[urq] goofy fenders?

[Brandon Rogers]

  It doesn't look all that cool right now, IMO, but I've seen worse for
sure.  Put some 9" Sport Q Ronals on this thing, lower it, and some of us
may change our tone.  Let's not bad mouth it too much lest it's new owner,
hopefully, becomes a Lister.  I, for one, hope it goes to a good home...

Brandon
'84 not so "ur" q myself...
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Bennett" <ur.quattro at verizon.net>
To: "Thatcher Hubbard" <thatcher.hubbard at gmail.com>;
<louis-alain_richard at computerhorizons.com>
Cc: <urq at audifans.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 12:03 AM
Subject: Re: [urq] goofy fenders?


> 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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