[urq] Where to sell a high-end urq?

[Maurits Jonkergouw]

Jeff,

Having to sell both the urq and the RS6? Are things really that bad for you? (i.e. credit 
crunch)
Wow, if that's the case... I'm sorry for you man... good luck.

Regards,
Maurits

1986 quattro GV (rebuilding engine)



----- Original Message ----- 
From: <javadog at att.net>
To: <urq at audifans.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 6:04 PM
Subject: [urq] Where to sell a high-end urq?


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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