Audi Sport Colors

[Alex Kowalski]

Chris Semple at Force5 very graciously and helpfully sent me this message
from his archives this evening.  This is probably the definitive statement
on these colors -- I doubt I can do better even with a scan of the original
decal using my scanner.  Thanks again, Chris -- love the S4 seats BTW, I
have the driver's side disassembled and it cleaned up very nicely, ready for
whatever I decide to do.

Alex Kowalski
'86 5KCSTQ
'87 5KCSTQ

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-----Original Message-----
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 1:49 PM
To: Shawn Manny; quattro at audifans.com
Subject: Re: Audi Sport tri-colors


At 11:50 AM -0500 10/26/04, Shawn Manny wrote:
>Ok Audiphiles...I need some info here. Are the tricolors on the Audi
>Rally/Trans Am cars, black, grey and white, or dark brown, champagne
>and white?

Someone correct me if I'm wrong on any of this....

Very narrow orange, narrow silver, thick grey.  Together, and only in
that order front to back.

http://www.audifans.com/archives/1997/07/msg00357.html

and

http://www.audifans.com/pipermail/quattro/2002-November/066590.html

The '97 info is probably more accurate since it was straight from the
horse's mouth, whereas the second was someone eyeballing the colors
via a pantone set.  Note also the comments about RAL colors.

Found via searching the archives for "pantone".  Searching the
archives with other terms may turn up other useful posts.

Oh, and the factory cars were -always- a white base.  The car will
not look proper with a red base and the sport colors.

Several styles, but either mid-way along the front quarterpanel and
up onto the hood, or on the C pillar.

http://www.rallycodriver.co.uk/uk2002/may/John_Hanlon_A2_quattro.jpg
http://www.maserati-indy.co.uk/autosport2003/nec-trofeo-29a.jpg
http://www.fast-autos.net/spotlight/audisportquattro.html

http://www.autocollections.com/image/cars/85%20audi%20quatro%20rally%20r.jpg
http://www.andysmodellbauworld.de/_Audi_Rally_Modelle/_audi_rally_modelle.ht
ml
http://www.rallygallery.com/whole_events/killarney2003/slowly_sideways/killa
rney2003_slowly_sideways_img_9292.jpg
http://212.67.202.161/~markw/rallyingonline/slowly_sideways/pictures/catalun
ya01_quattro_1.jpg

And lastly,
http://212.67.202.161/~markw/rallyingonline/slowly_sideways/pictures/catalun
ya01_quatrro_s2_6.jpg
(sweet picture)

Notice in several photos the orange does NOT match the darker 80's
Audi oval color.  They are different colors.

Brett