No additional Audi for now...

[Tom Nas]

Hi all,

Looked at an '82 or early '83 CGT 5E yesterday, for sale at the local 
scrapyard. When I first saw it (though atmittedly only briefly) it looked 
like a good buy because the front-end damage looked to be easily repaired. 
Anyway, on closer inspection the damage was a little more than it first 
appeared. The whole front end had apparently slid under a truck, because it 
was badly out of alignment and the whole front end was angled down. The 
hood hadn't suffered much and even the slam panel looked like it would not 
be too hard to knock it back into shape, but it had been pushed into the 
timing belt cover anyway, and the steering pump had been hit as well.
Shame, as these four-headlight cars (though not exactly valuable here) are 
getting scarce and the scrapyard didn't want an extortionate amount for 
what was otherwise an original and unadulterated car. It's also a shame 
that the car will be broken up now, I'd have loved to add it to my stable- 
early CGTs are real eyecatchers. It even had its original 'snowflake' 
alloys in perfect shape, with new tyres.

It wasn't a wasted day anyway- in a different scrapyard, we found two rare 
15x7 R8s which I added to my collection, as spares for the wheels on my 
90q. They need some refinishing but are straight.

Also finally got my collection of spares and wheels out of the house and 
into storage, it's incredible how much 'junk' (depending on your views) you 
accumulate and how great it is not to have three stacks of wheels in the 
hallway anymore, never mind a passenger door in the bathroom or a set of 
springs next to the toilet bowl...

Tom
two Audis for now
The Netherlands