A Quick Look Back, My 1995.5 Audi S6 Avant

While going through some older photos and videos I stumbled upon a few of my old 1995.5 Audi S6 Avant. I bought this car from my long time friend and fellow Quattro Club USA member, Rolf. At the time my intent was not only to daily drive it but to restore it to it's former glory.
Rolf had purchased this car from Kent Anderson at KAR of MN (also my former client and friend) and then extensively maintained the car via Kent's brother Keith (and my friend Chris DeLadi) at Anderson Motorsport in Chanhassen, MN.
Rolf had initially brought the car to me to go through and prepare for sale online. It needed a new radiator at the time and I agreed to do that job while here and wound up "while you're in there" doing a complete timing belt replacement on the car as well. From there it got a serious inside/out top to bottom detail from me as well to get it looking as nice as possible prior to the sale.
Then came the surprise. When all was said and done, my friend Rolf said, "I probably owe you quite a bit for all of the work you've done to the car and I can pay you OR I could offer the car to you at a good price if you'd be interested." Naturally, option B was a no-brainer and the "Dragon Wagon" was adopted into the family as my daily driver. I absolutely loved the utility of it and in fact brought an entire (large) bathroom vanity home in a single trip... the Lowe's fork lift driver laughed when he saw what I intended to load things into but once I was done he went and got a couple of co-workers to share in his disbelief. UrS Avant for the win!
I started restoring the car little by little. All new brake system with new rear calipers, rear brake lines and rotors and pads all around. I had also acquired spare doors in the correct color as a few of them had rust spots where paint had flaked off. I was also planning to repaint the bumpers and likely the front end and blend into doors.
Then the C7 S6 joined the family. My father got the newer S6 and decided he would part with his pearl 93 S4. I could have kept the Avant in hind-sight but I really didn't need three cars for myself so I decided to sell it to my friend Joe for a song... he paid exactly what I had into it. Each time it has sold it's gone UP in price and you'd cry if you knew what I had into it at the time of the photos in this video. ;-)
My friend Kyle would buy it from Joe for another good price although Joe did make some money on that deal. The only sad part is that the huge 3 ring binder containing all the service records for this car were somehow lost during Joe's ownership stint... and he would later pass away unexpectedly so we had no way to know where they might be. Really unfortunate as this was one of the best documented S6 Avants I had ever seen, but even more unfortunate that we'd lose Joe.
Kyle would then sell it to another local guy who in turn sold it to someone in Colorado who owned it for a while and had it up for sale again not long ago. Not sure where she is now... maybe YOU own it? If so, drop me a line! I'd love to keep in touch with whoever owns this car now.
I sold the car back in 2017 if I remember correctly.

[@chiil034]

Pretty clean. I own a 95.5 S6 Avant, saved it... it was a non-runner. Exterior is really rough, mostly just the clear coat failing. But no rust. I swapped the ecru interior for a black interior from an A6 Avant. The old ecru interior was tired, worn and falling apart.

[@SCARSORGofficial]

Is yours emerald as well? And did you swap the carpet as well or just the seats? It's a real task to go to the carpet level. I may be one of the rare people that loves the ecru interior... but only when in minty condition. The vast majority end up looking pretty tired and dirty unfortunately.

[@bollemann2582]

Oh how I wish I lived in the US sometimes. Here in Norway a nice example of any S2/S4/S6 pre 2000's is going to be $15k or more :(

[@davidsweet8829]

That was a lovely example. What's the deal with those amazing number plates over in the states? Wish we could have those over here in the UK. Private plates here are hard to find and expensive. And we have stupid rules meaning plates are age related and can't be retro fitted. For example, you can't have S2 on an S2 because S was 1998 year and S2 production ended about 96.

[@SCARSORGofficial]

Over here the customized (or vanity) plates are a simple option. You can pay an extra $50 or so (on average) to get a custom plate. For my red 93 S4 I have a personalized collector plate. That was $100 but you pay it only once... then no more annual renewals! That's obviously a great deal as I just renewed the registration on my pearl car with personalized plates and it runs about $92 per year. Of course that all pales in comparison to what you deal with in the UK with your plates. It's hard to wrap my head around the amounts paid for some seemingly basic number plates over there. ;-) Thanks for your comment!