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Morning All,
I've been lurking around here for a few years now (primarily because I dont have an S2 yet....), thought it was well past the time to introduce myself.
At the moment, I've got a 96 Cab - got it about 6 years ago from a family friend who had to upsize with his growing family. I've known the car from new and he did me a really great deal on it. Think he was drooling over the cash with the prospect of a new arrival!
Bought it with the other half in mind thinking she'd like it to waft about in but there were 2 problems with that. Number 1 - I live in Belfast, and sunny days are generally as rare as hens teeth. Number 2 - She complains that its "too big" for her....
Result - I decided if it was going to be doing very little most of the time I was going to have a go at fixing it as much as possible and generally just keep it as a hobby and my excuse to nip out to the garage for a few hours peace, I mean work
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I've always love the 80 shape and profile, and new cars just dont do it for me so it seemed like a win!
Anyways, enough talk.
When I got it, It looked like this:
Audi Cab01.jpg
And hell no that is not my neon in the background before anyone gets funny!
So then lots of this kind of thing:
Audi Cab02.jpg
Audi Cab03.jpg
Set of replica rs4's (17s) in the meantime leaves it like this:
Audi Cab10.jpg
So it was like that for a while, did lots of other other stuff and generally got busy - had some fun with the heater matrix. good times.....
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Audi Cab13.jpg
Audi Cab14.jpg
next up check out what I managed to get my hands on, a genuine Cab set too!! Whoop Whoop!
Audi Cab42.jpg
They didnt come that colour though, thats after I was finished refurbing them myself
At this stage I replaced the shocks front and back, new wishbones, etc too and also fitted a set of eibach springs, not too low at all but just nice for what I got next:
Audi Cab46.jpg
Audi Cab47.jpg
Audi Cab49.jpg
Fresh from a refurb too, with 4 brand new Potenza RE050 - that was one day I didnt tell the other half the real cost of for sure!!!
Sorry if i've been a bit long winded folks, I tend to do that. To be honest I've done lots more work but don't want to make this a super super long introduction!! I happy to answer any questions and I've put a gallery up online too with a few more photos, out of the thousands I have in my collection. lol
http://gallery.mac.com/danmckinney#
Thanks for all the help over the years too, I couldnt have done loads of the work myself without this forum, even if it is a Cab
Dan
I've been lurking around here for a few years now (primarily because I dont have an S2 yet....), thought it was well past the time to introduce myself.
At the moment, I've got a 96 Cab - got it about 6 years ago from a family friend who had to upsize with his growing family. I've known the car from new and he did me a really great deal on it. Think he was drooling over the cash with the prospect of a new arrival!
Bought it with the other half in mind thinking she'd like it to waft about in but there were 2 problems with that. Number 1 - I live in Belfast, and sunny days are generally as rare as hens teeth. Number 2 - She complains that its "too big" for her....
Result - I decided if it was going to be doing very little most of the time I was going to have a go at fixing it as much as possible and generally just keep it as a hobby and my excuse to nip out to the garage for a few hours peace, I mean work
. I've always love the 80 shape and profile, and new cars just dont do it for me so it seemed like a win!
Anyways, enough talk.
When I got it, It looked like this:Audi Cab01.jpg
And hell no that is not my neon in the background before anyone gets funny!
So then lots of this kind of thing:
Audi Cab02.jpg
Audi Cab03.jpg
Set of replica rs4's (17s) in the meantime leaves it like this:
Audi Cab10.jpg
So it was like that for a while, did lots of other other stuff and generally got busy - had some fun with the heater matrix. good times.....
. Audi Cab13.jpg
Audi Cab14.jpg
next up check out what I managed to get my hands on, a genuine Cab set too!! Whoop Whoop!
Audi Cab42.jpg
They didnt come that colour though, thats after I was finished refurbing them myself
At this stage I replaced the shocks front and back, new wishbones, etc too and also fitted a set of eibach springs, not too low at all but just nice for what I got next:
Audi Cab46.jpg
Audi Cab47.jpg
Audi Cab49.jpg
Fresh from a refurb too, with 4 brand new Potenza RE050 - that was one day I didnt tell the other half the real cost of for sure!!!
Sorry if i've been a bit long winded folks, I tend to do that. To be honest I've done lots more work but don't want to make this a super super long introduction!! I happy to answer any questions and I've put a gallery up online too with a few more photos, out of the thousands I have in my collection. lol
http://gallery.mac.com/danmckinney#
Thanks for all the help over the years too, I couldnt have done loads of the work myself without this forum, even if it is a Cab
Dan
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