Audi's very own Audi 80 - the rarest car we've driven! LMM Drives 32
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- čas přidán 27. 07. 2024
- Hello everyone,
Well, do we just have a treat for you. With the help of our good friend @JayEmmOnCars , Audi let us take out one of their heritage fleet. A car which they only know of two.
Thank you to all of you for supporting the channel to get us to this level. We've very, very honoured.
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Thank you to Audi UK for letting us out in the 80, and a massive thank you to @JayEmmOnCars for making it happen, if you haven't already had a look at his channel, go have a gander.
A video featuring:
Lawrie - Presenter, overly in love with the 80
Matt - Presenter, genuinely impressed with the little car,
An edit by Lawrie, refined by Trev
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Happy to help get you in Ralf and congratulations on a fine video. Both Matt and Lawrie in their element here
I said to myself JayEmm facilitated that 😊
Thanks for helping us out
The fact that this thing is a 2 door wagon makes it so much cooler.
I agree!
i want reserve a place in the audience! well done this channel is growing and perfecting by the minute ! the fact Audi lent you this piece of heritage says a lot ! well done to you at LMM !
It's very exciting isn't it!
When jumping into cars with different layouts either column shift or between Euro and JDM wiper and indicator stalks you realise how tricky it is to change your driving style and how amazing a person like Jay Leno is for having and regularly driving his cars as early as the 1910s and others especially the ones with centre throttles.
It always catches you it having the different layout
Just make sure it doesn't end up in "What's broken now".
Back with Audi now, so it's safe!
Shows that the channel is doing very well if someone at Audi has said "let's give LMM loan of our very own car" nice video, lovely car aswell.
Scary really isn't it
I remember Ian from Hubnut tested this car in 2019 when he visited the Audi UK headquarters. Its a lovely preserved example of pre tailgating Audi cars. I also love the 100 and early A4 models.
Some of their cars are amazing
Lovely car, great video. At 6:34 I think the phrase you are searching for may be “quarter light”. Love a car with quarter lights!
beat me to it... ;)
@@lowiepete Oh, apologies! Tell you what, how about you go first next time...
@@cachebangwallop3482 Pffft!
Yeah, those things! Air con!
If lawrie finds the other surviving car and its good enough condition I think he would buy it
Depends how much it was. I imagine they'd fetch some proper dollar
This is one of the best car videos yet
Thank you!
Great video, one of your finest. Keep up the great work guys!
Thank you very much!
Great stuff as always. Cheers!
Thank you very much
It's a shooting brake. It's an environmentally friendly car. Not in landfill, still working. People should stop dreaming about electric cars and change cars less often. Very good proof that if you look after it will last.
That's a very good point
A absolutely amazing car
Isn't it just!
What a lovely (and rare) car! You lucky chaps. Fantastic video. Thanks.
Thank you!
Wow! It’s a beauty! 🤩. I love old looking vehicles.
Lovely thing
If you guys start doing crazy adventures with these cars like the original Top Gear, I'll never stop watching this channel ;-)
We'd like to. Maybe one day
I've got a B4 coupe. Would love a shot of that! Cracking vid. It just shows how quickly the channel is growing.
It's mad isn't it!
A friend had one of those in the mid seventies. His was two tone. I think it was written off by a truck, if I remember rightly. The knob with the curve wedge adjusts the brightnes of the instrument lights. Very cool.
Oh really? I'd like it in two tone
Beautiful car! I have driven a left hand drive car with a column shifter “three on the tree” I can’t imagine shifting with my left hand.
It was quite the experience
Almost 30 years before i had a chance to drive an Audi like that one but saloon (Audi 100 C1) for a few hundred kilometers, my friend borrowed me that car....everything that i can say is that car was a gift from heaven. I can remember that by today's standards that car was slow off course, but also by today's crappy standards it was extremely well built, visibility was great off course with so much glass, interior was full of a hard plastic, but not cheap plastic, and it was so smooth.....a dream car. Ashtrays everywhere :-) :-) Best seats ever without any doubt (off course without a stupid headrests life is always much better). You couldn't feel any pothole, that's impossible. That Audi was better than my personal Audi today which is 40 years younger. I would like to have that same car but....unfortunatelly never..... probably.
That thing is beautiful, there's no other word.
Good job Lawrie, huge Like
Thank you very much - they don't make 'em like they used to!
nice. love seeing random videos pop up.
Thank you
Hilarious watching this pair doing the synchronised bobbing up and down in the springy seats. Drove a 1977 Toyota Hiace Pickup with a 4 speed column shift and it was glorious. Of course this made room for a third passenger in the middle.
Oh the good old bench seat in the front!
@@lmm meant you could all lean together to get steeper angles in the corners. Don't worry the doors never seemed to burst open under the weight of 3 boys and girls.
Excellent video. So nice to see Matt with his encyclopaedic knowledge and you two bouncing off each other. Also very funny to watch you discovering what a quarter light is and how to open it. Fantastic car and beautiful with the picnic in front of the Victorian folly. Was anyone else screaming at the screen for you to turn the ignition off before the coil overheats or the points burn? Is that an actual thing? Looking forward to more. ✨👍😊
Glad you enjoyed it - it was a super thing to take out!
very well done for getting the car and all that go with it
Thank you very much
This is the great grandad of the cars that are permanently positioned about 6 inches of your rear bumper on a motorway or faster road...
I think seat belts in the front were legally required to be fitted to vehicles sold in the UK from 1963. Wearing them didn't become compulsory until the early '80s, but they had to be fitted...
I believe the other surviving right-hand drive 80 estate is in Australia. There are still some left-hand drive early Audis around in Europe, but not many. As someone else said, they were reliable cars, and it's been a while since anyone could say that about an Audi, so they tended to get driven into the ground and then a bit further. Audis were very unusual cars in the UK until about the mid '70s when they started to become a bit more popular. It wasn't really until the aerodynamic 100 was launched in the early '80s that they really started to become a sizeable player in the executive car class, and the rest is history. It's a shame Audis stopped being engineer-led vehicles and became just jazzed up VWs with ridiculous price tags as the older cars were easily the equal of Mercedes-Benz and BMW on quality...
How did we go from this to hybrid performance crossover SUVs?
It's sad isn't it
@@lmm
It is.
Well looks like the classic Saab 9-6 is no longer the only classic dream estate I love now, what a beautiful car.
It's mega isn't it!
Very nice. I had a B2 80 years ago, wish I hadn't gotten rid :-/ Will stick with the little A2 I have these days
Lots of people feel that way looking back at cars they had.
Excellent video gents, what a lovely car! With all the Trabant references, I decree that you gents bring one on as a project....I mean....they have like 5 moving parts, I'd say that even you guys can't make a mess of that....but it is you guys :P
I love old-school stuff, especially classics that were built much later than you'd think with old running gear. Look up the Polish FSO Syrena, FSC Zuk or ZSD Nysa sometime! :D
I'd love a Trabbi. It's on my must have list
@@lmm I'd be psyched if one ever showed up on the channel......or a FIAT 126p. Both are my favorite cars because I have weird tastes :P
About to go watch your latest 'What's Broken Now' over a cup of hot cocoa - hope all you gentleman are having a great weekend! :)
@@OdykKayne both cars I want 😂
@@lmm Great minds think alike, fools seldom differ! :P
really shows how reputable this channel has become
Scary isn't it!
Wonderful! I imagine they fell victim to tin worm and reliable cars where always run into the ground
Oh I would have thought so
That is so ridiculous it's uber cool!
Isn't it just!
Looks nearly as good as the stylish Triumph 2000 Estate MK2 from the same period.
It's great isn't it
Reminds me of the old WX Falcon I learnt to drive. 3 on the tree, 4 wheel drum brakes and a whopping 135hp 3.6 liter engine. Alot of very similar features and set up on it too.
Oh really?
Cool car
Well well lawrie now going more and more top gear 😏 first time a company gets involved 👍👍
Very exciting isn't it
Hi guys just catching up on vids.... my uncle had a one but not a estate tho ...yeah I'm that old drove it column change which I'd never used before 👌as for chrome it was the trap for rust probs why theres hardly any left his was rusting at a year old..remember how much of engine hung past front wheels🤔...tangent time..i remember black n white no plates ohhhh wudnt it be nice to go back to them...atb guys
They're so cool aren't they!
Space Wolves tee-shirt a neat bonus to an interesting video.
Thank you!
The head and neck support on modern cars are not for comfort they are there to stop/restrict whiplash.
But I wouldn't want to do a long trip without them
Renault 16 TL ( the car differing wheelbases each side) first car I drove and was a column change manual.. great car when it wasn’t overheating
I had 3 of those, but none ever overheated; sounds like system wasn't bled properly - a bit of a pig to do.
@@lowiepete yes turned out there was a crack in the head ..... loved the car would have one again bloke we sold it to welded it up and it ran for years after .... that was the day I decided to learn to weld 👀
I trust the previous life "scars" you mentioned were the NS bonnet shut gap, the larger gap between the NS indicator and bumper compared with the OS one and I think the NS headlamp was angled slightly different vto the OS one.
Is it a "3 on the tree" gearchange or did it have a 4 speed box?
1965 was the year when front seat belt mountings became compulsory, though having belts wwas still the owners option.
Very nice review.
Thank you very much - yeah, it's not perfect, but quite wonderful.
I think it was a four speed
You're not the only poor plebs that Audi have loaned out that car to: Hubnut has reviewed it aswell, and also thought it very good. Even as a kid, I don't remember ever seeing one of them. Fair play for playing around with it.
I think me and Jayemm were the only people to drive it last year.
Do you ever remember seeing one on British roads? I don't. It's a hidden gem :)
What you need to drive now, is a Volvo Duett and a Volvo Amazon estate....come ooooon, you know that you want to! 😉😆😂
If it could happen I'd love to!
where is that gatehouse towards the end
Somewhere near Sudbury in Suffolk
Nice little Mercedes-Benz W119.
Super thing
The days you DIDNT have an Audi up your bum or seeing one drive on the right side of a pedestrian crossing refuge island because its clear and too much bother to slow and use the left (in an urban setting).
Tis quite special.
It's a real special car!
"More of these, no more Q1" couldn't have said it better. Maybe you could also get your hands on a NSU Ro 80?
Now that would be fun
A Ferrari says 'Arghhh we're doing a hundred now grrrr!'
A modern Audi says 'I'll go anywhere so grrr!'
This likes to say 'Hello, are we going to the Gentleman's Club today?'
Exactly!
You mentioned the Reliant Scimitar, did you know Princess Anne had one of those??
Yeap. Quality car!
Shooting brake? Well, if there's room for more than a couple of hounds in the back and it's easy for them to clamber in without injury, then you're half-way there. The "swooping lines" might need some imagination...
It's very pretty though 😂
i guess to classify as a shooting brake it has to be a sports car and added on coachwork. I stand to be corrected tough
Maybe.
@24.43 that could well be the rheostat for the dashboard lights
...or the demister fan control.
When I was a lad I worked at my uncle's garage in my spare time, serving petrol and cleaning cars. We had a sub-dealership for Ford and Auto-Union. You spoke of the colour. British cars were black, white, red or blue almost in regulation shades. DKW/Auto-Union cars were every bright hue other than these, so you'd find your steed in a car park in seconds! The 2-stroke cars were simply amazing for their time, but the messy mixing of oil and fuel at every refill put most potential buyers off.
There was also the really smelly clouds of white smoke that tended to hang around the car, a smell that you'd also carry in your clothes. Okay if you were a petrolhead, but that word didn't exist back then. That's more than likely the cause of few if any 2-stroke engines being in modern cars, although they were quick and economical.
Me and Matt both really want to get some two stroke cars
The twist control is that to dim the dashboard lights ?
Ps I have a U.K. reg trab really needs a run out
I love trabbis! Any chance of a review?
@@lmm
Simple answer yes
More difficult answer is poss later in the year as most of my time is in the country these cars are made
M also pretty clued up on Dennis and all that goes with them after a life long career with them
@@johnedwards4274 drop us an email on Lawriesmechanicalmarvels@outlook.com and we'll make arrangements - thank you!
This car is restored, but not by Audi. A provius owner did it. I own two of this in Sweden, one of them are a green from 1968, like this. But LHD 😊
Oh really? We thought they did it!
Think Hubnut has had that car out for a spin, it looks familiar.
Think he did some years ago
ooh , a manufacturer is letting you loose with their heritage cars .. this is a big step .. congrats guys
17:33 someone needs a new t-shirt
Thank you very much!
B.S AU48 1965 is British Standards AUtomotive 48 is seat belt regs for 1965 onwards
yep, seat belt mounts.
Ahh thanks!
@@lmm no problemo- any thing BS-AU will be standards related- just look at your number plates BS-AU 145d
Next stop Skye? And you might make it back this time.
This probably would 😂
Ah one of two, lets park it in a field?
No no, one of two, let's go off road
@@lmm Now that I can completely understand!
This is very reminiscent of the VW variant, does anyone know if there is any common ground?
Same group I guess
Don't roll the fire engine. Noted.
That... That would be very bad
I really enjoy your videos but you need to do something about your knowledge of post war history, especially in relation to Germany:
It was understood that the imposition of post WW1 reparations by the allies and it subsequent oppression of the Country and its occupants had at least in part, led to the rise of Nazi-ism and therefore, after WW2, every effort was made to rebuild West Germany on a more democratic, egalitarian and wealthy basis than before. By the 60s (I was born in 62) West Germany was already far wealthier than the UK, which was paying back the USA the cost of purchasing through Lease-Lend, until the early 2000s (and we still haven't finished paying the USA for WW1) and spending huge amounts of money on Defence and developing nuclear technology whilst losing its Empirical cash cow and declining industrially to the point at which now, we effectively manufacture nothing except cups of coffee and as the West Germans were forced to spend nothing militarily excepting on their own army in a defence role (all of which is similar to Japan's post war growth), the Deutsch Mark was in a far healthier state than Sterling.
There were also materials shortages in the UK, which went on until the early 80s, which explains why early post WW2, Land Rovers bodies were manufactured using Birmabright, not mild steel and why the stainless steel used in the production of things like washing machines, tumble dryers and microwave cookers wasn't available (unless imported at enormous expense due to import duties, from the USA), due to the fact that most stainless steel production in the UK went to building nuclear processing plants, submarines, power plants etc.
Due to the disparity in the value of the Mark against the Pound, even the humble VW Beetle was an expensive car and as the sixties wore on, Companies like BMW & Mercedes Benz realised that the American market would purchase their products, which even before WW2, had a reputation for good quality and they never at that time, aimed there goods specifically at the UK market, because nobody could afford them. To put this into a weird context, and by way of illustrating how poor the UK was, you have to take into account that most houses in the UK did not have central heating until the late 1970s and houses were still being built without heating up until the late 1980s (you'll get nay sayers on this point but they will likely be from the South of the Country - I grew up in Watford and we had our first heating system installed in a house which was already around 7 years old, in about 1966, long before our neighbours had it installed and when we eventually moved to a wealthy area of the Midlands in 1976, most people still hadn't had it installed in Watford and the Midlands was positively Mediaeval).
When we lived in Watford, there was a business at the end of our road and one of the owners, owned an Audi similar to that shwn in your video, I was obsessed with cars and remember speaking to my Dad about it, who was tight but not short of a few bob and he grumbled that they were very expensive, which is ironic given that we had an Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GT and either a Ford Zodiac with an Essex V6 or something like a FIAT 128, plus an old Riley secreted away in a seperate garage over the road, in the days when nobody owned two cars.
In conclusion; be under no illusion that by the early 60s, West Germany was on its knees. I was born 17 years after the end of WW2 and by that time they were much better off that the UK. Watch films like Funeral in Berlin with Michael Caine and you'll get a feel for what West Berlin was like from the footage taken there and be aware that the rest of West Germany was doing much better, if that's even possible.
Ok, now find a proper 2-stroke DKW to drive. Or a Saab.
We really do like two stroke
69 heheh