renault 5 gt turbo days 90's and early 2000
What i wouldn't give for a fully spruced up one of these bad boys!!
I remember when Max Power would have a front page article on how someone had managed to fit 17's to an R5 GT!!
Hilazarious - how times have moved on eh
Awesome little things weren't they!
My uncle had one in grey that he must have owned for 10 years. Totally stock, and very clean. I've got fond memories of riding in it as a kid. It's probably that car that planted the seed in me actually.
Anyway, he gets to the point where he's going to sell it. I really wanted it, but at 18 years old my dad didn't like the idea one bit, and firmly vetoed it. Turns out the person he sold it to fitted it with big ugly wheels, treated it like sh*t, and wrote it off in a ditch within weeks of buying it! I was gutted to hear about it, and of course made it clear to my dad that he should have let me buy it and look after it!
I ended up with a 1.8T Audi not long after that, so all wasn't lost. But I still look back and think "what if?".
Iconic cars. I bet 95% of them are dead now unfortunately.