[urq] Ur Quattro Prices

[Jeffrey P Lewis]

Which one did you come out and buy?

Jeff
In Santa Cruz
82 urq with 87mc1 034efi motor!! not stock
It's a hoot



On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:18:06 -0400
  "dave flagg" <dfautohaus at adelphia.net> wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.sonyclassics.com/whokilledtheelectriccar/
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----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
>>
>> -----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
>>
>>
>> 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. 
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