The RULE on this issue was these Audi 100 c1 cars to have IN-..... plates showing the origin AUDI STATE of these cars... But, in every rule there are exceptions...
Follow this page and you will see my point of view:
D-E 2536
E-KD 309
IN-04011 red plates
IN-04067 red plates
IN-04086 red plates
IN-AA 36
IN-AA 42
IN-AA 44
IN-AA 96
IN-AA 98
IN-AC 14
IN-AC 24
IN-AC 25 taxi
IN-AC 31
these covers were painted in the normal production cars...
And in nowdays, you can find this plate on this Audi car in the Audi Museum, Ingolstadt... No comments!
IN-AC 58
IN-AC 63
IN-AC 70
IN-AC 71 Dr.LUDWIG KRAUS +
IN-AC 72
IN-AC 74
IN-AC 78
IN-AC 84
IN-AC 85
IN-AC 86
IN-AD 27
IN-AD 38
IN-AD 40 gold
This pre-production (the C-column air ventilators are the ANGLED ones, same as the second phase
prototyp Coupe S had) Coupe S in GOLDish (paint number?) color has black logos on the wheel covers,
black wiper arms and wipers and a Sedan 100er wooden steering wheel among others... The Hobby article was published at the late of
1970...
"Now", the same car has front fog lights, white logos on the wheel covers, silver or inox wiper arms and wipers. The wooden steering wheel remains but in a Coupe S stock hub this time! This article is from Audi magazine "Vier Ringe", 1971-1972 edition.
IN-AD 70 (?)
IN-AD 73
IN-AD 82
IN-AD 444
IN-AE 10
IN-AE 12
IN-AE 38
IN-AE 41
IN-AE 67
IN-AE 75
IN-AE 76
IN-AE 85
IN-AE 87
IN-AE 99
IN-AH 85
It is a red 100 LS model, here...
Here it is a white (?) 100 LS model car...
This is an early French magazine ad from the French Audi importer... He had no time to create a new ad so he copied an existing sedan's german photo, he translated also the text and the ad was ready!
Some months later they revised the same photo by deleting the old license plate...
But the car was still showing a German market sedan (the rear view morrors tell us this...) in this
French market magazine ad...
Much later for the follow model years 100ers they will take some photos from real French market model cars with FRENCH plates on for the proper magazine ads...
IN-AH 92
IN-AJ 1
IN-AJ 37
IN-AJ 39
IN-AJ 40
IN-AJ 50
IN-AJ 55
IN-AJ 57
IN-AJ 63
IN-AJ 64
IN-AJ 67
IN-AJ 75
IN-AJ 90
IN-AK 15
IN-AK 16
IN-AK 32
MIRACLE-MIRACLE>>>>
IN-AK 33
IN-AK 45
IN-AK 61
IN-AK 66
IN-AK 82
IN-AK 89
IN-AK 90
IN-AL 75
IN-AL 87
IN-AL 96
IN-AL 99
IN-AT 48
IN-CD 666
The only one photo I know that shows a ...BADGELESS Audi 100 c1 model car... And this photo is a FRONT PAGE on an official Audi magazine... What can I say...
IN-CV 42
IN-HV 88
IN-HY 34
IN-JH 33
IN-M 002
IN-M 005
IN-M 007
IN-M 008
IN-M 011
IN-M 013
I don't agree 100% with all the explanation which Andreas Bauditz and Michael Modrow give in their book "Audi 100, Alle modelle von 1968 bis 1994" (EXCELLENT BOOK, one of my favorites!!! REAL GOOD JOB!) about the IN-M 013 Coupe S prototyps story and their first press photos... The story I know from INSIDE (AUDI DESIGN) quelle is a little bit different...
There were two prototyps at the very begining... Both had the 4 sliced C-column veltilation painted at the body color) and each of them had different shaped bumpers and other design characteristics stuff. One of them was white and the other one was dark red. One of them (the white) had the long and slim bumpers and a double decked trunk. The other one (the red) had more massive and shorter bumpers with different cutting edges, one piece rear trunk deck and different styled dashboard. Both of them had the LS front grill and headlights a little bit smaller triangle windows on the doors and different shaped rear quarters' windows. None of them had sport steel rims. They had the WIDENED stock rims with two-three possible sets of wheel covers (they have been choosen from several studies...) which they were installed seperatly upon designers request.
At least one of them (the red) had the GT emblem (same GT emblem was located on the center of its steering wheel's pad!) on the right side of its trunk cover. These projects were named as the Audi GT among the designers and mechanics, back at that era in the Audi Design. The first photos of these prototyps were given, as "under cover" press photos (these cars were never been on the roads -they had no mechanics inside them, so they carried them from one point to another or to open air places to be viewed under the sun light with the hands- to be photographed by a SPY shot photographer...), to the magazines, at the begining of 1969. I have in my collection even a GREEK auto magazine from April of 1969 with a PHOTO of the red GT prototyp.
Officially, Audi published the first leaflet/brochure of the Audi 100 Coupe (NOT Audi 100 Coupe S!) on early summer of 1969, as far as I know. This brochure had infos and photos sketches NOT from these FIRST two prototyps... but for the second phase prototyps (one orange this time and the other one was the same white body of the first prototyps but this time they had installed twin headlamps and the well known front grill. The other orange one still had the LS front grill and headlights but this time had 5 sliced C-column ventilation, sport steel rims and different style bumpers. No prototyp till now has motor inside... The orange one had also an 100 Coupe retuched emblem, instead of the GT emblem (they had removed the GT emblem also from the steering wheel pad !!!). I think that the rest of the story is pretty much the same and very well known ...These two second phase prototyps at their final stage they had the IN-M 019 plates , instead of the IN-M 018 of the previous phase prototyps had on them.
When they decided to add a double ended exhaust pipe and to FREEZE the design evolution of the car, they "placed" the IN-M 819 plates... With this FREEZE stage on their mind they constructed 3 hand made Coupe S cars during the summer of 1969. The first one was the famous IN-AD 40 goldish painted Coupe S with the original wooden steering wheel among many other characteristics. The second one was the yellow IN-AK 32... And they gave them to the TEST DRIVING procedure of the German Auto magazines... They made some final body changes right after the FRANKFURT exhibition in September of 1969 and the Coupe S cars' characteristics were already in production from November of the same year...
This is the ORANGE prototyp!
IN-M 018
IN-M 019
IN-M 819
IN-NA 73
IN-NL 11
IN-T 802
MW-H 480 cabrio
S-AE 6451
Take a look at the doors' frames... In one magazine the same car was shown with black painted doors' frames, in the other magazine had red painted doors' frames...
I'm sure there are more than these IN official Audi gave such cars for publicity , public relations, etc.
Please, correct me, complete my investigation, give your answers why there are identical plates through many models and make your comments for this new page...
You can send to me also photos to upload them to this page...
There is also another issue to learn HOW they edited the Audi plates, back at that time... In what rythm, in which lettering and numbering sequence... For example there is a plate on a typ43 1976 model IN-AK 84. But the IN-AK 82 was already given in an Audi 100 4door model of the 1969 and the IN-AK 89 was given also to a Audi 100 GL 2door of 1971. How this can be explained?
NEWS FLASH! 4th of May, 2011.
I just found out that "AUDI" continued this SWAPING PLATES method also to the US ads' 4000 and 5000 models
NEWS FLASH! 4th of May, 2011.
I just found out that "AUDI" continued this SWAPING PLATES method also to the US ads' 4000 and 5000 models
IN-04115
I hope you enjoyed this investigation...
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