Spotted a sad looking TurboR

[drewtastic]

It is a turbo, but not an R? is it? This is at my local scrapper.

Anyway, can you believe it has come to this:



It appeared undamaged

Edited by drewtastic on Tuesday 20th March 09:49

[Exoticaholic]

Looks like a 1985 or 1986 Turbo R to me

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[Balmoral Green]

Andrew, i'm in Derby too. Where is the car? It would be ideal for stripping out for a trackday car.

[drewtastic]

It is Detons in Stavely, Chesterfield. I have looked for a number, but no google/yell search is coming up with anything?!?!? The spelling might well be different though?

It is just off junction 30 M1.

[Balmoral Green]

Thanks, might look that up, although I shouldnt really.

[900T-R]

Balmoral Green said:

although I shouldnt really.

B*ll*x to that... go on, you know you want to!

[nda]

That's sad to see..... I wonder what the history is?

[rcarr]

Balmoral Green said:

Andrew, i'm in Derby too. Where is the car? It would be ideal for stripping out for a trackday car.

Why would you possibly want to make a Bentley a trackday car? It will understeer into the 1st gravel trap it comes across!

[Balmoral Green]

Cathedral racing is a right hoot. There are several Turbo R racing cars around the world, and a few of them in the UK. I have sprinted mine many times, there are usually about half a dozen of us with Turbo R's taking part. Although I did stuff it into the tyre wall at MIRA in 2005.

www.netstoreonline.co.uk/pmcuk/BentleyRacing.asp

www.netstoreonline.co.uk/pmcuk/Racingpage2.asp

[rcarr]

I raced a Daimler Sovereign, once, it was so bad!

I used to drive Dad's Silver Shadow on the road, it had a hissy fit trying to corner above 40!

With the facilities that you have, you can properly "race prepare" a car from scratch! Surely, it would take 10s of 1000s to make a "Catherdral" race worthy? I was told that about a Rover V8 Sierra. The vehicle dynamics alone would cost alot of time and money to get it right!