[urq] goofy fenders?

[Bill Bennett]

while we are laughing about this POS, should not all of us let ebay know
this car is not an URQ, protect an unknowing buyer, the "car" might be a
Quattro. it is still a POS.  My Son's '86 4000 CSQ has an '84 URQ Interior
and a MC engine with 4 doors, and the distinctive seats from an URQ and it
is worth more than this POS, at least to us.
----- 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 1:09 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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