Re: Sport quattros

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <199811232343.SAA11299@coimbra.ans.net> Daniel Hussey writes:

>     Well, if none of the Sport quattros are in Finland and there are
> only 12-18 here in the US, where did they all go????  That figure of
> 218 sounds high.  I had no idea they produced that many.  But, I do
> seem to remember that in order to qualify for the World Championship
> Rally cicuit, they had to be running a "production" configuration.
> Production = 200 units.  So, you must be right, or at least close on
> the number produced.

Quite a number were lost (destroyed) in competition - perhaps as many
as thirty.  The official "sold to the public" figure was at one time
186, although a very small group of cars was assembled from parts
later on.

>     I'm willing to bet that most of them are in the UK.  A small
> country with an unfair majority of fine quattros!  I'll bet Phil could
> tell us at least how many Sport Quattros are registered in the UK.  I'd
> sure like to know.  I know most of the Ur-quattros are on that side of
> the pond.  The brits have a keen liking to the car.

No, they're not here.  We have around ten.  AFAIK only one is a daily
driver and two are not driveable.

>     I'm just wondering where all these cars went.  I think all the
> Sport quattros here were imported grey market cars.  I don't think they
> ever went on sale here in the states.

The "new arrivals" on the scene (about two cars a year) all come from
the Middle East.  There are quite a few (up to twenty) in Switzerland,
where the ur-quattro was many times more popular per head of population
than anywhere else on the planet.

There is also a "Sport Owners Club" - based in Geneva (I think) and
German-speaking.  Dues are payable in Swiss francs and are, apparemtly,
considerable.  We had a joint meeting with the Sport owners a couple
of years ago at Woburn Abbey - 17 cars showed up, and they brought their
own flatbed.

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