[urq] WX 000 011... anyone have an earlier??

[Jeff Lewis]

The PO of my car stated that it was a dealer demonstration 
model at a Southern California dealship.
It resides in California still.

Jeff

I'll look at the engine # tomorrow.

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 22:21:52 -0400
  "W. Bremer" <wbremer at maine.rr.com> wrote:
> Hi, Martin:
> Since you asked:
> There are 11 "North American spec" 1982 urq with lower 
>car VINs than 572--if
> you count 00051 that has been dismantled  :-(
> 
> By US spec, I mean NA VIN codes as opposed to the gray 
>market cars with
> WAUZZZ type VINs.  There are 11 1981 gray-market cars, 
>and 22 total
> documented (a car linked to an actual owner and not just 
>a rumor of an '82)
> 1982 urqs--NA (17) and Euro spec (5).  Sorry, I did not
> collect WX or WR motor codes in the Registry.
> But 572 is new to the registry--sorry, no history
> 
> Such conjecture and rumor that exists suggests that the 
>17 1982 North
> American spec cars were dealer promotion cars brought 
>over by Audi for the
> dealers to show.  In a 1987 letter from Audi of America, 
>these 1982 cars
> were not noted--everything was classed as an '83 model 
>year (wrong!)
> Bill
> 
> 
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