I can haz........

[TagoraSX]

I hope to collect this 1979 Audi 100 Avant next week.

 

1 owner with only 20,600 miles on the clock and in excellent nick. These things rot horribly so I was amazed to be told there was no rust, anywhere.

 

 

The seller's photo skillz are GR2 unfortunately

 

 

 

 

[autofive]

lovely car - i had one of these in 1988 for about 18 months - cracking driver, and cost me virtually nothing to run, apart from fuel

[barefoot]

Where do you keep finding all these old Audi's?

 

The Avant has the best designed parcel shelf in the world ever.

[Guest]

Apart from a 200 Turbo thats the last of the great classic Audis (Quattros are not cheap so are excluded). Look forward to seeing better pictures of this and on a personal note a picture of the Mann Egerton dealers sticker too.

[Shep Shepherd]

That's wonderful

[RoadworkUK]

A very lovely thing indeed.

 

It always strikes me how much these look like the Renault 20/30 from the rear 3/4.

[wuvvum]

Ooh, I do like that.

[Jon]

Wow, that's fantastic! I really thought the hatchback versions were extinct but it seems you've got another one too? Must say the T registration looks a little early to me for the car - I always assumed the plusher, faster models arrived a little later, not long before they were replaced by the drag coefficient obsessed model. Just assumed they all came in bright colours (yellow or metallic green) with steel wheels and chrome hubcaps around this era.

 

Here's a gorgeous 100 I spotted a few months ago in the spec I'm wittering on about:

 

[hairnet]

want

[mouseflakes]

Yumz

[trigger]

This car is stunning, I remember that there was a lot of excitement when it was posted on the other forum and then a lot of disappointment when it was sold.

 

I've found a dealer brochure online for it but my computer doesn't seem to like viewing it very well.

 

http://www.audi100.de/PublicationsV2/fi ... avant2.pdf

 

There's more here but I'm sure you'll already know this. http://www.audi100.de/PublicationsV2/publications.html

[TagoraSX]

Wow, that's fantastic! I really thought the hatchback versions were extinct but it seems you've got another one too? Must say the T registration looks a little early to me for the car - I always assumed the plusher, faster models arrived a little later, not long before they were replaced by the drag coefficient obsessed model. Just assumed they all came in bright colours (yellow or metallic green) with steel wheels and chrome hubcaps around this era.

 

Here's a gorgeous 100 I spotted a few months ago in the spec I'm wittering on about:

 

 

The Avant was launched in 1977 and lasted until 1982.

Being a 1979 it would be one of the last models before the facelift in 1980, I prefer the look of the pre-facelfit cars.

This one is CD spec, which was the highest spec available, the car you posted is a GL 5E which is a lower specced model.

[Shep Shepherd]

Cheers for posting that brochure link, Trig

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Holy moly what a find!!!!! I would LOVE one of those. I thought they were extinct as well.

[M'coli]

OMG. I was only posting up on the eBay tat thread about an automatic saloon, and said that it could only be bettered if it was a) an Avant and manual. Pray tell, what gearbox does it have?

[TagoraSX]

OMG. I was only posting up on the eBay tat thread about an automatic saloon, and said that it could only be bettered if it was a) an Avant and manual. Pray tell, what gearbox does it have?

 

It's an auto, I would prefer a manual but you can't have everything

[catsinthewelder]

That's lush

 

Is that a BX and a Renault 25 in the background? In which case why isn't he on here?

[TagoraSX]

The car now haz MOT.

 

Parts replaced so far....

Battery.

Fuel pump.

Brake disks.

Wheel cylinders.

Brake lines.

New tyres, the old ones had become so stiff they had to cut them off the rim with an electric saw!

 

The car has a hot start issue which they have traced to a dodgy metering head so that will have to be rebuilt.

 

 

[Vin]

Our neighbour had a pair of the saloon versions of these. They were on a V and W plate and it was in 1986 he had them. The sound they made as he drove off to his shift at the steelworks was awesome. Like all his cars they rotted to buggery - the rotting process enhanced by being parked at the steelworks allegedly....

 

Must say the T registration looks a little early to me for the car - I always assumed the plusher, faster models arrived a little later, not long before they were replaced by the drag coefficient obsessed model. Just assumed they all came in bright colours (yellow or metallic green) with steel wheels and chrome hubcaps around this era.

 

Here's a T reg example - WER 474T

 

[Skizzer]

I heart this car. Great that you're giving it the care it deserves

 

Are you planning on keeping it or moving it on?

[TagoraSX]

I heart this car. Great that you're giving it the care it deserves

 

Are you planning on keeping it or moving it on?

 

Unless I find a mint, low mileage CD 5E manual saloon in "Bahama Blue" I will be keeping it.

 

I doubt there is a better RHD example remaining.

[John F]

That's a lovely Ordi.

 

Slightly surprised it doesn't have head restraints though, being the top-spec. model... Have they been removed, perhaps?

[scooters]

well done! an AutoUnion from the days when owners didn't have to have a huge limp dripping cock growing out of their foreheads!

 

looks bang on!

 

nice one mate

[TagoraSX]

That's a lovely Ordi.

 

Slightly surprised it doesn't have head restraints though, being the top-spec. model... Have they been removed, perhaps?

 

It has front and rear headrests in their original box.

I suspect the original owner never fitted them or took them off after buying it.

[John F]

That's a lovely Ordi.

 

Slightly surprised it doesn't have head restraints though, being the top-spec. model... Have they been removed, perhaps?

 

It has front and rear headrests in their original box.

I suspect the original owner never fitted them or took them off after buying it.

 

100% WIN

[TagoraSX]

Some better photo's.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[wuvvum]

I've said it before and I'll say it again - I R JELLUS.

[trigger]

It's even got CD cushions! Brilliant!

[Shep Shepherd]

I still think it's wonderful

[Micrashed]

Having read the thread from start to end I am staggered and impressed. Well done.