[urq] Another Urq for sale

[javadog at att.net]

Scott,

You may be right.  Time will tell.  I don't expect to sell the car quickly, I expect it will take some time.

As for the "missing parts,"  if I could have found them, they'd be on there.  I'm still looking and maybe I'll find them yet.  I do have more documentation, which I'll happily share with a prospective buyer.  I understand the process of selling a car to a long distance buyer, as I have been that guy more times than I can count.

One last thing.  Original paint has to be one of the most over-rated things in the world.  I have quite a few low mileage, original paint garage queens, many of which are much lower mileage and some of which are much older.  Put this car beside one of those and the paint quality will blow them away.  This wasn't a simple repaint; this was a selective restoration of the paint on this car, keeping as much paint original as made sense.  It wasn't easy to remove the pinstripes but I didn't ever like the cars with them.   You can't drive a quattro and not suffer damage to the original paint.  Even if you drove it with no other cars in sight, the car's own wheels will do enough damage.  The back of the wheel arches, the lower body panels, the underside of the bumpers.... you know the areas I'm talking about; they all look pretty poor on most of these cars.  At some point you have to ask yourself, who are you trying to please?  Are you keeping the car in a certain condition for the "next guy," or do you want to make yourself happy?  I like my cars to look good and this one looks 100% better than when I bought it.  It's a choice I made, just like the issue with the driveability.  

I just recently sold a Porsche 930 to a buyer in Germany.  I had done much the same thing with that car, in terms of trying to bring it back to 100%.  Some of the paint on that car was repaired/repainted too, as those cars typically suffer from a lot of damage to the paint, in certain areas.  The buyer initially had the same reservations about originality but, once he saw the car, he couldn't have been happier with the end product.  I know it cuts across the grain of the old school viewpoint in valuing a collectible/special interest car but I think times are changing a little bit.

We'll see, sooner or later.

Cheers,
JR