Audi sold this Sport Quattro S1 for next to nothing

Posted on 14-02-2016 at 12:31 by Dizono – 28 Comments”

A typical gevalletje ‘if I then nevertheless once the money had…’

Audi was very successful in rallying with the Ur-Quattro, and later, the Sport Quattro S1. This last came out in the legendary Group b”. that fought them not without merit against other torturers as the Peugeot 205 Turbo 16, MG Metro 6R4, Ford RS200 and the Lancia Delta S4. Such as undoubtedly well-known was in 1986, unplug the power cord from the championship pulled because of yet another deadly accident.

That meant not quite the end of the career of the Sport Quattro S1. Audi won with Walter Röhrl’s Pikes Peak Hillclimb in 1987. Nevertheless, it was a large part of the rally cars idly on the site of Audi’s road to languish. Not only with Audi, by the way, also the cars of the competition were probably somewhere idly in a corner or shed.

Thus ended a lot of Group B cars, in the Scandinavian or British rallycross. Photo: RX-Guru (CC)

In Scandinavia and the Uk knew, however, they board with these mighty racers: rallycross. On a small, winding trail, with alternating asphalt and gravel, the names of the cars in sprintraces against each other. Not on the basis of time, but just push and pull and see who is first across the finish line. There are, in those days, the necessary -and now priceless – rallyklassiekers the puinpoeier in driven.

Back to the Audi’s and to the many photos. These are taken by Anders Carlsson, who, together with two compatriots at Audi Sport on a visit went to rally cars to buy. If they -depending on the state – to take for amounts between 15,000 and 50,000 Deutsche Mark. For comparison, a new and straatlegale Sport Quattro cost you in 1985, 200,000 DM! Nowadays you are happy if you have two tonnes-in euros of course – a handsome replica of a Sport Quattro S1 can get…

Gallery: Audi Sport Quattro S1, it’s for sale

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