New Wheels

[Alfashark]

Buggered off up to Auckland with the wife last weekend with two things to do... Catch the Bill Bailey gig on Sunday night, and pick up a new car for me (the Alfa Virus has been subdued)





Mission accomplished on both counts, and I now have a monster sized coupe sitting on the driveway

1985 Audi GT Coupe, lowered on Vogtland springs, 17" Force alloys ex-USA.
2.3L Inline 5 cylinder which makes a very distinctive sound and hauls it off the lights in 3rd (just cause it can )

[victor_alpha_charlie]

No way! I love those old Audi coupes!
How much did you pick it up for?

[Alfashark]

Oddly enough, me too

Price-wise, it was enough to make the wife say things I haven't heard outside of a Navy mess-hall - yet low enough for everyone else to use the same words

[AlisterC]

That is hot..
I can also almost picture it travelling back to the future

[Alfashark]

QUOTE (Albatross @ Sep 6 2008, 10:50 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

That is hot..
I can also almost picture it travelling back to the future

LOL! when we got it back into Mt Wellington to pick up the brother-in-law, I was cruising around trying to find a park in the Sylvia Park carpark...
A group of young guys and I'm guessing the father of one of them were walking alongside it with the lads saying "WTH is that?" and the father replied with a serious tone that it was a Delorean, like in Back to the Future

Spose it makes up for not having $50k to buy the real Delorean that was on Trademe last year

[FlyingKiwi]

Haha classic, I guess it looks vaguely like a DeLorean.

[victor_alpha_charlie]

QUOTE (Alfashark @ Sep 6 2008, 11:16 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

LOL! when we got it back into Mt Wellington to pick up the brother-in-law, I was cruising around trying to find a park in the Sylvia Park carpark...
A group of young guys and I'm guessing the father of one of them were walking alongside it with the lads saying "WTH is that?" and the father replied with a serious tone that it was a Delorean, like in Back to the Future

Spose it makes up for not having $50k to buy the real Delorean that was on Trademe last year

Maybe you need to get some huge Audi stickers made up and slap them on the side just to avoid confusion..

[Alfashark]

QUOTE (victor_alpha_charlie @ Sep 6 2008, 02:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Maybe you need to get some huge Audi stickers made up and slap them on the side just to avoid confusion..

LOL they came out with large AUDI decals down the lower door/body panel, but this one has been resprayed in one of AUDI's 28 different shades of silver and the decals got stripped

[beaufighterguy]

ohhh yeah boy .
Dad used to have one if my memory is correct or was it a Alfa sprint anyway congrats .