Red Audi Quattro: DCI Gene Hunt would approve
Business Car Manager: Editor’s Blog
IT’S FRIDAY. Which means Ashes to Ashes. Audi Quattro. DCI Gene Hunt. DI Alex Drake – all great stuff as we re-live the eighties and wonder what the story line is really all about.
We’re big fans at home – we even have the old Beeb TV clock downloaded as a screen saver.
I was having a chat to BCA’s Tim Naylor this morning about used car prices getting stronger – see story BCA Pulse report shows used prices continue to rise. And we started to chat about Ashes. Tim reckons there will be widespread interest in everything seventies and eighties inspired by many of the TV shows on at the moment – and the upcoming Ricky Gervais film, Cemetery Junction (due for release on 14th April).
“I think we’ll see a real surge in interest for cars from these eras,” Tim suggested. “We started seeing it when the precursor to Ashes – Life on Mars – reawakened interest in this era. Since then we’ve a steady demand for vehicles from this period.
Tim said that recent BCA sales of seventies classics included a 1979 Triumph Dolomite 1.9 HL, a 1973 Jaguar E-Type Series III Coupe, a 1979-registered MGB-GT and a 1976 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow 6.7 litre saloon.
“What’s really interesting, though,” Tim continued, warming to his theme, “was that it wasn’t just the top-end exotica; it’s everything from family runabouts to the early fleet cars that were interesting collectors.”
If you’re interested yourself, take a look at the Showroom facility on the BCA website. It regularly features the more specialist, classic and prestige vehicles ahead of them being sold. So it’s a useful place to visit – even if you are only dreaming about what you might want to buy!
In the meantime, if you want to see why the Audi Quattro made such an impact on everybody, Autocar has some footage of rally legend Walter Rohrl going up the famous Col du Turini in the rally version. Mighty stuff.
Click here if you want to view it: Audi Quattro on the Col de Turini.
