1988 GTA Turbo Cheap Project For Sale

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Anyway ,where's that feckin Longdrop got to ? Guilty by association or what !
Mines a 12oz ribeye with extra mushrooms btw Big and I won't be hovering by the till

You rang....



I really don't know what's up with Paul, maybe he got out of bed the wrong way this morning.

As our friend Paul Cowley would say, "you can have anything you want from the bar"

"Large Jack D and coke please"

"Fack Off"

I never asked for Coke ..I keep saying that ..just ice I said ...tight arsed feckers them Vent boys ....

I never asked for Coke ..I keep saying that ..just ice I said ...tight arsed feckers them Vent boys ....

ICE.... ...thats for girls

4th vote for Lee here too.....

I know a lot of other garages (for other marques) deliberately avoid forums for the exact reason that if you show the world what you do, warts and all, you end up exposing yourself to all sorts of flack.

Lee's never shyed away from this and has been active on the site and community for all this time. That includes the developments and sometimes 'experiments'.

The cars aren't that valuable any longer and have the classic problems of low volume and age.

Some of the things we've collectively discovered in the past few years have been because of this - wheelarch pockets being a prime example where everyone claimed they were non-structural. That included the 'experts', wider community and even El Presidente himself. We just didn't know. Would a shiny suited Renault dealership man have known, or indeed most of the staff at the old Alpine factory? Probably not, it was designed 30 years ago and all that knowledge has long since gone.

Net result of all this is that we don't have a glass, air-conditioned, marble floored garage to go to with these cars. Would they even want to see one anyway - not really, most Renault dealers see them as a hassle and best avoided!

That leaves us people like Lee, who are prepared to engage with people on the forum, are prepared to get their hands dirty and often do have to 'bodge it' with a second hand bit of kit as it's all we have left to use. Again I'm sure Lee would love to have all brand new shrink wrapped components to work with as he wouldn't have half the problems but it's not going to happen.

Main point is Lee does approach all his work from an actual engineering perspective and attention to detail - in as much as you can with something 25 years old. That counts for a lot in my book and is the only realistic way of keeping these cars going.

Second main point (no-one expects the Spanish Inquisition) is that surely this individual car has now got more chance to be saved and put back on the road. And that's got to be a good thing whatever your personal viewpoint on a few people is?

Anyway ,where's that feckin Longdrop got to ? Guilty by association or what !
Mines a 12oz ribeye with extra mushrooms btw Big and I won't be hovering by the till

You rang....



I really don't know what's up with Paul, maybe he got out of bed the wrong way this morning.

As our friend Paul Cowley would say, "you can have anything you want from the bar"

"Large Jack D and coke please"

"Fack Off"

How the Feck did I get dragged into this again? You know I'm just a delicate and sensitive soul that felt I might be about to be taken advantage of again!!!

[phildini]

Nice ......
I don't think there is anyone on this forum that has done more to educate and inform members + shown results time and time again on various projects over many years with little if any bad press ?Ohh well .

I agree!! And even though I have never used Lee as yet,( never heard any bad feedback ) for any of my mechanical issues, I always found him very helpful and entertaining with his pictures and comments.

I still don’t understand why he was dragged into this dispute

Anyway once you sell a car that's it, I still very much regret selling my Blue Dini and even more so when the bloke that bought off me said he was going to keep it for a long time........ And then sold it after 6 months Now, it's probably doing the rounds like they all do....

Thanks Filippo .

Never met/spoke and certainly never done any work for him so I'm a bit baffled but had a good long think about it and think I have worked it out






































he a feckin nob-end innit

he a feckin nob-end innit

Just when Lee was appearing so hurt and fragile too. You really are a delicate wallflower aren't you?

Bedtime reading?

I do take things to heart ...then have a clear out and it's all good again