[urq] goofy fenders?

[Thatcher Hubbard]

After looking at it again, it looks like the real thing.  You can see
the anti-roll bar on the rear and it does not appear to have a beam
axle.  The bumpers/valences are correct, and the interior looks right,
down to the driver seat with the "eject" function and the knobs being
on the left side of both seats.  Also, if someone was trying to fake a
quattro, finding the correct rear side window glass and installing it
would be a long way to go to try to fool someone.

The fender work though, is terrible.  I guess the interior dash mods
are hard to get too down about though: you can't find a new 83 dash
anyway.

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:47:12 -0500,
louis-alain_richard at computerhorizons.com
<louis-alain_richard at computerhorizons.com> wrote:
> Last year, a strange looking Nogaro-blue Quattro followed me; after
> chatting with the driver, it appeared that the car was a CGT with a
> fiberglass body kit copying the Quattro fenders and bumpers. It was nicely
> finished, nice paint and cool BBS RX 17", but proportions were obviously
> wrong. Rear track was too narrow, fenders were too wide, the radius of the
> "flares" was too soft. etc.
> 
> WRT this NV car: look at the width of the OEM urQ fender flares (the
> horizontal part of the flare)... Aren't they a little thin ? It might be a
> genuine urQ, rusted or damaged, with some fiberglass repro fenders that
> needed that extension to clear the wheels.
> 
> Also: why would a guy replace the boost gauge with a temp gauge AFTER
> drilling 4 big holes in his dashboard, where the first one is ALREADY a
> temp gauge? I guess this way a fool won't notice the absence of turbo
> boost...because there is no turbo under the hood maybe?
> 
> Anybody in RENo can check in out ?
> 
> Louis-Alain
> 
> 
> 
> 
> It looks like the fenders began life as normal urq fenders but then
> someone added the standard CGT fender treatment on top of them.  Very
> unusual.  And not all that evenly executed, at least from what can be
> seen in the pictures.  I'm not sure I'd have a problem with it if the
> rest of the car was solid.
> 
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