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What a neat car. '85 Renault R5 Turbo 2
I stumbled upon this on ebay by just typing "turbo" under the car section to see obscure things I could find. I don't know anything about this car but it sure looks cool as heck and probably goes like stink. Anybody know about this thing?
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Hemmings Muscle Machines had a good article on one not too long ago, you might be able to look it up under Hemmings.
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About 6 years ago, I sold off all my leftover Renault 5 (lecar) performance stuff to a guy in Arcadia CA. He had a handful of R5 Gordinis and Alpines, and two R5 turbo 2's. I wonder if it's the same guy. Shipping a set of 5 3-bolt mag wheels from New Brunswick to California... the shipping was more than the wheels!
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That's the same as Le Car?
Ugh!
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08-21-2008, 05:47 PM
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I kind of like the little thing.
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08-21-2008, 06:29 PM
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I've seen one of those in the flesh...they are pretty bad ass IMHO. I think the engines in those things put down a lot of hp per liter (for the time).
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I've got one in the shop right now. If I ever give up the Corvairs one of these will fit the hole perfectly. They are great little hot rods
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08-22-2008, 03:42 AM
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Maybe I should check to see if the car is on Forza and take it for a "test drive"
Hmmm about 220 hp and about 1700 lbs. This would be a fun car. Speedy
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Those cars are a riot! I was just talking with my body guy last week about lusting after one of those! It's going to go for a substantial price....
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Up until a few years ago, there was a shop in Seattle (I think it was Seattle, anyway) that would take a standard R5 Lecar, gut it, and recreate an R5 Turbo 2. They were called R-Sport, used to have a pretty good site at R-sport.net, but now it's gone. IIRC, they had fiberglass molds for all the bodywork.
They'd use the standard R5 1.4 liter block, but with the Gordini or Alpine crossflow head and 5 sp tranny. They'd build them with great big honkin' 1.6 liter engines too! Power was generally a function of how many PSI the turbo ran, inversely related to engine life. Pretty neat stuff... I wish that site was still around just for the "build" pics. You guys would be shocked by how much fun can be had with a standard Fwd Lecar... they are essentially fwd/mid engined.
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08-22-2008, 05:52 AM
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this car is a legend on the racing circuits
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That was the cat's meow in the 1980s when in was in coll-ege.....
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I like the modern version of the R5 too...
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The 5 Turbo won the Monte Carlo Rally in '81; a 911 won in '78.
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I drove an '83 Lecar that my parents bought new for a year ('84-'85). IIRC, they paid under 4 grand for it new and it did not even have a radio in it. It was actually kind of quick, as light and stripped down as it was. I convinced my parents to let me trade it for a clapped out '72 240z. Still don't quite know how I pulled that one off.
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