My old Audi, which we lovingly restored approx 8 years ago.. good to still see it about.

Probably the most haunted car I ever seen on KZfaq. You can actually see a ghost of a man sitting on the back seats early on in this video!😂 Fantastic video as usual 😊

1:02 The random awkward guy just sat there, i honestly had to second guess if it was a mannequin or not lol

Just imagine in another 10 years,when all new cars are equipped with an 80mph limited mandated by the government of the time. Little Ralf and his kin,will be in the outside lane flashing for the brand new Audi to move out the way 😀

Audi’s actually looked cool once upon a time. I thought they all had the ghastly huge grilles they’ve got now!

A friend and I actually own two Audi 80 Variant -68 here in Sweden. One has the same color and interior as Ralf, the other is white with a red interior. The white is unfortunately in poor condition, but will be restored. We drive the green one sometimes, and we love the gearshift 👌

I owned an Auto Union in Central America. I was in the US Army trying to escape the war in Vietnam in 1967 and managed to get myself stationed in Panamá, where the US at the time was sovereign in the Canal Zone until Jimmy Carter gave it to Panamá. Now the Chinese own the canal, which is the most strategic point in the Western Hemisphere. Good going Jimmy! I needed an affordable car and found the strangest one I’ve ever seen, a three-cylinder, two cycle Auto Union four seat coupe, similar in size and rough shape to a VW beetle. It had the Audi four rings logo in chrome on the bonnet. The engine was in the front and it had front wheel drive and a four speed manual transmission with the shifter on the steering column, which was similar to the three-on-the-tree shifters on American cars at the time so it was comfortable for me and I didn’t think it unusual. There were three large coils, one per cylinder perched on top of the engine. I mixed oil with fuel at the gas station. Because of the two cycle engine the car had plenty of power for it’s size and was really not bad to drive. It was a German light green with some grey tones. Panamá is six degrees north of the equator and quite tropical. It is a vermin friendly environment. I lived in an apartment downtown and had to park outside. I think rats ate something, because one day it refused to start and I was forced to sell it to a sergeant who knew about cars and had a place to work on it. I never saw it again. Your video dislodged that crusty old memory. Thank you!

I owned that car before Coxy restored it and sold it to Audi UK. Ralf was found on a retiring used car salesman's lot in rural Fenlands. I bought for £900. It had sat outside for about 15 years. It was all complete and we had it running within a week of purchase.

Maybe I'm shallow, but I keep glancing at that pretty, pretty coupé in the background. Roll on the next episode...

I love this content, almost no other youtubers show these types of cars. However it would be cool to see so more old japanese cars like you did before. There are so many underrated cars like the suzuki ignis sport, corolla T-sport or even some cars like the chaser. Keep up the great work man.

Very nice video. Love your eclectic choice of cars and your clear no-nonsense explanations. Keep up the good work!

i utterly love the range and breadth of vehicles you test, easily one of the most interesting channels on all of you tube

My first car here in Canada was a 1972 Audi 100LS the 4 door sedan, so I'm very keen to watch your next episode on the 100 Coupe! I hope my somewhat nostalgic memory of the car (some 37 years on now) holds up to your review. I remember it being somewhat fairly quick, handling much better than my friends Chevrolet Camaro, who's tail liked to think it could steer better than the front tires most of the time, and the Audi looking smart enough to attract a lovely young lady whom I dated for several years! I really liked the early 100's who have a lot of charm and character to them, dare I say as much as a similar vintage BMW 2002 or Bavaria 3.0 Litre.

Always had a soft spot for column shift - totally agree about the Renault 16 one.

You beggar !! You didn’t tell me you’d reviewed it !!! Absolutely beautiful dream car ! Thank you james for this Video ❤️❤️

This is a nice video of a car that looks dull but is full of history. As a child I would travel with my family from the London suburbs to Schleswig Holstein, where my father (a Normandy veteran) had friends who had been on the other side. I was fascinated by cars and asked about every car. One of these friends drove an Audi 72, a car I had never heard of.... There were really no Audi's in the UK in the late 60s. I recall my father telling me it was a name "used for convenience by the Auto Union concern". It is also (but there is another long tale there) a translation into Latin of the name of carmaker Horch, another part of the Auto Union combo. Nice video. Lovely cars. The one on the right looks like a 100 Coupé S. A lovely machine. Understated and elegant. For some reason it appealed to the more stylish end of the spiv market when new... But it is still a car of quality and substance. Lovely.

Thank You ! i adore these old cars . must be an expensive car , if they are only two left . Very cool story . I enjoyed it . And yes it would be lovely on the beach , for Sunday outing

Another brilliant video! Though I haven't driven any early Audis, I have experienced the steering column gearshift on a Peogeot 504 pickup we owned many decades ago in a land far, far away. I can confirm that its something you get used to fairly quickly.

The variety on this channel is awesome, thanks Jay❗👍😎🇺🇸

Wow! Great content and especially the background story. I knew a lot about that and still learned something new today.

Stunning old Audi. Great vid as always James.

That engine bay is beautifully clean!

I could imagine doing a summer tour of England's National Trust sites, in this little beaut. Pack lunches and lawn mats in the boot. 😊

Now your next car should have been a Super 90 which was very well regarded when new. One of my fathers friends had a new one and it seemed magical...it was by comparison to other cars, roughly like a new BMW M3 compared to a Fiesta Zetec. Again, the build quality and paint finish were simply beautiful measured against a Morris Minor so for me, an old Audi is a very special car and like BMW, far more advanced at the time than the dull boxes they have become in the past twenty years. I shall now watch your 100 experience!! Bŷe for now! Richard😀😀😀😀

German cars from this period have such beautiful simple,clean styling.Opposite of current ones.

RALF is cool - I didn't realise the VAG went all the way back to the 60s Awesome video

Interesting history lesson and it looks fab

JayEmm explaining how to use a column shift, and furiousdriving blasting about in a modified Golf R? The world's gone topsy-turvy, and I loving it!

love it ! i once had a 1979 Audi Fox . I loved that little copper thing with the orange interior . But it had an electrical problem . And could overheat . I heard that they did have these issues. But it was the most fun car , I ever had . The vinyl seats were a real plus since i had a big dog . That is one thing I dont like about cloth seats and rugs . not pet friendly . They never get really clean .

You made me want one now! 😊😍

Nice history lesson, would like some more 👍🏽👍🏽

My dad had several Audis in the 70s. Two 100 LS a 100GL and an 80GL. I would love to get my hands on one of those.

I think one reason why there's relatively little interest for classic Audis is how big deal the Quattro was. Lots of people don't really know any interesting things about pre-1980's Audis, and even after they had established themselves as a more sporty and expensive brand, they kind of played catch-up to BMW and Mercedes-Benz for a long time.

Beautiful car looks fun to drive

Entertaining and well researched review, looking forward to the Audi 100.

As an Audi guy, I enjoyed this

My late uncle Eddie had an 100 saloon in the 70's in dark green with a white interior on a K Reg loved his Audi's lovely Audi 80 variant

I'll always remember the Audi 80 as a grandma car. The grandma I never met died in an Audi 80 B1 a year before I was born and the only grandma I knew drove her Aud 80i B2 well into the 90s.

Very informative content

Good cars, Good review!

Great video..As a Audi fan and owner this is the UR of UR`s.. Original. Post War Pre Quattro

Old car have so much charm!

Looks to be in really good knick.. Believe it or not there are some RHD F103's here in Australia

Other column shift wonders worth pondering. You mentioned the Renault 16, which was a glorious little car. And my other fave the Saab 96 which also added a weird semi-automatic clutch to the column shift shenanigans and my first car. Also, a V4.

It does sound good. :)

Ralph yes the perfect apt name for this car !

Bring back the 2 door estates. My dad had a yellow escort 2 door estate. Ideal for a young family (not)

I'm 100% sure that the Lambo from a previous video is not able to drive me anywhere in the UK from point A to the point B faster than this old school beauty.

Ralf is a sexy beast, I love the simple and elegant interior with no centre console. Plus he sounds excellent :)

Audi's are made very well.

Cool car. Cool video. Need to get some wiper action going if you want to be HubNut ;-)

I had a friend who ran one of those from the sixties until he passed away in the mid nineties. He tried other cars but never liked any of them enough to change. I wish I knew what happened to that car.

Cool car, don’t mind the colour

Quite rare to see old audis in the UK always thought the coupe looked like a German fiat Dino

Hope you are doing the 100. My dad had one, yellow, built from girders.

That was the time when I still liked Audis.

I had an Audi 100 Coupé S back in the day - oh I wish!

I hardly ever see classic Audi on the road, lots of VW - i would love this car to Potter around in...

Was lent a 80 by a dealer friend after my 1500 dolomite it was very rapid however bought a 1850 then sprint instead nevertheless the little 80 was nice

RALF = Rust and lots of filler! Remember this one getting restored, a properly good job done on that one - great machine! 👌

I love old dashboards. Modern (post 1995) cars are so cluttered.

2-stroke not sexy? Come on some of the most memorable racing motorcycles were 2-stroke, Yamaha TD2 for example. Nice video, I remember these cars from when they were new...

Many of these "older modern" cars are very quirky and weirdly appealing. I just can't shake from my mind the image of becoming the filling in a metal sandwich if I ever had an accident driving one! At least Fire & Rescue would have an easy time with their "jaws of life" cutting away the structure!! I suspect a can-opener would be capable too. My first car was an Austin 1100 - nicknamed "Shitty", an abbreviation of "Shitty-Shitty-Crash-Bang"... quite deservedly in 1982 (it was made in the late sixties)!!

Ahh so that's how Audi is formed :)

Never seen a gear shift like that before! Can't see myself getting the hang of it

The interior is totally covered with fabric, that was luxury in the 60s. In many cars there was a lot of painted steel inside...

Thumbs up just for the ‘green dust’ comment alone

The Audi 100 was developed in total secrecy in the evening and at weekends and without the knowledge of VW top brass. Happy days.

Horsch 853 wore the auto union logo

Horch was one of the brands of Autounion. Horch means hear in German. Audi the same thing in Latin….

Didn't Hubnut drive this car a while back?

Please do a C2 100 if I got my 100 running it let you test it. It's the oldest C2 in UK. Older than Audi UKs 100.

DKW was later styled as _Das Knabens Wunsch_ The Boy's Wish.

never done an audi. Does it stick to the road though.

i used to have a 60's chevy camaro with a 3 speed , manual column shift .. interesting until you got used to it .. and to all car manufacturers , please bring back opening 1/4 windows & thin door/window frames

Wasn't that car also featured on HubNut?

ohhhhh...

"Aftermarket temperature gauge" I hear you say? Very good. "But it's made by Smiths"... run away!

@JayEmm Why is that guy switching between cars, only to sit quietly and ominously in the back seats? Who else didn’t watch the video because they skipped forward to see if Jay was going to interview him, or where he’d pop up next? Answer: no, Jay doesn’t. We need answers: is this a Halloween special?

0:57 errrrr.......not since the Agera RS hit 277 about 2 years ago

Got to love Ralf! I think there will be future demand for diamonds like this -reengineered with electric underpinnings. Although, having said that, t would be a shame to change anything with this beautiful car.

"However, no Audi in period would have ever worn this logo (i.e. the four rings) […]." Incorrect, just have a look at those two pre-WW2 Audi models: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audi_225 de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audi_920

I was sold at "this, is like an ovaltine".

The post war economic initiative by the US, that benefitted Audi was called the “Marshall Plan” 🙏

Even the cars are social distancing

Its a Kraftwerk reference dummies

There's a man in the back... _Oh, yes there is!_

Great review/story. Can you fix the typo in the title? It's hurting my eyes more than your shirt is.

From such humble origins.....to almost market domination...Ralf must be very proud !

Random dude sitting in the back seat of the wagon

who was watching for the disappearing man in the back seat?

Both are bloody gorgeous.

The text being incorporated into KZfaq video makes viewing the video very unpleasant on a mobile phone.

Id say 1990 and fuel injection marked the modern car

How do you know there's only 2 left? Please don't say 'how many left' that's not accurate

Interior looks like a Tesla ha ha

So old there's a dead person in it lol

nearly as boring as James may!

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