Above the Board

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In a message dated 96-01-07 07:46:32 EST, you write:

>A five in the last digit appears to indicate quattro, but don't let the
>presence/absence of the hardware under the car fool you.  If it had a
quattro
>decal on the back, then that makes it a quattro in my book.
>
>

Could have been a trunk bolt on, about 10 minutes worth of time.....  A
quattro is identified by looking at the car from underneath....  Does it have
a beam axle or a differential in the rear....  More specifically, since this
was "your" (meaning the original poster) car, if it was a q, there would be a
knob to the left of the cigarette lighter with two lights and pos 1 & 2 on
it....  There were NO quattros with autoboxes in the 5k series....  If I
remember the original post correctly, this was and autobox=nonquattro.......
  Wishing it is something it's not won't change the insurance company's mind,
if it was sold to you as a q, then you can sue the owner for
misrepresentation, don't follow that with fraud to the insurance company,
it's unethical and illegal, and the gains in cash for a mis-q could be offset
so that you might as well have given it to the chop shop....  I just have a
hard time believing that anyone that owned a turbo or non turbo could NOT
know wether it is or is not a quattro.......  Sounds a little more like
something for another part of cyberspace....

Scott