Re: Restoring Audi's

[steveb@falcon.kla-tencor.com (Steven Buchholz)]

 #      > Also, what do you mean by "restoration"?  I have heard many people  
 #      > claim they have restored TQC's and to them that meant they changed 
 #      > shocks and brakes and had a cheap paint job put over the previous 
 #      > coat!  I have yet to see anyone do an honest-to-god restoration on a 
 #      > quattro.  I do however speculate you'll be seeing some people 
 #      > restoring Ur-Q's and 5KTQ's in the next 5-10 years.  They
 #      > are truly unique and special cars and deserve to be preserved!
 #      
 #      Dan,
 #      Hooow about Dave Lawson's ur-q, see:-
 #      
 #      http://www.hcp.net/audi/reblaw1.html
 #      
 #      And then there's Ben Howell's, 'course that's a moving target.
 #      
 #      And mine, well I've been working on it, on and off for 3 years. 
 #      
 #      I think you'll find there are quite a few true restorations out there. 
 #      It's just the people that perform them are a bit "touched" and 
 #      unlikely to put them up for sale.
 #      
... I was thinking about this too ... but Dave and Ben have not "restored" 
their cars in the classical definition of the word.  In both cases the run-
ning gear have been modified to some extent, and I know that Dave's car has 
a completely different interior ...

... so Mike, you may in fact be the first ... ;-)

... and what do you mean by "touched" ... 

Steve Buchholz
San Jose, CA (USA)
'83 QTC - currently in stock form ...