I'm copying this off my local car forum so hopefully it reads ok and the pictures work!
2006/7ish i bought a 1.9tdi Audi 80 avant as a workhorse to rack up miles as a new job meant i was doing an 80 mile round trip Mon-Fri. Cheap and cheerful, ran on a sniff of diesel and was well built.
Bought a set of 16x9 et15 Borbets from german ebay, lowered it on some weitec shocks and springs and led a happy life..
Being good friends with a bodyshop owner meant it was never going to stay standard, so circa 2007/8 some S2 bumpers were purchased, coupe headlights and a few other bits and pieces. And it got painted white with a black roof. Standard interior was retrimmed by Aric in Ballymena in a biscuit leather
Then for show season in 2008 it got repainted again, in a mini blue
then towards the end of 2009, i decided to go the whole hog, and stripped it down to a bare shell in order to combat all the little bits and pieces that had annoyed me.
I also purchased a full air ride setup whilst in Florida on holiday (it raised a few eyebrows in customs getting that suitcase on the plane!) 5x112 BBS RS 16s also purchased. S2 hubs, brakes etc all purchased for the 5x112 conversion (they're 4x108 standard) Bodywork started with flaring the arches to suit the new wheels and helping it get as low as possible
Plan was to go some sort of metallic brown...
Then along came the great crash in the property market and i got laid off from work. So all work stopped on the shell, i had to sell the air ride and BBS
The shell rattled around the bodyshop for a few years, then the guy was packing it in, so the shell came back to my parents garage, where it has been sitting the last 11-12 years
Life got in the way, wedding, house and three kids later, I had the Anniversary sitting in my driveway taking up space and my heart just wasn't really in it. I'd no need for a diesel 'weekend' car, it wasnt good enough to be a show car without pumping a clean fortune into it. I also had my dad wondering would he ever get his garage back One of my good friends has been at me for the last few years to buy a running audi 80 and transfer all the S2 bits onto, as i'd never have the time or money to get the shell finished. So at Dubshed 2022 my wife jokingly got my eldest to make a For Sale sign for the golf,
which i stuck on it thinking nobody would be interested in a 196k mile 20 year old golf. But by the end of the show on sunday i had three different people wanting it, one of which was a nice man from Tipperary who left a deposit The end of a ten year love hate relationship!
So now i had cash burning a hole in my pocket, and an empty feeling in my driveway. I needed something to be able to take to the occasional show, cars&coffee etc but anything remotely interesting was out my tiny budget. So i did the 'sensible' thing and started trawling the ads for Audi 80s!
Took a gamble on a tired looking ebay number, won the auction and had it lifted by Parker Transport (couldnt get time off work and cost wise it was cheaper than me flying/driving/boat). So last Tuesday i met the lorry driver in boucher road and picked up this little beauty..
1994 2.6 V6 Manual Quattro avant 186k on the clock, but it drives like half that! Would you believe that i got it bought and delivered and still had change out of £2k?
Ignoring the laquer issues on the wing, bonnet and mirrors its in very good shape! No rust anywhere, drives lovely, no rattles or squeeks.
Drivers bolster needs some attention and a good clean.
But the rears look hardly touched.
This is the boot of a car thats had an easy life!
So the plan now is to give it a good service, and start fitting all the parts i have sitting in my parents house. Then give the bits that need it a lick of paint and get driving it!!
Having to refresh myself on just what parts i bought 13 years ago!!
This one is going to be a very low budget build, as at the moment i only have the anni money to use. Which is hard when you want it sit like...
but bare with me and i'll see how close i can get lol
2006/7ish i bought a 1.9tdi Audi 80 avant as a workhorse to rack up miles as a new job meant i was doing an 80 mile round trip Mon-Fri. Cheap and cheerful, ran on a sniff of diesel and was well built.
Bought a set of 16x9 et15 Borbets from german ebay, lowered it on some weitec shocks and springs and led a happy life..
Being good friends with a bodyshop owner meant it was never going to stay standard, so circa 2007/8 some S2 bumpers were purchased, coupe headlights and a few other bits and pieces. And it got painted white with a black roof. Standard interior was retrimmed by Aric in Ballymena in a biscuit leather
Then for show season in 2008 it got repainted again, in a mini blue
then towards the end of 2009, i decided to go the whole hog, and stripped it down to a bare shell in order to combat all the little bits and pieces that had annoyed me.
I also purchased a full air ride setup whilst in Florida on holiday (it raised a few eyebrows in customs getting that suitcase on the plane!) 5x112 BBS RS 16s also purchased. S2 hubs, brakes etc all purchased for the 5x112 conversion (they're 4x108 standard) Bodywork started with flaring the arches to suit the new wheels and helping it get as low as possible
Plan was to go some sort of metallic brown...
Then along came the great crash in the property market and i got laid off from work. So all work stopped on the shell, i had to sell the air ride and BBS
The shell rattled around the bodyshop for a few years, then the guy was packing it in, so the shell came back to my parents garage, where it has been sitting the last 11-12 years
Life got in the way, wedding, house and three kids later, I had the Anniversary sitting in my driveway taking up space and my heart just wasn't really in it. I'd no need for a diesel 'weekend' car, it wasnt good enough to be a show car without pumping a clean fortune into it. I also had my dad wondering would he ever get his garage back One of my good friends has been at me for the last few years to buy a running audi 80 and transfer all the S2 bits onto, as i'd never have the time or money to get the shell finished. So at Dubshed 2022 my wife jokingly got my eldest to make a For Sale sign for the golf,
which i stuck on it thinking nobody would be interested in a 196k mile 20 year old golf. But by the end of the show on sunday i had three different people wanting it, one of which was a nice man from Tipperary who left a deposit The end of a ten year love hate relationship!
So now i had cash burning a hole in my pocket, and an empty feeling in my driveway. I needed something to be able to take to the occasional show, cars&coffee etc but anything remotely interesting was out my tiny budget. So i did the 'sensible' thing and started trawling the ads for Audi 80s!
Took a gamble on a tired looking ebay number, won the auction and had it lifted by Parker Transport (couldnt get time off work and cost wise it was cheaper than me flying/driving/boat). So last Tuesday i met the lorry driver in boucher road and picked up this little beauty..
1994 2.6 V6 Manual Quattro avant 186k on the clock, but it drives like half that! Would you believe that i got it bought and delivered and still had change out of £2k?
Ignoring the laquer issues on the wing, bonnet and mirrors its in very good shape! No rust anywhere, drives lovely, no rattles or squeeks.
Drivers bolster needs some attention and a good clean.
But the rears look hardly touched.
This is the boot of a car thats had an easy life!
So the plan now is to give it a good service, and start fitting all the parts i have sitting in my parents house. Then give the bits that need it a lick of paint and get driving it!!
Having to refresh myself on just what parts i bought 13 years ago!!
This one is going to be a very low budget build, as at the moment i only have the anni money to use. Which is hard when you want it sit like...
but bare with me and i'll see how close i can get lol
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