COOL CLASSIC CAR SPOTTERS POST!!! Vol 2
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Interestingly, the Audi factory drivers complained that the shallow angle of the windscreen of the original Quattro resulted in the dash reflecting in the screen so when the Sport was conceived, the engineers added the screen and front doors from the Audi 80 which were a bit more upright. You can tell a real factory Sport from a non factory chopped Ur Quattro as the real McCoy will have a steeper screen angle.
Original quattro
Factory Sport with the steeper screen
Original quattro
Factory Sport with the steeper screen
Edited by Dapster on Monday 29th January 02:11
There was a red factory sport Quattro heading noisily up the hairpins to La Turbie outside Monaco on Saturday hard on the heels of a white Porsche 911 GT something. On the road it strikes you as unusually short. NIce though. I was coming down rather more sedately in my XK120 OTS. In the mid-80s the father of a friend of mine was a cheese at Audi VAG in Milton Keynes and had a factory sport as his company car which was rather cool.
Boobonman said:
Nice old V8 Rover at Waitrose
I have alsways been oddly obsessed with the charmed cobra exhaust hanging waaaay out there, just so bizarre.
Secondly the way the A-pillar goes through it's Chesterfield spire twisted curvature and never looks the same as you walk round the car.
Dapster said:
Interestingly, the Audi factory drivers complained that the shallow angle of the windscreen of the original Quattro resulted in the dash reflecting in the screen so when the Sport was conceived, the engineers added the screen and front doors from the Audi 80 which were a bit more upright. You can tell a real factory Sport from a non factory chopped Ur Quattro as the real McCoy will have a steeper screen angle.
It was actually designed by IAD in Worthing. I worked for their insurers in the 80s and 90s; the majority of their work was highly confidential and the names of their clients were never revealed to us, but when I was asked to insure rather valuable consignments from Worthing to addresses in Paris, Torslanda or Ingolstadt then that was a bit of a clue.
Hugh Jarse said:
Very nice.
I have alsways been oddly obsessed with the charmed cobra exhaust hanging waaaay out there, just so bizarre.
Secondly the way the A-pillar goes through it's Chesterfield spire twisted curvature and never looks the same as you walk round the car.
I think that that exhaust shape was the remedy for finding that, on prototypes, exhaust gases would enter the car through the tailgate ??I have alsways been oddly obsessed with the charmed cobra exhaust hanging waaaay out there, just so bizarre.
Secondly the way the A-pillar goes through it's Chesterfield spire twisted curvature and never looks the same as you walk round the car.
Dapster said:
Close - the original would have been LHD only and the vents on the rear wings would be at the bottom, plus a few other details such as the square see through headrests, and vents on the lower front bumper. Probable a chopped down Ur Quattro with a stick on Sport kit.
There's a few things that just don't look quite right about it - tops of the doors have something strange going on for example. To my eyes replicas always have some kind of thing that stops them looking quite right, but not always something I can quite put my finger on. I've always liked these, I should have bought the white one at the NEC show a few (well, probably more than ten) years ago for £35k. There was one RHD conversion, apparently, done by David Sutton when he was handling Audi Sport UK stuff.
OLDBENZ said:
There was a red factory sport Quattro heading noisily up the hairpins to La Turbie outside Monaco on Saturday hard on the heels of a white Porsche 911 GT something. On the road it strikes you as unusually short. NIce though. I was coming down rather more sedately in my XK120 OTS. In the mid-80s the father of a friend of mine was a cheese at Audi VAG in Milton Keynes and had a factory sport as his company car which was rather cool.
love that road up to La Turbie, nice restaurant at the top in the car park LHS with stunning views over Monte CarloHaylingJag said:
OLDBENZ said:
There was a red factory sport Quattro heading noisily up the hairpins to La Turbie outside Monaco on Saturday hard on the heels of a white Porsche 911 GT something. On the road it strikes you as unusually short. NIce though. I was coming down rather more sedately in my XK120 OTS. In the mid-80s the father of a friend of mine was a cheese at Audi VAG in Milton Keynes and had a factory sport as his company car which was rather cool.
love that road up to La Turbie, nice restaurant at the top in the car park LHS with stunning views over Monte CarloDapster said:
actually it's a non turbo Coupe. Interesting MOT history - see here for the comedy variable mileage!
There might be a bit more to it that than – the wheels are five stud, and all the Coupe variants quattro included were only four stud. So it could be a Coupe that's been chopped around and had S2 engine and running gear added. The fact that it just comes up as "Coupe" shouldn't be taken at face value either. My urQuattro is described as "Coupe quattro" on the V5 and on the original Audi customer order form, so it could still be that. Personally I wish folk wouldn't bother chopping them up – the original car is much nicer.Anyway, this prompted me to go and admire my own Quattro's spotless MoT history only to discover that the mileage shown for one MoT a few years ago is incorrect and at variance with the paper document (which is correct), by 30,000 miles. I'll have to get that fixed somehow...
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