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Old Feb 22, 2009 | 11:33 PM
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Cool anyone heard of carrera custom design house

has anyone heard of these lot??

what it is i have seen many rs turbos in the past with carrera's sign on the back boot?? & thay have been some nice looking ones..

and now me & my mate have brought one & it has it on this one!!!

i no they are bassed in

bury stedmunds,
suffolk

they do bodywork/coachworks and thats all i no!!!

also im trying to find out if any one has seen this or heard of this car we have got hold of..

will put some pics up soon..

all your help would be great

thanks..
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Old Feb 22, 2009 | 11:43 PM
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yeh. they had a feature in performance ford a few months ago. and their mk4 escort was on the cover the month before. love their work & seen some dub stuff too. kinda olddskoolish if you know what i meanż will be interesting to see the car!
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Old Feb 22, 2009 | 11:59 PM
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yeah your rite about that mate but i missed that issue!!!

other then that thats all i no!!!

any pics of these cars mate??
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Old Feb 23, 2009 | 06:02 PM
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yeah i know of them, they drive around here in a mk4 combi
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Old Feb 23, 2009 | 08:36 PM
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thanks guys...

more people must no of them???....
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Jez Bonner is the fella from Carrera with the Mk4 in dub style with the centre exit exhaust, its a good car

No idea what he was drinking when he got those wheels though





Top car but imho it does not stand up against twins
Carrera core business is bodywork repairs as such they have done a large number of crashed and rotten fords

The contact details used to be

Little Saxham, Nowton
High Green
Town Centre, Bury St. Edmunds
IP29 5LZ
01284 388522

Ive no idea if these are still the contact details however

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those aint the wheels he had on the car when it was in the mag tho!!!

anyone no any more??
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its runs on borbet c's now (think thats the name) in 16x8's n 9's, fookin wide n deep dish anyways

cant really directly compare this motor to the twins S2, completely different kettle of fish, this has euro subtle written all over it, especially on the borbets
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Originally Posted by sid_83
those aint the wheels he had on the car when it was in the mag tho!!!

anyone no any more??
Its been in a number of mags at different points in its life, it continues to change and evolve

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its runs on borbet c's now (think thats the name) in 16x8's n 9's, fookin wide n deep dish anyways

cant really directly compare this motor to the twins S2, completely different kettle of fish, this has euro subtle written all over it, especially on the borbets
Yea it has Borbets on it now days, I can not see why you can not compare it to Twins though just because they have approached modifying it from a different angle, both are Mk4 and have unique touches which nobody else has done.
Its these unique touches rather than bolt on mods that allow direct comparison imho

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im taking nothing away from the twins s2, not at all, im merely saying that you cant really compare a euro themed car where less is more, to the twins motor which is modified in many more areas, and more obviously

level of workmanship maybe, both are incredibly well put together, but style wise no, like comparing chalk and cheese

of course thats just personal opinion
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Old Feb 25, 2009 | 12:50 PM
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Twins car is a class apart IMO, they compare in terms of attention to detail and I've never seen so many 'lairy' mods look factory. Untouchable for me.
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Carrera are based in my town!

They have done some awesome work on a few local peoples cars 2 Renault 5's and a Mk2 Fiesta, which have all been featured in the mags before, its dark/chocolate brown.

Oli's R5


Marks R5


Apparently they do all the bodywork repairs for the local Audi garage too.

They put the little stickers on the cars that have the best work done on them. I think it stands for 'Garage 19'?
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Old Feb 25, 2009 | 04:13 PM
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sounds all good to me...

has anyone seen the imperal blue mk4 escort rs turbo?
on which they have put them carrera stickers on??

it has full leather interior in cream with blue piping..
18" 5 spoke chrome dish wheels (not a massive dish just a 1.5"-2" dish)
1800 zetec bottom end
cosworth managment
plus loads of other stuff!!

anyone??
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a Escort MK4 on 18's is horrible to live with, worst thing you can ever do to one after a dump vale imho
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Old Feb 25, 2009 | 05:06 PM
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nice orange r5 that mk4 has different wheels now i think it has borbets.
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Old Feb 25, 2009 | 07:26 PM
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yeah 18"s are a bitch..

but do look good..
the car seems to me like a show car but dont no anything about my car in question!!

any one seen it????
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Old Feb 25, 2009 | 09:23 PM
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That car is finished to an amazing standard
looks the tits on the borbets in the last mag
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Old Feb 25, 2009 | 09:30 PM
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have a look at my pic of the car we got hold of!!

done by carrera
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Old Feb 25, 2009 | 09:38 PM
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how do i put up pics up on posts??

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looks good
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Old Feb 25, 2009 | 10:24 PM
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thanks mate......

funny enuf we brought it from ireland from a 60year old man!!!
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Old Feb 27, 2009 | 05:40 PM
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anyone no any more???

what do you lot tink of our car??
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