A Little Next Season Teaser
Discussion
Hello Folks,
After an extended rest, almost 15 years to the day, the car I'm hopefully going
to be showing next year started moving for the first time the other day...
...and here she is undergoing some resto work
I bought this fancy stainless steel exhaust for £300 less than it would cost
me for a mild steel OE jobby, but when it arrived I got worried! That tail
pipe looked massive compared to the original, but it matches the bumper just
perfectly.
Full story and many more pics here...
With Season's Greetings,
Steve
After an extended rest, almost 15 years to the day, the car I'm hopefully going
to be showing next year started moving for the first time the other day...
...and here she is undergoing some resto work
I bought this fancy stainless steel exhaust for £300 less than it would cost
me for a mild steel OE jobby, but when it arrived I got worried! That tail
pipe looked massive compared to the original, but it matches the bumper just
perfectly.
Full story and many more pics here...
With Season's Greetings,
Steve
Back in the day I was lucky enough to have purchased one of these little beauties brand harry spankers. What a brilliant fun car it was too, finished in metallic blue with grey interior. Went like a good'un very responsive and handled fantastically well.
The downside at that time was service requirements, oil service went from every 6,000 miles down to 3,000 miles and only the most expensive fully synthetic oil to be used. Apparently Renault was having wear problems in the engine resulting in warranty claims. Sold the car after a year of ownership and took a test drive in a Ford R.S.Escort, it felt slow heavy and cumbersome compared to the 5GT.
Our son Matt purchased a 5GT 12 years ago or so, he loved it. Unfortunately he had the mother of all accidents in it, police turned up and immediately closed the road assuming it was a fatal accident, such was the state of the car! However, Matt had managed to crawl out of a window gap relatively unhurt, by the Grace of God. Every panel was very heavily damaged as the car had up-ended, rolled down an embankment and back up onto the road crashed into a telegraph pole snapping that in half, barrel rolling down the middle of the road before coming to a stop. No other car involved, thankfully.
The downside at that time was service requirements, oil service went from every 6,000 miles down to 3,000 miles and only the most expensive fully synthetic oil to be used. Apparently Renault was having wear problems in the engine resulting in warranty claims. Sold the car after a year of ownership and took a test drive in a Ford R.S.Escort, it felt slow heavy and cumbersome compared to the 5GT.
Our son Matt purchased a 5GT 12 years ago or so, he loved it. Unfortunately he had the mother of all accidents in it, police turned up and immediately closed the road assuming it was a fatal accident, such was the state of the car! However, Matt had managed to crawl out of a window gap relatively unhurt, by the Grace of God. Every panel was very heavily damaged as the car had up-ended, rolled down an embankment and back up onto the road crashed into a telegraph pole snapping that in half, barrel rolling down the middle of the road before coming to a stop. No other car involved, thankfully.
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