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Dergside 
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b318isp
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Monza, e12, yum, yum - like these a lot! Was getting aircon in the missus' car topped up and the guy there had a Manta GTE and a tidy (given!) enough Fuego too. |
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Mick525i
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Who had the Fuego? Is it for sale by any chance?? Mick |
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Mick 
BMW E21 318 1980 BMW E39 525i 2002 MTech VW Golf Gti 2003 |
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Tom Elliott
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slightly off topic but i've always wanted one of these....wierd
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Peter Fenwick
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I'm a bit of a Monza and manta fan myself I would have bought either but could never find one that didn't need plenty of TLC. |
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Entering an age of Austerity and now driving a Focus Diesel.
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ivanovoitch
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What was hot about the G40 then? A GTI polo? |
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Dergside
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The G is the bit that made it interesting - a supercharged Polo. |
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Tom Elliott
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What was hot about the g40? 1300 supercharged.. 900kgs.. 0-60 in about 7.5 seconds.. a serious sleeper. Obviously it would put most road cars to shame in a straight line but also a death trap cos they dont stop or go around corners very well. They're as rare as rocking horse poo in this country. The earlier mk2 g40 did have some motorsport pedigree though "In Germany VW built the LHD only Polo Coupe GT G40. Based on the 1272cc 55bhp engine it featured a small bore G-Lader supercharger. Used to set a number of world endurance speed records - such as the 24 hour 130mph record. A small number of these cars were built for production but were mainly sold to VW workers" tom |
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Tom Elliott
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thats what i love.. even most car nuts dont't know what they are and neither do the insurance companies!
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Rhys
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I remember one of the nicest cars my dad had was an old Mk1 Vauxhall Cavalier 1600GLs sports hatch.
Just done a google for a pic of one but can't find a hatch sports version - might have to dig up the old photo album.  |
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J Reg Saab 900i 16v '63 Ford Anglia 105e deluxe R reg Honda PC50 moped.. No BMW as yet... |
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b318isp
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Nah, he's keeping it. |
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Fuego Turbo ??? Saw one 3 weeks ago at a young lad. Fella wasn't more than 18 and he was renault mad !! ( was cutting the sill off a R11 !! whilst listing off the various R5, R11. R19 he owned, the sill was for the restoration of a irish series 1 R11 turbo !!) Told him he was mad... now Im not so sure !!! For quick welly and lack of stopping power you can't beat a hot 1275cc mini on drum brakes !!!
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either the general lee or the greenford mustang fastback from bullit ( i think its this one) |
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Dave Ryle
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you musn't see me coming home from work most days so |
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still have one of those engines here in the garage out of the renault alpine mentioned earlier, except it was out of a Volvo 262Coupe, what a pot it has to be said. The only decent one was the B280 which came in later 760's as it had half way decent lubrication for the cams and moderately sized oil passages. The earlier engines are complete scrap, 18-20mpg if your lucky with a measly 140bhp from a 2.7 and lucky to do its first 100k without a head rebuild and needing and i really mean needing 5k oil changes to stop the passages filling up with gunk. |
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Give that man a cigar! |
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The guy is a bit of a magpie, a couple of (now) relative rarities/oddities in there, Gamma coupe, 130 coupe, Monza, e12 and e28, series 1 and 3 Daimler/Jags, X1/9's, he still lives in the '80's!
