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COYBL25 said:
Incredibly rare due to most being crashed or falling to bits.

I haven’t seen one for years, same as the Peugot 205’s.

French cars weren’t built to last in the 80’s
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I saw an amazing Renault 5 GT at Oulton park last year. It was incredible!

An old mate of mine still has his old 205 GTI. Again amazing! Same guy has an original XR2 with pepper pot alloys!
 
DualityNSNO said:
A friend has a Bravo Mk2 1.4 Turbo (with a bigger turbo, blow off valves and the lot lol ), big enough to drive the kids to school, light enough to have fun driving back kind of deal lol

I had a normal Bravo ('97) up until a few years ago that was well taken care of, but it died an unnatural death as a knobhead totaled it by speeding down a 1 way street and running into it while my grandad was driving - luckily only caught the front and killed it with that, but frustrating as it was in a decent enough condition to drive and everything in the engine bay that has had to be swapped was OEM swapped. It also had the usual FIAT 1.4 petrol pain of the ignition coils needing to be changed way too often, but as the saying around here is, "with an Italian car you don't buy a car - you buy a soul" lol

Had a 2L petrol Audi 80 B4 '93, that car was hilariously bad but me and a mate made it actually run and drive normally - buttery smooth until the engine finally gave in. As a funny side note - recently my dad had a problem on his 2L 2003 Audi A4 Avant and it was literally an issue I was after for ages (PCV valve leaking air, idling like garbage, losing rpm/power, but only randomly) on my Audi with the exact same fix, but our repair guy spent ages before I asked him to check haha. Different engine codes though, apparently lol

As I'm back home I reckon if I do something it'll either be exactly that kind of turbo upgrades (maybe even on a diesel for ease of use; Alfa and Golfs are easy enough to work on) or some import and work my way to making it work in spare time and all. I really love American boatcars and Jeeps, so obviously want to get one of those again (RIP the Jeep, never get an older one for a daily folks) to work on, but parts are an issue - it'd be a proper project car though, so swings and roundabouts lol
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I would love to be in to cars again, But kids drain all my money currently. Never say never though.

Although my son is currently driving an MX5. Those things are incredibly cheap to run and insure!
 
Tramps_mate said:
I saw an amazing Renault 5 GT at Oulton park last year. It was incredible!

An old mate of mine still has his old 205 GTI. Again amazing! Same guy has an original XR2 with pepper pot alloys!
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A lad in town here owned a Renault 5 GT Turbo until very recently… think the fact he got raided and spent 4 years in prison dictated his need to sell 😂
He has a number of other projects with cars on the go though including a very sporty looking old Suzuki swift I think it is.
 
When I was young and poor I had a bog standard, bottom of the range, 903cc Uno. Even that could barrel along as it was so light (being made of bacofoil) you barely ever needed to lift off the throttle never mind hit the brakes. As an ownership experience though, the fact that I have never bought another Italian car must say something.
 

COYBL25 said:
Incredibly rare due to most being crashed or falling to bits.

I haven’t seen one for years, same as the Peugot 205’s.

French cars weren’t built to last in the 80’s
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My cousin had a 205 (latest generation before they killed them off), GTi I believe, but it was garage-flooded in the first and only flood recorded in the region where it was kept lol

Current Peugeot make garbage-tier petrol engines thanks to the THP thing with BMW, which is a shame, as well as their own 3cyl grenades that no one asked for.

We have a friend in the Netherlands who had a custom everything 306 Sedan (literally everything, engine swap with the biggest for the engine bay, custom turbo piping, the works, proper enthusiast sleeper) - hilarious drive on the autobahn as it looks like a 306, but it had something close to a muscle car amount of turbo-horses under the bonnet lol
 

Tramps_mate said:
I would love to be in to cars again, But kids drain all my money currently. Never say never though.

Although my son is currently driving an MX5. Those things are incredibly cheap to run and insure!
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I bought my Golf Gti twenty years ago, for 500 quid and just did it up, bit by bit and year by year, until I got it into the condition I wanted it to be in.

I don`t think I used if for the best part of ten years, whilst I was doing it up.

The crucial thing, was having somewhere dry to keep it, that was close to the mechanic and body shop lads, that were doing it up for me in their spare time.
 
COYBL25 said:
I bought my Golf Gti twenty years ago, for 500 quid and just did it up, bit by bit and year by year, until I got it into the condition I wanted it to be in.

I don`t think I used if for the best part of ten years, whilst I was doing it up.

The crucial thing, was having somewhere dry to keep it, that was close to the mechanic and body shop lads, that were doing it up for me in their spare time.
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Pf, the easy way out lol
 
Jimishorts said:
Tl:dr but I'm betting @chrismpw has fallen out with a female and has come up with a suitable 'solution' .
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I fell out with the absolute trumpet who sold me the car, even though I have no regrets over the car (but boy it would cost me a lot on labour if I wasn't able to pit it right myself), but then made up with him through gritted teeth so that I could buy his shedful of spare and scrap parts for a song. I'm just home from this transaction now so am totally at liberty to continue my dislike of him.
 

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