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Re: Stange badging

To: jeremiah@bbi.com (Jeremiah Kristal)
Subject: Re: Stange badging
From: ti@amb.org (Ti Kan)
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 21:37:40 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: quattro@audifans.com
In-Reply-To: <199908091953.PAA25746@pirate.bbi.com> from "Jeremiah Kristal" at Aug 9, 99 03:45:22 pm
Sender: owner-quattro@audifans.com

Jeremiah Kristal writes:
> I saw a what I think was a V8 yesterday in NYC, everything looked right
> except it had a V8 badge on the left side of the trunk and a quattro badge
> on the right side.  Is this just some badge engineering or did some later
> V8s come like this.  (I was late for a movie with my girlfriend, so I didn't
> have time to really go look.)  I checked Ti Kan's list of badges and it
> seems that the V8 should only have the four rings.

I know that some late V8s (93+?) with the 4.2 engine do have badges.
both on the front grill and and the trunk lid.  Perhaps that one you
saw was one of these.  They are quite rare in the US.

-Ti
96 A4 2.8 quattro
84 5000S 2.1 turbo
80 4000 2.0
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