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really nice car this owned a few myself!! my mate has a D plate mi16 thats won quite a few 1st and 2nds at pug fest show and shines... still have a serious following.
Amazing takes me back I loved capri's back in day myself still do on the quiet I had a white 205 gti nearly 20 years ago!! That wasn't even as clean as your example
Beautiful Miami Blue example. You must be proud of her?
- I had a last of the line L-reg 1.9 CAT (122bhp instead of 130 because of the cat). In white, very nice condition.
I used to give it death, and ultimately never looked after it. Ran out of oil on the M11 northbound, just after Stansted -- big end blew and could hear pieces of metal hitting the road. Had to wait on the grass verge in the freezing rain for recovery on to Leic.!
Opened the bonnet, and I kid you not......a con rod was sitting serenely on top on the engine! Couldn't believe it!
Shameful, I know.
Mental little motors, with a hair-trigger throttle - like a terrier-straining-on-a-leash lol. They're real 'giant-slayers'.
Last edited by joz8968; 09 September 2016 at 09:02 AM.
Actually the tyres are 195/50's but are road legal track tyres so are perhaps 10% wider than standard tyres plus that's a 309 GTi rear beam on the car.
I'm due to fit a new set of road tyres on the car plus I have a freshly rebuild and restored 205 GTi rear beam ready to be fitted so it'll be back to standard soon
Actually the tyres are 195/50's but are road legal track tyres so are perhaps 10% wider than standard tyres plus that's a 309 GTi rear beam on the car.
I'm due to fit a new set of road tyres on the car plus I have a freshly rebuild and restored 205 GTi rear beam ready to be fitted so it'll be back to standard soon
...only thing lets them down is the torsion beam rear axle.....grip,grip ..oh there we go spin out
Tell me about it. It happened on mine when serenely (relatively speaking) going round a roundabout, on the first weekend I had it. Couldn't believe it.
So fitted Spax adjustables at both ends (and the ubiquitous torsion bar lowering - but not by much).
Car was planted after that.
Last edited by joz8968; 13 September 2016 at 06:22 PM.
Haha I did that this xsara vts I have similar circumstances , didn't spin managed to hold it fish tailing up the road on exit. The overtaken women / car sounding horn until the next roundabout
Used to have a soft spot for those. The Lotus 2-pot brakes sounded so exotic.
GF's mate's BF had one. As a passenger, those brakes felt mental lol. Oh, and that very 80s Amstrad-esque 'graphic EQ', roof-mounted LED boost 'gauge'.
Last edited by joz8968; 17 September 2016 at 03:54 AM.
Aaah the mg montego I still remember mine got stolen 2weeks after I bought it then I went for a bluebird zx turbo
actually Zany I have edited my post - it was the Meastro, but I think basically the same car
yeah, it was a weird time for cars, MG were constantly dressing up 15 year old technology as "current"
not sure if you remember but the Montego Estate Countryman edition achieved a sort cult status amongst the Boots, Barbour and Horsey set, always with a Labrador in the boot
you used to see them all the time driving through Fulham, Chelsea, Putney Richmond back in the day
actually Zany I have edited my post - it was the Meastro, but I think basically the same car
yeah, it was a weird time for cars, MG were constantly dressing up 15 year old technology as "current"
not sure if you remember but the Montego Estate Countryman edition achieved a sort cult status amongst the Boots, Barbour and Horsey set, always with a Labrador in the boot
you used to see them all the time driving through Fulham, Chelsea, Putney Richmond back in the day
We had a lot of car thefts up here in the north west and still do!! and the montego was the easiest to Nick!! but it looked sick with the body kit in white I then went about the jap scene and stayed put but still have a soft spot for the Capri till this day...
I always appreciate a nice classic regardless of make it retains a certain character of its era which people remember and the memories are priceless
Sorry OP going bit off topic.Such a glorious time for hot hatches though ( rose tinted specs maybe )
Well there's a subtle link in there somewhere. back in 1990 I had a 1.6 205 GTi and a mate had a New White MG Turbo Metro. It only took one 'dabble' one night to establish that the 205 was on another level to the Metro.
Great looking car, I've still got my project sat in my garage up on axle stands. wont take any hurt were it is. Just needed quite a bit of a rebuild unfortunately.
Lovely car, so clean.....i had two myself, 1.6 miami blue, and 1.9 red (more pink!)
The 1.6 was my second car aged 18 after a brief spell in a 1.1 mk1 golf.
Wish i had some pictures, i remember it had raised bonnet, bonnet bulge i think it was called?
08 September 2016, 08:07 PM
My Little 205 GTi 1.9
I had a white 205 gti nearly 20 years ago!! That wasn't even as clean as your example
but I'd guess that the majority of owners fit 195/50's instead.
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