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Roger, you know you love these cars and have been looking for the "right one" for quite some time.  There is NEVER going to be a perfect specimen!  From your write up I sense that this one really only has very minor things that bother you...all of which can be resolved easily and for very minimal expense.  If it were me, I would jump on this low mileage offering, fix the minor irritants, and love her for years to come...she is a 94 with 57,000 miles after all! 

Just my $0.02

Justin
01 //S8q
90 V8q






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From: "Roger Woodbury" <rmwoodbury at roadrunner.com>
> Well, by now everyone, BUT I MEAN, EVERYONE, on this list knows that the
> 1994 57,000 mile V8 has returned to eBay for another shot at getting sold.  
> 
> I have no idea what the reserve is on this auction but it will be
> interesting to see what the car will bring over the next six and a half
> days.  My guess is that the car will pass and that the reserve is still
> unrealistically high.
> 
> There are a LOT of pictures of this car now though, and the car shows pretty
> well.  I will confess:  I am interested, but my interest has some severe
> limitations because the car has been screwed with and I am not sure what is
> going to be necessary in order to make the car right for my purposes. Here
> are my "issues", which are probably not important to most but are very much
> so to me.
> 
> First of all, and most serious, is the fact that the owner of the car has
> "proudly" announced that he removed the headlight wipers and pitched them.
> The excuse was that he hated the way they looked.  Well, good enough for
> him, but there are other issues.  If the wiper arms were merely removed that
> is one thing, but if the entire system was removed, that is something else
> because technically in my state the car will no longer pass the mandatory
> annual safety inspection.  The reason is simply that if there was a system
> in place when the car left the factory then it must be operational when the
> car is inspected. That is the law here.  Now, if this car had European
> headlights, the chances are that the car would pass inspection with no
> problem because to my knowledge, no one in the state actually tests lumen
> output of headlights.  In fact, I am not sure that even the franchised
> dealers for Audi possess the testing equipment for headlights, so if they
> work and the aim is pretty good, then the headlights will pass.
> 
> But wipers MUST be present.
> 
> Then, I am not sure why this is, but I have seen a lot of nice cars being
> sold recently that needed nothing, but the seller just HAD to DO something,
> so the radio was removed and some ugly plastic purple faced gizzie was
> shoved into the slot making the entire dashboard look like the basement
> chamber at a lower scale New Orleans whore house.  That is what was done to
> the V8 in question, and worse still, the OEM changer was removed as was the
> telephone sending unit (which is worthless now, anyway).  
> 
> Thus the car was not preserved, and although the audio system would likely
> need to be overhauled, it could have been done, and probably for not as much
> money as was spent on the junk that was installed.  
> 
> If this car was box stock, I think I would be pretty excited about it.  My
> sister and her family live in the Baltimore area, and my daughter lives
> about four hours south in Virginia:  it is not hard for me to justify a
> quick trip to Maryland to pick up the rarest of the rare, but I'll bet that
> the expectations of the seller are simply not any more rooted in reality
> now, than they were when this car was last on eBay and Audifans classifieds.
> 
> My guess?  The auction will stall at around $7000 at best.  The reserve?
> I'll bet $9999.00.
> 
> Roger
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