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

[Vincent Gelinas]

  My town has maybe 6,000 people and my baby is definitely a rarity.  I 
see a LOT of A4s, from the b4 chassis all the way to the b8, and same 
goes for A6s and the occasional A8, but there are almost NO "classic" 
Audis around here.  I think I may be one of the only ones in the local 
area.  Huw is an hour and a half south (I'm from Enfield), but, other 
than that, I know of nobody.  Mine gets a lot of 'cool!' remarks, 
especially when I tell them that my 90q was built in 11/88.



On 10/15/2010 7:10 PM, rob wrote:
>   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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>> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:10:49 -0400
>> From: cobram at juno.com
>> Subject: Type 44's are officially classics, or at least scarce.
>> To: quattro at audifans.com
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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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