Audi 80 GLE Works Touring Car
 

A good friend of mine in Germany who runs a company called Astec GmbH from Forchheim in Germany has recently restored this car for Audi Tradition and it's now on display at the museum, if anyone fancies a trip out there.

Here are a few snaps of the beastie............drool!

Driven by........
 

Driven by Hans Joachim Nowak and Willi Bergmeister in the European Touring Car Championship. The car is based on one of the original bodies that were specially built for motor racing at Audi's Ingolstadt plant. Rebuilt by Astec GmbH from Forchheim in Germany. The 1600 cc engine with front-wheel drive developing 194 bhp at 7500 rpm was good for a top speed of 230 km/h. Although the Audi cars competing in the circuit events were raced exclusively by private drivers, the successful teams of Bergmeister/Nowak and Seikel/Trint were supported by Audi works. After finishing as runners-up in 1979, they emerged victorious in 1980 to give Audi its first ever European Touring Car Championship title.

Saw that last year and it is stunning!

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Your Pictures
 

Cheers Coxy,

They move stuff around at the museum and sometimes it's hard to see all the cars you want, but we got lucky and saw the 80 GLE Touring car in July 2009. It was breathtaking to see it in the flesh.

Great photos of yours by the way!

From the rear too!
 

A few images of all that the competition would have seen in 1980 - The rear!

Ohhh they are nice :)

Wouldnt be Mr Smith would it john? Car looks stunning i have to say, I need to get to the audi factory next year for sure.... something just keeps cropping up to kill my hopes :(

Nope!
 

You're along the right lines, as the guy who restored this used to work for Schmidt (Smith in English) Motorsport, Germany. Now runs his own company, though - Astec (very good guy indeed!)

Does Aelred not own Astec? I havent spoken to aelred in a while in fact. might give him a courtesy call see how he's doing :)

:yikes:No mate, this car was restored by Astec GmbH from Forchheim in Germany:tup:

I've edited the above threads to reflect this clarification...........Phew!