where hav all the famous 5s gone ???

[Lomo]

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my dad owned this car for years he paid £7000 many years ago ,we did take it to a max power show in doncaster were it was parked next to a blue wide arched one,he never took it out in the rain always garaged,he was really anal with it used to take the bolts out the splits and polish them every week lol sure it was on ebay for bits not long ago..

I was lucky enough to know the first customer Francis Skeete had for this kit. John had it done in Pearl white and it looked the nuts....I then saw this for sale very locally to me and had a good look round it...The magazine article was superb! It had a big effect on me...

[Lomo]

And to think thats actually a Phase 1 GT Turbo...

[mleo89]

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just spoke to me dad he purchased it just past new brighton in a garage in bout 94-95 and he actually sold it to someone from wirral in around 2000 2001.

[raider_gtt]

as far as i no yes its broken for parts via ebay shame

[Lomo]

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just spoke to me dad he purchased it just past new brighton in a garage in bout 94-95 and he actually sold it to someone from wirral in around 2000 2001.

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[James_Surridge G1 5 GTT]

Who are you?

Hope you've a good Christmas matey. I'll dig some old ones out with you/us etc. KD

Ha ha..Karlos mate your a good man!!

[Adam 005]

this should be famous

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[5teve L]

Yeah thanks, I looked at that & my kids are in the room

[doggydowg22]

Hell yeah

[Karlos]

Ha ha..Karlos mate your a good man!!

[Karlos]

blimey, my hairline has receded a touch, lol!!!

The tide has gone out for both of us matey *loL*

[5teve L]

The tide has gone out for both of us matey *loL*

Where/when was that picture taken ?

[Sparkie]

erm, i can't remember.
although i do remember seeing Nikki Brogden (who has just given birth according to facebook - congrats) at that event...

[Karlos]

Where/when was that picture taken ?

Donny May 2002 -

Ktec showed the Ali G Car and B16 KTR.
BBT changed C606 PEW ie split rear sceen
Sona was also there with her motor C50NA.

[Robbo]

Donny May 2002 -

Ktec showed the Ali G Car and B16 KTR.
BBT changed C606 PEW ie split rear sceen
Sona was also there with her motor C50NA.

went there myself got a few photos kicking around somewhere

[Karlos]

went there myself got a few photos kicking around somewhere

Robbo - taking us back in time just like TimeCop

[Sparkie]

Donny May 2002 -


Sona was also there with her motor C50NA.

didnt she marry Dan Bedstead (Benstead) and the pair of them disappeared off the car scene?

although a quick facebook stalk indicates that Sona isnt on his friends list....

[Karlos]

didnt she marry Dan Bedstead (Benstead) and the pair of them disappeared off the car scene?

although a quick facebook stalk indicates that Sona isnt on his friends list....

I think they did marry and Sona did her art work for another magazine (was it the same mag/publisher that Emma was working on?).

I did have a fantastic pic of her buffing the car at Donny 2002 and I can remember the little snip she put in Redline with Ralphy and cheesy comments *lol*)

[Biggs]

Does anyone remember Nitro Nick (was it) from Croyden ?

I wonder what ever came of his 5

[dangerous dave]

Does anyone remember Nitro Nick (was it) from Croyden ?

I wonder what ever came of his 5

Last time he posted I think he was fixing it, did he drop a valve or something?

[James_Surridge G1 5 GTT]

didnt she marry Dan Bedstead (Benstead) and the pair of them disappeared off the car scene?

although a quick facebook stalk indicates that Sona isnt on his friends list....

Dan is currently serving in the British Army as a Royal Anglians officer.

[James_Surridge G1 5 GTT]

SHOCKING!! Oh the nostagia!! Where??

[Scoff]

Dan as in the ex pgti editor ? I remember him telling me he was going back into the army at some point.

[Dave_r5gt]

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Some quality 5's in this thread,great to see them again

[Jonny5]

I found an old copy of PFC when sorting through my shed this morning with a very tidy BB Performance Tuning EFi converted Tungy featured.
Owned in the mag by a builder called John. Car had been fully resprayed in tungy, fitted with new side graphics and lowered nicely on O.Z superleggeras otherwise standard externally.
Who owns this car now? or does anyone know where it ended up?

[Markey Mark (BD)]

I found an old copy of PFC when sorting through my shed this morning with a very tidy BB Performance Tuning EFi converted Tungy featured.
Owned in the mag by a builder called John. Car had been fully resprayed in tungy, fitted with new side graphics and lowered nicely on O.Z superleggeras otherwise standard externally.
Who owns this car now? or does anyone know where it ended up?

If i remember that car got broken for bits or at least the engine did, could be wrong but do remember the car

[Jonny5]

If i remember that car got broken for bits or at least the engine did, could be wrong but do remember the car

Shame! Looked to be a well sorted 5. Very O.E looking seeing as it was a few years ago.

[Thundercat]

Johnny5 you can add your 5 to list of famous 5s soon.

[Chris Beer]

Anyone remember I.think his name was Jamie Shaw's orange 5 turbo on the fast car free video tape years ago? Used to love that car !

[Jonny5]

Johnny5 you can add your 5 to list of famous 5s soon.

Dont be silly lol

[Alan]

Anyone remember I.think his name was Jamie Shaw's orange 5 turbo on the fast car free video tape years ago? Used to love that car !

The one with chrome 3spokes?? Thats the reason i got into 5's.

[Chris Beer]

The one with chrome 3spokes?? Thats the reason i got into 5's.

My Mistake! Jamie was the Carisma guy who went onto pimp my ride etc

I think the guy was called Kevin ? Googled the car!!!

[Phoenix Autosport]

carisma was jamie shaw, heard he went off the rails a bit towards the end of the pimp my ride days, see his company is still going strong but no mention of 5's, carismas website seems to just be offering custom interiors for prestige motors and 4x4's these days, no mention of its roots or the good ole days, shame as they did some nice work back in the day

[Ian S]

I spoke to Jamie Shaw recently and set him up as a trader on here. He was wondering about selling the silver 5 but to a club member rather than the general public.

The idea was to start a thread for interested parties to ask questions and talk about the sale and gauge a value for the car.

He now specialises in expensive interior refits to the Mercedes people carrier for wealthy executives and celebrities who want to chauffeured around in anonymous luxury.

This would be the car in post 13 of this thread?

[Ian S]

I think the guy was called Kevin?

'Tractor Trev' who worked for ktec owned a car of that colour and he and it appeared in magazines and did some times at the Pod that were fast back then. He also held the record for a while driving the DD autosports black 5GTT.

[dangerous dave]

Who was the guy that was a painter? He had a nice 5... Clarkie or something.

[Phoenix Autosport]

I spoke to Jamie Shaw recently and set him up as a trader on here. He was wondering about selling the silver 5 but to a club member rather than the general public.

The idea was to start a thread for interested parties to ask questions and talk about the sale and gauge a value for the car.

He now specialises in expensive interior refits to the Mercedes people carrier for wealthy executives and celebrities who want to chauffeured around in anonymous luxury.

good to hear he is still about and doing well, im surprised he would want to part with the 5 though, if i had invested that much work in a car and owned it that long you would have to prise the keys from my cold dead hand

[Ian S]

He said he owned nine cars and the 5 was just one them. He wanted to reduce the quantity a bit.

[6FOOT6]

The most famous of them all

http://www.steverae.force9.co.uk/

300 HP yeah ok mate.....

[Penfold aka The Dealer]

where has this one gone...

[5alldaway]

if noones answered the wherabouts of trevor childs broze coloured 5, it was written off

before the forum changed over i spoke to the new owner and i was going to give him a magazine with the feature of the car, and before i could send his he magazine he wrote it off

[6FOOT6]

http://www.steverae.force9.co.uk/

300 HP yeah ok mate.....

GT tuning = the Apple of the Renault world - only ****s with too much cash believed the shiny hype.

and 61 posts - before the new site I had over 10,000 posts! those were the days.

you should add the Grey Ghost G919 VJA - 20 runs up the pod one after another back in 2003/2004 my beast and drove home and me old Renault 11 Legenderry for having the worst paint repair and the home made sidey!

[Markey Mark (BD)]

http://www.steverae.force9.co.uk/

300 HP yeah ok mate.....

I have to laugh everytime this comes up, like how he says Santa Pods timing gear musy have been wrong to print 94mph!

What ever happened to this car or any of the other that were on that site (under famous 5's)?

[Hoolio]

Chris the rather nice Tungy still belongs to Grant, he's not as active on the forums any more as I think he discovered girls though he does still update occasionally. Great work on that though he's gone a little too far for my taste.

[Penfold aka The Dealer]

Chris the rather nice Tungy still belongs to Grant, he's not as active on the forums any more as I think he discovered girls though he does still update occasionally. Great work on that though he's gone a little too far for my taste.

Yeh seen this thread on Cliosport... carbon buckets, different wheels, & the then the rear speakers are abit but a lovely car.

[The new Bill J]

Yeh seen this thread on Cliosport... carbon buckets, different wheels, & the then the rear speakers are abit but a lovely car.

Lovely car indeed, but famous?

Markey McMarkos - The last memory I have of Steve Rae's old car is that it was owned by a guy over Bristol way, who used to be a member of the old site. I can't remember his name, but I remember he took the car to the Nat' Day one year. I'll have a photo of it somewhere.

Tommy - The only thing your old 5 is famous for is being a bike

[Brizza]

Wow! been really interesting and brought back a lot of memmories reading all this, I remember lots of the cars, the Cossie 4x4 5 was in a magazine - performance GTI? and the A14 BBT, GT Tunings cars and Steve Rae's was the inspiration behind me buying mine...

As for the Delta bodykits, they are/were produced in Barnsley. Can't believe people would butcher 5's up with golf lights etc...

[Tony Walker]

Wow! been really interesting and brought back a lot of memmories reading all this, I remember lots of the cars, the Cossie 4x4 5 was in a magazine - performance GTI? and the A14 BBT, GT Tunings cars and Steve Rae's was the inspiration behind me buying mine...

As for the Delta bodykits, they are/were produced in Barnsley. Can't believe people would butcher 5's up with golf lights etc...

lol i remember desperately wanting the purple 5 with golf lights.

[AlexS]

Wow! been really interesting and brought back a lot of memmories reading all this, I remember lots of the cars, the Cossie 4x4 5 was in a magazine - performance GTI? and the A14 BBT, GT Tunings cars and Steve Rae's was the inspiration behind me buying mine...

As for the Delta bodykits, they are/were produced in Barnsley. Can't believe people would butcher 5's up with golf lights etc...

Cosworth 4x4 R5 was Bealo's. He's a good mate of mine but the only picture he can lay his hands on is this. Pity, he has great memories of the bad ol' days.

Anyone remember the R5 meet at Skeete's workshops. Must be back in 1996 or so! I've got pictures somewhere. Have to dig them out.

[MR PM]

That really low red 5 in the top left hand corner of the home page, what happened to that one? Who owned it by the way?

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