Derracuda's 83' YOU ARE QUATTRO!!!!

Longitudinal · Post by **Longitudinal** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 10:58 am

So, what made it $1500? Owner's total lack of knowledge of what the car is? Even with all those miles, it's still worth well more than twice that.

derracuda · Post by **derracuda** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 12:58 am

Jonathan wrote:So, what made it $1500? Owner's total lack of knowledge of what the car is? Even with all those miles, it's still worth well more than twice that.

he said make an offer and i threw that out there.....honestly, he had a surprised look and answered " huh..well yeah! that works for me...."
i prolly coulda offered a grand, but i knew what it was an had the beans to spend on it. i'm not griping

ralleyquattro · Post by **ralleyquattro** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 7:52 am

Don't you just hate when that happens...

dets · Post by **dets** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 8:23 am

so how many ur quattro's were built and sent to america? I tried searching for them but they seem to be very rare..... or just highly sought after.

ralleyquattro · Post by **ralleyquattro** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 8:34 am

US numbers are about 600, and Canada is 99.
There is a website with numbers but I can't access it right now.
www.quat.com
Anyone know if the site is still up??

derracuda · Post by **derracuda** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 11:51 am

hey martin, i'll get you the VIN when i get back to the car (in CA right now), but the last 5 digits were 00161..i remember that part.

ralleyquattro · Post by **ralleyquattro** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 12:45 pm

Just like I'll always remember my first... #1141

Cheers

Longitudinal · Post by **Longitudinal** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 5:45 pm

ralleyquattro wrote:US numbers are about 600, and Canada is 99.

Totally believeable numbers, but you know what's weird? The only two I have ever seen in person have been during trips to Canada. Guess that goes to show that personal experience is not necessarily representative of the greater reality.

quattro87 · Post by **quattro87** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 7:58 pm

So, what made it $1500? Owner's total lack of knowledge of what the car is? Even with all those miles, it's still worth well more than twice that.

I'm not so sure about that. The way I have it figured is the car is 23 years old and sold new for about $38k. Off the top of my head that means the car has depreciated a bit over $1600 a year. If Derek wasn't so quick to jump, he could have waited a year and the guy would have probably gave it to him. :wink: Oh wait (doing more off the top calcs) he did. :woowoo:

Longitudinal · Post by **Longitudinal** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 9:21 pm

quattro87 wrote:guy would have probably gave it to him. :wink: Oh wait (doing more off the top calcs) he did. :woowoo:

I'll say. This is part of why I miss the West coast. Javad, need another employee? I'll move back tomorrow.

ralleyquattro · Post by **ralleyquattro** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:38 am

Jonathan wrote:
ralleyquattro wrote:US numbers are about 600, and Canada is 99.

Totally believeable numbers, but you know what's weird? The only two I have ever seen in person have been during trips to Canada. Guess that goes to show that personal experience is not necessarily representative of the greater reality.

Where have you seen them?
Maybe it's someone I don't know of yet and could persuade to join our Canadian Ur-quattro Owners Club.

THanks!

LarryFlint · Post by **LarryFlint** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 1:37 pm

Did you get that from a guy that died??

84urq20v · Post by **84urq20v** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 2:56 pm

ralleyquattro wrote:US numbers are about 600, and Canada is 99.
There is a website with numbers but I can't access it right now.
www.quat.com
Anyone know if the site is still up??

I had an interesting dinner with with four other Urq owners about a year ago. We had 5 people at our table (all urq owners), one owns an '82 urq, one owns an '83 urq, I own an '84, another owns an '85 and the last guy was passing through Denver coming from Vancouver and going home to Chattanooga in his newly acquired '86 urq (one of only 2 or three imported to NA in '86). So we had 82,83,84,85,86 represented - Pretty wild (in an urq-geek sorta way) for a car that most consider to have only been imported in '83 - '85.

Brandon
'84 urq - 1 of 65

quattro87 · Post by **quattro87** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 3:39 pm

Brandon, How come Hank or I wasn't called to dinner? We could have run up in Hank's 81Urq. 8) We would have felt a bit out of place if the rest of the Urqs were as nicely sorted as yours, but it sure would have been cool having 81-86 in the parking lot. :-D

derracuda · Post by **derracuda** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 7:44 pm

LarryFlint wrote:Did you get that from a guy that died??

yup, but not the actual guy that died....his son in law

psychorallyfreak · Post by **psychorallyfreak** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 7:25 am

lucky...bastard...

LarryFlint · Post by **LarryFlint** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 8:13 am

LarryFlint wrote:
Did you get that from a guy that died??

yup, but not the actual guy that died....his son in law

We have all the history you are looking for. Who got the dead guys 91 200 avant??

derracuda · Post by **derracuda** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:40 am

his daughter wanted to keep it.

ralleyquattro · Post by **ralleyquattro** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 2:22 pm

derracuda wrote:his daughter wanted to keep it.

Ahh.. a girl after my own heart.

84urq20v · Post by **84urq20v** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 3:23 pm

quattro87 wrote:Brandon, How come Hank or I wasn't called to dinner? We could have run up in Hank's 81Urq. 8) We would have felt a bit out of place if the rest of the Urqs were as nicely sorted as yours, but it sure would have been cool having 81-86 in the parking lot. :-D

next time - we'll try to give you 2 days notice!

Brandon

derracuda · Post by **derracuda** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 6:42 pm

well, time for a small update. teh car is overheating like there's no tomorrow. i'm heavily leaning toward needs a new radiator or having this one rodded out. when i replaced the thermostat, there was this white crystalized stuff in chunks and i flushed as much as i could out, but i spect the radiator is pretty clogged up. so that'll be needing to be tended to soon.

the first mod i've done to the car is shorted the el' Gonzo style bumpers. i took the shocks out undid the locknut, drilled the threads out and then made a sleeve to put in place to hold the shock portion into the housing still.

before...

8) after...

here's a peek inside the rear frame rail... wow

SeStone · Post by **SeStone** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 6:49 pm

Might someone have used some stop-leak in the system that is gumming everything up?

Sam

WAUG0806 · Post by **WAUG0806** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 6:50 pm

Nice post Derek

Nice post Derek

derracuda · Post by **derracuda** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 6:52 pm

thanks

thanks

anyhow, i don't think it's stop leak, but i could be wrong. the water in it was all rusty brown and nasty, so that's not a good sign. i'll have to be getting it straightened out soon as i'll be driving this thing while i work on my v8 project!

mhb_1323 · Post by **mhb_1323** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 6:56 pm

that looks very ....um... "less retarded 80's" i think is the best way to put it.
super smooth dude