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Avus Quattro/Audi Avus
Topic Started: Jun 28 2012, 01:58 PM (599 Views)
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The Avus was not particularly popular, and I watched a lot of the later versions peghang for some time.

That said, one of my favorites was the Tech Tone series. While the finish seemed random, I had the fortune to find three of the same car at the same time, and was able to compare to see the subtle differenes as the process changed a little for each one. I found it interesting, that there was a method to the seeming madness of that particular series.
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i went back to get pics of 2 1998 series issues.
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here is the one you mention.
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Yep, the bottom red one is the Tech Tone car. None of the castings in that particular 4 car set were very popular by themselves, but taken together in that one series I thought they were kinda cool.
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I noticed a Buick Wildcat in your Avus thread. :( Nice examples though. I wonder if this would've been a good precursor to the R8?
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I think you will find the Wildcat is a Treasure Hunt, I think 1996...as is the Avus, which is why they are together in the same pic.
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and yet again Wes hits the nail...not just dead center but very close..
they are both t hunts.but from '97 not '96.
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Does this represent a real car? I've got a few of them, which I've had for years, but I've never found out what it was based on.
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Jun 29 2012, 10:53 AM
and yet again Wes hits the nail...not just dead center but very close..
they are both t hunts.but from '97 not '96.
Eh...I work in round figures. Close is good enough. I knew enough to know if they were not 96, they were definitely 97s. I never found them, and honestly wasn't too worried about trying to. But for a completist they would be mandatory!
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Billy Kingsley
Jun 30 2012, 07:20 PM
Does this represent a real car? I've got a few of them, which I've had for years, but I've never found out what it was based on.
You know, I never bothered to even look. I just presumed that like so many HW of the era, they were exotic supercars like the Vector Avtech or the Zender or the Jag XJ220, all of which I know are real. Unattainable by mere mortals, but real.
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After a little searching, it appears Avus is the name of the German Grand Prix track...seems to have a rather long and storied history from the little I could tell.

The Audi Avus Quattro is a concept car, as it turns out.
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