This Audi 4000s Quattro (that’s an 80 to all my fiends in the UK – in the US they were all called 4000s until the B3) came form my good friend Steve Meyer. It was an original car, a little tired and tatty around the edges but overall a solid example. After some new lower arms, new fuel injection, some brakes, fuel lines and various other electrical fixes I treated it to a new set of 16s and thought I’d just leave it at that.
Turned out the clutch was nearly gone, and it started blowing quite a bit of blue smoke. The simple thing would have been to simply rebuild the existing 2.2 I5 and just drive it about, but that’s not what happened…