Autocar at the time called this the poor man's Porsche

[Sporting Bear]

Autocar, at the time, called this the poor man's Porsche and featured the model on the front cover with that headline

I know a few Porsche owners and it would be nice to show them this front cover as proof, anyone got still got that issue ?

Edited by Sporting Bear on Saturday 10th March 16:23

[baSkey]

GULF BLUE AS WELL...CLASSIC!

[Sporting Bear]

baSkey said:

GULF BLUE AS WELL...CLASSIC!

Thanks for those kind remarks, picture is a scan of a 1986 photo so exact colour is hard to remember

[Forthright MC]

that looks rather nice Nigel! is it a new addition to your garage?

[Sporting Bear]

James, thanks for that, it was brand new to my hard standing in 1986

Even when I had 4 cars for a short time I only had 1 rented neighbour's garage

Do ya know what it is ?

[Forthright MC]

Sporting Bear said:

James, thanks for that, it was brand new to my hard standing in 1986

Even when I had 4 cars for a short time I only had 1 rented neighbour's garage

Do ya know what it is ?

you've got me there!
looking at it i'm thinking original VW Scirrocco or a Skoda Rapide. its a wild stab in the dark, but could it be either one of those?!

Edited by Forthright MC on Saturday 10th March 16:26

[si_j]

A rare car these days, there's not many left on the road apparently. I guess this one is even rarer as its a 130 and what looks like an early model.

[r5gttgaz]

Rapid 136?

[Sporting Bear]

Well done all, it was a Rapide 130 1986 model (possibly 1985 model stood in feild stock piling)

James - this is from before VW took over they and initially lowered build quality
Don't believe all you hear about German build quality I've alsao got an original German built 1981 Ford Capri and it had many build quality issues when brand new (not mine then I had two push bikes)

Edited by Sporting Bear on Saturday 10th March 16:38

[Forthright MC]

Sporting Bear said:

Well done all, it was a Rapide 130 1986 model (possibly 1985 model stood in feild stock piling)

James - this is from before VW took over they and initially lowered build quality
Don't believe all you hear about German build quality I've alsao got an original German built 1981 Ford Capri and it had many build quality issues when brand new (not mine then I had two push bikes)

Edited by Sporting Bear on Saturday 10th March 16:38

i like that Rapide, not well up on old skodas, not bad with old VW's mind, but i can imagine that 130 must have been quite a fun little car in its day!
your previously owned cars list makes great reading Nigel! some very interesting stuff in there SEiGHT, MGBGT et all, would love to hear/see some more about your previous cars some time!

Edited by Forthright MC on Saturday 10th March 17:16

[Sporting Bear]

James a pleasure, now I know I can crop scanned old photos I'll look some more out and let you know when I've done it (sometime later this month) and I'll email them to you

Pity now I didn't keep a copy of the recovered chrashed SeiGHT as a warning, roll bar and windscreen were bent quite low good job I'm so short

Edited by Sporting Bear on Saturday 10th March 18:39

[Forthright MC]

Sporting Bear said:

James a pleasure, now I know I can crop scanned old photos I'll look some more out and let you know when I've done it (sometime later this month) and I'll email them to you

Pity now I didn't keep a copy of the recovered chrashed SeiGHT as a warning, roll bar and windscreen were bent quite low good job I'm so short

nice one Nigel! i look forward to seeing them.

[Sporting Bear]

No problemo

(Just realised I've posted this on the wrong forum , I'll have to find my glasses and put them on)

[hab]

I've always loved the 130 RS :

[Sporting Bear]

Very nice

Now we need a 110 RS (?)

Course the Estelle and Estelle 2 had great success as Rally cars

[forthright MC]

Nigel, thought you might like to see this little beauty i just found in the classifieds,
www.pistonheads.com/sales/134158.htm not bad eh?!

[Sporting Bear]

Automotive pornograpy, sheer lovely filth

Of course I'd prefer the power and torque figures swapped with each other for road use, and I might be a bit old for the styling

BUT

I'd force myself if I had the money