Now thats a tidy motor..

joshtp

nice condition classic hot hatch, low miles, and an admittedly great car in its day.

£12000?







I have a mate who seems to specialize in "street sleepers" he has a few of the normal classics... mini coopers, 2 Escort RS Turobo's, a Sierra Cosworth, An RS2000 , but he also has a small escort Van with the 2.2 turbo from a mark 3 escort turbo and running gear and suspention from a mark 1 escort turbo (apparently the 3 had the best engine, and the 1 had the best suspension)

He also has a standard turbo escort van (only a handful in the country) that's pretty awesome.... but the super van. BOOM! that thing is stinking fast. Puts a smile on your face, and a confused look on the face of whoever in whatever is next to you at the lights. He's a clever guy.

spongtastic

yeehaamcgee wrote:

I dream one day of having enough time, space and money to build up my own aerial atom-type thing with a hayabussa engine. I've got a basic design plan, might do as a retirement / mid life crisis project.

I've seen a FIAT 126 with this set up, totally mental.

Stevo_666

yeehaamcgee wrote:

My 205 exploded
I had to call work to book the day off since my car was on fire in the road!

Mind you, the 306 that replaced it caused it's own issues. I had to cancel a day at work with THAT, because all the doorhandles had broken off, so I couldn't get in

Reminds my of my days as a 205 owner. Possibly the best was having problems getting the engine to start at the end of a track day at Elvington (old airfield near York). We got it fired up but I realised that if I stopped the engine before I got home I was f00ked so I brimmed the tank from the jerry cans and set off for North Kent. I had enough petrol to get home but couldn't leave the car with the engine running, so had to take a pi$$ in an empty coke bottle in a motorway service station car park (while still sitting in the drivers seat), hoping nobody spotted me as it would have been a bit tricky to explain :P

Anonymous

Lots of fun to be had with old cars. I remember when my Renault 5 GTX's wipers failed completely, when the screen was covered in crap thrown up by the truck in front.
We were pretty baked, and couldn't find anything to clean the windscreen with, so we decided that the best course of action was to drive home with my mate sitting on the passenger side door window frame, shouting at me which way the road went

Or the time the passenger side window collapsed in my old Mazda 323, just after my mate had sparked up a "medicinal" cigarette, in a snowstorm, 40 miles from home.
By the time we got back home, the inside of the car looked like the antartic

Stevo_666

We might be putting Mr.Monkey off a 205 at this rate...

On the subject of track day snobbery, we had a good laught at a 'Jap crap' day at Brands. Loads of heavily modded Evo's, Scoobies and Skylines roll up with piles of trackday gear and everyone was pretending to be an amateur F1 mechanic with trolley jacks and wheel nut guns etc. A young lad comes along in a Pug 406 diesel estate and his sum total of preparing his car for the track was pulling off the plastic wheel trims

The Northern Monkey

Nah, never put me off a 205 :P

Unless I had the chance to take a Mk2 Escort RS2000 off your hands, but I don't have enough money lol!