Retro 80's Cars

[dudleybloke]

paulshears said:

Cock Womble 7 said:

Love those ... I've had 3 ... a Scala (1.8i), a Storm (1 of 500) & a GT

Handle better than a mk1 Golf GTI (in my opinion)

I miss the Scala ... best car I've ever had

i had a 1984 gtx.
loved it.

[aka_kerrly]

Ranger 6 said:

It was a limited run by VW Motorsport (500 I think - all LHD) with the 16v engine combined with the G60 supercharger (170bhp-ish?) and syncro/Rallye 4wd transmission - hand built with customised shocks chassis etc all in a 5 door shell.....

Actually there were THREE 3 door Limited golfs built as well, one owned by VW chairman, one is in the VW museum and one is unaccounted for.

Here are a couple of my more unusual VWs as everyone has seen a 90spec Mk2 golfs already.

corrado G60 1989 - one of the earliest examples in the USA


mk2 polo Coupe S, i always wanted one as a first car so was really happy to get one in such good condition as a stop gap car. Strangely it was like fulfilling a dream.

[Raoul Duke]

bus pass said:

Flipatron said:

Always loved these.

My old man had a black Supersport back in the day. He had it between his 2.3 Cortina Ghia and his 'Y' reg Sierra 1.3L, a 3-door model that must have been one of the very first on the road.

Cant say i blame you, the Supersport was my first car - excuse the picture quality as it was the product of a cheap camera and a flat bed scanner.... Probably as well that the pics a bit rough though as it was never as nice as the concours example you posted!
If i could find it i would have it back in a heartbeat - and re-finish the wheels without the black inserts - but sadly the dvla website suggests it has long gone

[CosworthV8]

R1chy11 said:

CosworthV8 said:

Adz The Rat said:

This thread has really got me wanting a 309 GTI now!!

One of my friends has a Nova 1.3 SR with snow plough front bumper, I love it, its absolutely immaculateEuro'd.

EFA.

I honestly don't care if it's euro'd I love the look of that.

I'll add these although they're imports.

1989 EP82 Starlet GT Turbo

I can't say I like the Euro look, nor the dubs unless it is quite subtle. If you're going to Euro a car, don't play around with originality.

[Lordbenny]

Just realised that I've owned a few cars on this list, 309 GTi, Alpine GTA Turbo, Fiat 127 Sport and this car that is sitting on my drive at the this very moment...Its a blast! 54,000 miler, Mk1 AX GT, surprises a lot of modern hot hatches!

[Oelholm]

Alfanatic said:

Have you got any pictures of the roof console on that? I've been searching the internet for ages and can't find any. The panel on the roof was the coolest part of the car to me. Well, it was when I was 10 years old and electric windows were still a novelty

- Sorry for the delay!

No, I don't have any of that particular feature even though it is a real oddity - can't imagine what went through the designers' heads at that time

When I get to the car next time (...it'll be some time, I'm afraid), I'll post you some.

[YBTurbo]

Getragdogleg said:

I remain firmly lodged in the 80s.

Any more pics of those alloys, what make are they ?

[Oelholm]

YBTurbo said:

Getragdogleg said:

I remain firmly lodged in the 80s.

Any more pics of those alloys, what make are they ?

- I believe they are called Borbet A. Pretty normal to see on Euro'ed (that's the term, right?) cars.

[Alfanatic]

Oelholm said:

Alfanatic said:

Have you got any pictures of the roof console on that? I've been searching the internet for ages and can't find any. The panel on the roof was the coolest part of the car to me. Well, it was when I was 10 years old and electric windows were still a novelty

- Sorry for the delay!

No, I don't have any of that particular feature even though it is a real oddity - can't imagine what went through the designers' heads at that time

When I get to the car next time (...it'll be some time, I'm afraid), I'll post you some.

Thanks for replying! It must have been 1983 I think, my dad came home one night with a brochure for the 159i, as it was called in SA, showed us the colour he had chosen (it was charcoal, or metallic brown to my eyes) and told us about the electric windows and onboard computer and air conditioning and all that, all very exciting.

He picked it up one weekday on his way home from work, so the first time I saw it was at night time. Dad took us for a drive in it that night. I was 10 years old. Columbia had just two years prior kicked us all into the future with the first Space Shuttle launch. The hottest aircraft had dials and buttons and warning lights everywhere, no glass cockpits, and here I was in a car with a console stretching all the way down the roof from the front window to the back, with banks of buttons for the electric windows and collection of interior lights, all illuminated in a soft green light at night. Press the electric window rocker and the window would glide up or down serenely, letting in cool air and sounds of the outside world strolling past at just 60kph. Up front, the dashboard had dials and gauges and warning lights that looked like buttons, and indeed some actual buttons to control the trip computer, which looked like a digital watch.

I was a kid, I'd never seen anything like it before, but to me it looked like Concorde's cockpit and I was sold. Unfortunately so was the car, maybe a year later, recurring electrical problems tried my dad's patience too far and he replaced it with a Ford Sierra while I spent the rest of my youth coveting other peoples Alfas - GTVs in particular - until eventually I had one for myself.

And it all started with that roof console, so if you do get a chance to snap some pics of it and post them up, I'm going to overdose on nostalgia.

[Zad]

I seem to remember some Granada Ghias had a roof mounted console too. It all seemed unbelievably modern and ultra high tech in the 80s. I remember one day we visited a motorhome dealer and they had a Winnebago in with all the options. Jeez. It was like a 747 cockpit. Huge captains chair, powered door, controls for the auxiliary aircon units on the roof, independent generator and power / hot water system hidden in the bowels somewhere, naughty multimode CB, even a motorised satellite dish. It even had CCTV for reversing, something that has only just caught on again. I think it caused my parents to realise the horrible camper van they had their eyes on really was a total grot box.

[dinkel]

robemcdonald said:

Heres mine yesterday.

Oh yes sir.

[Nik Gnashers]

A lad I know had one of these bitd, it handled so well, much better than the fords vauxhalls etc of the same era.

[Getragdogleg]

Oelholm said:

YBTurbo said:

Getragdogleg said:

I remain firmly lodged in the 80s.

Any more pics of those alloys, what make are they ?

- I believe they are called Borbet A. Pretty normal to see on Euro'ed (that's the term, right?) cars.

Sorry, Yes, they are Borbet A, I bought two pairs from two different German ebay sellers, they were fitted to the fronts of Eurolook Golfs, the trend is to run monster wide things on the back of the Golfs but i wanted 4 the same so it kept a balanced look. They were silver and I had them painted black and then the rim machined down to bare shiny metal and then laquered them, I was not fond of the fake big nut centre cap design so I made the centre caps from a sheet of aluminium and put little opel logos on each centre, I got hold of some Borbet locking centre cap bolts and a key and fitted those to the caps for a factory look.

[999gsi]

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bought one of these when i was 19...sri 130...top car,would love another...

Edited by 999gsi on Monday 16th May 22:42

[Twincam16]

Lordbenny said:

Just realised that I've owned a few cars on this list, 309 GTi, Alpine GTA Turbo, Fiat 127 Sport and this car that is sitting on my drive at the this very moment...Its a blast! 54,000 miler, Mk1 AX GT, surprises a lot of modern hot hatches!

My uncle has one of the last AX GT5s sold in the country. He'd always had AXs and when he heard Citroen were going to stop making them, he went out, bought a GT5 in the most 'unique' colour he could find (a kind of plum purple shade), and mothballed it. It's in an air-conditioned garage at the moment, with no more than low three-figure mileage on the clock. An unlikely candidate for this kind of treatment perhaps (he just likes them), but I reckon given the increasing interest in '80s hot-hatches and the dwindling number of decent ones left, one day it'll be worth quite a lot.

[Vario-Rob]

Twincam16 said:

My uncle has one of the last AX GT5s sold in the country. He'd always had AXs and when he heard Citroen were going to stop making them, he went out, bought a GT5 in the most 'unique' colour he could find (a kind of plum purple shade), and mothballed it. It's in an air-conditioned garage at the moment, with no more than low three-figure mileage on the clock. An unlikely candidate for this kind of treatment perhaps (he just likes them), but I reckon given the increasing interest in '80s hot-hatches and the dwindling number of decent ones left, one day it'll be worth quite a lot.

A man of good taste it would seem, I had one about twenty two years ago I think and back then it was indeed a properly rapid little beast.
From memory and it is through the mists of time, the AX being peddled to death would just about hang on to a GTI 1.6, the AX weighing more than me I would think?

Unfortunately I know mine didn’t survive by falling into the hands of a loving relative, my now ninety four year old grandfather went to sleep at the wheel of it (borrowed whilst his Visa diesel was being serviced) and stuck it on its roof off the side of the A1 .

He survived but alas the AX was rather poorly.

You could get one to drift quite easily from memory

[fredbrad]

chunkymonkey71 said:

Always fancied one of these.

Had 2 of these. Last one was a scala - kept it 17 years.

[lance1a]

Have this.....

[Raoul Duke]

fredbrad said:

chunkymonkey71 said:

Always fancied one of these.

Had 2 of these. Last one was a scala - kept it 17 years.

Me too, mine was an 'E' plate, but was a GTX in the same colour with Pirelli alloys etc so damn near identical.
It was as close to a Delorean that my meagre finances would allow me to get.