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Originally posted by Outback Gal:
Originally posted by kerrychin:
BTW, I got married!
Wow! Congrats! When did you get married? Lance and I just celebrated our 4th anniversary. I wish you two lots of happiness.
=) Christy
OMG, THEY LIVE!
Hi to you, Lance and the little one. Should be around 1 and a half now, yes?
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Hi,
I am new and considering buying a Countour. Can you tell me about the meet? I live near Mt. Vernon. Is it just Contour owners?
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I might have to ban myself by going off topic, but cut me some slack this time. 
I met my wife 2 years ago in Asia while I was on foreign assignment, actually. She came to Canada for an extended visit by taking some courses at the University in 2004. We got engaged Dec 30, 2004 and married 12 days later. Now just waiting for Immigration Canada to grant her resident status so we can get on with our lives. It's a 6-9 month process. Hopefully in late summer she can move to Canada for good.
The Audi was for her, but I think we'll get something older and cheaper for her until she gets used to driving in North America. She learned to drive in the UK system, on the left side of the road and still has the tendency to want to drive on the wrong side of the road now and then!
I've started thinking about family cars now...one day I think a 2001-04 Audi A4 1.8T Quattro Avant (wagon) would be sweet. It would need a chip and exhaust for sure!
A 3.0L or 2.7T Audi would be nice but these 5V V6s really suck back the gas and these Quattros are heavy cars.
Right now, gotta recover some cash.
Kerry
99 SVT Contour Silver Frost, #365/2760, DMD
98 Audi A4 2.8 Quattro Tiptronic, 30V -- SOLD!
91 Isuzu Impulse XS Kammback, Handling By Lotus
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Originally posted by Jean:
Hi,
I am new and considering buying a Contour. Can you tell me about the meet? I live near Mt. Vernon. Is it just Contour owners?
sweethome1000
Welcome Jean!
We try to have meets now and then, to show off our cars and to meet new friends. We've also had working meets, to help each other do some work on our cars.
This meet looks like it's going to be a good one, with Contour owners and Focus owners too. We might get some people driving from B.C. and Oregon, too.
If you're considering buying a Contour, this would be a good opportunity to see different models first-hand and to pick our brains for info about the cars.
Hope you can make it! (Send a PM to Shotwell for his address.)
Take care,
DDV
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Congrats Kerry! Way to take the plunge. Originally posted by Jean:
Hi,
I am new and considering buying a Countour. Can you tell me about the meet? I live near Mt. Vernon. Is it just Contour owners?
sweethome1000
Hi Jean, shotwell (the first poster) can send you his address, otherwise we'll be at deception pass sometime after the bbq. If you're interested in a contour that by all means come, that'll prove better than any non-owner opinion. You mentioned you saw a car with 120,000m for sale. Is is close to you or somewhere else? There'll be an assortment of cars like svt v6, v6 and 4 cylinder to look at and get thoughts on. And yes, non-contours can come for sure.
So shotwell should we make a time, for those not attending the BBQ, to be at deception pass or the beach? 12? 1?
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Originally posted by Jean:
Hi,
I am new and considering buying a Countour. Can you tell me about the meet? I live near Mt. Vernon. Is it just Contour owners?
sweethome1000
Come on out! You're absolutely welcome! It'll give you a good chance to check out the different flavors of Contour (SE, SVT, LX, etc) and meet up with some of us.
Cris'pus, I don't think I can nail down a time to meet at Deception Pass. I would recommend that we meet at my place, no matter the time. I'm going to send out PMs today with my address and cell number. If there are any last minute concerns the day of the meet feel free to call me.
The only new news I have today is that I have secured a BBQ grill!  It's the big round charcoal type. It should be big enough to crank out some food!
I'm going to start a seperate roll call and what to bring thread. Please let me know!
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4 Speed MTX...synchro and shift fork replacement in progress 
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The car is in Snohomish county, and my friend told me it needs a tune up for sure and an A/C recharge. Why does a car need an A/C recharge? Could it be a leak? I worry about the expense of fixing it if it is a leak? My car's A/C just went out and I don't want another car that does not have working A/C. Is it best to have the carm checked out by a mechanic? Who is good in Everett?
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Originally posted by Jean:
The car is in Snohomish county, and my friend told me it needs a tune up for sure and an A/C recharge. Why does a car need an A/C recharge? Could it be a leak? I worry about the expense of fixing it if it is a leak? My car's A/C just went out and I don't want another car that does not have working A/C. Is it best to have the carm checked out by a mechanic? Who is good in Everett?
AC units do need to be recharged from time to time.
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Originally posted by kerrychin:
I might have to ban myself by going off topic, but cut me some slack this time.
 BANNED!!!    Oh, wait...you're the moderator. That's great news you have Kerry! Congrats!
I just sent PMs out to everyone I've seen post in the NW forum in the last year or so, and then some. Maybe this will bring some people out of the woodwork so to speak. Wouldn't it be interesting if I could get Lance, Shaun, Sadeeq and Rob (QBert) in one place at the same time! Who cares what they drive anymore? It's been years!
I'm getting the feeling from some of the posts and PMs that 10:00 may be too early. Do we need to push it back to 11:00 or noon? That isn't a problem at all, just let me know what you want to do. I'm easy
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*troll in*
Im in
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