Audi Quattro in Automobile Quarterly--1981, Vol 19, No. 3 (long-ish post)

[jmonetti@us.net (Jonathan Monetti)]

			A 1981 article that opens with: 

"It all began in Northern Scandanvia and Finland.  Every year, a group of Audi development 
engineers take a number of experimental models in convoy for testing under conditions of extreme 
cold..."

			...and closes thusly: 

"The Audi Quattro may well be remembered as the outstanding high performance car of the new 
decade.  It may have also started a revolution in the sport of rallying." 

			...*must* have piqued your interest!


I promised the list I would do my best to post what I could from AQ regarding the Quattro.  I 
now have the edition, and at risk of really pissing off AQ, I'm going to try and post as much 
info as possible over the next few weeks.  The article contains the history of the car, driving 
impressions, great technical data, and 8 great photos & a two-page cutaway tech drawing.  It is 
long, so I will have to OCR the article.  I will scan images and post them on a web site to be 
announced later.  

There is also an article & photo essay on the Pininfarina Quartz, a Coupe-like Audi dream car.  
I'll do my best on that one too. 

A little background on those who may have missed my earlier post; Autmobile Quarterly is simply 
*the* finest Automobile publication in existence.  More a book than magazine, AQ is embossed 
hardbound, 11 X 8.5, printed on high-quality semi-slick paper, with outstanding photos and 
writing. It is to Automobilia what Napolean is to brandy and Davidoff to cigars.  I highly 
recommend a subscription to anyone who likes anything to do with internal combustion...  I get a 
thrill every time an issue shows up.  Imagine a 28 year old getting engossed by a thirty page 
article on the 1911 Stanley Steamer or 1932 Essex Terraplane and you get the idea.     

I plan on crediting the hell out of the author, photographers, and AQ, but don't want to go to 
court, or--more importantly--tick them off--we've been subscribers for over 25 years, and the 
former editor,  Beverly Rae Kimes, who is still a major player in the old car hobby, is an 
aquaintance of my Dad's (his 1930 Franklin appeared in 1976 or '77).  If anyone has any info 
about the copyright violations I may be about to affect, please let me know!

Jonathan Monetti
86 Coupe GT, 82k

PS: re the above passage credits:  

Paul Frere
Automobile Quarterly
Vol. 19, No. 3 			

PPS:  For you gearheads or the curious out there, the Franklin had an air cooled straight six, 
ca. 340 cubes, weighed approx 3 tons, would do 85-90 MPH and 0-60 in under 15 seconds!  In 1930, 
that was something! (Air-cooled Franklin motors eventually went on to power early Army 
helicopters and the Tucker, too).