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RTOC changed for the better - I joined :D
I can't believe how quickly it's gone! I've got to say, I've loved pretty much every minute of it: I've learnt loads, I've attended some great events, seen some awesome cars, I've got some fantastic deals, but most importantly - I've met plenty of people who I now consider great friends :agree:
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Joining RTOC - THE best money you'll ever spend on your Renault Turbo :cool:
Well said I totally agree :agree:
Agree one of the best clubs always look forward to National day and have made some good friends on here as well:cool:
:agree::agree:Spot on :agree::agree:
Bang on Bill J, I've been in plenty of car clubs overy the years and non compare. Respect to the Rtoc.
feel the love bruv.....:), totally agree, it dont get better ... an what other club has JESUS as a member...:laugh::wasntme::agree:
:) completely agree, met some great people through the club.
Pah, noob :D
P155 off RTOC'S Grandad :laugh:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mart
its not about the 5's.....:D
:beer:I be here too in ten, if alls good :cool: epic day today one each:beer: :beer:
Thinking about it, I'm around 10 years in to. I'm loving it!:D:beer::goodJob::agree::goodpost:
Well done a decade of scuffed knuckles and tears in the world of the GTT. :agree:
come to think of it I'll be 13 years siince I first joined the club in November. :)
I bought my first 5 twelve years ago, but I didn't join rtoc for a couple of years (lack of interweb back then :laugh:)
bought my first one 14 yrs ago...:cooter:Quote:
Originally Posted by The new Bill J
But you can't count :cooter: :laugh:Quote:
Originally Posted by J$£5GTT
First 5GTT, 20 years ago last month. Still have it.
Abc.....i Love My Gtt...:dQuote:
Originally Posted by the New Bill J
Think it was about 1996/97 when i first joined R5gtt owners club when Malcolm Rousse and Rachel Fodden where running the show. Used to love it when the Wastegate mag dropped through the door, as at the time that was pretty much all the info there was on local events and other members.:( I remember GT Tunings glossy colour mag with all the expensive chrome ****e in.
It was a few years later early 2000? when i met such stalwarts as Sparkie and Karlos just when the internet started and RTOC was born.:D
Bloody 35 this month and feeling decrepid!:cry:
Pahahaha ! That made me chuckleQuote:
Originally Posted by MATT C Ringworm Tuning
:D
You look it too mate :laugh:Quote:
Originally Posted by MATT C Ringworm Tuning
WHOA!? :eek:
Bill-J full of Love!? :scratch:
Nice to read that though Billiam!! :niceone: makes a change from setting those straight about the 5 Turbo/GT Turbo etc :laugh:
Think im on 7-8 years now :agree:
Showing your age bill :D i joined up 2001, seems like 5 mins ago. Has been some awesome crack throughout the years though!!
24 mate ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Brigsy
Aii, we've all had a right good giggle over the years. Some awesome days/evenings out, with countless unforgettable moments :D
I'll have to hunt out those videos of Ricardo at Donington, all those years ago. I still don't think he's ever plucked up the courage to watch them :laugh:
The wine drinking competition at Rws?? those were the days...Mart in his best shorts at the collectors shirt and tie dinner do :laugh:
It's been 6 years for me ,I've got some great friends who I have met great cars , The best clubs on the net for renaults and advice
That's the one - When Renault UK laid on cars for us, to get us to attend the Gala do :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Brigsy
I forgot about Mart's shorts - Awesome :laugh:
Got my first GTT in 94 and a second LHD write off in early 95 for spares! Joined the Renault 5 GT Turbo Owners Club in late '94 and have been here ever since. I've not been to a single event and that's my biggest regret (I can thank the British Army for that) but, I've always felt that the RTOC forums are by far the friendliest and most welcoming.
Now that I'm living in Oz, the chances of me getting to an event are slim but if the stars align in the future, I'll be there.
Happy tenth Bill.
Over 9 years for me:crap:.
I've been in the club for approaching 15years. From circa 1997 IIRC.
It's about time the club allocated honorary membership to those who've have been members a very, very long time. 15 years for example. :D
I still cannot believe we actually didn't get chucked out the travelodge that night, mart trying to help himself to a pint and Ricardo decorating the toilets :DQuote:
Originally Posted by The new Bill J
:laugh: That was a truly great night! :D
To be fair, it was Dell who 'bullied' me/us on the day into going to that Gala - I had only rocked up at RWS in my shorts thinking we'd all be camping/on the beers that night :ashamed: :D
Getting chauffeured to the gala & back for gratis in that new shmoo Renault Espace was a touch as well :cool:
Those were the days :ashamed: :cool: :D
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We need more events/nights out :beer: :)
I've been knocking about the boards I think about 7 years, and boy in that time I've attended some crazy nights/weekends away. National Days, RR days, No Bling, curries, PMTrackdays, the whole nine yards and I have to say along the way I couldn't have met better friends, true friends.
:cool:
im nearing my 9th year, think this was the first internet forum i ever joined. great bunch of people on here, havent actually owned a turbo renault for a while now and still keep coming back
I've no idea when I joined. How can I find out? It says 2008 on my home page, but I know that aint right. That was when we relocated to this web-site was it not?
I think I'm about 8-9 years in myself.
:agree:......and lost some to.....:dearme:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ricardo
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Originally Posted by Brigsy
Pahh, all these newbs. Got my first 5GT in 1990, had at least one ever since :mart:
Don't use mine these days though :ashamed:
Got to renew my membership next month for the 17th consecutive year. I like Trevs idea for honary membership ;):agree:
think i first joined early 2002 when i first bought my 5... how time goes by!!!!
:laugh: That was an awesome night. Marts dress code was legendary.:cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mart
Thing that sticks in my mind best was the Barrie "Whizzo" Williams chat (or was it lecture, I forget ;) ) and watching Marts eye's light up when he saw the chotolate fountain.:laugh:
Oh, and Mart's right. Still a Newby Billy.;)
I can't remember where the RR shoot out was but we went the night before and stayed in the local Travelodge esque hotel (Adey had the white Clio GTT)
It was when TK turned up with black eyes, Queensbury rules, sticky starter motor story :D
That's when he was going on about some 'magical' lever underneath the dash that altered the ignition. "Nah Barrie, that's the choke" :DQuote:
Originally Posted by AlexS
:laugh: Wasn't that the same night that you were found face down in the gutter, and the ol' bill had to bring you back to the Travel Inn? :laugh:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ricardo
A few more gems...
Giles (Gymnast) borrowing some random barman's clothes & shoes, just so he/we could get into a club :wasntme: :laugh:
Changing Alex's gearbox in the Travel Inn car-park. "Could do with some more light" - At that exact moment the adjacent football pitch floodlights came on :D
Think it was that same night that Tricky scored with the local munter, but tried to keep it all hush hush & made out nothing happened - Shame we were already outside the next morning when he walked out the hotel with her to take take her back home :laugh:
Fecking Raider's alternator wiring coming loose just after we (20 cars?) all pulled out of the M1 Todington services en route to a ND at Pod, only for everyone to then follow suit & also pull over on the hard shoulder, thus bringing that section of the M1 to a standstill :laugh:
Sammy Tripod spewing up his recently-eaten curry due to laughing so hard :D
Tricky & Dougal smashing seven bells of sh1t out of some 'borrowed' section of armco barrier, to repair T-cup's seat-base at Rockingham...whilst a driver's briefing was taking place & somewhat interrupting the guy speaking :laugh:
Awesome times :D
And then there's the Knockhill weekend... :laugh:
Good old Whizzo. I remember when Mart and I bumped into him at Race Retro a year or so later - You've never seen us move so quick :laugh:Quote:
Originally Posted by AlexS
That chocolate fountain was something else :D
interpro in thornbury, near bristolQuote:
Originally Posted by Ricardo
Oh dear :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Mart
The Vectra hire car, demanding it HAD to be a manual, taped over headlights, PMT stickers, airbox PMTd :D
Talking Scottish, saaawsaaaaarge :D
Brake testing and wheel spinning the Vectra to test it out :D
Oh and realising about an hour into the journey back to the hire place we still had the number plates taped up :D
With 4 Janky southerners wearing black hats (suspect) :D
"Can't drive an automatic. It's against my religion" :laugh:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ricardo
I'm in stitches here :laugh:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mart
That one with Giles borrowing the clothes HAS to be the funniest one ever. That was just so feckin funny. ''ere Giles, that geezer's about your height, ask him if he's got any clothes you can borrow, so we can go clubbing" :laugh:
Then there was Mike (M5) holding up that ESSO garage with an anti-perc' fan, at 2 in the morning after a night out, before THAT moment with the bottle of Coke, and force feeding Lee (Rodders) tea bags, because he wanted a cuppa!
And the night with Tricky and the munter was also the same night he was rattling on about what a big drinker he was, before getting smashed on 2 pints!
I can't stop grinning, soooo many stories :D
A bit emotional as well as they're good times :cool:
It was worth the wait, they had a truck delivering more hire cars to the airport!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mart
My memorable story has to be the one on NBATR 07 with Tricky & his Starsky + Hutch magnetic blue light & pulling random Europeans over.
Best thing was when the Police car pulled him over :laugh:
Lucky git got away with it also :wasntme:
Epic Win of a trip was that one Steve ! :):D
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Originally Posted by Mart
errrr no fannks....... more like a donkey derby when we turned up.......
I remember when Adam L was 16 year old kid from west london..........and very friendly on the boards.........:)
Ah yeah. I organised that Bristol RR event.:) Ricky lost us somewhere over the night and got a lift home by plod in time for breakfast, still pissed.:laugh::laugh:Quote:
Originally Posted by Adey aka Ewok
My cars gearbox change was typical of our amazing club. Only in the rtoc could we have a double header TD weekend, Cadwell and Rockingham, blow my gearbox to bits at Cadwell, bung it on the trailer and change the box in Travelodge carpark on the day off inbetween! Col found a gearbox somewhere in London and the boys coming up for the Rockingham TD picked it up and transported it to us in Corby. All hands on deck to remove box. As we pulled it out the next box arrived. Bunged it in. Quick forward and backward test in the carpark. Back on the trailer. Back on the beers and out at Rockingham to complete the TD the next day.
Tricky beating the sh*t out of that bit of armco in the next garage to the briefing was that same Rockingham TD!
Feckin' awesome times.:smokin:
"Some caaants been pissing in our tank..":laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:: laugh:
Was that the track day Billy ball bag filled the fuel tank up with the water?
I'll only ask you once, where's the light!Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Steve - Raider
What light?
I told you I'd only ask once!
Here you go officer lol
:laugh: How could I have forgotten that one!? Yeah, that was classic. Thanks Billy! :rolleyes: :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Adam L
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Originally Posted by Mart
The classic look of realisation on Billy's face when I asked him where my water/ethanol container was. :scratch::eek::cry:
Yeah, that was the first diagnosis. :laugh:Quote:
Originally Posted by Eugein Offord
Its took mi this long to log in and catch up with previous post, hahaQuote:
Originally Posted by MATT C Ringworm Tuning