@@oscarsgarage447 I think they always were a bit special (and expensive when new), cant remember seeing many as a kid, so different from today, AUDI's are everywhere lol.
Well done on this one. Both cars still alive by the sounds of it. A fiend of mine owned a Quattro for a couple of years, we did a lot of miles in it and he let me drive it a few times. It was truly wonderful and made some fantastic sounds. Great memories!
I love these mini detective stories, it’s always great when you actually get to the end to find the car is still around. Oh how I wish we bought those cars back in the day when they were worth relative pennies…. The benefit of hindsight eh?
It doesn’t matter where you get the price as a benchmark there’s always going to be someone not happy, keep up the good work, excellent information and content.
The WD 944 sold on ebay for ~£6k at the end of March 2024. For a while I was highest bidder as it was way cheap in my opinion. I bought an '83 NA from Pro9 a few years ago so I know and trust them, which encouraged my bid. Kinda wished I'd bought it but also not as I already have a Silver Rose in bits!
here in the US the Porsche 944 turbo is anywhere from $10k up. The Quattro $50k average. Something like an e30 M3 ( if WD would have done one) are more than $60k, there is a shell with tatty interior going for $15k
I agree with the guy that the 944 track car upgrade was a bad idea. The Audi was dirt cheap if it was indeed a proper Quattro. Maybe your best next move is to get some quotes from either Edd or Mike about their memories from these cars and who decides what they do to them. Its a shame we can't get someone to do a PNC check on the Audi! BTW I enjoy your videos and your sleuthing. Many thanks.
The Quattro is alive and well, two of my friends own it and have sympathetically restored it. 😊 Paintwork is stunning, wheels refurbed with new boots. It really is a lovely car. They will be selling it soon, but they aren't sure where the best place is to advertise it. 🙄
When you talk about spoiling perfectly good road cars,it reminds me of the episode with the Nissan Skyline, taking a perfectly good car and building a pointless " drift car " !! ,what a waste .
Yeah you can blame ashes to ashes on that one with the quattro and its values, the funny thing being that one is painted a BMW Red, I found the stuntcar they wrote off for the final episode, and its ebay listing had it marked off as being in BMW M3 E30 Red also that 86 is a 20 valve, different rims and tires which they had on that stuntcar, and they modernized the 4 wheel drive and the diff to be electronic instead of manual, problem is finding them, alot got written off back in the day, between rust and rallies and their rare as hens teeth where I am, some guy just recently posted an early export one for 84 thousand dollars on ebay thing was in lovely shape and had the same interior as the 83' they had on the show, the funniest thing being I know why he demanded that price, Chris Harris recently said the new RS3, which has my old cars motor in it, is like a modern quattro and is priced at 84 thousand bucks, so the cheaky sod was going to get someone to buy the classic one, for the price of a new one and then just buy new, some guy in Rhode Island or new york or something, damn good shape though black with the same interior as gene's car, but the export front and rear bumpers on it, the same kind of extendo ones they had on the ferrari 308 back in the day honestly if that fancy car dealer down the road from me shows up with one of those instead of a puke yellow and green alpine I may actually buy the damn thing
With regards to the tax on the quattro, if it was on a sorn but that not renewed it would explain the date of the untaxed as it would show sorn otherwise
I remember that show the look on the lads face when they showed him a yellow vx220 & asked him do you want to buy it, he quickly scarped away from that one !
Does make it very transparent though - in the old days you had a paper certificate to hand over but had no idea how much work the car had done to pass the test.
I don't believe that is the case. I have a number of bikes which I have kept sorn (waiting my attention...) for a number of years now and they have not needed renewing. However I will give you that when the sorn scheme was first introduced you did have to renew annually, but it hasn't been like that for a number of years.
I don't know about you, but I got the impression that some of if not all the buyers were fake. I recall the Range Rover P38 episode the buyer had such a fake name that nobody would dare name their kid that. Mike Brewer has stated in the past that buyers were genuine.
They were mostly fake, members of the staff, film crew etc, even the buying at the start was sometimes fake as they'd source the car at auction then stage the "buy" .
Most of the "buys" are fake, as are the "sells" I'm afraid. Wheeler Dealers is just a light entertainment TV programme that happens to be about cars. A lot of the work on the cars was genuine, a good amount not being done by Edd China but by Paul Brackley and others. All dialogue is scripted. If you think about it, Brewer is not going to be able to turn up at someone's home with a camera and sound crew in tow without some prior rehearsal. It's a shame, but that's entertainment as they say.
Seen a UR Quattro the other day. black on a B plate (1984), looked and sounded amazing.
Imagine what it looked like in 1982!
@@oscarsgarage447 I think they always were a bit special (and expensive when new), cant remember seeing many as a kid, so different from today, AUDI's are everywhere lol.
Well done on this one. Both cars still alive by the sounds of it. A fiend of mine owned a Quattro for a couple of years, we did a lot of miles in it and he let me drive it a few times. It was truly wonderful and made some fantastic sounds. Great memories!
Thanks for that!
I love these mini detective stories, it’s always great when you actually get to the end to find the car is still around. Oh how I wish we bought those cars back in the day when they were worth relative pennies…. The benefit of hindsight eh?
Thanks for that. My old car catalogue reads like the list of current sought after classic... and I sold them all at bottom of the market!
It doesn’t matter where you get the price as a benchmark there’s always going to be someone not happy, keep up the good work, excellent information and content.
Thanks, will do!
The WD 944 sold on ebay for ~£6k at the end of March 2024. For a while I was highest bidder as it was way cheap in my opinion. I bought an '83 NA from Pro9 a few years ago so I know and trust them, which encouraged my bid. Kinda wished I'd bought it but also not as I already have a Silver Rose in bits!
@@hkmonaro8153 yes the pink check any ll other panels burgundy. Would have chosen it but its standard for the model and I really like it
here in the US the Porsche 944 turbo is anywhere from $10k up. The Quattro $50k average. Something like an e30 M3 ( if WD would have done one) are more than $60k, there is a shell with tatty interior going for $15k
I am a big fan of 944’s I was gutted what they did with it on the show
I agree with the guy that the 944 track car upgrade was a bad idea. The Audi was dirt cheap if it was indeed a proper Quattro. Maybe your best next move is to get some quotes from either Edd or Mike about their memories from these cars and who decides what they do to them. Its a shame we can't get someone to do a PNC check on the Audi! BTW I enjoy your videos and your sleuthing. Many thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it!
The Quattro is alive and well, two of my friends own it and have sympathetically restored it. 😊 Paintwork is stunning, wheels refurbed with new boots. It really is a lovely car. They will be selling it soon, but they aren't sure where the best place is to advertise it. 🙄
That's brilliant to hear. Can't help on best place to advertise though, but would love to have a catch up with them for the latest on the car!
Hey, I had C63 FKJ for 10 years, sold it in Feb 2020 just as lockdown started, to the two guys. Lancashire area.
Amazing! Would love to hear more so we can do a follow-up - oscarsgarage999@gmail.com
that Covid MOT break they offered due to garages being shut.
I notice the 944 needed a major engine repair not long after the engine ecu program was altered, coincidence or consequences ?
Thank you. Another good video.
Glad you enjoyed it
When you talk about spoiling perfectly good road cars,it reminds me of the episode with the Nissan Skyline, taking a perfectly good car and building a pointless " drift car " !! ,what a waste .
We will get to that episode...
The skyline apparently never sold and was broken for spares in france, so probably it wasn't actually a good car.
In a lot of cases with Skylines and other similar powerful old RWD Japanese cars, the only people who want them are drifters.
Very good content as always,
Glad you enjoyed it
They destroyed that porsche
Would have thought the messing about with the Porsche would result in a devaluation, as well as a chargeable offence!!
Quite possible, but Practical Classics don't have a category for 'converted to track car'
great upload ....
Thank you! Cheers!
Another good video 👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏👏
Glad you enjoyed it
Ur Quattro 😍 nice work👍👍😍🚗
Thanks! 😃
That’s nice increase in value for someone. The Audi that is😄😄
Just a bit!
Yeah it looked clean and they butcherd it 😱
Great video 👍
Thanks 👍
Porche now in Coventry Brentwood Avenue Finham
RE: the tax, if its paid monthly the payments continue to be taken. I had a van that was taxed for 18 months after MOT expired
Ah OK, I thought you got a notification each year about renewing it, but what you say makes sense it would just carry on.
How did the cambelt change go ???
I shouldn't touch anything mechanical
The Porsche would only be worth 16000 if it was still standard
Was that a picture of a cosworth yb engine
The plate on the porsche must have been worth a bit
Yeah you can blame ashes to ashes on that one with the quattro and its values, the funny thing being that one is painted a BMW Red, I found the stuntcar they wrote off for the final episode, and its ebay listing had it marked off as being in BMW M3 E30 Red
also that 86 is a 20 valve, different rims and tires which they had on that stuntcar, and they modernized the 4 wheel drive and the diff to be electronic instead of manual, problem is finding them, alot got written off back in the day, between rust and rallies
and their rare as hens teeth where I am, some guy just recently posted an early export one for 84 thousand dollars on ebay
thing was in lovely shape and had the same interior as the 83' they had on the show,
the funniest thing being I know why he demanded that price, Chris Harris recently said the new RS3, which has my old cars motor in it, is like a modern quattro
and is priced at 84 thousand bucks, so the cheaky sod was going to get someone to buy the classic one, for the price of a new one
and then just buy new, some guy in Rhode Island or new york or something, damn good shape though
black with the same interior as gene's car, but the export front and rear bumpers on it, the same kind of extendo ones they had on the ferrari 308 back in the day
honestly if that fancy car dealer down the road from me shows up with one of those instead of a puke yellow and green alpine I may actually buy the damn thing
Hi fella,just wondering if any of the owners have got in touch with you? 2 of my favourite as well.
Not on these two, I had a very vague link to the Porsche but didn't get anything back sadly.
With regards to the tax on the quattro, if it was on a sorn but that not renewed it would explain the date of the untaxed as it would show sorn otherwise
What about cars on wrecks to riches uk series especially the vx220
Crikey that's an old one! I'll add it to the list, at least I know they are all insurance write offs!
I remember that show the look on the lads face when they showed him a yellow vx220 & asked him do you want to buy it, he quickly scarped away from that one !
Love an Audo Quattro 😂
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Crazy that you can just look up any car in UK and see the mot report, feels like a private thing to me (unless you wanna sell it).
Does make it very transparent though - in the old days you had a paper certificate to hand over but had no idea how much work the car had done to pass the test.
Audi Probs Sorned but then not renewed hence showing to years later as un taxed
The only tax/mot loophole I’m aware of is that police can tax a car with no mot.
I though ed had done rear wheel bearings on quattro?
Quite possible... I just try and catch the high points. And I'm not perfect!
@@oscarsgarage447You're doing a grand job, keep it up. Just thought it odd that that soon after being done at least one was advised on the MOT.
When a car is sorn with the DVLA, once the sorn ends after a year it will show as untaxed, unless its sorn again
I don't believe that is the case. I have a number of bikes which I have kept sorn (waiting my attention...) for a number of years now and they have not needed renewing. However I will give you that when the sorn scheme was first introduced you did have to renew annually, but it hasn't been like that for a number of years.
I don't know about you, but I got the impression that some of if not all the buyers were fake. I recall the Range Rover P38 episode the buyer had such a fake name that nobody would dare name their kid that. Mike Brewer has stated in the past that buyers were genuine.
They were mostly fake, members of the staff, film crew etc, even the buying at the start was sometimes fake as they'd source the car at auction then stage the "buy" .
Most of the "buys" are fake, as are the "sells" I'm afraid. Wheeler Dealers is just a light entertainment TV programme that happens to be about cars. A lot of the work on the cars was genuine, a good amount not being done by Edd China but by Paul Brackley and others. All dialogue is scripted. If you think about it, Brewer is not going to be able to turn up at someone's home with a camera and sound crew in tow without some prior rehearsal. It's a shame, but that's entertainment as they say.
I always thought the whole show was fake