RE: PH Carpool: Renault Sport Spider

[crostonian]

I see a blue RHD one regularly on the A6 north of Preston don't know if someone on here, remember seeing him out in it in the freezing temperatures around christmas and thinking what a nutter! Great road presence though, they look a lot faster than they are.

[A Scotsman]

I was of guest of Elf at the Pau Grand Prix in the late 90s and was given a couple of laps in an LPG fueled version of one of these driven by a French rally driver whose name I can't remember. Sadly though he wouldn't let me have a shot!

Seemed to me to have stacks of grip and shove and was generally good fun.

[ceebmoj]

I think the race cars where fitted with a sequential gear box and no screen and I have always fancied one with that setup

[chickensoup]

anonymous said:

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That is the trouble with exclusivity, sometimes it is just because nobody else is so stupid with their buying decisions

[vpr]

Great little cars. I had 2....one to use and the other I kept in storage and sold it a few months ago having only covered 600 miles.

Very rare and great fun with no PAS or servo brakes.

[mig25_foxbat2003]

There's a word for that hood... what is it... ah yes... "rudimentary".

Awesome looking machine though, I'd love a crack in one of these, I bet it was good fun over the Alpine passes (which let's face it would be fun in a Transit van, let alone a mid-engined box-of-frogsmobile)!

[Ipelm]

anonymous said:

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Steady on, old bean...........surely you mean..........less adventurous with their buying decisions?

[makhtar00]

crostonian said:

I see a blue RHD one regularly on the A6 north of Preston don't know if someone on here, remember seeing him out in it in the freezing temperatures around christmas and thinking what a nutter! Great road presence though, they look a lot faster than they are.

that nutter would be me. puts a smile on my face every time im out in it.

[juddy]

Well not many people can say this but I used to have one and out of all my cars I miss it alot.
I later worked for 2 Lotus dealers and had an Elise135 but still miss the Spider.It was in yellow and a RHD car imported from Germany.I had it 2 years in total and enjoyed it so much.I used to store it in a showroom with 2 others one red the other blue they looked great together.
I did some work on it as I used it all the time it had the roof from some tuning firm a cd player and I even got a aircraft engineer to make me a small heater for the foot well. This worked great and I could use the car all year round. I had a local bike exhaust man make me a very nice system to make it sound like it looked.
I have a Renault R26 at the miniute but would love to have another spider sometime what a great car.

On another note I have a full workshop manual if you get stuck I kept it just incase.

Well done on owning a great car.

[tigerbomb]

I used to work for a race team as a mechanic and did a season running one. I was really impressed with the very clever design and I thought they were good to work on. Apart from getting gravel out of the chassis!

[herebebeasties]

I've always liked these for the nut-factor, too.
Took a photo of this very car at the Sunday Service:

[lespidaman]

this one actually lives in the Alps











we had 10 cars out on a little touristic run around burgundy and beaujolais last weekend, a mixture of UK and French owned cars

[Adrian W]

lespidaman said:

this one actually lives in the Alps

we had 10 cars out on a little touristic run around burgundy and beaujolais last weekend, a mixture of UK and French owned cars

Nice pictures Andy, I'm very jealous.

[lespidaman]

there will be a few at prescott La vie en bleu in 2 weeks time.... Adrian hope to see you there?

[bmthnick1981]

Lovely car, don't see many around.

[britsportscars]

Awesome little thing!

[robsco]

Wonderfully pretty cars. One of the most desirable Renaults ever produced.

[Dave3011]

F.A.O. C6NTO: Nice car Mr! Did you build it yourself?

[mrhann]

You're right the Spider Cup cars did indeed have a proper Sadev sequential gearbox, and trick Penske dampers with remote reservoirs. Me and my little brother bought an ex-British Spider Cup car in 2000 and adapted it to be road legal. It was a genius bit of kit! Obviously it had no windscreen, none of the Cup cars had it, but it also had a full cage rather than the mini hoop of the road cars.
It was brilliant, and i still miss it now!
The plan was to do another one but unfortunately circumstances ruined that plan!!
At the time it was apparently the only road legal Spider Cup car in the country, and because we had its original bill of sale we had it registered on proper age relative number plates rather than a Q plate.
Must say though that if a road one turns heads, imagine the looks we used to get in the race car!!! And no it wasnt the fastest thing in the world, but its amazing how much of a difference the sequential box and full throttle upshift made!!!

[mrhann]

Couldnt resist!!!! This was ours!