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Audi Coupe Quattro shares the garage with the 155

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Audi Coupe Quattro shares the garage with the 155

That cost £500 and ran fine until I had a go at changing the cambelt on its 20 valve, five cylinder engine. We've already scrapped one Coupe to provide spare parts, and I've been pretending to fix it for so long Andy's been forced to buy a Golf VR6 to run around in; unfortunately it needs its cam chains changing, so it won't be running for much longer. Latest acquisition is a pair of BMW 328i engines, bought mainly because they were £70 each from the local scrapyard, along with a blown up 328i coupe - as it turned out, I hadn't got rear wheel drive out of my system at all. Whether either of the replacement engines actually runs is another question entirely, but there's only one way to find out...

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