Audi 100 from the Danube recovered: puzzles by decades of searching!

Audi 100 from the Danube recovered: puzzles by decades of searching!

In a spectacular find in the Danube, an Audi 100 from 1978 was recovered, which has been in the floods for 30 years. The Deggendorf water protection police had been alerted when a modern staunch ship in November 2024 found a unidentified anomaly at a depth of about nine meters. On December 4, 2024, this led to a large-scale recovery campaign with a crane boat, in which the vehicle was recovered about 150 meters from the shore. As Autobild after so long was little more than a rusty wreck.

The Audi 100 L, which shone in a former "resedager metallic", is now a sad relic that is simply considered a rusty sculpture. The investigators found no valuable information inside the vehicle, apart from four old tires. Surprisingly, there was also no remains, which fortunately makes the situation more bearable. According to Auto Motor und Sport , the vehicle history could be reconstructed using the chassis number until its delivery in 1978, after which there are no more records. The police are now hoping for hints from the population to solve the riddle of how the Audi got into the Danube. Was it an accident or maybe even an insurance fraud?

For the once so proud Audi 100, a comeback seems almost excluded. The tooth of time has badly damaged the vehicle, so that a restoration is unlikely. The owner of this classic car could soon be confronted with a painful truth: the Audi probably ends in the scrap site, while the questions about his past remain in the dark.