[urq] goofy fenders?

[Thatcher Hubbard]

The close-up of the joint between the door sill and the front fender
panel indicated that the mod was either a poorly done aftermarket
affair or that that Urq was built at the Range Rover factory (RR build
quality: panel gaps that can be seen from space).


On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 14:19:52 -0700, Brandon Rogers <brogers at terrix.com> wrote:
> plus I think it was a five bolt lug pattern.  The rea muffler was also also
> transverse - whereas CGT is not....It's real.  Real funky body mod that
> is...
> 
> Brandon
> '84 ur
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Thatcher Hubbard" <thatcher.hubbard at gmail.com>
> To: <louis-alain_richard at computerhorizons.com>
> Cc: <urq at audifans.com>
> Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 2:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [urq] goofy fenders?
> 
> > 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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