Re: Air Stuck pix.

["Joe Rae" <quattro@ptinet.net>]

It is a Audi 90 and not a 200 or 5000.
Joe
-----Original Message-----
From: John Larson <jdlarson@ix.netcom.com>
To: quattro-digest@coimbra.ans.net <quattro-digest@coimbra.ans.net>
Date: Sunday, November 08, 1998 11:37 AM
Subject: Air Stuck pix. 


>Todd, and the list. My Mid Ohio picture (1989) clearly identifies the
>car (in the caption) as a 200. I'm not sure of the HP in the caption,
>but I think it says 540, 560, something like that. One of the details I
>recall from the era is Audi's statement that these cars were production
>cars pulled from the assembly line and modified into racecars. A long
>time friend drove a Celica for Dan Gurney, and that 89 Celica was not
>only NOT front wheel drive like the production car, but had a Hewland 6
>speed transmission, a carbon fiber driveshaft, and the engine was
>mounted longitudinally. I think they MIGHT have gotten the "Toyota"
>decal from the Toyota parts department, but not much else. A fellow
>lister from around here has some pictures from the Trans Am at Laguna
>that year, maybe I can get him looking for them.
>Well, guys, we're off to have a life, Sunday you know.
>Get out and test the results of all that Saturday work! John
>