[urq] Ur Quattro Prices

[dave flagg]

We've gotta a perfectly good 70 k WX motor in the shed that came out of our 
'83. Bought the car in santa Cruz, jumped in and drove it 3200 miles to VT. 
Did the conversion ove rthe winter.
DF
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Schaible, David" <David.Schaible at jrspharma.com>
To: <brogers at terrix.com>; "Andrew Finney" <afinn1 at gmail.com>; 
<urq at audifans.com>
Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 11:51 AM
Subject: Re: [urq] Ur Quattro Prices


> As one of the only "stock boys" left, I agree with, it's my car and my
> $! so do what you want.  But there still may be hope.....i question the
> value of any gasoline combustion engine car 10years from now.....how
> many car museums can we have?  Sooooo if you have a big project go for
> it.  But I'm not swapping out my WX just for the hell of it....it's only
> got 220k miles on it and it ain't tired yet.
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> http://www.sonyclassics.com/whokilledtheelectriccar/
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brandon Rogers [mailto:brogers at terrix.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 11:54 AM
> To: 'Andrew Finney'; urq at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: [urq] Ur Quattro Prices
>
> I totally agree.  In fact, I have always felt this, personally.  To me
> the value is the fun in driving the car.  And its more fun with more
> power, more reliable power, more useable power.  And the camaraderie is
> just as important/fun to me, too.  That said, if the car being original
> brings the owner pleasure - that is what counts.
>
> Brandon
> '84 not-so-ur
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: urq-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:urq-bounces at audifans.com] On
> Behalf Of Andrew Finney
> Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 8:24 PM
> To: urq at audifans.com
> Subject: [urq] Ur Quattro Prices
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>
> 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
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