Best son in the world.....
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That's nice no that's humanity at its best.
If only it was an escort cosworth.....
that's just makes it worse... :lol:
my mate in Essex had an RS200 I wonder if he's still got it?
low milers go for silly money now!
my mate in Essex had an RS200 I wonder if he's still got it?
low milers go for silly money now!
Sharpend
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I've seen ones with <30k for 60 grand! 
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I had a Scorpio Cosworth, great car and provided loads of excitement. The best car I had was a track prepared Alfa Romeo V6 Ti, used to beat all the local scoob runners.
I'll have a look see if I have a pic of my mates garage, I think he has an rally prepped RS among other stuff.
anyone remeber the Renuakt 5 Turbo (other than ones sticking out of hedges)
my spark had one, pocket rockets,
apparently, and I dont know how true this is, the LHDs were faster due to them being designed this way, and they had to reroute some of the plumbing to get the steering column or whatever fitted to RHS, so made it slightly laggier,
apparently, and I dont know how true this is, the LHDs were faster due to them being designed this way, and they had to reroute some of the plumbing to get the steering column or whatever fitted to RHS, so made it slightly laggier,
My mum had one of the first Renault 5s. It had a huge glass jar as a rad and an umbrella gear shift that stuck out the dash.
Renault used to never cease to amaze me, you'd swear their designers have never seen other cars before going by how differently they do things in some cases. When I was an apprentice I had a Renault that had the gear lever on the steering column and the umbrella handle hand brake lever stuck somewhere unexpected. It wasn't a bad car as such, in fact it was a pleasure to own after some of the British built cars I'd had previously.
I had a Kangoo and the accelerator cable snapped..
It ran from the pedal (obviously) into the engine bay behind a heat shield across to the LHS of the bay and into a little electric sensor...
It was a right pain to route!!..... Why couldn't they have just put the accelerator position sensor on the flippin' pedal???
It ran from the pedal (obviously) into the engine bay behind a heat shield across to the LHS of the bay and into a little electric sensor...
It was a right pain to route!!..... Why couldn't they have just put the accelerator position sensor on the flippin' pedal???
That'd be a Renault 4 iirc,
We called them bread bins,
Had two things like handles stuck out front of the wings beside the headlamps.
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It was a Renault 16, black and it looked like a hearse. Whimsical engineering and lack of styling aside it was actually a milestone for me being the first reliable car I'd ever owned. It was spacious (I'm 6ft 4in tall), comfortable, quiet, very very reliable, economical, very big boot area, it didn't leak, didn't rust and it wasn't slow, The handling was a bit weird, it rolled quite heavily around fast corners but it wasn't badly balanced and stayed on the road. Selling it was a big mistake, I would have saved myself a fortune and a lot of heartache if I'd kept it.
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bloody hell
dunno what looks worse,
that or the renault 4 I was thinking of
dunno what looks worse,
that or the renault 4 I was thinking of
Ahhh, I can see why you'd refer to those a breadbox. It was unlikely any of the Renaults of that era would have ended up on the 'cool wall' due to their stylish outer.
