Don’t bother with Autotrader, Gumtree or EBay, you’ll never find the right buyer for something so rare there. It needs to go in front of the right person.

Really?, currently on Ebay are two Audi 100S Coupe's.

I spend a lot of time looking at classic cars on Ebay and I've seen plenty more obscure and/or rare cars than an Audi 100. So while I'm not saying it would be the best choice, I definitely wouldn't rule it out.

On Car and Classics right now there is a 1974 100 saloon for sale as a restoration project, asking price, £8k. That is the only saloon, there are also four Coupe's with prices ranging from £13k up to 39500 Euros!.

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Edited by badbusdriver on 04/06/2021 at 13:16

Yes, I wouldn't be bothering with eBay for a car like this.

As well as the Audi Owners Club, it might be worth looking at www.collectingcars.com.

Although there's some rarified stuff on there, there's also some more normal cars at fair prices.

It’s one thing to list them and another to actually sell it.

Granted.

On normal sites a specialist car like this will languish but a specialist classic car auction will get it away at decent money to the right buyer.

If that was the case, why do classic car dealers (as plenty do) list cars on Ebay. And I'm talking about well established outfits who also advertise in magazines such as Classic and Sports Car, Classic Cars and Octane, selling classic cars both obscure and not. Working on the assumption that it costs them to sell cars through Ebay, it would make no sense for them to do so if it didn't result in sales.

Now as I said earlier, I'm not suggesting Ebay is going to be the best place, but I don't accept that it simply isn't worth bothering about. The OP can get the car listed on Ebay quickly and easily by themselves with little time or effort. The more people seeing the car, the better.

There have been a couple of threads fairly recently on cars, usually for sale, sometimes just seen in the passing, but ones which invoke memories. Well I spent my childhood in the Shetland Islands, from the age of 5-15. The first house we lived at was at (this would have been 1977ish) the end of a very narrow single track road and, in inclement weather, me and my brother would be picked up by a lady driving a yellow Audi 100!. So that was the first thing which popped into my head when I read this thread!.

I wouldn't have thought there was much demand for an ancient large three box saloon with a smallish four cylinder engine. Still - you never know - there might be a wealthy Audi aficionado out there....

As with all cars of this type, there doesn't need to be much demand. All it takes is one person with the funds, ideally a garage to keep it in, and, crucially, a strong link, or memory to (in this case) an old Audi 100. A memory like mine may not be enough to persuade most possible buyers to part with the money, but had the car belonged to a Dad, Grandad, Uncle or whatever, well that would be entirely different. And if the Audi in this case happened to be the same colour as the one bringing back those memories, well that's a done deal!.

If I had the money spare, and a garage, I'd have it. Not because of that tenuous link of getting picked up in one 40-odd years ago, but just because I like them, and I like something a little out of the ordinary (and BTW, I'm not an Audi 'aficionado'!)

As to the notion of it being underpowered, I don't really think that comes into it when buying a classic car (unless it is actually a performance car). As long as the car in question has the ability and gearing to cruise along at a reasonable rate, not holding up other traffic, I'm not convinced anything else is needed.