Ur-quattro collectability... and modifications

[GaidosIII <GaidosIII@aol.com>]

So, if you plan on keeping your car carefully stored away for a few years in 
the hopes of having one of the few remaining "untouched" 85's, by all means 
keep it stock.  On the other hand, if you're going to _drive_ the car, make it
perform the way you want.

I bought mine to _drive_.

Bill Elliott
Lake Mills, WI
85 UrQ daily driver

Nope, never planned on keeping it carefully stored away but it's not a daily
driver either. Especially on the road I drive every day where the odds of a
wreck are 1 in 1000. This adds up to several near misses for me a month (and
my wife wonders why I'm a little tense when I get home).
 My quattro is certainly not the ideal 1985 quattro. The paint is not very
good, it has high miles, the front seats are torn, the pan has some dents
(where dumb people placed floor jacks) and with me doing 95% of the labor
there is at least $4,000 worth of mechanical repairs I will eventually have to
make.
 I never intended this to be a show car. Like the rest of you I intend to
drive my quattro. In fact the work I am doing now is so I can drive the car on
a western states tour this summer.
 I'm just feeling kind of like AudiDudi on this one. There are other good
choices for hot rodding. Like the 5kq. I am seriously thinking of picking one
of these up for my daily driver. I can make it go real fast and it is a car I
wouldn't be too upset about wrecking.
 My quattro I can chip and swap out the wastegate and have a nice fast car and
I would consider that an easily reversable modification. The car would still
retain it's charactoristic cool down period but also retains it's stock
appearence under the hood.
 I still haven't completely made my mind up about what I'll do but I have a
couple more weeks of disassembly and cleanup before I have to get serious.
Thanks
Anton