[urq] My car will be 25 soon!

[urq]

Well, I can now say that DA222 is out of the garage!  This doesn't mean that
it is all up and running again, but the process to get to that level is now
started ... 

Lately I've realized that I just can't free up enough time to do the big
jobs on my cars any more ... even after being out of work for 4 months I'm
still finding that I only have time for moderate tasks and below.  For that
reason, and for the reason that I need to have working cars in the driveway,
I started taking the family cars to John Brasil's shop here in San Jose.
The straw that broke the camel's back was when an almost brand new clutch
went out on one of the V8s.  A couple weeks ago I had the other V8 in to
John to fix up the front suspension bushings and such.  Whenever he talks to
me he always bugs me to have him work on the urq.  I finally realized that
the car is wasting away in the garage and I just need to have him take care
of it.  It really shouldn't be a lot of work ... the clutch release
mechanism has failed in some odd way, and I broke the Woodruff key on the
cam when I was troubleshooting what I believe is a broken valve spring ...
but I still have a head ready to go on the bench.  I just need to be careful
to avoid "feature creep" ... ;-)  Gawd, now would be a good time to drop an
MC-2 in there ... ;-)

So anyway ... I've been working to get the clutter away from the car so I
can roll it out onto the driveway ... and today the car is sitting in the
driveway.  I got a chance to clean it up before the sun went down ... and
while I was washing it I realized that with the 2008 model year, the urq in
the USA will be 25 years old.  I guess there've already been a bunch of 25th
anniversary celebrations for the "quattro" ... but why not more?  Has there
been any talk of UPG events for the coming year?  Should we talk about
trying to make a "main event" at some central location this year?  

Steve B
San José, CA (USA)