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None of these cars are fantastic, and none worth more than £1500, some less, I had a two year spell on a traders policy, with sdp on it too, and went through most of the cars I wanted at age 18, virtually crossing them off a list one-by-one, these are some of the better ones / more enjoyable, along with my comments about them, a lot of them I didn't take pics of, never mind, here goes;
p.s. I've had the yard fully block paved now, looks a lot better (lol)
Not in any order;
Peugeot 205 1.6 Gti. a fun little car only marred by having a ridiculously loud exhaust, surprisingly fast, not quite as tidy as it looks in the pics, but not bad.
Golf Vr6, 2.8 litre, bit boring to look at, quite fast once got going, not awesome though for a 2.8, sounded like a scooby and that was standard airbox, 10mpg.
Vectra 2.5v6 sri. Quite fast, quiet and smooth, not actually bad on fuel, sold to someone who came from scotland for it, 86k, fsh, tidy car.
Astra Gsi 2.016v redtop, bought in ex cond with one rusty wheelarch only, got new one at £140 and car was mint, excellent engine, remote start alarm, brilliant car should never have sold it, sold it to a lad from Newcastle and it came back to Wakefield, would have it back tomorrow if it was same. 17 inch alloys.
Red astra Gsi, car was no good, took wheels off and sold for £800, never really drove it.
Rover Coupe 220 Turbo, red with mint cream leather seats, my mate took the piss out of this, it was a VERY fast car and very light on its feet, a performance bargain, sold it to an old guy who came a 2hr trip for it. Very good condition, shame about the rover badge.
Red Corsa Gsi, looks ok in pics but was abit tired, and ridiculously lowered, didn't keep long, not that great
Cavalier Gsi, very good car, don't mean to over exagerrate but being in 5th gear was almost like being in 3rd, this thing revved its nuts off, surprisingly fast, had this same time as rover turbo, wouldn't have put it far behind, I know it sounds far fetched but it was really fast. Must have had something done as the head was dated 1997. Drove like the vectra I have now, not old feeling like the other cars. Planned to sell for £1000 but needed slight bit of welding for mot, sold it without for £500 and some iirc. Good car.
Black Rs Turbo, ok, mint engine, body ok, felt a bit dangerous if you know what I mean, too much torque steer and that was at standard bhp, not overwhelmed, had to sell and buy another one as i didn't really feel I had experienced a decent Rs Turbo, wanted one that felt a bit nicer.
Red Rs Turbo, got this cheap, had a bit of a boost problem when fully warmed, which I never did sort, though you could get round it by feeding the power on at the right time. This was quite good condition, I really like it, it had had quite a bit spent, and looked fairly mint.
I want another one of these, don't quite know why as they are a bit of an old dog to drive, without pas etc, but there's something about them, guess it's cos they were flying past the school gates when i was 15/16 yrs old...want another one.
Low res picture of it when the brakes failed due to split brake pipe, ah well thats one of the hazards of a 19yr old car..............
I had a few more which I never photographed. cars I never owned which i would have liked to are- astra gte16v, ren 5 turbo,
Cars I would like to own are- saph cosworth, another rs turbo, vectra gsi.
at the moment i have a 02 reg astra 1.8 sri and a 99 reg vectra 1.8 sri.
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