words: Bill, photos: Ricardas Zizas Autohandel
It’s been a good several days for Finds of the Day: the RS2 Avant, the Imola Yellow RS 4, the Amazon Blue Ur-quattro, and the Holy Grail, the 1986 Audi Sport quattro. All special cars, all desirable cars, all hard-to-find cars so why would I feature a plain Jane Audi 80 Avant with ugly wheels? Because of this:
Some mad scientist shoved a 4.2 V8 under the bonnet. Apparently this isn’t an uncommon swap as I’ve found several YouTube videos on V8 swapped B4s (here’s a hint: it sounds gooooood).
Must be the LS swap of Europe. Anyway, here’s the ad (translated from German):
price
category
station wagon
mileage
377,451 km
capacity
4,172 cc
power
213 kW (290 hp)
Fuel
petrol
Number of seats
5
Number of doors
4.5
transmission
manual transmission
Emission category
Euro1
Year
01/1994
Air conditioning
No air conditioning or automatic
colour
red
interior decoration
Velor, brown
And that’s it. No information about the swap: who did it, how many miles are on the engine/chassis, where did the engine come from etc etc. It does, however, have those desirable features: 1) it’s an Audi 2) it’s an Avant 3) it’s a manual 4) it has a freaking V8.
Price? €7,800 ($8,729 USD). Mileage? 377,451 km (234,537 miles). Ease of shipping to the States? Probably not that easy as it does not have the original engine nor an engine that was available in this body style. Oh well…it’s has a ton of miles on it anyway but we can still dream, no?
If you’re so inclined to buy it, you can find the ad HERE.
