Can we please stop hotlinking pics?

Didn't he sing in Play Misty for Me?

WHY ??

914Driver said:

Didn't he sing in Play Misty for Me?

Clint Eastwood is actually an accomplished musician and composer and has performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival and Carnegie Hall among other places.

914Driver said:

WHY ??

Because Americans have a stigma about 4 doors. Some will even butcher a station wagon to distance themselves from it.

APEowner said:

914Driver said:

Didn't he sing in Play Misty for Me?

Clint Eastwood is actually an accomplished musician and composer and has performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival and Carnegie Hall among other places.

Dude had chops back in the day...  He co-wrote the theme song for the movie "Sully" so he's still not without talent. 

That can't be good...

Woman has had her Tucson at the dealership since mid December.  Cat is not currently available.  Online catalogue says the part number, then "Not for sale". Seems pretty straightforward to me.  We have no emission inspection here, so beat the guts out of it, spend that time figuring out what went wrong to melt the cat, and drive around with the MIL illuminated until a new cat is available.

I've had it for less than 24 hours, it's running fine, I called her, and she loves me.

Appleseed said:

914Driver said:

WHY ??

Because Americans have a stigma about 4 doors. Some will even butcher a station wagon to distance themselves from it.

Which I will absolutely never understand.

914Driver said:

WHY ??

Short wheelbase is neet.

note that real sport quattros (and well-done clones) had a more upright windshield.  The sq used the doors/windshield/pillars from an Audi 80 (4000).

Sloppily done wheelbase shortenings keep the quattro's laid back windshield and they look kinda dumb.

In reply to Duke :

The quadrqport fear or the wanton destruction making "shorties?" I understand neither.

I still maintain that the Impala SS is one of the best looking regular cars of the 90s. It would not look better as a 2 door.

Appleseed said:

In reply to Duke :

The quadrqport fear or the wanton destruction making "shorties?" I understand neither.

I still maintain that the Impala SS is one of the best looking regular cars of the 90s. It would not look better as a 2 door.

Yes it would.

In reply to Streetwiseguy :

Counterpoint: No, it wouldn't.

APEowner said:

914Driver said:

Didn't he sing in Play Misty for Me?

Clint Eastwood is actually an accomplished musician and composer and has performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival and Carnegie Hall among other places.

Eastwood has a passion for music but was never a successful musician.  He is a composer of no repute, and a producer of nothing of merit musically.  He really likes music, a lot, and his money has allowed him to be music adjacent.

914Driver said:

Cars in the exclusion zone after the Fukushima disaster, soaked in radiation.

Would the radiation fade if removed?  I mean come on its a Porsche! 

Indy - Guy said:

"I no wut I got!"

Appleseed said:

In reply to Duke :

The quadrqport fear or the wanton destruction making "shorties?" I understand neither.

Both.

mattm said:

APEowner said:

914Driver said:

Didn't he sing in Play Misty for Me?

Clint Eastwood is actually an accomplished musician and composer and has performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival and Carnegie Hall among other places.

Eastwood has a passion for music but was never a successful musician.  He is a composer of no repute, and a producer of nothing of merit musically.  He really likes music, a lot, and his money has allowed him to be music adjacent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3fZhJN4Tdc

Duke said:

Appleseed said:

In reply to Duke :

The quadrqport fear or the wanton destruction making "shorties?" I understand neither.

Both.

 

Four-doors rule.

Audi shortened the wheelbase of the quattro by a lot so they could handle tight corners better. Instead of developing a good center diff, since the quattros (and sports) had locked centers in rally trim.  Because Audi management wanted to compete with what the road cars had.

Nevermind that a good center diff could have made the road cars better... and the road cars did not get better center diffs until well after Audi pulled out of stage rally.

Audi engineers secretly built a very good rally car - mid engined, PDK, good diffs, the works - and when management found out, they ordered the prototypes to be destroyed, because they were not what they sold to the public.

I don't know how Audi survived as a company.  It is not like they sold cars with massive aerodynamic aids to overcome the horrible handling caused by the short wheelbase and poor diffs that they used because their solution was always adding more power ("we actually made a 1000hp version but it couldn't turn")

Pete. (l33t FS) said:

914Driver said:

WHY ??

Short wheelbase is neet.

 

So you are saying the 57 shortie needs box flares...

In reply to Noddaz :

Wheelbase was 86 inches.  Tires are 235/45-15 on 15x9 wheels.  333hp from an aluminum block DOHC version of the 2.1l five, with a K27 turbo for all the lag.

VW 4 and 5 valve timing belt engines had crappy combustion chambers because of this car, they had to cockeye everything over to the intake side to make room for the big turbo vs. the right side chassis rail.

Audi RS002.  Somebody hid one from management.

All the good pics I can find are on hotlink blocking sites, so here is a collection of pics loaded sequentially, with sound.

Decimal speed limit? That's a first for me.