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pippyrips

The pic looks a little photoshop'ed. Is that a real car?

Fantom

Of course thats a photoshop. Looks pretty good though

Turbo2

I know I posted this somewhere else on here recently, but I still think the old ones are the best. No photoshop needed with mine:

jimmyv

classic!

monkeysan

LEGEND!

Billgtt

Gorgeous, looks like a cracking example! I'm hoping to buy a T2 this year, if everything goes to plan (which it rarely does )

blot

There is a cheap blue one for sale on ebay Billy

hux309

HEADGASKET!

Luminous

iTrader: (3)

That does look nice. The rear wheels look as if they are a bit of an after thought, or were designed to be attached to a car that was meant to be longer

scoobmeister

There's an article in the latest edition of EVO about the mid engined Turbo and how it came about.

jjones

saw one outside the pub the other night





the boys wanted to know why i had stopped the car

Billgtt

Ahh yes, that one with eleventymillion pounds spent on it, according to the owner who's had it for the last five minutes

finalzero

Ah memories, when I used to live in Tooting Beck many years ago, my neighbour was one of those proper grease monkeys, had a transit van jacked up on struts with monster off-road wheels and V8 engine transplant.

He had two of those Renault beauties, a black one which needed some major TLC and a mustard yellow coloured one which I spent the summer working on (we stripped it down, rebuilt the shell from the ground up with stripped out interior, classic sports steering and a very minimal dash i.e just a big rev dial lol).

I think we lost something with the newage car's, every classic car I look at now has character in bucket loads.. what went wrong with the industry - too obscessed with tech?!

Fz

Turbo2

hux309: Headgasket???

I've owned my T2 for 14 years and have driven it regularly ever since and it's never had the head off (touch wood!). In fact after 4 or 5 years of replacing various engine ancilliaries it's been very reliable and took us on our honeymoon for 3 weeks around Corsica, Sardinia, NW Italy and SE France. It's a 185bhp car with the higher boost from the denser intercooler and wastegate shim.

jjones: Thanks for that photo of the red one outside the pub. I haven't seen it before. I had just made a list for another forum of 42 UK registered cars I know of. You've just made it 43!

Billgtt: If you need any buying advice send me a pm when the time comes. Steer clear of that E-Bay one!

hux309

I was teasing, but they are prone for it, but i love the look of them nonetheless.

Turbo2

jjones: I was wrong with my earlier comment that I didn't know about the car you photographed outside a pub recently. It was in my list of 42 known UK cars, but when I last knew about it back in 2001 it was white and had regular T2 bodywork and resided in Surrey. Since then it has been fitted with a partial R5 Maxi Turbo style bodykit and been resprayed red. It's also lost the "2" off the "TURBO2" door stickers.

mrtheedge2u2

Looks very very nice indeed

Billgtt

Thanks for that, i'll be sure to get in contact with you if I need any help/advise. I know a few people in the T2 world, and I know the blue car on Ebay and it's two previous owners, one of which has posted on this thread.

Turbo2

There's a white T2 on E-Bay now. It's item number 160212687897. Currently still below reserve at Euro 24,000 (= GBP 18,350).

It's incredibly low mileage 5729km = about total of only 3600 miles after 25 years. It came up for sale in the USA a year or so ago and has spent practically it's whole life stored in an aircraft hangar along with a lot of the owner's other "toys" at a fully-blown commercial airport (you can just see some other cars of his in the background). From memory it was never even registered on the roads in America, so couldn't have been driven out of the airfield anyway.

I'd heard that it ended up in Turkey or somewhere. Looks like the E-Bay address is Bulgaria! I'd be a bit nervous about spending nigh on 20,000 quid on a car that was advertised there though. That said if it is all above board, it would be the nearest thing you could get to a brand new Turbo 2 and quite unique.