A RETRO car collector from near Oswestry has described his Audi Quattro obsession after featuring in a new short motoring movie.

Darron Edwards, 56, owns four of the retro motors and took one, a rally car, for a spin as he talked about them in the latest feature for award-winning online motoring magazine, Influx.

Border Counties Advertizer: Darron's car Darron's car (Image: Influx)

The electrician and engineer first saw one on TV at his grandparents in 1982 and said “forty-plus years later, I’m still hooked” in the film entitled Audi Quattro: Retro Presence.

Darron continued: “Michele Mouton was rallying a Quattro on World of Sport and I’d never seen one before.

“The sight and the sound, I saw it and I was like ‘boom’, I was hooked.

“Forty-plus years later, I’m still hooked.

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The Audi aficionado said he’s a “lucky lad” because if estimates are true then he owns just one per cent of the 400 that are left in the country.

He added: “I’ve got more than one because, with all the good intent, I meant to buy one and do it up and sell it and make a bit of money.

“I put so much heart and soul into the car that I couldn’t part with it.

“Then that happened to the next one, and the one after that, and so on. 

Darron’s favourite is the one featured in the movie – the first night he bought it home he said he went outside in his pyjamas and sat in it with a cup of tea.

Border Counties Advertizer: Darron's Audi QuattroDarron's Audi Quattro (Image: Influx)

He continued: “It’s something the Quattros have, that smell when you get in.

“It says retro to me, it says 80s – I couldn’t part with it, I couldn’t part with any of the others to be honest – I am keeping them.”

Darron bought his cars at the turn of the Millenium and has gone on to set up a Facebook group aimed at helping owners keep their iconic vehicles in check.

Ur Quattro Restoration page now has more than 7,000 members. 

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“I do it out of love for the cars and to try and help people to save money and keep their cars on the road ultimately," he added.

“I always describe driving one as feeling like a king.

“They’re not the fastest car in the world, they’re not the most luxurious but they’ve got a reputation.

“I would think a fairly accurate estimate is that there’s about 400 of them left in the country, I would say – they are a dying breed – if there are 400 left, I own one per cent of what’s left in the country so I am a lucky lad.”