Type 44's are officially classics, or at least scarce.

[rob]

 I think you may be right, well they are at least scarce now.

 There used to be several around my town, (200,000+ souls) but I haven't 
seen one on the road for a very long time, perhaps a year. I saw a 200TQA at 
a show in the summer, but that's a show and not on the road.

However as far as I'm concerned it's one of the most durable cars ever made 
(mine still has no rust to speak of and also has its original 22yo exhaust), 
trouble is most people are fashion victims and they're also cheap when it 
comes to maintenance

 A couple of months back I was overtaken by some old guy who took a good 
long look at me, I was about to give him a funny look right back when I 
realised it was the car he was looking at.. (my 100Av).  I was debating 
whether to scrap it this year as it is needing some work to stay on the road 
and pass it's MOT (Uk inspection), but I decided to reward its reliability 
and relative simplicity so I'm spending some dosh to keep it alive another 
year. - shocks all round, brake hoses, front springs, tyres and fix those 
pesky washer jets.

 It will be a bonus if during that extra life i'm giving it,  it loses 
clunker status and gains 'nice old motor' status.

 Cheers Rob.



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> From: cobram at juno.com
> Subject: Type 44's are officially classics, or at least scarce.
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> Maybe not by a strict year designation,  but it seems that just about
> everywhere I stop with the '90 200TQA someone wants to strike up a
> conversation about how they haven't seen one of those in a long time, or
> wow, that's in great shape etc.  Might be a regional thing, as around
> here type 44 Audi's were a dime a dozen "back in the day."  It kind of
> struck me by surprise, it's not THAT old, but I guess attrition has taken
> it's toll.  Thinking about it, in the last couple weeks or so I haven't
> seen ONE other type 44 on the road.
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