Fire up the Quattro

I've moved just around the corner, the house has an outbuilding and I've installed a 4 post ramp that I got cheap. Projects on the go now are an old Series 1 Disco Tdi and a 73 Interceptor - I've just rebuilt the engine with stroker crank etc and modified gearbox internals

Julian

Do you still have the Audi too? Can I come as well :-p?

Next UKRCM meet is round Julian's gaff everyone!

I have a friend who owns a 1976 Interceptor, but some of the electrics went on fire about 6 miles after he bought it and I don't think I have ever seen it running.

This is getting to be just like facebook.

Nah, Facebook is full of illiterate f*ck..... oh, as you were.

I certainly do :-) That's an old friend now, cars come and go but not that one!

Julian.

It's not too bad, 7-8mpg if you go easy on it :-) (it's only a toy, i do most of my motoring in a cheap Diesel hatch)

Electrics, brake fluid, petrol, Interceptors always go on fire if you don't keep on top of maintenance. I've just replaced the entire underbonnet wiring loom due to the old one being fsucked due to engine heat.

Julian.

Heh, the one my mate bought, the '73 convert, managed to break down 6 times in the 60 or so miles from Buxton to Liverpool. It caught fire in a petrol station, flattened its battery, and generally misbehaved all the way.

It's now covered a genuine 17500 miles (was on 16700 or so when he bought it) and has cost a fortune in the three years since purchase. New starter (geared, £300), new carb (4 barrel £350), transmission rebuild (£750), battery £80, various hoses and other weird bits, brake discs and pads, electric window motor, door lock mechanism and loads of other bits.

Spectacular money pit, that thing. Was parked outside with the wrong type of car cover on so now needs a full respray just to add to the despair, but driving it does put a huge grin on the ol' face.

Blimey that sounds cheap, you'd surely pay more than that for equivalent parts for some poxy 3 series BMW or WHY?

I better not say how much the balanced forged stroker crank, forged rods and pistons, the valve train, ally heads, inlet, custom headers and Holley carb cost then :-(

Julian.

Yes true, but how does that saying go regarding getting from life what you put in?

Julian.

I see a northern mini-meet coming on if the offer of tea could be extended. I'm sure a few on here might like a chance to see the quattro in the flesh and drool over that chrysler lump.

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