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

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Maurits,

It has nothing to do with the economy.  I have somewhere around 2 dozen cars and 15+ motorcycles and I simply don't need that many.  As I get older, I find I have less time to enjoy my things and I don't like to let them sit, unused.  I can keep up to 7 cars at my house and still have to maintain a 4,000 square foot warehouse to store the rest.  I may move to the Bay area someday and it would take 6 semi's just to move the cars and bikes, not counting any furniture and all of the other crap I own.  So, something has to go...

Don't worry, I'll still have a few Audis lying around...

Jeff
-------------- Original message from "Maurits Jonkergouw" <urquattro at moregraphics.nl>: -------------- 


> 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) 
> 
> 
> 
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> 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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