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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2007 => Topic started by: Stephen M on December 27, 2006, 11:39:42 AM

Title: Name that heavily cropped car! - SOLVED! AUDI 200 Quattro Trans-Am
Post by: Stephen M on December 27, 2006, 11:39:42 AM
Make and model, please.
Title: Re: Name that heavily cropped car!
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 27, 2006, 11:48:01 AM
Audi Sport Quattro S1 “Pikes Peak”?
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Post by: Stephen M on December 27, 2006, 11:55:36 AM
Very close...it is an Audi w/Quattro, but a different model for a different event.
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Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 27, 2006, 11:56:25 AM
Oh, pooh. :(
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Post by: Jagman on December 31, 2006, 01:07:24 PM
Well, the 2.1 litre indicates a 5 cyl engine, maybe one of the turbo IMSA cars that ran in the mid 80's? built on either the 5000 or 80/90 series cars?
Title: Re: Name that heavily cropped car!
Post by: Rich on December 31, 2006, 01:22:49 PM
Well, if it's a crop car, where I grew up that'd have to be something along the lines of a Chevy Biscayne, circa 1959...snows year-round on the back for traction and baldies up front for directional indifference.  Sedan, preferably with back seat removed making for convenient trunk-pass-through for increasing payload.  Six cylinder, three-on-the-tree, vague smell of fish/deer/feet/whiskey, couple of seat-springs sticking through the driver's side, broken windshield.

I betcha I'm close.
Title: Re: Name that heavily cropped car!
Post by: Stephen M on December 31, 2006, 07:49:00 PM
Quote from: Jagman on December 31, 2006, 01:07:24 PM
Well, the 2.1 litre indicates a 5 cyl engine, maybe one of the turbo IMSA cars that ran in the mid 80's? built on either the 5000 or 80/90 series cars?

It is indeed a turbo 5-banger which ran in the 80's...but this specimen was not built for the IMSA series, and was not nominally 5000 or 80/90 derived...although being a race car, the pedigree in that regard is somewhat academic.

Quote from: Rich on December 31, 2006, 01:22:49 PM
... preferably with back seat removed making for convenient trunk-pass-through for increasing payload. ....

I betcha I'm close.

Close indeed. Interior pics reveal the seats (and for that matter most of the interior) of this car has been removed.  ;)
Title: Re: Name that heavily cropped car!
Post by: Stephen M on January 08, 2007, 06:46:59 PM
(http://www.hawdale-associates.co.uk/i/imgBabyfood.jpg)
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Post by: pieter on January 10, 2007, 06:01:01 AM
Before Audi dominated the IMSA series, they cleaned up the TransAm series with Audi 5000's (100's to us in the rest of the world).
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Post by: Otto Puzzell on January 10, 2007, 07:53:52 AM
Methinks its the Audi Belastete Karotten
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Post by: Stephen M on January 10, 2007, 10:07:35 AM
Quote from: pieter on January 10, 2007, 06:01:01 AM
Before Audi dominated the IMSA series, they cleaned up the TransAm series with Audi 5000's (100's to us in the rest of the world).

Correct! Well done.  :applause:

This specimen was listed as a AUDI 200 Quattro Trans-Am. Slightly more info forthcoming, when I did my notes out of this pile of papers.
Title: Re: Name that heavily cropped car! - SOLVED! AUDI 200 Quattro Trans-Am
Post by: Stephen M on January 10, 2007, 08:29:45 PM
This is the group 44 car with which Hurley Haywood won a championship.

A few more pics here:

Some group 44 reading:

Driven in anger:

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