My car displayed in Renault showroom

[andrew e]

There is a pale green B reg Ital estate, but avoid the owner he's mental

[Timewaster]

It must be a Renault idea. I passed through Exning near Newmarket last week and the little village Renault dealer (of which there are still a few around these parts) had some sort of race prepared GTA and either an 8 or a 10 in the showroom.No new cars though!

[Guest]

If my XR2 was in mint condition I would be quite keen to have it on display at the Ford dealer, alongside whatever hot Fiesta they decide to launch next. Unfortunately I can't be arsed to have it restored

[Pillock]

As I've mentioned previously, I used to regularly see a metallic green MkV Cortina estate around town on a B plate, when the MkI Sierras could be had from Y reg onwards. Pretty sure the Cortina based P100s could be had upto a C plate too!

Commercial variants often live longer, as they don't usually introduce these with the mainstream range. You can get Escort vans up to an 02 plate, there's one up the road from me looking mighty knackered. The Mk2-shape AstraMax lasted much longer than the Astra/Belmost with the same front end too.

[Hertz]

It must be a Renault idea. I passed through Exning near Newmarket last week and the little village Renault dealer (of which there are still a few around these parts) had some sort of race prepared GTA and either an 8 or a 10 in the showroom.No new cars though!

Pictures please!!

[Guest]

When Lookers Renault was Jackson & Edwards in Broadheath they displayed a 10 in their showroom for a week.

The burgundy auto? You should have bought it. It got scrapped not long after that.

I'm not sure of the story you got told, but I had an ex master Renault technician and an engineer uncle helping me with that car, let me fill you in a bit...........

 

It was mine. I did own it. And it didn't get scrapped. I had nowhere to store it and so he told me he'd scrapped it, but what he'd actually done is flog it to a bloke in Stockport who'd been hassling him for it.

 

It was up on the forecourt at a very high price for ages. My uncle Jarrod went down there and offered them the fair market value but got laughed at.

 

It got sent to the back of the yard (which then was a bit of a bomb site - it's fully tarmacced now) and deteriorated, along with a scrap 10, a 105E Anglia, a Riley 4 \ 72 and an RME 1.5. His old man also had a beautiful 1948 Sunbeam Alpine which he took me out in past Tatton Park, as well as some interesting trade ins. Matthew briefly had a special edition GTA called the Le Mans, which was metallic purple with enormous split rims and a very 80's CD player with a split band equalizer. There was also a bugeye 323 that he used for going to B&Q and Z32 which we did 130 mph in down the Tatton back roads.

 

I worked at Airport Self Drive before I went to sixth form college, and when the car was a runner it regularly used to appear across the road from me, because the MD lived across from my parents and became a very good friend of my dad. Matthew stills lives locally.

 

It got to the stage where it was getting in the way and I mythered that much that I got bought the car as a frankly QUAL present for getting decent grades in my GCSEs.

 

My name never appeared on the registration document because I was 16 at the time and never registered it.

 

I got as far as getting a Type 330 gearbox and transaxle for it, but never dropped it in because I had no time/money/storage. The interior was utterly mint and it had only done 60, 472 miles.

 

The reason the autobox was shagged was because it had sat for ages and they needed it to move, so instead of charging the battery up they jumped it with a booster pack. The autobox brain was a massive PCB on the offside inner wing, and something blew when it was jumped.

 

I actually managed to track down a working ECU off a bloke in Ashton who had an auto 10 and turned it into a manual Gordini replica. Sadly swapping the boxes over had no effect and the only way to get the car moving was to jam it into gear by shorting the inhibitor out on the starter motor. Hence why I was going to go over to a manual. I only drove it once, round Matthews yard locked in first gear, with virtually no brakes. I parked it up after nearly driving head on into a new Espace that was just off the transporter and hadn't been PDI'd.

 

Getting the spares was a pain - and the amount of hostility I got because it wasn't an MG or a fucking Morris Minor was unbelieveable.

 

It was a really advanced car for 1966 - it had discs on the back and an alternator.

 

As I said, with the space and backup I have now, it would have been back on the road. A right shame.

 

Some pics:

 

 

It was still there until early into my second year of University - and after that it got scrapped \ passed on \ whatever.

 

Not really happy about it, I just wished he'd have been straight with me about what was going to happen to it. Better it be restored than flattened though.

 

It was last on the road in 2006, I checked the DVLA database. I haven't seen it though.

[Guest greenvanman]

When Lookers Renault was Jackson & Edwards in Broadheath they displayed a 10 in their showroom for a week.

The burgundy auto? You should have bought it. It got scrapped not long after that.

I'm not sure of the story you got told, but I had an ex master Renault technician and an engineer uncle helping me with that car, let me fill you in a bit...........

Ah, I know a bit more about this than you think... PM me if you haven't worked out who I am yet.Anyway if it did escape the crusher that's good news, hope it's still around somewhere.

[155V6]

That brings back some memories,my Dad had an R8 Auto in the late '70s.I remember being amazed at it having no gearstick at all,just the buttons on the dash like something from an old tape player

[Guest]

OMG at greenvanman's true identity.

[MrRegieRitmo]

OMG at greenvanman's true identity.

John McCririck??PS: who is your avatar? He's like a cross between Boris Yeltsin & George Kennedy!

[Mr Lobster]

OMG at greenvanman's true identity.

OK, I am now officially intrigued ?!?!

[trigger]

OMG at greenvanman's true identity.

John McCririck??

Lilly Savage?

[pogweasel]

 

[Guest greenvanman]

 

No, it's far worse than that...

 

 

[Volksy]

 

No, it's far worse than that...

 

 

You must have had your hair done different when I met you to look over the Master for my mates..

[Guest]

OMG at greenvanman's true identity.

John McCririck??PS: who is your avatar? He's like a cross between Boris Yeltsin & George Kennedy!

He's Jeff Chittenden, the COO of Vertex.Let's just say greenvanman is related to me, I haven't seen him in ages and had no idea he posted on here. We're not estranged or anything. I should have twigged when he knew more about my old 10 than I did, he has boss love for shonky French tat.I'm guessing his user name is based on the massive Renault Trafic he converted into a camper van. It was mostly qual and painted a turquoise green. I remember his dad doing the gearbox at the back of his house.

[MrRegieRitmo]

OMG at greenvanman's true identity.

John McCririck??

 

 

PS: who is your avatar? He's like a cross between Boris Yeltsin & George Kennedy!

He's Jeff Chittenden, the COO of Vertex.

Amazing how some people just suit their name. He has a definite Jeff look about him, and absolutely Jeff not Geoff!

 

 

I'm guessing his user name is based on the massive Renault Trafic he converted into a camper van. It was mostly qual and painted a turquoise green. I remember his dad doing the gearbox at the back of his house.

Yes, we were treated to pics when he signed up & still owned said Trafic (Master)

[MrRegieRitmo]

Let's just say greenvanman is related to me, I haven't seen him in ages and had no idea he posted on here.

Use the force Luke!