[urq] Where to sell a high-end urq?
javadog at att.net
javadog at att.net
Sun Aug 23 09:04:29 PDT 2009
First off, what do I mean by a high-end Urq? Quite simply, it is the nicest ur Quattro I have ever seen, since the cars were new. Happily it is mine but I don’t drive it as much as I should and I need to sell some cars, as I simply have too many. So, a little about the car…. I bought it about 10 years ago from Kent Anderson, after he had taken it to the ’99 Monterey Historics. It was a nice, low mileage (57K) car then but I decided that it could be better, so I gave it to a friend in the restoration business and we repainted a few areas that had rock chips, installed European bumpers and lights on both ends and cleaned the car from one end to the other. The paint (Mars Red) now looks as it did when the car was new, the interior leather is soft as butter and the only real cosmetic flaw is some fading to the carpet below the rear window. Mechanically, I changed the turbo to a K24 and changed the cam to a “cheater” cam that Ned Ritchie supplied that dated from the showroom stock racing days many years ago. Unusually for one of these cars, it starts and runs like a modern car, first turn of the key. I have seen a lot of these cars, and owned other, more “typical” quattros and I’ve never laid eyes on one even close to this one. I’d like to get more money from selling it than what I have seen other nice cars sell for in the last couple of years. Thus the question…
I don’t particularly like eBay, as I don’t think anybody bids their top dollar on a car that they usually can’t personally inspect and there often isn’t enough time to get a shop to do a pre-purchase inspection. I don’t mind buying parts and small things from eBay from time to time but I’d never bid on a car there. Most of my friends wouldn’t, either.
I used to advertise in the Audi Club classified but there’s a huge lead time there and almost no ads the last few years, so I doubt much would come from that. There are several Audi internet boards but I’d wager most people on this one already have an urq…and I’ve decided that nobody needs two of them. I found that I didn’t, after a while. I emailed Kent Anderson a while back and he didn’t seem interested in selling the car for me, so maybe his business has changed. Hemmings is another option, although that seems to cater to a different crowd and there is a fair lead time associated with those ads as well.
So, what do you guys think?
Jeff
PS: I also will be selling a mint (9k mile, never seen rain…) RS6, so I’d like any opinions on that one as well.
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