General one for the turbo owners

[Jai]

i'm sure a lot of you are aware of the TURBO COLLECTIVE site on MSN

http://groups.msn.com/TurboCollecti...essage=20187&LastModified=4675512714904545029

not many left eh?

 

[phil_harry]

Thats tragic, it makes them rarer than a lot of traditional classics. I have recently noticed uno turbo's popping up for sale in classic car mags. They are lovely cars and think they deserved to be saved.

There is an oldish guy who lives a few streets down from me who has a silver mk1 turbo antiskid. i wonder if he know's it is one of 18 in the country!?

Phil

 

[Dunc Uno Turbo]

yeah ive seen that! getting rare good good, hopefully start goin up in value soon lol

Dunc

 

[cholmes0305]

nahhh! I don't believe there are as few as that

 

[Luke]

In essence theres probably quite a few more as the uno turbo was a doner car for a couple of kit cars...

 

[Chas Uno]

Cholmes, I think Phil_Harry meant the anti-skid model. They are very rare because very few turbos were ordered with this option. In essense it is an early form of anti-lock brakes, though from what I read it wasn't that good a system and has lots of extra things to go wrong. In fact, I don't think 'anti-skid' was even available on the UK mk2 turbos, which probably says something about the design..... And it probably cost a fortune to put right when it did go wrong, hence not many being left on the road.

 

[Chas Uno]

Oh and Luke is right. Kit cars like to use the turbo engine, and also it is a popular swap into an X1/9.

 

[Luke]

Oh and Luke is right. Kit cars like to use the turbo engine, and also it is a popular swap into an X1/9.

A couple use the whole rolling chassis too, its pretty much a case of cutting the bodyshell off, relocating the petrol tank, stiffened suspension and put the new shell back on. Its called a Bobcat i think

 

[Louie Bee]

One more turbo owner!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=9843&item=4536332229&rd=1 is the e-bay seller I got my disputed Uno Turbo alloys

1 xtra Uno turbo on the road lol.

Regards All,