RE: rare urq pix

["Buchholz, Steven" <Steven.Buchholz@kla-tencor.com>]

> >	looks like a pininfarina one-off, early eighties
> >	vintage.  love to know what happened to this car,
> >	where it is today.
> 
> >	http://caliban.sf.ca.us/img/audi/urq-quartz.jpg
> >	http://caliban.sf.ca.us/img/audi/urq-quartz-2.jpg
> 
> I have the original brochure for this project. Pretty boring- all text and
> a few renderings.
> I have a head-on pic, too- it's pretty hideous. But now at least we know
> where Alfa Romeo got the idea for the current GTV and Spyder front ends.
> It was the Pininfarina showpiece of the '81 Geneva Motor Show.
> Nothing is said about its current whereabouts, but I'd guess it's either a
> museum or a dusty store room.
> 
... I guess it is one of those personal preferences things.  I just picked
up the copy of Automobile Quarterly that covers both the Quartz and Paul
Frere's article on the ur-quattro and what it did for Audi.  I highly
recommend this issue (Volume 19 #3) for anyone that is a fan of the quattro
turbo coupe.  I didn't think the exterior of the quartz looked that bad, but
it was obviously a Pininfarina design, and I didn't care much for the
dashboard at all.  The Quartz is probably where the exhaust tip that forms
the Audi rings was first done.  I also thought that turning the fuel filler
cap into one of another set of 4 rings was an interesting touch ...

Steve Buchholz
San Jose, CA (USA)