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

Sun Aug 23 12:48:42 PDT 2009

Hi Jeff, good for you then! Here in Europe we hear all kind of horror stories in the news 
how bad things are over there in the states, middle class people losing their jobs and 
houses and have to live on the streets in tents so I jumped to conclusions. My bad.

Good to hear your doing fine! Perhaps you could shelter the homeless in your warehouse if 
you sold some of your cars hehehe...

;-))

Regards,
Maurits

1986 quattro GV (rebuilding engine)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <javadog at att.net>
To: <urq at audifans.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: [urq] Where to sell a high-end urq?

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)
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From:
> To:
> 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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