Audi 100, a cheap way to some super cools?

OOOOF thats awesome.

I had a 100 S4 for a while, 2.2 20v turbo 5-cyl. Never quite worked properly as it had a misfire at 4k rpm, yet was pretty fast. The 30 secs it worked correctly, it was savage

Lowered so scraped on everything, yet didn't look low.


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I had a first year A6 Avant, 2.5 tdi for quite a few years. Stock except for later A6 16" alloys, swapped the motor for a Volvo V70-sourced one when the old one gave up at 198k miles. Sold it through here a while back.
I always wanted to lower it over 17" Porsche twists and paint the top half in charcoal over the stock white bottom half.

I thought the same thing a couple of years back as they seemed to be the only budget family friendly estate car that I could also get classic car insurance on. Never got one though and don't see too many for sale now, so I've prob missed the boat on them. There's a guy on a facebook group I'm in that has a nice saloon one:

I didn't - v.cool!

this drew little crowds all day long at last years retrowarwick show, even though its sporting odd wheels

1976 AUDI 100 GL by shagracer, on Flickr

click on photo to see the days shoot

My uncle used to have one of these:



An 80 Sport. It's interesting as the car would have been around 10 years old then in the mid 90s, but it had a few hallmarks of being a wreck ; for a backbox hanger it had a chain holding it up, no word of a lie. Unsurprisingly it was a car that was mocked a bit of the time in our circles. It wasn't even driven that much! Maybe it was just a bit of a dog.

It's funny because it makes me think of what was considered a classic back then. The Jensen Interceptors were, as so were the rubber bumper MGBs, albeit seen then a little like now and the more inferior MGB, with little being known about its V8 body sharing. I also remember no many years after my dad's D reg Metro Turbo rusting in strange places bar the sills and a few years on the MkIV XR3i rotting just about everywhere underneath.

Grey Audi 100 by WoertherseePics, on Flickr

Pearl White Audi 100 C3 Avant by WoertherseePics, on Flickr

DSCN0934 by WoertherseePics, on Flickr

Audi 200 C3 by WoertherseePics, on Flickr

Audi 100 C3 by WoertherseePics, on Flickr

Brown Audi 100 CC by WoertherseePics, on Flickr

Red Audi 100 C3 quattro by WoertherseePics, on Flickr


Hugely overlooked cars, there's an Avant not far from me that has done nothing but collect moss for probably ten years.

From my experiences, I think you don't see many done, or many at all, is because they are 'difficult' cars to own.

Parts backup is nigh on non-existent, and if/when you find the parts they'll be expensive. I even struggled to get a balljoint and track rod end. The front suspension design is problematic if you want to lower them, even with a full machine shop they're not easy to get to sit right, wheel choice is critical for them not to hit the steeringg and still fit under the arches. Everything will need to be custom made as no one supplies anything for them. they also seem to be fairly unreliable, lots of posts about niggly hard to cure running problems and gearbox problems, both manual and auto. The idea that they're a 'VAG parts bin car' is a myth, even ones with the 'same' engines as more mainstream models have so many ancillary parts differences it makes stuff hard to get.
And they rust.

This is probably why there's so few left, the average owner just gives up and gets rid and gets something they can buy parts over the counter for. Which means second hand parts are also hard to get as no scrap yard sees a value to keeping them for parts.