Special Audis, by private people: Bobtail


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V8 wagon Bobtail Type85 Pickup Unknown

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rear view
The brothers Tim and Paul Cooper are car-crazy and they are especially addicted to VW and Audi. Tim has his Audi 90 already parked in the visitor's gallery and now Bobtail, Paul's racer, is introduced. The two are at least semi-professionals, they have a Tuning Website, www.CentralVWAudi.com and have already done some cool VWs and Audis. And this Scirocco is special, too. Front engine cars have a disadvantage on the dragstrip. If they also have front wheel drive, you can pretty much forget it. So as a VW and Audi fan, there isn't much besides a Beetle or similar, as all wheel drive is mostly not allowed. But the Coopers (Tim, Paul, Peter, Simon) won't have their mood crushed by that! They got some back-up (Russell Fellows und Roger Keys) and got it on, in 1992.
engine "Just" take an Audi fivecylinder Turbo and the subframe of an Audi 200 (You can see in the upper picture that Bobtail has 5 hole rims in the rear.), cut a hole in the rear of the Scirocco and weld everything in place. Construct an engine frame and add some N2O..
Of course it wasn't that easy. For example, there was not enough room to use the coil-overs from the Audi. So "Bobtail" has no rear suspension. No big problem, Funny Cars do the same...
pedals
The pedals are clever: If you step on the left one, only the front axle brakes. Ideal for that burn-out to get heat the rear tires! If you step on the right pedal, the left pedal gets moved, too and both axles are braked. What you surely can need after a quartermile!
This was made possible as the Audi gearbox is an automatic (gives better starting abilities) and the 1982 Scirocco had manual transmission So the pedals could easily be modified.
interieur Not much in the interieur, but everything that is needed for the quartermile.
Burn-out
(1)
Enough power? Looks as if!
Quartermile time 13.10sec@118mph\190km/h Something one can be proud of! Paul and Bobtail

 


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V8 wagon Bobtail Type85 Pickup Unknown

(1) Rob Williams for the Coopers
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