Earlier in the summer I spotted a listing for 2 doors (left and right) for a b2 coupe - starting bid of 99p. The title of the listing was something like '1985 Audi doors' - so this listing couldn't be seen by the majority of ebayers looking for bits for their UR's and GTs. Anyway somebody else had also spotted it and I entered into a bidding frenzy in the last minute - won the auction for £10.50!
The next weekend i borrowed my dad's Volvo d5 and made the trip an hour up the m1 from the m25 to collect them. When I got there, nice chap, the Audi's long gone, he told me it was in Spain, he sold it when he divorced out there, but he had hoarded parts back in the UK in case the car returned home. He said ' btw I've pulled a few bits from the garage and shed - if there's anything you want, just take it'. As I stepped out into the garden, it was full of parts!! It was like looking at smaugs hall of gold to an Audi enthusiast. And it wasn't just coupe stuff in there, he had 100 parts as well.
Basically took everything, squeezed everything into the back of the Volvo and even strapped stuff to the roof. Here's what I took (there's probably more but off the top of my head):
Cq gearbox & diff
2 doors
100 bumper
Coupe bumpers - front and back
Brand new Audi NLA 100 mat set
Coupe rad
100 rear light set - right and left unused still in Audi box
10v cylinder head & cam
Assortment of fuses
Coupe door cards with the pockets
Coupe rear seats
Coupe front bumper NLA lower black plastic grill sections (all 3 and in original Audi packaging
Coupe dash binnacle
Coupe fog lamps & indicators
Coupe poly superflex wishbone bushes
Coupe unused k&n air filter (now fitted to my cq)
Coupe window regs (NLA in original packaging)
Box of coupe interior switches
Now got to the nitty, gritty - there is more, small but I can't remember
Needless to say that the volvo's suspension was well and truly tested on the way home. The bumpers were basically touching the road
back at home, the car was so overloaded, that the boot latch refused to un clip. I had to get on the roof, jump a few times for it to unlatch.
Anyway that's my story - a dream come true - an Aladdin's cave of parts where someone says 'take what you want'
Lesson to learn - look for eBay listings that have been poorly titled, ones that don't appear in the main searches
