25 years Sport quattro / Technoclassica Essen 2008

[Sepp]

The end of March 2008 there was the celebration for 25 years Sport quattro at the Technoclassica in Essen (Germany). Stig Blomqvist and Christian Geistdörfer were the special guests.

There were 5 Sport quattros and 1 SWB Rallye quattro (Röhrl /Geistdörfer Monte Carlo 1985) in the Audi presentation.

The black Sport quattro is a repainted red one. Together with the red one, the green one and the Rallye car they belong to Audi.

The white one and the blue one belong to members of the international Audi Sport quattro Club.

link.... http://www.quattroclub.de/inde...akter

[Matt P]

sombody steal that engine!

[Ian Simmonds]

You just get the impession they plonked it on the front of the stand to annoy everyone...

[sivalk]

Great Pictures.

"International Audi Sport Quattro club"- must be pretty exclusive with few members!

[matthewkn]

It says 'Zu Verkaufen' on it - 'for sale' in english.......did you go back at the end of the day to see if anyone had bought it?!

[Phil Payne]

Originally Posted by sivalk

Great Pictures.

"International Audi Sport Quattro club"- must be pretty exclusive with few members!

Swiss-based and comprised, by first impressions, mainly of doctors.

They brought their Sports to the UK a few years back and we had a joint meeting at Woburn Abbey. There must still be photographs somewhere. All in all a highly amusing day.

It was right in the middle of the old "never raise the bonnet of a quattro in public" business - supposedly largely instigated by David Preece's partner who held that you shouldn't have a quattro unless you could afford top-of-the-line maintenance. I was a QoC Committee member at the time, and promised that I would attend, but business is business and I wound up arriving late. Very late. I'd just picked up a new temperature sender from Autohaus Wellingborough and needed to fit it, so I polled up late - last - at the appointed parking spot. All other slots being taken, I had no option but to park right in front of the marquee. F600 was filthy at the time (it usually was) and my lifting of the bonnet to change the sender right in front of the toff's tent didn't go down too well with TPTB.

The Sports arrived in convoy - 17 of them - followed at a discrete distance by a Jeep Grand Cherokee pulling a flatbed trailer. They drew up in their appointed positions, every driver got out, and the first thing they all did was to open their bonnets. I was still messing about and several of them came over - when they discovered I spoke German a huge chat ensued, mainly on the subject of "at least one of the UK quattros isn't just a show-n-shine car".

One of the Sports even had a rear seat passenger - a girl at least six feet tall who simply unfolded and carried on unfolding out of the rear space.

I have to admit to having fun that day. I'd had a poserphone for a few years by then, but they were still uncommon. David had just got one, and was (IMO) preening with it just a little. There was a kind of ceremony, with framed pictures and certificates changing hands. Then food - those funny walkabout trays like artists' palletes that you stick a thumb through, complete with a bracket to hold a glass of wine.

David had a Filofax under one arm, a few framed items under the other, a plate for himself in one hand and a plate for Cheryl in the other, with his new poserphone in his top pocket. I waited until he was a good few yards from any flat surfaces and rang the phone.

As for the Sports, fascinating. Most of them seemed to have suffered to a greater or lesser degree from block porosity - no one had a good word to say about the quality of the casting. The standard solution seemed to be a skim of both block and head, and then the use of a steel plate between the two, with modified gaskets both above and below.

Although most of them spoke pretty good English, it was much easier to get the technical details out of them in German. I got grumbled at something rotten.

As everyone departed, they all seemed to want to make a statement. I've never heard so many stone cold engines thrashed so much. Finally there were about six or so of us left, and a young lady who lived locally offered to lead us to a good pub. So we set off, six quattros in convoy, to a remote canal-side pub.

As we arrived, some young chap was parked right at the car park entrance with a newish-looking WMB convertible, chatting a girl up. WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

She lost interest in his WMB and came over for a look. The young lady who'd led us to the pub said it was the first time she'd made the trip absolutely certain she would not be able to lose the cars following her.

[garym]

I Was Offered That Engine 6 Months Ago ,i Thought It Was Coming With A Car It Was That Dear

[Martin Kennedy]

Originally Posted by Phil Payne

I waited until he was a good few yards from any flat surfaces and rang the phone.

Nice one. I'm childish enough to do the exact same thing!

Have to say, as much as the Audi stand is awash with the ultimate evolution of the quattro, I really do hanker after that old VW van in the HB Audi Team livery. Now that is retro cool!

[Ian Simmonds]

This was the Woburn event... And the infamous 'tent'..









It was also at this event that Andrea arrived driving our quattro and was 'challenged' by a 'senior' member of the QOC..(and a member of that 'tent')

"Are you a QOC member....?"

"erm... No...We're with Club Audi.."

"You park over there then...

"Your husband lets you drive his car"?

"No", she says.. "It's mine..." (which is true)

"Women shouldn't be allowed to own quattros".. Was the reply.

Lovely....

So it's remained our life long ambition never to join the QOC... Sorry.

PS - the red quattro in the last picture ends in LRY... Is it yours Amanda...?

[Martin Kennedy]

You're organized with the old photos Ian, I'm impressed.

Now, if only we could see F600 covered in sh1te and Phil playing prank phonecalls then that really would have been the icing on the cake!