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

[djdawson2 at aol.com]

 I've got to admit, I've been thinking about selling mine too... and it's got nothing to do with the economy.  Just too many cars, and I don't think I need 2 urqs.  I've driven it once in the past 4 years, and that was to Urq25 in Glenwood Springs.

If anyone is interested... it's an '85, slate gray/black.  It is near perfect as well... euro bumpers front and rear, 8" Ronals, etc...

Dave


 


 

-----Original Message-----
From: Maurits Jonkergouw <urquattro at moregraphics.nl>
To: Audifans <urq at audifans.com>
Sent: Sun, Aug 23, 2009 10:27 am
Subject: Re: [urq] Where to sell a high-end urq?










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)20car 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,20either.
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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