Cars VadGTI is definitely NOT buying

[Old Windy]

With a full car for the test drive, did you guys act out some scenes from Ronin?

Any GoPro footage?

THIS!!!! Not only I'm crossing my fingers that you buy it, But you will get to have your own reality show based around doing menial daily tasks around town.... That is until you get on behnd the well of the S8 and the show is transformed into 60 minutes of Ronin type car chases.....
Show ends when you get home from the adventure style drive to the grocery shop, just to bring home a bag of Whiskas Cat food....

[VadGTI]

i see to recall a half hearted search for an RR silver shadow at one point as well...

At least 3/4-hearted, for Vad's Hollywood Tours of Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams®. Hell, I very nearly traded the S60R for a restored one .


I'm still thinking about it .

[VadGTI]

THIS!!!! Not only I'm crossing my fingers that you buy it, But you will get to have your own reality show based around doing menial daily tasks around town.... That is until you get on behnd the well of the S8 and the show is transformed into 60 minutes of Ronin type car chases.....
Show ends when you get home from the adventure style drive to the grocery shop, just to bring home a bag of Whiskas Cat food....

Please send me a treatment or at least a decent script. Storyboards will also be accepted.

[ValveCoverGasket]

At least 3/4-hearted, for Vad's Hollywood Tours of Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams®. Hell, I very nearly traded the S60R for a restored one .


I'm still thinking about it .

dont get a shadow2. get an early one with chrome bumpers and picnic tables for the back seat... otherwise... where will your passengers eat their finger food

[Numbersix]

The ultimate answer to the question/statement posted in the thread title is:

Any of them about which he creates a thread in TCL.

[choochoo]

gonna look something like this?

except with german cars?

[BltByKrmn]

It's funny you say that. I did drive it and it was a hell of a lot more responsive than the Volvo. Much lighter on its feet than the S60R, even with 3 TCLers + the seller on board. Still, I was ambivalent, since, on paper, the S60R and the S8 are pretty evenly matched, the mileage is similar, the MPG is similar, etc. The Volvo also "looks" newer.

Then, I spent the better part of an hour watching (listening to?) to S8+exhaust videos on YouTube . I think that sealed it.

This one was replayed many times:

I still have the M3 for canyon carving/track/fun stuff. The S8 seems like it would be a decent daily, especially with that noise. GOD THAT NOISE! THAT NOISE!

(I need a Kleenex)

My B6 S4 had a no res/crossover Milltek exhaust with Milltek catless downpipes (necked down section removed) plus a K&N panel filter. Again I think that's what sold me.

It didn't however compare to my LS1 Corvettes with a Corsa pace car and Borla straight pipes.

[Lwize]

gonna look something like this?

except with german cars?

Did I miss another SoCal TCL GTG?

[Rennwagen]

Do you still have that crazy van?

The van is long gone. And sorely missed.

[VadGTI]

gonna look something like this?

except with german cars?

I am ashamed to admit that many moons ago I knew at least three of the individuals in that photo from the "drifting" and "canyons" scene. One is currently in prison (maybe out by now) for carjacking a Z06 just to see how one drives.

Quality people, those.

[VadGTI]

My B6 S4 had a no res/crossover Milltek exhaust with Milltek catless downpipes (necked down section removed) plus a K&N panel filter. Again I think that's what sold me.

It didn't however compare to my LS1 Corvettes with a Corsa pace car and Borla straight pipes.

I wouldn't want to spend the $1400 for the Milltek (assuming the purchase happens). Think something similar can be replicated with a removed resonator and an aftermarket muffler? I saw a video with a Magnaflow but it was too... Well, too "American"-sounding. Not sure what his actual setup was.

[Jason4]

dont get a shadow2. get an early one with chrome bumpers and picnic tables for the back seat... otherwise... where will your passengers eat their finger food

Just buy a new Passat so that they have real leg room in the back seat.

[ValveCoverGasket]

Just buy a new Passat so that they have real leg room in the back seat.

also true. way roomier than any shadow ive sat in. by a huge margin.

[hipster.]

One is currently in prison (maybe out by now) for carjacking a Z06 just to see how one drives.

My money is on the fella far right.

[bzcat]

Did I miss another SoCal TCL GTG?

No, there is a girl in this photo. Can't possibly be TCL GTG.

[TigerinColorado]

VadGTI for TCLFOTD President!

[VadGTI]

VadGTI for TCLFOTD President!

I accept!

No, there is a girl in this photo. Can't possibly be TCL GTG.

Truth.

My money is on the fella far right.

Close.

[Lwize]

No, there is a girl in this photo. Can't possibly be TCL GTG.

She looks like she was "hired" for the GTG.

[fbobberts]

At least 3/4-hearted, for Vad's Hollywood Tours of Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams®. Hell, I very nearly traded the S60R for a restored one .

I'm still thinking about it .

It's the drunken car shopping. I mean we all want to do this, I know I do, but something always stops me from doing it.

[nm+]

Did I miss another SoCal TCL GTG?

Not enough moobage.

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Also, wow, those swede speed guys were dicks. I actually sympathized with vad. It was weird.

[what]

There are other fish in the sea......

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv...236803935.html

[Lwize]

There are other fish in the sea......

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv...236803935.html

2001 S8, 140K miles, clean title and no bumper to repair?
$6,999 seems reasonable -- about the price of a used 2001 Civic in SoCal...

[nm+]

There are other fish in the sea......

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv...236803935.html

I like that it still has the hang tag from the shop it just got back from in the pictures.
Also, those expire tabs. . . . SMOG?

[ValveCoverGasket]

I like that it still has the hang tag from the shop it just got back from in the pictures.
Also, those expire tabs. . . . SMOG?

Black on black is a much better color scheme as well

[bzcat]

I like that it still has the hang tag from the shop it just got back from in the pictures.
Also, those expire tabs. . . . SMOG?

Could be just old pictures...

The other S8 Vad went to look at needed smog too so that's not different. The non-broken bumper is worth $1,500 more though.

[VadGTI]

Could be just old pictures...

The other S8 Vad went to look at needed smog too so that's not different. The non-broken bumper is worth $1,500 more though.

But no rebuilt transmission and no mention of t-belt .

Black interior looks 100x better, though.

[what]

But no rebuilt transmission and no mention of t-belt .

Black interior looks 100x better, though.

Set up an appt and we will look at it this weekend since it is in the 818. Maybe after I act as a taxi service to get your ass to Fontana to drive Porsches.

[choochoo]

Set up an appt and we will look at it this weekend since it is in the 818. Maybe after I act as a taxi service to get your ass to Fontana to drive Porsches.

I hope you're being compensated nicely for your services

[what]

2001 S8, 140K miles, clean title and no bumper to repair?
$6,999 seems reasonable -- about the price of a used 2001 Civic in SoCal...

What's a 2006 Civic with 115k that needs a new hood worth? I may have one that I would like to replace with an S8.

[VadGTI]

I hope you're being compensated nicely for your services

One McMuffin, egg only.

[what]

One McMuffin, egg only.

Two McMuffins with egg and cheese only plus a McCafe Beverage of my choice and lunch, or I leave you in Fontana.

[Lwize]

Without the ham or bacon, its not really a McMuffin, now is it?

Seems many of you live in a dreamworld of magic...

[what]

Without the ham or bacon, its not really a McMuffin, now is it?

Seems many of you live in a dreamworld of magic...

It's what ever the **** I want to call it, got it?!

In that case, we are stopping at Tommys and I'll have two of their egg and cheese sandwiches with pickles and tomato and the starbucks venti $5 "coffee drink" of my choice and lunch.

Larry isn't helping you Vad.

[bzcat]

But no rebuilt transmission and no mention of t-belt .

Black interior looks 100x better, though.

They don't get to 140k miles without a transmission rebuilt or 2 so I think that goes without saying.

Black on black is much better.

[bzcat]

Larry isn't helping you Vad.

Did you think this thread was about helping Vad?