jgtr
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Kieran
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I do love a good Dimma equipped Peugeot!
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The Ashby Jackson fleet:-
1979 Mini Clubman 1.8 K series
1978 Skoda 110r Project 130RS K-oupe
1978 Austin Allegro 1500 SDL Estate
1984 BMW K100 Sidecar outfit
1999 Yamaha FZS 1000 Fazer
1991 Kawasaki ZXR400 race bike
2002 Kawasaki ZX9r race bike
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Apr 18, 2015 10:05:48 GMT
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Welcome to the forum...!!! RR is a great place to be so I'm sure you'll enjoy it...
Max Power motors really were something very unique so it's always nice to see them out and about clinging on to life as they're so 'of their era'...!!!
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***GARAGE CURRENTLY EMPTY***
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Apr 18, 2015 12:44:33 GMT
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My old 205 circa 2004  They might be a bit chavy but way more effort went into cars of the max power era than most cover cars today. Nothing bar the bonnet on my 205 was made for a 205. Everything was modified to fit and remember things like ebay didnt exist! |
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jgtr
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Apr 18, 2015 16:33:57 GMT
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My old 205 circa 2004 They might be a bit chavy but way more effort went into cars of the max power era than most cover cars today. Nothing bar the bonnet on my 205 was made for a 205. Everything was modified to fit and remember things like ebay didnt exist Nice, they don't make them like this anymore  it's a shame that most of the stuff from this era is now frowned upon  don't get me wrong, there were some shocking motors but these were the cars of my generation and had such a big influence on car culture. I wonder if we'll start seeing "Max Power" barn finds in a few years?? |
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Apr 18, 2015 17:28:40 GMT
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The silver Reno 5GTT belonged to Jamie Shaw of Carisma Automotive, was the demo car for his business until he built a mental TVR Cerbera. AFAIK it still exists somewhere, think Jamie might still have it......
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'96 Volvo 850T5 x2, '97 Alfa 145 Cloverleaf '96 Alfa 155, '91 XR2i 2.0 Zetec (sold), '88 BMW 520i slug (sold), '81 Escort Mk3 Project, '68 Mk1 Escort Estate, Berlingo Parts Chaser.
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Apr 18, 2015 17:41:33 GMT
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This..... ![]() www.ebay.co.uk/itm/110935667352?redirect=mobile[\img]Is in the back of my mates dads unit. Bought it off the lad that owned it from the max power days. Has been in storage unused for about ten years. He was planning to return it to standard as I believe it was an RS turbo originally. Think he realised it will probably cost more to return to standard than it did to build in the first place though and abandoned it. It's a purple/blue flip colour now and to be fair unlike most cars of the era it had been modified to a very high standard. |
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Last Edit: Apr 18, 2015 17:46:11 GMT by southside
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Apr 18, 2015 18:04:01 GMT
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wasnt the gsi3000 put up as a prize and not long after it'd got written off,
would be great to see the cars from this era again,
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jgtr
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Apr 18, 2015 18:11:01 GMT
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wasnt the gsi3000 put up as a prize and not long after it'd got written off, would be great to see the cars from this era again,  |
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Apr 18, 2015 18:41:51 GMT
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The silver Reno 5GTT belonged to Jamie Shaw of Carisma Automotive, was the demo car for his business until he built a mental TVR Cerbera. AFAIK it still exists somewhere, think Jamie might still have it...... Was it originally built and coloured blue and yellow? *n |
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Top grammar tips!
Bought = purchased. Brought = relocated
Lose = misplace/opposite of win. Loose = your mum
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Apr 18, 2015 18:58:29 GMT
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shin2chin
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Making curse word cars slightly better
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Plenty of this style of cars alive and well in Coventry. Will try and get some pics on my travels.
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1977 PORSCHE 2.0na 924
1974 VW Beetle 1600
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orangecords
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yawner extraordinaire
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Plenty of this style of cars alive and well in Coventry. Will try and get some pics on my travels. Can't disagree with that.....mind you I left cov and moved to Redditch....there's a few here too lol Didnt their Renault 11 turbo (which I can't find pix of) used to live around Coventry? |
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Last Edit: Apr 19, 2015 9:13:47 GMT by orangecords: auto correct is chod
I then wanted to start cleaning the interior as it stinks of wood (the material not the smell of a boner) best quote ever! |
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Apr 19, 2015 12:07:26 GMT
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Poor Project Thunder (Vauxhall Carlton), IIRC a lad from Glasgow won it and then stuffed it into a shop front in the city centre about 3 weeks later :-(
Project RS Kicker (Escort RS Turbo) was for sale on eBay a couple of years ago looking pretty much the same as when it was built but suffering from several years of being neglected
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Last Edit: Apr 19, 2015 12:18:31 GMT by Sealtainn
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Apr 19, 2015 16:07:27 GMT
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I'm sure I saw the 5gtt the other day on a retro renault page on fb.
That tvr from charisma was mad. Every time I went there it was always say in the corner. Doing nothing
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If you can't beat em, knock em off
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Apr 19, 2015 17:18:15 GMT
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The GSi carlton was not done to a high standard.I remember seeing it at Earls court motor show before they gave it away.The yellow paint job looked like it had been chucked on from 5 meters away by Stevie wonder.I was shocked when I saw it.You could still see the original red around the windscreen rubbers.
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Apr 19, 2015 18:02:18 GMT
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I can remember seeing that orange skeete golf in Ibiza at one point in the late 90s , two lads had it who worked for Sundessential in Birmingham - they were off there rockers most of the time ! Then i saw it being hammered through Oxford a few months later !!
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jgtr
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Apr 19, 2015 18:03:09 GMT
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The GSi carlton was not done to a high standard.I remember seeing it at Earls court motor show before they gave it away.The yellow paint job looked like it had been chucked on from 5 meters away by Stevie wonder.I was shocked when I saw it.You could still see the original red around the windscreen rubbers. Wasn't that their first project car?? Probably not a huge budget in the early days, the Corrado they did had some serious money spent on it - didn't they do a Skyline that was a bit of a beast before they shut down??? |
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Apr 19, 2015 18:10:00 GMT
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The GSi carlton was not done to a high standard.I remember seeing it at Earls court motor show before they gave it away.The yellow paint job looked like it had been chucked on from 5 meters away by Stevie wonder.I was shocked when I saw it.You could still see the original red around the windscreen rubbers. Wasn't that their first project car?? Probably not a huge budget in the early days, the Corrado they did had some serious money spent on it - didn't they do a Skyline that was a bit of a beast before they shut down??? The first project they done was project Kicker (Escort RS Turbo). |
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Apr 19, 2015 18:12:47 GMT
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I think they spent a fortune on the escort rs2000 with a full on F2 Mountune engine.
I wanted the orange mk2 escort with tarmac arches they built for Revs magazine
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thought I'd post something interesting....
thought I'd post something interesting....
it's a shame that most of the stuff from this era is now frowned upon 
