1980 Audi Quattro - Restoration Project

The first two photo's show how it was pre restoration. A bit of a mess!

I restored it pretty much as it came out of the box apart from lowering the ride height and using P/E wipers. It was not an easy task but I am quite satisfied with the result!

At the moment it is kerbside as I have yet to complete the engine.

A classic 80's legend in my opinion!

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nice finish.
almost makes me want to clean up my old dusty build, almost.

Just realised I forgot to do a black wash in the vents. A couple more pictures with that done. Looks a bit better I think.

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nice finish.
almost makes me want to clean up my old dusty build, almost.

Thanks, you should go for it! If I did another I would be tempted to go for some wider deep dish wheels (minilite type) like the tarmac rally cars used to run with! I think that would look cool!

Nice refresh! Looks sharp, and the new stance is a big improvement. I found a reissue of the stock Quattro a few years ago for 10 bucks and am glad I got it, and hope to get it built one of these days.

Very nice!

I am planning on rebulding some kits and this just gave me another punch to do it!

IMO the model is great but the washes in the vents just made a step further.

Just realised I forgot to do a black wash in the vents. A couple more pictures with that done. Looks a bit better I think.


It would look even better with the Audi rings back on the door! Looks good though, nice resto!

Nice restoration, however I'm more a fan of the white colour

It would look even better with the Audi rings back on the door! Looks good though, nice resto!
Thanks, I agree but no more decals unfortunately, any offers of help appreciated!

Nice job.
How did you get parts that were glued together undone?
Chris

Excellent restoration!!! :sunglasse

Sweet resto!

Thanks, I agree but no more decals unfortunately, any offers of help appreciated!

I have a set :) PM me an I will certainly ship them out to you!

Nice job.
How did you get parts that were glued together undone?
Chris

Thanks, the model was originally glued with plastic poly cement which literally welds sthe surfaces together. But luckily I found that most parts were removed fairly easily. However a number of the original location pins snapped off but this was not really a problem as the parts still glued on again ok with super glue. The glass was a bit more difficult and I had to be very careful not to break it during removal, I then re-glued it with white glue followed by a small amount of superglue well away from the bits that show to avoid fogging.

If you look at the WIP thread you will also see that I had problems with parts of the bodywork snapping off when handling which was strange!

Hope this helps!

I have a set :) PM me an I will certainly ship them out to you!

That's excellent, thanks a lot. I will send you a PM!

Wow..this my favourite classic too. I built a red before. Enjoy

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Wow..this my favourite classic too. I built a red before. Enjoy




Looks good but you should really start your own thread for this rather than hijack this one with that many photographs! And what is with the lizard thing on the bonnet?

oh sorry!

lizard thing? It is the 25 th anniversary symbol for audi Q. I used CF to make it.

oh sorry!

lizard thing? It is the 25 th anniversary symbol for audi Q. I used CF to make it.

That's ok. I didn't realise that about the symbol! Presumably it was chosen because lizards can go just about anywhere!

nice restoration! and how did u repair the cracked taillight?

nice restoration! and how did u repair the cracked taillight?

Thanks, I separated the 2 rear lights from the horizontal strip which was cracked. I then used some reasonably thick clear plastic carefully cut to the right size. I applied bare metal foil to the rear and then sprayed with clear red. Unfortunately I lost the 'Coupe' lettering that was moulded into the original part but it was the best I could do!

I have finally added the decals that I received from TSiSS350 about a year ago! (many thanks Brad!). I used a bit of Microset on the drivers side door Audi 4 rings logo and the elderly decals obviously did not like it! They started to fall apart but I managed to sort of rescue them. Didn't use the Microset for the remainder and they went on fine. Sorry it took me so long to add them Brad. Once again thanks for your generosity in sending them over the pond! Hope you like the result!

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Now it is complete! Thanks for the update, glad to see the decals made it in one piece! Build looks awesome:biggrin:

Nice restoration, nice job and nice photos.
Congratulations !!!!!

The decals really finish it off. I seem to remember that the real cars had wheels in a slightly different colour, slightly more gold. Resto jobs sound interesting, there's plenty I could do, but although they're finish isn't great they have a certain nostalgia, and anyway I've got enough in the box to do!