[V8] Audi V8 in "Classic and Sports Car", pp 235

cobram at juno.com cobram at juno.com
Mon Sep 22 12:44:57 PDT 2008


Kneale, where did you get two right hand drive V8's?  ;-)  Makes parallel
parking a little easier I guess.
Mine are left hand drive, I'll take the low figure for V8#1 and throw in
#2 as a free bonus at that price.

BCNU,
http://www.geocities.com/cobramsri/
"God's a kid with an ant farm, lady. He's not planning anything."

Kneale Brownson <knealeski at sbcglobal.net> writes:
> Hey, I got two and you can have 'em both for that last figure  :~)
 

> --- On Sun, 9/21/08, Bastian Preindl <bastian at preindl.net> wrote:
> CLASSICS ON THE CUSP, the cars you should consider buying now.
> 
> When AUDI ' S V8 appeared in 1988, it was the marque's first foray 
> into
> 
> Mercedes/BMW-dominated luxury sector. But what a debut : its 
> quad-cam, 
> all-alloy V8 was a gem, its four-wheel drive and auto combination 
> was an 
> Audi first, and its restyled 200-derived shell had a square-jawed 
> elegance.
> Oh, and even the 250bhp 3.6 could do 146mph ; the post-'90 280bhp 
> 4.2 
> topped 150.
> Today these rare beasts - only a couple of hundred right-hookers 
> came 
> here - enjoy a cult following, with prices comfortably exceeding 
> those 
> for its bland A8 replacement. Don't expect to get one for much less 
> than 
> £2500, with the very best likely to find £5k and more.


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