RE: Renault GTA/A610: Catch It While You Can

[Top Banana]

LotusOmega375D said:

I remember that red Turbo 2 A5 TTO in the photo very well. It belonged to Peter Meaney who published a book in 1996 titled Renault 5 Turbo "The Forgotten French Supercar". I still own copy #0010, as signed by Jean Ragnotti during the Group B Car Club day at Castle Combe in August 1999.

Peter Meaney invited Ragnotti to take A5 TTO out on-track and he certainly gave it the beans.

Thereafter Meaney sold the car and I believe it was turned into a Renault Maxi 5 Turbo works replica.

I'm not sure on the date, but that photo is at a Group-B car club track day at Coombe..little known fact
is the GTA was also homologated for Group-B and that's why I went along. During the lunch break they got all
the Gr.B cars there to line up along the pit straight for that photo.

then everyone was let loose for 5 laps on a VERY wet track - I remember vividly all the 6R4's steaming past me, and then
trying to keep on the tails of them..

[LotusOmega375D]

The 1999 event was fine and sunny. The fastest car on-track was an RS200 EVO. I remember driving back to central London along the A4 in my R5 T2 with my brother. Let's just say we "made excellent progress"....;)

[Saabaholic]

Top Banana said:

Ahhh... E29 MTP, That's my old GTA from quite a few years back. Was a regular at many Club Alpine events and is
a car that I really regret selling.here a some pics during my time with it..



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I brought it from a chap up near Stoke Mandeville in Jan 2010.
I kept it for 3 years or so as a daily driver and she was great. The A610 Rear lights and intercooler grille were from the A610 that Clarkson crashed on top gear.
Unfortunately 2 hip replacements meant i simply couldn't drive it anymore. The clutch was a killer for me.

I sold it to a chap in Kent who then crashed it badly within 2 weeks of ownership.
It was then sold on to a guy in Melbourne Australia, who with the aid of the Renault Alpine owners club UK was able to get spares to repair the front end.