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Bright orange mk5 M62 eastbound today
« on: September 21, 2010, 06:02:53 pm »
As the title says bright orange mk5 on the M62 near oldham about 1330 this afternoon, think it might have been a gti with an r32 rear only got a quick glimpse as i was travelling in the opposite direction, but the colour looked really nice :happy2: :happy2:

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Re: Bright orange mk5 M62 eastbound today
« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2010, 09:29:41 pm »
This car ended up on our stand at Tatton last year. It is a german import i believe.  :happy2:

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Re: Bright orange mk5 M62 eastbound today
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2010, 09:52:30 pm »
it was a diesel as well i think , isn't it called a Fahrenheit or somethin???

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Re: Bright orange mk5 M62 eastbound today
« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2010, 09:56:48 pm »
think they were made from the American market link

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Re: Bright orange mk5 M62 eastbound today
« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2010, 09:58:23 pm »
sure the fella at Tatton said it was a Dutch import :smiley:

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Re: Bright orange mk5 M62 eastbound today
« Reply #5 on: September 21, 2010, 10:08:41 pm »
Possibly so. I remember him telling me he travels over to Germany ( possibly Holland  :laugh:)and buys cars that have been crashed and converts them to right hand spec.  :happy2:

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Re: Bright orange mk5 M62 eastbound today
« Reply #6 on: September 21, 2010, 10:10:05 pm »
Possibly so. I remember him telling me he travels over to Germany ( possibly Holland  :laugh:)and buys cars that have been crashed and converts them to right hand spec.  :happy2:

That rings a bell, the fact he had converted it :happy2:

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Re: Bright orange mk5 M62 eastbound today
« Reply #7 on: September 22, 2010, 06:19:25 pm »
it was a diesel as well i think , isn't it called a Fahrenheit or somethin???

It definatly were'nt the same colour as the fahenheit, i saw one of them while i was in the states and it looked crap :sick:


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Re: Bright orange mk5 M62 eastbound today
« Reply #8 on: September 22, 2010, 06:45:54 pm »


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Re: Bright orange mk5 M62 eastbound today
« Reply #9 on: September 22, 2010, 07:03:14 pm »
Lives just down the road from me this fella, it is a diesel / R32 lookalike, I think his job is converting RHD cars to LHD  :confused:
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