Audi barn/field finds

[Steve Q]

As we are probably all aware barn/field finds are hot topics right now in the car world. Here's a selection of pictures of abandoned Audi's from Google images.  

Enjoy! :) 

[Audi Owners Club.]

That is absolutely criminal....and not to mention perfectly good garages that are storing these cars....couldn't tell you how many times I could do with a dry garage to work on cars in the pouring rain :-(

[Steve Q]

11 hours ago, Trevor said:

That is absolutely criminal....and not to mention perfectly good garages that are storing these cars....couldn't tell you how many times I could do with a dry garage to work on cars in the pouring rain :-(

I know what you mean Trevor! I could do with a garage myself for the a6 and my Ford escort! 

[Steve Q]

Restarting this thread... 

[Steve Q]

Here's some more: 

Pic 1 Audi 80LS

Pic 2-4 Audi 70 

Pic 5-9 S2 

Pic 10 needs no introduction! 

 

 

 

 

[Hamez]

I do have a question regarding barn find.

If you find a car in a barn/field can you really just hitch them up and take them?

Probably a silly question but curious to know.

[gsmdo]

2 hours ago, Hamez said:

I do have a question regarding barn find.

If you find a car in a barn/field can you really just hitch them up and take them?

Probably a silly question but curious to know.

They belong to someone - of course you can't just take them 🤣😂🤣

[Hamez]

34 minutes ago, gsmdo said:

They belong to someone - of course you can't just take them 🤣😂🤣

I mean you say this but the bangers you find out in a field how would you go about getting your hands on them?

[gsmdo]

1 hour ago, Hamez said:

I mean you say this but the bangers you find out in a field how would you go about getting your hands on them?

Whose field is it? 🤦‍♂️

[Hamez]

3 hours ago, gsmdo said:

Whose field is it? 🤦‍♂️

Not sure. I've seen an MR2 under a tarp and it's not moved in months all flat tyres. Who'd you contact?

[gsmdo]

1 hour ago, Hamez said:

Not sure. I've seen an MR2 under a tarp and it's not moved in months all flat tyres. Who'd you contact?

Ask about - the field (and car) will belong to someone. You just have to do some legwork to find out who - then have a conversation with them...

Edited July 15, 2022 by gsmdo

[Magnet]

Hello James,

I think I’ve gained a reputation of being too soft on here, but in your opening question ‘.  ….. silly question…’ .-? 

No a very silly question surely! 

Surely you realise that you first have to enquire about the field and car ownership -? 
Sorry, but….

Kind regards,

Gareth. 

 

[Stevey Y]

38 minutes ago, Magnet said:

Hello James,

I think I’ve gained a reputation of being too soft on here, but in your opening question ‘.  ….. silly question…’ .-? 

No a very silly question surely! 

Surely you realise that you first have to enquire about the field and car ownership -? 
Sorry, but….

Kind regards,

Gareth. 

 

Well done Gareth you can't keep spoon feeding information and trying to draw maps, I am currently in the process of buying a Ford Kuga that has been sitting on someones drive and has had a whack on the front and looks like it just needs a new dash/airbags and a bolt up on the front, I went and knocked on the front door a couple of times and was finally accosted by a neighbour who asked me what I wanted he said he would pass on my interest and phone number, guess what the owner phoned me two days later and we are now negotiating, amazing what a bit of persistence will yield.

 

Steve.

[Steve Q]

Location unknown of this quattro. 

[Dr-x]

Want it would my left arm do?

[Steve123]

In the late 1980’s I spent most weekends with a girlfriend who lived in Watford . On a Monday morning I would walk to the station to go to work.  My walk would take me past a derelict house that had a car covered in a tarpaulin up on bricks in the front garden. The shape of the car intrigued me. One morning I climbed over the low front garden wall to investigate. Lifting up a corner of the tarp I saw some dark blue paintwork, a red leather interior, a nice alloy wheel and a badge which said “ OSI “, but was shouted at by a near neighbour so could look no further and investigated no more, a situation made easier by getting blown out by that girlfriend.

Some months later I was sitting at the bar of a hotel in Marlow. Wearing my Aston Martin Owners Club pin in my lapel, this was noticed by the bartender who owned a Jowett Javelin. We chatted for a while and then he went off to serve another customer. A few minutes later he returned to say that he’d discovered that the other customer owned a rare Italian/Swiss car called a Monteverdi so I joined him for a drink. During our conversation I learned that he was from Italy and here on business.   Eventually I told him about the car seemingly dumped in Watford. Describing the blue metallic paintwork, the red leather interior and the alloy wheel, I also mentioned, of course, that the car was an OSI, at which point he almost fell off his bar stool. He then recovered and told me that it was an ISO, probably a Rivolta and once owned by James Stewart and later by Princess Grace of Monaco.  The ISO badge had been put on the car backwards by mistake perhaps ?   He immediately asked if I would take him to see the car, but I had drunk several Scotches by then, so declined. I drew him a map of its location , gave him my business card and he called a taxi to go to Watford. Later that night the phone in my hotel room rang and it was him. The car was as he described it and he was ecstatic. He planned to recover the car and have it trailered back to his home in Switzerland. I told him that would mean he would be stealing it but he said that doesn’t worry him.

Some weeks later a letter arrived from him enclosing a cheque for £1000. It was his thanks to me for finding the car .  The cheque bounced a few times but eventually paid out. About a year later I went to a Ferrari club meeting and was told that this ISO had received a no expense spared restoration and now sported beautiful chrome wire wheels. It had, though, been seized in part payment against a large tax bill !

 

 

[Steve123]

P.S.  I’ve now sold my RS4 and replaced it with an RS6 Avant.  How can I get this changed in my shown details ?

Cheers.

[coupe4]

thats a great story!

[Steve Q]

On 6/5/2023 at 12:03 PM, Steve123 said:

In the late 1980’s I spent most weekends with a girlfriend who lived in Watford . On a Monday morning I would walk to the station to go to work.  My walk would take me past a derelict house that had a car covered in a tarpaulin up on bricks in the front garden. The shape of the car intrigued me. One morning I climbed over the low front garden wall to investigate. Lifting up a corner of the tarp I saw some dark blue paintwork, a red leather interior, a nice alloy wheel and a badge which said “ OSI “, but was shouted at by a near neighbour so could look no further and investigated no more, a situation made easier by getting blown out by that girlfriend.

Some months later I was sitting at the bar of a hotel in Marlow. Wearing my Aston Martin Owners Club pin in my lapel, this was noticed by the bartender who owned a Jowett Javelin. We chatted for a while and then he went off to serve another customer. A few minutes later he returned to say that he’d discovered that the other customer owned a rare Italian/Swiss car called a Monteverdi so I joined him for a drink. During our conversation I learned that he was from Italy and here on business.   Eventually I told him about the car seemingly dumped in Watford. Describing the blue metallic paintwork, the red leather interior and the alloy wheel, I also mentioned, of course, that the car was an OSI, at which point he almost fell off his bar stool. He then recovered and told me that it was an ISO, probably a Rivolta and once owned by James Stewart and later by Princess Grace of Monaco.  The ISO badge had been put on the car backwards by mistake perhaps ?   He immediately asked if I would take him to see the car, but I had drunk several Scotches by then, so declined. I drew him a map of its location , gave him my business card and he called a taxi to go to Watford. Later that night the phone in my hotel room rang and it was him. The car was as he described it and he was ecstatic. He planned to recover the car and have it trailered back to his home in Switzerland. I told him that would mean he would be stealing it but he said that doesn’t worry him.

Some weeks later a letter arrived from him enclosing a cheque for £1000. It was his thanks to me for finding the car .  The cheque bounced a few times but eventually paid out. About a year later I went to a Ferrari club meeting and was told that this ISO had received a no expense spared restoration and now sported beautiful chrome wire wheels. It had, though, been seized in part payment against a large tax bill !

 

 

Awesome story. 

[Steve Q]

On 6/5/2023 at 12:08 PM, Steve123 said:

P.S.  I’ve now sold my RS4 and replaced it with an RS6 Avant.  How can I get this changed in my shown details ?

Cheers.

If you go onto your profile there should be an edit function 

[widebodieds3]

hi guys iv just joined the site.

Here's my latest rebuild s3 8l it's been in the bushes for 5-6 years but she's alive again now and I'll update if you guys are interested 

[Steve Q]

15 minutes ago, widebodieds3 said:

hi guys iv just joined the site.

Here's my latest rebuild s3 8l it's been in the bushes for 5-6 years but she's alive again now and I'll update if you guys are interested 

Good on ya for saving it. Please keep us posted on how you get on. Feel free to do a build thread on the 8L section. 

[Steve Q]

Audi 80 in Greece

[Audi Owners Club.]

I know its not an Audi but this 'beauty' has been in Argostoli, Kefalonia for many years and this year it has actually moved.....whether anyone is going to restore it or whether it drives on a daily basis I don't know but I do love the effort they have put into the bodywork repairs 🙂 

 

[Audi Owners Club.]

Reminds me of that Father Ted episode