RE: Audi quattro | Anniversary Rise
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rastapasta said:
what about this one??
https://www.autoscout24.ch/de/d/audi-quattro-coupe...
or this
https://www.autoscout24.ch/de/d/audi-quattro-coupe...
Not quite what I meant by "the right price" - £14500 for a car with a load of bits apparently missing, or half a million for a short-wheelbase car. https://www.autoscout24.ch/de/d/audi-quattro-coupe...
or this
https://www.autoscout24.ch/de/d/audi-quattro-coupe...
Found myself owning a 1986 non turbo quattro as a 19 year old in 1999 and was instantly smitten.
Completely lucked my way into a 1987 WR/MB hybrid, ported/polished head and hybrid turbo in 2010 for the paltry sum of £2,750 as the owner tried to 'rally rep' it by ripping out the interior, rear firewall and fuel tank, welding into place buckets and fabricate his own fuel tank (not joking!).
Managed to undo all his 'mods' and even managed to find the grey leather interior from that actual car.
Kept it until 2015 when I sold it for a 'then' reasonable £10k with work to do.
Loved how it sounded, loved the unashamedly 80's digital dash. Was addicted to gently revving it at lights making the whole car rock and the positive attention it got. Hated the parts situation. I ended up buying five separate non turbo audi coupe's to 'feed the beast' with shared parts.
I've regretted selling it ever since
Completely lucked my way into a 1987 WR/MB hybrid, ported/polished head and hybrid turbo in 2010 for the paltry sum of £2,750 as the owner tried to 'rally rep' it by ripping out the interior, rear firewall and fuel tank, welding into place buckets and fabricate his own fuel tank (not joking!).
Managed to undo all his 'mods' and even managed to find the grey leather interior from that actual car.
Kept it until 2015 when I sold it for a 'then' reasonable £10k with work to do.
Loved how it sounded, loved the unashamedly 80's digital dash. Was addicted to gently revving it at lights making the whole car rock and the positive attention it got. Hated the parts situation. I ended up buying five separate non turbo audi coupe's to 'feed the beast' with shared parts.
I've regretted selling it ever since
Leithen said:
We must have had it for close on 15 years. For a while we ran it alongside a Lancia Delta HF 4WD. The difference was stark and the Lancia never found a place in our hearts. In the end we probably did 50-60,000 miles in. It was bought by the director of the local Audi Garage, who gently restored it.
Happy days.
Was reading a similar article last weekend Happy days.
Great story Leithen
Famed for its traction indeed, mine could spin all 4 wheels in 1st and 2nd gear unless is was bone dry when it came fully on boost, a really strange sensation! 450bhp is quite a lot in one of these on the road, about 1300kg weight etc. Was never happy with the hydraulically boosted brakes despite numerous upgrades though.
A fantastic trip down memory lane, thanks.
I bought my first one from Ian Skelly's in Glasgow (C600 KSU, funny how some reg's stick in your memory!) 10 valver in white with green fluorescent 'dials'; went in for a Golf Gti
It was a cancelled order that they'd fitted an equaliser system to and were desperate to find a buyer since removal of said equaliser would have left ruddy great holes in the dashboard. Could not believe how well it drove, just on another planet compared to anything else I'd ever driven.
My best mate managed to put it into a field around some back roads in the Carlisle area and in doing so (whilst removing both wing mirrors between two fence posts leaving the rest of the car remarkably unharmed-ish) commented on the effectiveness of the diff locks as he drove it out of a ploughed field! They could be a bit tricky if you let-off the power whilst on the limit in the wet.
The second one was a silver 20 valver, much more refined, bought from Ingram's in Ayr. I loved that car and put 80,000 miles on it over 3 years.
My last one, again from Ingram's was pearlescent white and one of the last made in right hand drive. It was most certainly the last registered Ur quattro in the UK as I bought it from them unregistered and put it in my garage with the genuine intention of keeping it as a retirement pension - alas I couldn't resist the lure and finally registered it on a K plate. I wonder what the value would have been today had I not done so??!
No regrets though, just feel privileged to have put so many ridiculously fast miles collectively on them. Truly magnificent driver's cars.
As I said, thanks for the memories.
I bought my first one from Ian Skelly's in Glasgow (C600 KSU, funny how some reg's stick in your memory!) 10 valver in white with green fluorescent 'dials'; went in for a Golf Gti
It was a cancelled order that they'd fitted an equaliser system to and were desperate to find a buyer since removal of said equaliser would have left ruddy great holes in the dashboard. Could not believe how well it drove, just on another planet compared to anything else I'd ever driven.My best mate managed to put it into a field around some back roads in the Carlisle area and in doing so (whilst removing both wing mirrors between two fence posts leaving the rest of the car remarkably unharmed-ish) commented on the effectiveness of the diff locks as he drove it out of a ploughed field! They could be a bit tricky if you let-off the power whilst on the limit in the wet.
The second one was a silver 20 valver, much more refined, bought from Ingram's in Ayr. I loved that car and put 80,000 miles on it over 3 years.
My last one, again from Ingram's was pearlescent white and one of the last made in right hand drive. It was most certainly the last registered Ur quattro in the UK as I bought it from them unregistered and put it in my garage with the genuine intention of keeping it as a retirement pension - alas I couldn't resist the lure and finally registered it on a K plate. I wonder what the value would have been today had I not done so??!
No regrets though, just feel privileged to have put so many ridiculously fast miles collectively on them. Truly magnificent driver's cars.
As I said, thanks for the memories.
FA57REN said:
Turbobanana said:
And what was the attraction that everyone else seemed so keen to see at the NEC in 1980? Austin Metro, of course.
Which was probably more influential overall. The Quattro was a tangent in technology terms, since the design isn't applicable to transverse engines which are the majority of road cars. Hence the modern Audi 'quattro' variants of the A3 and TT that actually use the Haldex system...The Quattro directly led to god knows how many different cars and changed rallying throughout the Group B and Group A eras. Admittedly not that many used a north/south engine but there were a few...
I remember the first RAC rally with the Audi Quattro . They made us take an extra step back as they approached in the forests or at night .
The senses dictated that anything going that much faster was out of control and about to visit the scenery. The noise of the 5 pot , the flames! Had a fair few Audis over the years , Coupe, 80GT , 100 Quattro , all were very rewarding to drive and all were capable of embarrassing most other cars on the roads .
I also saw the monster that Dial Lynx built , 700-800 bhp of their version of a SWB Quattro Sport .
The senses dictated that anything going that much faster was out of control and about to visit the scenery. The noise of the 5 pot , the flames! Had a fair few Audis over the years , Coupe, 80GT , 100 Quattro , all were very rewarding to drive and all were capable of embarrassing most other cars on the roads .
I also saw the monster that Dial Lynx built , 700-800 bhp of their version of a SWB Quattro Sport .
andy97 said:
Had my 1989 MB version 22 years now. Purchasing it was the cause of my first and probably biggest ever marital row. I had been married 6 weeks at the time and thought I still had the right to make my own decisions! To be fair, I was supposed to be looking for a car for my wife at the time.
Still got the car and still got the wife. Both the best investments I ever made.
That is something to say!Still got the car and still got the wife. Both the best investments I ever made.
Cheers for that quote to you, Sir!
Leithen said:
The next day my father could take it up to Killin in a fashion that would make Walter Rohrl blush, and come back deeply impressed by its abilities. Nothing stopped it. Narrow tyres and it’s excellent original 4WD system meant that ice and snow were not an issue. We would take to locking the centre diff when pressing on (never the rear diff). That tightened up the roadholding slightly, but then would of course catch you out when you arrived at your destination and forgot to disengage it - its turning circle becoming similar to a ship.
Fantastic story mate! Thanks for sharing.Funny you should mention your Dad driving to Killin, that's where I reside. Great roads for exploiting a car's capabilities.
I've had my 88MB for 21 years now. It's my 2nd quattro, having to give up my first after getting married and having kids, the car was not pram friendly. After selling it in 1995, I promised myself I'd get another. 4 years later I was able to aquire my current one as a second car whilst keeping my 100 Avant as the family car.
Like many, I was smitten by the quattro in my late teens after watching it blitz the rally scene. The looks and sound it made was quite something back then. I never envisaged owning a road car as they were hugely expensive cars back then.
I've owned and loved many cars over the years, but none have got under my skin like the quattro. Not quick in a straight line any more (back in the mid 80's they felt ballistic) but due to comparitive lightness and handling, they are still huge fun.
As a package, it's never felt anything other than special. It's got a charachter all of it's own. It's easy to forget that this has to be up there with the best of the game changers ever made.
This has been and always will be my favourite car of all time.
Nors said:
Fantastic story mate! Thanks for sharing.
Funny you should mention your Dad driving to Killin, that's where I reside. Great roads for exploiting a car's capabilities.
I've had my 88MB for 21 years now. It's my 2nd quattro, having to give up my first after getting married and having kids, the car was not pram friendly. After selling it in 1995, I promised myself I'd get another. 4 years later I was able to aquire my current one as a second car whilst keeping my 100 Avant as the family car.
Like many, I was smitten by the quattro in my late teens after watching it blitz the rally scene. The looks and sound it made was quite something back then. I never envisaged owning a road car as they were hugely expensive cars back then.
I've owned and loved many cars over the years, but none have got under my skin like the quattro. Not quick in a straight line any more (back in the mid 80's they felt ballistic) but due to comparitive lightness and handling, they are still huge fun.
As a package, it's never felt anything other than special. It's got a charachter all of it's own. It's easy to forget that this has to be up there with the best of the game changers ever made.
This has been and always will be my favourite car of all time.
Lovely car. We used to farm Glen Lochay, so Killin was the pause to breath moment before entering our own personal rally stage! Funny you should mention your Dad driving to Killin, that's where I reside. Great roads for exploiting a car's capabilities.
I've had my 88MB for 21 years now. It's my 2nd quattro, having to give up my first after getting married and having kids, the car was not pram friendly. After selling it in 1995, I promised myself I'd get another. 4 years later I was able to aquire my current one as a second car whilst keeping my 100 Avant as the family car.
Like many, I was smitten by the quattro in my late teens after watching it blitz the rally scene. The looks and sound it made was quite something back then. I never envisaged owning a road car as they were hugely expensive cars back then.
I've owned and loved many cars over the years, but none have got under my skin like the quattro. Not quick in a straight line any more (back in the mid 80's they felt ballistic) but due to comparitive lightness and handling, they are still huge fun.
As a package, it's never felt anything other than special. It's got a charachter all of it's own. It's easy to forget that this has to be up there with the best of the game changers ever made.
This has been and always will be my favourite car of all time.
droopsnoot said:
rastapasta said:
what about this one??
https://www.autoscout24.ch/de/d/audi-quattro-coupe...
or this
https://www.autoscout24.ch/de/d/audi-quattro-coupe...
Not quite what I meant by "the right price" - £14500 for a car with a load of bits apparently missing, or half a million for a short-wheelbase car. https://www.autoscout24.ch/de/d/audi-quattro-coupe...
or this
https://www.autoscout24.ch/de/d/audi-quattro-coupe...
rastapasta said:
Fair enough. is the SWB a rally omoglation special or why is it so expensive??
Yes, built in tiny numbers to meet homologation rules at the time. There are a fair number of replicas about, based on the standard coupe, but the majority retain the coupe A pillar angle, which is less vertical than a genuine Sport IIRC.tumble dryer said:
alas I couldn't resist the lure and finally registered it on a K plate. I wonder what the value would have been today had I not done so??!
Probably a wise move to register it when you did. I read somewhere that the unregistered car that was kept by South Hereford Garage was registered because, had they left it any later, it would not have met the new emission requirements at the time. I think that was on an "R" prefix but I might be wrong.I once went to look at a J-reg 20v car, phoned a well-known (at the time) quattro specialist for a bit of advice on what to look at, and when I phoned to arrange to go and see the car again, he'd been up and bought it. Made the mistake of telling him what part of the country it was in, he got hold of a copy of the local Auto Trader, that was that. I've seen the car again - the chap who was selling it has since bought it back.
Audi Andy said:
The Audi Quattro ripped up the rally car rulebook when it was launched. It was a quantum leap forward.
The best road car that I've ever owned - a true classic. I wish I still had it!
There's a common sense of privilege running through this thread, and not just from those fortunate enough to own or have driven them; that's heartwarming to read. I've spent hours trying to convey the finer points of what they gave you back when 'on it, in the wet, on the twisties'. The best road car that I've ever owned - a true classic. I wish I still had it!
Just 'involvement'.
BTW, great first post! Welcome.
ETA, did anyone else's doors rattle? Around the lock area, from having too long a door for the hinges. Drove me effin mental!
Edited by tumble dryer on Friday 31st January 21:34
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