Then I got hit by a car on my bicycle, and got loads of money. So I FINALLY purchased an A3; Plunky's one which used to be Pierre's.
Yeah!
I smoked that around for a bit, enjoying it. It was good.
Prawn's car was slowly but surely getting slower though, and basically the turbo was giving up after 200K.
Dan sold his A3, and purchased a diesel A3.
James crashed his at the Ring, had it resprayed and carried on driving it.
My ex girlfriends car remained good, it got a stage 1 map, a 007P, a cone filter, a set of wheels and spacers and a RARB.
Eventually, I decided to sell my A3. Because it needed a bit of work doing to it, it had been vandalised outside my house and I'd fallen out of love with it
A few months later ex girlfriend thoughts about moving on her A3, and I had a deal on at work. So she got a Fiat, and I paid a big deposit on it in exchange for her A3.
That's when **** got serious.
Prawn sat his car up for a very long time, and bought another A3 to drive as a daily whilst he decided what to do with AAE.
AAE became a track car. And before long it didn't have enough power.
So I got the front mount, the miltek, all the good bits off the A3 that made it a fantastic road car, were now on my A3. Yeah!!!
Then along came Phil Miller. This story wouldn't be complete without him!
Phil and I got on like a house on fire, Phil just popped up on Audi-Sport when I said my clutch was slipping and said he'd change it for me. His generosity and knowledge didn't end there!
Phil build Ron Burgundy, a 300+bhp K04 A3 Quattro. He also did pretty much all the work on my car for the last year of my ownership.
Whilst Phil and I were getting busy with my A3 and his A3, weird things were happening with Dan and James.
Dan wanted to sell his diesel A3, and James wanted to sell his S3 for a diesel A3.
Silently James had spent an absolute ****** fortune doing the most ridiculously attentive and unnecessary work on his S3, making it an absolute stunner.
James also fitted some familiar wheels.
So a swap was done, James got rid of the S and got a diesel A3.
Are you confused yet? Because it's really not easy...
Dan went off with the S3 and put some sticker on it, in the meantime Don came on the scene. Purchasing a TQS and making some stupid mega money build.
Don got bored, decided to split rather than sell whole. So Dan purchased lots of top spec parts, fitted them to the S3 and did a load of drag days and general abuse.
During which time I did the whole S3 slayer thing with the A3, and made it into a 245bhp 319lbft K03 powered dream machine with solid engine mounts, polybushed front end, Brembo's, roll bars, all sorts of stupid ****.
'Man Boost' was created.
Notice the oddly painted bumper, the same front mount and the exhaust off Prawn's old daily/now the track car.
During this time, Pierre had gone off to Australia. And come back with lots of money. So Pierre who bought an A3 to be like Prawn's, who sold his car to Plunky, who then sold Pierre's old car to me, came back and made Prawn an offer for the silver A3 that he couldn't refuse.
So Pierre had Prawn's 'new' A3, which by this time was a high spec'd stage 2 with massive wheels, huge Porsche brakes, liquid gauge, launch control. It was ******* epic.
We cleaned them.
This was all getting ridiculous.
I split up with ex girlfriend, took the A3 back to Basingstoke and continued spending money on it.
No two ways about it, this car was badass.
Don't ask me why, but for some reason I decided to sell it. And buy a diesel A3.
Which was absolutely fantastic.
I sold it to somebody called Jamie, who Prawn and I have known since a very long time ago. Jamie is one of Prawn's Mini friends and he wanted something fun because he lives about 7 seconds away from Castle Combe.
So the deal was done, and my time with the A3 had come to an end.