jr
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quote:
Originally posted by aron
i remember this car!!
matchbox or someone made a model of it 
corgi/vangard, which i have a model off
technically wrong, as its got tiger stripes, yet A5 TNY plate, which was desert storms plate
[Edited on 20-08-2008 by jr]
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Robin
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I'm guessing the answer will be yes, but have you got this book James?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ford-Sierra-Cosworth-Classics-Colour/dp/1872004962
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jr
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no 
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jr
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quote:
Originally posted by Bonney66
I havent seen a set of thre spokes in years, Especially not in 17's 
car had 2 calipers on each wheel on the front, and brakes were big anyway, and back in the 90's, this was the easiest way to get brake clearance, as not loads of big wheels to chose from
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corsa_sean
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that car is soooooo cool saw it in a mag when i was only a nipper how much it going for ?
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Robin
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It's amazing, buy it. And the Golf GTI one. And any other one in the series you think you'd like, because you'll love them.
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j10E W
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i remember that car!!!
so many dreams of owning a car with tigerstripes lol!!
whats the story with it now james been sat for a few years by the looks of it
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bieransri
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i cant believe two absolute mega cars came from round my way, collins' and turbosystems though staffs had nothing to give in terms of cars
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RS6
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i love saphs 
those wheels are shocking though 3 spoke gash
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Butler
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Jesus anyone would think thats been driven in that state!
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Tarrantino
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link for this for sale, would like to know how much its going for. thats something id like to give some tlc and lock away in my garage for a while 
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Jill
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quote:
Originally posted by mk4_boy
rolling on the 3 spokes..
old skoool
 
quote:
Originally posted by Whittie
Needs somebody to save it.
Do you want to volunteer for the job?
JILL 
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jr
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This belongs to a good friend who has owned it for the last 17 years.
The car had been in dry storage from 2002 (when it was last taxed) until about 8 months ago, since it has been outside. She had the oil and plugs changed about the same time and was driven to its current location.
Engine has done 34172 miles.
Ford Sierra RS Cosworth 4 door 2wd “Snowstorm”
Registration date 06/09/1988
Bought 12/08/1991
All work carried out by Tony Mannock of Mannock Race Engines/Turbo Systems
4x4 Cosworth stress relieved block with low compression racing pistons
Modified “winged” sump
Blueprinted and gas flowed Head
Modified Hybrid Cams
Modified RS 500 plenum chamber
8 injector sequential set up
Modified Garret T04 Turbo
Specialist individual design radiator
RS500 Intercooler
Charge Cooler
Mainly Stainless tanks and Aeroquip braided piping
Specially commissioned 6 speed gear box (can’t remember make, I’ll find the bill eventually, but it was made in America to spec by a company specialising in drag racing kit and was over £5k. Got fed up with breaking the standard gearboxes!)
Oil cooler
Up-rated diff (but can’t remember what)
Diff oil cooler
Variable boost control
TMC Powermax 700 Adjustable Nitrous System
Adjustable race suspension
Race logic traction and launch control (needs re-configuring)
Strut Brace
Up-rated, vented, grooved disks
AP 4 pot callipers, Twin callipers on front
3” stainless exhaust system with twin 4” tail pipes
RS500 Front lip spoiler
Andy Rouse Light-weight Rear Spoiler
Originally was around 580bhp without the Nitrous. The Nitrous is set to give a very modest extra 35-40bhp but the jets could be changed to give more. This car has been in various magazines. One magazine recorded 179.6mph at Bruntingthorpe, that was before the nitrous was fitted.
This is a car that I have looked at on many occasions but I have just not got the time or the space to take on a project of this kind.
Offers in the region of 10 -12k the sister car to this sold a couple of years ago for just over 15k
for sale for 10k btw
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Jill
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quote:
Originally posted by jr
The car had been in dry storage from 2002 (when it was last taxed) until about 8 months ago, since it has been outside.
Silly question perhaps but... What sort of condition was the car in when it was dry stored- similar to these pics? Or it's in need of TLC due to being outside for the past 8moths or so?
JILL
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Tarrantino
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£10k! im gonna have a chat with my old man tonight
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jr
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save it save it
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Tarrantino
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quote:
Originally posted by jr
save it save it
£10k is still £10k and i have a feelin my old man my tell me to GTF
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Nick-S
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amazing cars, look very dated today though
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SVM 286
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quote:
Originally posted by jr
it looks so sad and unloved
http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/3149/rightsidelongzz7.jpg
I wouldn't say sad and unloved James. Just well used and starting to get on a bit. She is twenty years old so will be showing signs of exposure and usage.
On the other hand though, along with Desert Storm (a name that never made any sence), the Castle Performance cars and a few other choice examples of style, elegance and good taste being obliterated by corporate bollocks and promotional shite, she DOES, as she did then, look like utter shite.
To ruin one perfectly lovely car is bad enough. To ruin two should be a hanging offence.
The Tiger/Zebra stripes should have been left where they belonged. On the Works prototype Escort Cosworth. Not pinched wholesale and used inappropriately on an earlier vehicle.
As for the three spoke wheels. They still leave me as seething today as they did the first time I saw them. They should have been left to adorn the shitboxes of the loud stereo brigade and should never have seen action on anything that drove the back wheels.
Grrr!
Still, i'd gladly give 'em 500 quid for it and then hurl the rims in the skip at work along with a bin bag full of scraped off decals. 
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jr
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Iain M
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Set of RS7's on there and that'd be mint.
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Robin
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That's cheaper than I expected TBH.
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Marc
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Blue ones pretty funky, other is gash.
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SVM 286
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Blue one is worse because you can't simply remove what's ruining it.
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