1983 Audi quattro

With recent spell of the cold weather and travel over the Holidays, progress actually out in the garage is pretty non-existent. Moving on much of the original urq parts has taken a lot of time and effort, especially as most all needed to be shipped out.

Pulling the drivetrain and suspension.

Some parts ready to go out.

With many of the parts gone, there is now some more room to move around out there and continue to strip and clean up the shell. I would like to reclaim the electronics area of the garage which has been demoted (or promoted?) to urq interior storage.

A bit more pieces to be removed (steering rack and final bits of harness), a full cleaning, and then fixing the random dings and dents around the body. Plan is to respray individual sections/panels and get it looking ‘pretty good’ as revision 1.

In my attempts to draw attention away from less than stellar paint, I like to play with decals.

Some of them are a bit small due to the limitations of my cutter (6.2” max. width), but I’m not trying to make a painstaking replica. Besides, if you really look at the factory decals on these cars over the years, the styles and sizes are really quite variable. You can target individual cars, but the similarity pretty much stops there.

Some of the artwork I had from a vector art collection I had purchased many years ago for another project, and some I re-created by tracing over bitmap examples pulled from the Web.

I picked up a new [to me] steering wheel off of the s2forum a couple months ago.

Nardi, yes!

It came with a second wheel rim, as the original rim is bit knackered.

The plan is to first try to fix the leather with some type of ‘product’ aimed at doing so. If that doesn’t work so well, then I’ll look into reskinning them.

I guess I should worry about an engine before the steering wheel and decals? :slap: