Sport Quattro

[ChrisG]

16.30 on M4 today , sunday 6th, between jnct 12 & 11
Lago, C*****, criusing at about 90 but blending very well !
Watched it gaining on me , realised it was a C reg Quattro but as it came past......
Other than the one I drove this is only the second or third I have ever seen.

[simple1]

Would not think it a sport if it was blue, they only come in green , white and red.......... lago blue was a colour available in standard ur-quattro..... unless it was one of Dialynx short sport conversions, hard to spot unless you can see the rake of front screen.

[DuncS3]

I was reading (like you do) Jeremy Waltons quattro book last night and there is a section on the Sport quattro and it says there was something like 20 Blue and 2 Black ones made (as well as red, green and white)...

Dunc

[peterb]

Would not think it a sport if it was blue, they only come in green , white and red..........

There were other colours, but the cars originally sold to UK customers were green, white and red.

[ChrisG]

It was getting a bit dingy, and it was grubby, but it I'm sure it was too bluey to be the Goodwood( ??) green. Older guy driving.
Personnally if I couldn't afford the real thing then why buy a replica, however good they are.
I remember Kim's being at a show and some young dude asked him if it was one of these new conversions !!!
Whoops - not a smart move.
Very glad to have driven one but wouldn't consider buying one

[simple1]

Will reserve judgement on the colour, from all the plastic bins of <beep> I have gathered to do with things quattro, I have never seen a blue sport..........not seen a black one either

[ChrisG]

Seen two red ones and a green ( Goodwood ?) at Duncan Hamilton's years ago ( when they were still in Bagshot)
I'm sure it had a very upright screen ( identical to my 80 Sport) rather than the very sloping Coupe version.
Been clearing out much of my 'library' over the last few years but gratifyimg to hear that I'm not the only one with loads of stuff !!

Simple1
RS2 in Autotrader , volcano, with a Bath phone number - anybody you know? Says they've bought RS6
I could be tempted but I'd need to do a really good sell to wife - you all know the score- why do we need a fourth car ???

[peterb]

Ha, it took a little while, and at first I could only find piccies of model cars in blue and black - here.

However, I then found this site, which appears to be authoritative, quoting the number of cars produced in each colour.

For those who are linguistically-challenged, the information is that
128 cars were produced in tornado red
48 cars were produced in alpine white
21 cars were produced in copenhagen blue
15 cars were produced in malachite green
2 cars were produced in black.

The final question - is Copenhagen Blue the same as Lago???

[JohnW]

I could be tempted but I'd need to do a really good sell to wife - you all know the score- why do we need a fourth car ???

It seems some people get lucky on that front.
I find you don't need to try to justify it - just tell her you want it because you can afford it (i.e. won't miss out on holidays etc), and that's all that matters !
Err, best done while talking from a safe distance, and with a planned escape route incase it doesn't go to plan

Its worked so far anyway

[simple1]

Something wrong with the maths on this, as there were 314 cars produced, you seem to have lost 100 somewhere.......

As for the buying of toys, I learnt long ago, if the toy in question appears and is sitting on the driveway and paid for, there is very little that can be done

[ChrisG]

Several months since I checked out the Scala43 site Peter - some new ones there ,

[philipwalker]

David Sutton was running around in a copenhagen blue back in the early 90s not sure if it was a UK supplied or where it went.
Tom Hammond used his green sport (Uk supplied) to tow his S1 hill climb car to events. Alred Smith restored the car a few years back not sure where that went either

[peterb]

There wasn't a blue car amongst the six officially supplied to UK customers. I believe that Audi UK took delivery of a seventh car, but that one is red.

[simple1]

Alred had the green car on the quattro 2000 event in Germany, but I believe when he sold his interest in Dialyxn, the car remained there, not heard or seen of it since, mental note, ask Alred what happened to it..........Sooty Sutton's car was a repainted car which had been about every colour in the spectrum, had so much paint on it you couldnt see the carbon fibre print in the panels........not an original colour, I think that car started off white, and was used by various companies for promotional reasons.

[philipwalker]

Suttons "blue" one was a B reg ending in OPH?
Where did that one go? last time I saw it was in the car park at the RAC rally 50th dinner?