Audi GT Coupe Mouse House Receives Detailing of a Lifetime

Nearly two decades after previous owner sold their ’85 Audi GT, WD Detailing is called in to clean up the ride before returning it home.

Was there an Audi you let get away? What were the circumstances? Did you ever get it back? Those questions can haunt those who’ve found their dream machine, only for life to decide the Audi needed to go elsewhere. For the lucky few who’ve reunited with their Audis, though, it’s only the beginning of reconciliation.

Such is the case with a 1985 Audi GT Coupe WD Detailing recently cleaned up. The second owner held it in her teens before her mom sold it upon graduation. Alas, the two decades since have not been kind.

“I actually know the history of it, going back to new,” said John MacDonald of NeoClassics. “It was sold brand new at the Porsche-Audi dealer just down the road from here. This car was sold new by the current owner’s father; he was a salesman there. He sold it to a doctor. A couple of years later, traded it in for another car. The salesman guy, he bought it.”

The Audi was then passed down to the salesman’s daughter, who drove it through high school. Her mom sold it once she went to college, which broke her heart. More heartbreaking, though, was what happened with it: nothing. The next owners left it in storage for 16 years, and it looks rough, to say the least. Time to begin the detailing of a lifetime.

“We were vacuuming up under the floor mat,” said RJ Brent, “up underneath the register, and this little guy fell out. He’s just a baby, and we don’t know what to do. This sucks, ’cause he’s alive, but there’s nothing we can really do.”

The baby mouse was one of two mice found in the Audi during the interior cleaning, both of which were humanely placed elsewhere. Aside from that shock to the system, though, Brent and his crew worked their magic upon the car. The result? Just ask the new (old) owner herself.

“Guys!” said Kelsey. “This is how I remember it! Oh my god, this is amazing […] it just wasn’t this clean. It was absolutely fine.”

Amazing what a little bit of cleaning can do.

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Cameron Aubernon

Cameron Aubernon’s path to automotive journalism began in the early New ’10s. Back then, a friend of hers thought she was an independent fashion blogger.

Aubernon wasn’t, so she became one, covering fashion in her own way for the next few years.

From there, she’s written for: Louisville.com/Louisville Magazine, Insider Louisville, The Voice-Tribune/The Voice, TOPS Louisville, Jeffersontown Magazine, Dispatches Europe, The Truth About Cars, Automotive News, Yahoo Autos, RideApart, Hagerty, and Street Trucks.

Aubernon also served as the editor-in-chief of a short-lived online society publication in Louisville, Kentucky, interned at the city’s NPR affiliate, WFPL-FM, and was the de facto publicist-in-residence for a communal art space near the University of Louisville.

Aside from her contributions to Audi World, Aubernon can be found all through the IB Auto Group family, including 6 Speed Online, LS1Tech, and Team Speed. She also has her own independent automotive blog, Aubernon Highway.

Aubernon can be reached through her public Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook accounts. She is wary of those she doesn’t already know, though; thus, she may not respond to messages sent.

Aubernon is a member of the International Motor Press Association, and the Washington Automotive Press Association.