RE: SOTW: Renault 5 GT Turbo
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LuS1fer said:
Gazzab said:
swisschris said:
buy it, ship it to switzerland and sell it for a HUGE profite...
I could only find one for sale:
http://www.autoscout24.ch/AS24Web/Detail.aspx?from...
Admitedly, it seems to have been extensivly restaured...
A phase 1 model I think but it doesnt look quite right to me - looks like it might have some phase 2 panels, mirrors....? Its missing phase 1 decals and wheels I think.I could only find one for sale:
http://www.autoscout24.ch/AS24Web/Detail.aspx?from...
Admitedly, it seems to have been extensivly restaured...
Everyone from the 80's has a Renault 5GT Turbo story.
Always check for the dents in the doors. The myth goes (and I have seen it on a couple of cars) that the door skins were so thin that you always got a dent by the door lock due to the extra stress.
I took one in as a P/X once. The poor customer didn't actually know it was two welded together, he almost cried when I told him. One of our mechanics bought for £150.00 and it lasted for a couple of months before the turbo let go in a full massive F1 style blow up on the A3 while we were following him to go-karting.
Great car though, my friend got one in 86 I think. At the time, never been in anything so fast.
Always check for the dents in the doors. The myth goes (and I have seen it on a couple of cars) that the door skins were so thin that you always got a dent by the door lock due to the extra stress.
I took one in as a P/X once. The poor customer didn't actually know it was two welded together, he almost cried when I told him. One of our mechanics bought for £150.00 and it lasted for a couple of months before the turbo let go in a full massive F1 style blow up on the A3 while we were following him to go-karting.
Great car though, my friend got one in 86 I think. At the time, never been in anything so fast.
I had one of these for a while. One of the worst, and most fun, cars I've ever owned. Mine was entirely stripped of interior - 2 bucket seats and some gauges. It was also running 1.4 bar of boost. Very quick but the flimsyness made it feel even faster. The gear change was woeful unfortunately and the whole car felt like it was held together with string and hope. It eventually threw the contents of it's gear box all over the A38 and I moved it on.
had 1 at 18 im now 35 , was a real hoot to drive was running at around 200bhp group a carb, different cam,fiddled with cylinder head and md14r turbo after i rebuilt it all, if my memory is correct , it was very quick, but i went through several gearboxes as the casing split through the strain of it all,but it never went pop in my ownership after the rebuild and i clocked up some miles in it let me tell you, upset many a standard cossie back in the day,
and had so much fun in it, wasnt much that would keep up back then below 100mph, you would literally be in 5th gear as most were getting into 3rd lol, started my love for hot renaults.
F247HVS of all the cars i have owned it's still at the top of the best fun car's list
and had so much fun in it, wasnt much that would keep up back then below 100mph, you would literally be in 5th gear as most were getting into 3rd lol, started my love for hot renaults.
F247HVS of all the cars i have owned it's still at the top of the best fun car's list
loose cannon said:
had 1 at 18 im now 35 , was a real hoot to drive was running at around 200bhp group a carb, different cam,fiddled with cylinder head and md14r turbo after i rebuilt it all, if my memory is correct , it was very quick, but i went through several gearboxes as the casing split through the strain of it all,but it never went pop in my ownership after the rebuild and i clocked up some miles in it let me tell you, upset many a standard cossie back in the day,
and had so much fun in it, wasnt much that would keep up back then below 100mph, you would literally be in 5th gear as most were getting into 3rd lol, started my love for hot renaults.
F247HVS of all the cars i have owned it's still at the top of the best fun car's list
"I went through several gearboxes"... that'd be nearly doubling the power of the engine but not changing the 'box then??!!and had so much fun in it, wasnt much that would keep up back then below 100mph, you would literally be in 5th gear as most were getting into 3rd lol, started my love for hot renaults.
F247HVS of all the cars i have owned it's still at the top of the best fun car's list
I had a ride in one of these back in about 91 which was standard but probably the quickest car I'd been in at the time; certainly hooned up some of the hills in the western Pennines. If I remember correctly a colleague of my sister's had asked sis to look after it whilst they took a holiday, since if left parked for a week it was highly unlikely to still be there afterwards!!
My ex-wife had one of these in 1990 as her first company car, and indeed her first ever car after only passing her test in her mid-twenties. We went up to collect it from the company carpark (below CentrePoint on TCR) and I got the job of driving it home as she wasn't too confident about driving in London. The shock, and subsequent huge grin on my face, when I first got the thing boosting away from the lights stays with me now...
Agree with others on reliability, appetite for clutch cables etc. But absolutely brilliant fun especially if it's a company car & you're not paying !
Great car. I bought my best friend's immaculate black one in 94 when he decided to go biking. 6 marvellous months were ended when a moron in a Metro decided to drive into the side of it with me in it. The car bent like a banana! Shortly after my friend was killed in his first bike crash so I guess I was lucky. I would have a good one again as a beater if they didn't need 4-star leaded to not knacker the turbo. Top Shed.
Great little car - they even made it into a James Bond movie (Never Say Never Again) although this standard has been somewhat weakened over the years.
My family grew up with the "quirky" Renault 4, which was frankly piss poor with it's 34 bhp. Any visit to the showroom would have us drooling over the GTT.
This one is even for sale in the same county as me - if my wife hand't just had a kid I would seriously be tempted to get one to fill the space where my MR2 turbo was.
Its such an 80s icon - but I can see how people born in the 90 and later won't really "get" it.
Ian
My family grew up with the "quirky" Renault 4, which was frankly piss poor with it's 34 bhp. Any visit to the showroom would have us drooling over the GTT.
This one is even for sale in the same county as me - if my wife hand't just had a kid I would seriously be tempted to get one to fill the space where my MR2 turbo was.
Its such an 80s icon - but I can see how people born in the 90 and later won't really "get" it.
Ian
BriC175 said:
LuS1fer said:
Gazzab said:
swisschris said:
buy it, ship it to switzerland and sell it for a HUGE profite...
I could only find one for sale:
http://www.autoscout24.ch/AS24Web/Detail.aspx?from...
Admitedly, it seems to have been extensivly restaured...
A phase 1 model I think but it doesnt look quite right to me - looks like it might have some phase 2 panels, mirrors....? Its missing phase 1 decals and wheels I think.I could only find one for sale:
http://www.autoscout24.ch/AS24Web/Detail.aspx?from...
Admitedly, it seems to have been extensivly restaured...
It's funny that there's the comment that you're either a Ford RS fan or Renault GTT. Back in the mid eighties when I was 21 and driving a Mk2 RS2000 and a very active RS Owners Club member we went to the local Chinese Chippy with a fellow RSOC member who was driving an RS1600i. We ordered our meals and the owner's son spotted the RSi outside.
"Fancy a go of mine?" He asked? Too right!
While the nosh was cooking, Bob and I ragged this R5T round the wet streets of Dukinfield. It was good - better brakes than the rear drum equipped Ford. Almost a convert apart from the truly horrendous French build quality.
Ford RS please!
"Fancy a go of mine?" He asked? Too right!
While the nosh was cooking, Bob and I ragged this R5T round the wet streets of Dukinfield. It was good - better brakes than the rear drum equipped Ford. Almost a convert apart from the truly horrendous French build quality.
Ford RS please!
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