silver / black ‘01 //S8 last night - sport seats, solar roof, and tinted windows. Added some 18x8.5 ET32 BBS RXII’s for the win. Along the lines of yesterday’s C5 vs. D2 //S debate… man… the //S8 is *quite* the piece of machinery. I mean, I already knew this but sitting in the back seat last night or commuting in today the point is driven home with...

Sep 11th

LRP Vintage Festival 9/05 & 9/06 →

Sep 6th

UrS6 v. e60 ///M5 →

Before I start, I’m not claiming my K24’d UrS is faster than a 500hp V10 ///M5. However, this was a most interesting data point. I was not impressed. Commuting home yesterday, I went by one on the right and didn’t think much of it as I don’t really play with idiots on the road much anymore. I later see him make his way up to be behind me. New left lane opens, I’m...

Sep 5th

//SFest 2006 →

Well folks, I find myself sitting here now a full month post //SFest and feel I’ve finally decompressed enough to post an official recap of the event. You likely have seen many of the pics http://makeashorterlink.com/?Z55A41BAD and heard some of the stories but here’s how I saw things. I’ll keep it brief. What can be said that has not already been said? How was 2006 any...

Aug 28th

Auto Manufacturers →

Notice it always seems they’re all turning left while you’re going straight ahead? Amazes me the mfg’s don’t frickin LISTEN. How can there exist such total disconnect between design and the buying public? It’s astounding. How they all don’t have little trolls planted amongst all the enthusiast forums is bewildering. I’ve been beating this same drum...

Jul 19th

Vegas - The Drive event →

Fighting jetlag now from quick powertrip to Vegas with the wife. From our hotel window I can see next door there’s this “The Drive” event… autocross and off road articulation courses… things that make you go hmmmmmmmm. $10 gets me 2 rides each in C7 Vette ragtop, GTO, CTS-V stick, and H3. Other candidates were the (gasp) $77k STS-V Supercharged, Pontiac Solstice,...

Jun 15th

RS4 @ Audi Streets of Tommorrow →

Audi “Streets of Tomorrow Ride and Drive”… or, “This Car’s Been “Serge’d”. Not sure which name more described Sat’s NYC Audi event. Me, Rossato, and Mikey Magnum Platt met Frank S. and Serge @ Belmont Downs for what was really a *really* thinly veiled Q7 product launch I say. The event “pretty much” lived up to its promotion, tho...

Apr 29th

W210 E55 →

I had a Friday Gathering of Fools here Friday, first of ‘06. Featured a Rover Sport S/C, a few //S doods, a Pizzo, and - ahem - my buddy and his new ‘05 E55. Still saving the Rover jaunt for another time, but, hmmmm, E55 eh???… Er um oh that’s 476neeiiggggggggh / 516poundfoot torque… Five Hundred Sixteen… @ 2,650… …no, no - better yet… @...

Apr 8th

996GT3 @ LRP PCA DE →

PCA events are downright nauseating. Paddock? Nothing $$$ can’t fix. Depressing. So where’s your husband & wife modded GT3 / modded 993tt, towed by your Cayenne Turbo??? I always thought 993tt’s were ‘sorta’ rare(ish), well seems every one they ever freakin made showed up Sat. Same for 964t’s. Our GT3 was one of um, a dozen maybe? Another dozen RS...

Apr 1st

//SFest 2005 →

Five days of post-//SFest-decompression have finally summoned a synapse or three to provide fodder for an //SFest recap. What is //SFest? Wow there’s a lot to tell. Near 40 UrS cars were merely the curtains that surrounded us and provided backdrop to great people having a greater time. Heck I don’t think I talked much //S-car-dom all weekend really. //SFest encompasses you with...

Aug 25th

Cosworth Escort RS →

I’m just returning from yet another milestone life experience… ~ 20 WOT miles in Bob D’Amato’s (Mr. AudiSport.com himself) new 1997 Ford Escort Cosworth RS. It’s currently about 10 miles shy of the 1k mile break-in, so Bob elected to keep the wrong injectors in and to have no boost controller yet. This relegates it to a mere ~ 200hp; the full-tune test drive will...

Jul 15th

Cayenne Turbo →

I’m literally *just* returning from lunch with my (3) Ferrari (1) Porsche owning client. Or so I’d thought. I pull into his shop and low and behold, he’s replaced his ‘winter car’ X5… with a Cayenne. I immediately burst into laughter. Milliseconds later, I note the quad square rear tips bulging from the rear. I immediately burst into uncontrollably LOUD...

Apr 15th

e46 ///M3 →

Dinan software, exhaust, huge brakes, 19” wheels, 285 rear PS2 tires 255 fronts, coilovers, shift kit, etc.. Impressions? Eh. Mixed. Car’s just got no torque, not even remotely close to my stage 1 UrS. But it goes like STINK, and easy. And sounds WORLDS better now with the new exhaust, them cars stock sound like ground up ass. Big time. Shifter was real nice, typical BMW....

Apr 2nd

996 GT3 →

My buddy picked me up downtown here last night in ‘it’. He turns the corner and I see the lowest slung silver demon bearing down on me as I wait curbside. Yes he made me a veryveryveryveryveryvery VERY proud boy and went with the GT3 rather than the 996tt Cab or Vantage. SCHWING! Not that the Cabriolet / Vantage woulda sucked - at all - but damn if the GT3 isn’t just a...

Apr 1st

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512 Testarossa drive →

Nov 10th