Name that heavily cropped car! - SOLVED! AUDI 200 Quattro Trans-Am

Stephen M · December 27, 2006, 11:39:42 AM

Make and model, please.

Otto Puzzell · December 27, 2006, 11:48:01 AM

Audi Sport Quattro S1 "Pikes Peak"?

Stephen M · December 27, 2006, 11:55:36 AM

Very close...it is an Audi w/Quattro, but a different model for a different event.

Otto Puzzell · December 27, 2006, 11:56:25 AM

Oh, pooh.

Jagman · 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?

Rich · 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.

Stephen M · 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.

Stephen M · January 08, 2007, 06:46:59 PM

pieter · 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).

Otto Puzzell · January 10, 2007, 07:53:52 AM

Methinks its the Audi Belastete Karotten

Stephen M · 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.

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.

Stephen M · 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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Name that heavily cropped car! - SOLVED! AUDI 200 Quattro Trans-Am