[urq] Ur Quattro Prices

[Andrew Finney]

Well, it seems the time has come. The bottom has dropped out of the price of
Ur Quattros. There have been 5 or 6 decent '83 examples that have failed to
meet very modest reserves on Ebay, bottoming out between $4k and $6k. The
black one from AZ, a silver one in CA, and many others, including mine that
I would argue is the most reliable UrQ on the road (unless you could that
time in UT at very high altitude ;-).

No one is willing to pay for these cars. A pristine '85 should fetch
$15k...... but that doesn't seem to be happening either. I spent a lot of
time putting the old '84 back to complete stock, but no more for me. Reality
call to those looking to create concours '83s, just modify the damn thing
and have fun driving it, give it some power, swap in a 20V, stop wasting
your time trying to stay stock with a car whose US perfomance figures were
lackluster at best.  I'm putting a 4.2L V8 in my '85 next month after the
year-long full restoration. It has 160,000 miles on the original odometer,
and despite being from beverly hills and being MINT in body, it doesn't seem
worth putting her back to stock. Just my $0.02.

Andrew Finney
1983 and 1985 UrQs.