21 Feb 2020

Re-Find of the Day: 1986 Audi Sport quattro will be at Gooding & Company on Amelia Island

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="43962"] words: Bill, photos: Mike Maez, courtesy of Gooding & Company If you've never been to the Amelia Island Concours Week (March 5-8, 2020), I highly suggest you make some time to travel to the barrier island on Florida's Atlantic coast. Reasonably warm weather (especially to us in the Northeast), beautiful cars, beautiful scenery, beautiful cars... If this Sport quattro looks familiar, your eyes aren't deceiving you. We've featured it be...
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15 Feb 2019

Audi Sport quattro Sale Set for Gooding & Company Amelia Island Auction

In case you were on the fence about heading to Amelia Island Concour week next month, or perhaps you were on the market for a Sport quattro, we felt it important to bring your attention to the Gooding & Company auction set to take place. The auction house just confirmed this week that it will indeed be selling a rare Group B homologation special, the Audi Sport quattro road car. As many will tell you about the short wheelbase Sport quattro, it is a decidedly rare thing. 161 examples are s...
8 Jan 2019

1936 Horch 853 Planned for RM Sothebys Amelia Island

Early listings of lots for Amelia Island Concours week have revealed that RM Sotheby's will list a 1936 Horch Special Roadster Recreation. Few other details are provided by RM Sotheby's at this time and we expect more to be forthcoming as the March 9 event date nears, but the rareness of Horch specimens in the USA suggests we may know some of the story already. From the photos released by RM Sotheby's, we can see it has silver and blue bodywork with a red interior. This all appears identica...
10 Feb 2018

1936 Horch in Bonhams Amelia Island Auction

Cars from Audi are still a rare thing at American top level collector car auctions. In as much, you might be surprised to know that we tend to see the brand's pre-war Auto Union offerings on the block as often as we see any of the modern classics. Take for instance this 1936 Horch 853 Roadster set to sell at the Bonhams auction at Amelia Island next month. Cars like this Horch were built in far fewer numbers than modern cars such as the ur quattro, likely closer to the uber rare homologat...