RE: Renault 5 Turbo compilation: Time For Tea?
Tuesday 26th May 2015
If you've not frequented Readers' Cars recently then you really must, for there's a Renault everyone needs to see. It's a brown 5 Turbo 2 owned by PHer Dazza M and it is, quite simply, magnificent. The thread sits at seven pages detailing the history, the restoration and of course features tons of compliments. Pleasingly, it will be on show at the Cholmondeley Pageant of Power in our 80s exhibition.
Renault 5 Turbo compilation: Time For Tea?
PHer's very own Turbo 2 inspires a rally video tribute - enjoy!
Anyway, what better excuse to feature a 5 Turbo video? Here are 11 minutes of flames, yellow headlights, handbrake turns and excitable French people. Even on rally stages the Turbo looks tiny, narrow and innocent from the front then all arches and attitude at the back. Obviously it looks heroically fast too.
So put the kettle on and celebrate one of Renault's greatest hits on video. And congratulations once more to Dazza and his brown beauty!
Watch the video here.
Discussion
I owned a 5GT turbo ,think it was a red F reg,i paid about £1,100 for it around 2001.
Must have been chipped the needle on the turbo cluster went right iover to the right ,
I think standard ones went three quarters over, it did shift !!
the fan next to the turbo kept sticking and the engine kept getting hot.
I changed the fan but same thing kept happening so I sold it.
Must have been chipped the needle on the turbo cluster went right iover to the right ,
I think standard ones went three quarters over, it did shift !!
the fan next to the turbo kept sticking and the engine kept getting hot.
I changed the fan but same thing kept happening so I sold it.
In the early 1990's we imported a number of Turbo 2's to sell on. They were terrific fun to drive, sadly a bit fragile. In many ways they reminded me of a Dino.
Once I was delivering a car to a client in London but sadly the car broke down by the Rugby turn off on the M6. I managed to limp off the motorway but had no tools to attempt to find out the problem. I'd only been there a couple of minutes when an Escort van stopped and the man asked if he could help. He found that the inlet pipe off the turbo had come adrift & fixed it for me. He had a most impressive tool kit in his van. He was a mechanic at Hart F1 and was on his way home. I completed my journey to London without any more problems.
Here's a couple I saw some years ago whilst on a Rally in France.
Renault 5 Turbo 2
Once I was delivering a car to a client in London but sadly the car broke down by the Rugby turn off on the M6. I managed to limp off the motorway but had no tools to attempt to find out the problem. I'd only been there a couple of minutes when an Escort van stopped and the man asked if he could help. He found that the inlet pipe off the turbo had come adrift & fixed it for me. He had a most impressive tool kit in his van. He was a mechanic at Hart F1 and was on his way home. I completed my journey to London without any more problems.
Here's a couple I saw some years ago whilst on a Rally in France.
Renault 5 Turbo 2Edited by threespires on Tuesday 26th May 20:39
Pure joy watching that video, they hustle those wee Turbo 2's, especially the Maxi Turbos.
Etched in my memory is a day back in the early 2000's driving over the Cat N' Fiddle, pressing on in my 8valve Integrale past the pub heading out north when towards me coming from the other direction was a Turbo 2 just absolutely 'on it' and clearly knowing what he was doing. Perhaps it was Jean Ragnotti?
Always lusted after these cars as fragile as they may be, just stunning
Etched in my memory is a day back in the early 2000's driving over the Cat N' Fiddle, pressing on in my 8valve Integrale past the pub heading out north when towards me coming from the other direction was a Turbo 2 just absolutely 'on it' and clearly knowing what he was doing. Perhaps it was Jean Ragnotti?
Always lusted after these cars as fragile as they may be, just stunning
Pure joy watching that video, they hustle those wee Turbo 2's, especially the Maxi Turbos.
Etched in my memory is a day back in the early 2000's driving over the Cat N' Fiddle, pressing on in my 8valve Integrale past the pub heading out north when towards me coming from the other direction was a Turbo 2 just absolutely 'on it' and clearly knowing what he was doing. Perhaps it was Jean Ragnotti?
Always lusted after these cars as fragile as they may be, just stunning
Etched in my memory is a day back in the early 2000's driving over the Cat N' Fiddle, pressing on in my 8valve Integrale past the pub heading out north when towards me coming from the other direction was a Turbo 2 just absolutely 'on it' and clearly knowing what he was doing. Perhaps it was Jean Ragnotti?
Always lusted after these cars as fragile as they may be, just stunning
Pure joy watching that video, they hustle those wee Turbo 2's, especially the Maxi Turbos.
Etched in my memory is a day back in the early 2000's driving over the Cat N' Fiddle, pressing on in my 8valve Integrale past the pub heading out north when towards me coming from the other direction was a Turbo 2 just absolutely 'on it' and clearly knowing what he was doing. Perhaps it was Jean Ragnotti?
Always lusted after these cars as fragile as they may be, just stunning
Etched in my memory is a day back in the early 2000's driving over the Cat N' Fiddle, pressing on in my 8valve Integrale past the pub heading out north when towards me coming from the other direction was a Turbo 2 just absolutely 'on it' and clearly knowing what he was doing. Perhaps it was Jean Ragnotti?
Always lusted after these cars as fragile as they may be, just stunning
I think the footage showing the brown DIAC sponsored Philippe Chatriot car at about 6.52 to 7.11 minutes is the same piece of West Corsican road where my old one was photographed below. This was taken on our honeymoon in 2003. We Motor-railed from Calais to Nice and then spent a couple of weeks in SE France, Corsica, Sardinia and NW Italy. The locals loved it and it never missed a beat.
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