Bought and sold an Audi today

[Tom Nas <tnas@euronet.nl>]

Hi all,

I was rummaging through the local scrapyard today, and happened across a
rough-looking but complete '81 Audi 80 GL 1.6 Just for fun, I asked the
yard owner if it was for sale, and what he wanted for it. It appeared that
it had a full year's inspection, and it drove fine (started first time).
The price was... $100. Pretty good to tide me over while my own car is
being worked on, so I thought I'd buy it. It had been hit in the rear,
making the trunk lid very hard to open, had one broken door handle
(driver's side) and had a lot of rot in the C-pillars, about 2in down from
the roof and about 3in up from the waistline. (anyone ever seen this on an
otherwise perfect Audi?). I figured a session with a concrete gatepost and
a towing rope would sort out the rear end, and the roof could be fixed with
some filler for now.
So I went to the post office to get the paperwork done, and met a friend
there, who saw me get out of the car and offered to buy it from me,
tripling what I paid for it instantly. His car had been stolen and totaled
recently, and he wasn't insured for theft. So there ended my shortest
ownership of a car, ever... ;-) Guess I'll make do with my bike when my
90q's down.

The interior of the car looked pretty good, although the front doors had
been hacked about to fit speakers. The trunklid had evidently been fitted
with a spoiler at some time, and the holes had been taped over and painted
crudely. There was however a car in the same colour with a perfect trunklid
in the yard that could serve as a donor. It had only done 105k km (just
over 60 k miles). It idled a little roughly but ran and braked pretty
nicely. It was leaking oil from the valve cover pretty badly, and the
engine was covered in oil. There were no oil stains under the car though.

In the same 'yard was an '82 100 GL 5S- last of the type 43's, with an I-5
carb'ed engine. Pretty rare in this country, and completely intact and
undamaged, too. I'll bet it was underbody rust that killed off this car-
they were notorious for that. The headlights were perfect, though. ;-)

Tom

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 Tom Nas                                          Zeist, The Netherlands
 tnas@euronet.nl
 1987 Audi 90q 2.3E, Tizianrot metallic, 167,000km

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