me and my mate talking today about all the famous cossies a few years ago and were wandering what happened to the snow storm can tony or someone shed some light on this?

cheers, james

 

remember this from years back.

 

Snow storm You mean Desert storm?

 

wasnt snow storm an escort.?

 

i mean snow storm

 

Was that the white saff? Gay name

 

i asked tony about that car recently...it still has the same owner from years ago and it lives in his garden!

 

it still lives then, is it just sitting there until it meets it's certain demise from rust?

kev you still breaking the escort?

 

I remember Desert Storm, but never heard of Snow Storm.....

 

dunno what condition it is in

and dunno about the escort or what cossie i,m gonna break next...but one will have to be sacrificed to satisfy my ebay selling urges

 

Snow Storm is owned by a guy called Ellis Gee and last time I heard as well, it was collecting rust in his garden on the Norfolk / Sufflok boarder . Still with the same three-spokes .

 

here it is


wheels

 

Remember Ellis`s car well,Didn`t he spend about Ł100k over about 5 years on it...

Was well radical at the time.......6R4 front diff in a fabricated beam at the back,2 sets of big brakes on each side at the front,full touring car motor,and didn`t it run a MS90 sequential at one point...

 

seen much better pics of it than that on here with out them awefull wheels

but tigerstripes search brings up fuck all

there was about 4 nice pics of it

 

heres the thread but the pics have gone pm the user for the pics

ive got them saved somewhere but carnt find them right now

https://passionford.com/forum/viewto...er=asc&start=0

turbosystems old demo car 'snowstorm' (over 500bhp possably 600bhp)

 

Isnt that the one that vangard are bringing out a model of ,but with wrong reg on

cheeRS stu

 

2 sets of brakes as in 2 disks for each wheel? How did they manage that?

Spec sounds mental - any performance figures for it, was this every mag featured?

 

That spec sounds insane. Want to see detailed pics n info

Dont you mean twin calipers per wheel? Ive seen that before pleny of times.

 

No, TWO CALLIPERS per disc on the front (was wank though, as it overheated the discs - I saw him crash into the gravel and rip his RS500 splitter off as the brakes failed going into Russel at Snetterton on a track day ).

 

i knew i was missing something.

 

wow never heard of this before!

 

car that

 

good to hear it still lives, collecting rust though

kev, you should see a counciller

 

Just 2 pairs of calipers(one 4 pot and one 6 pot... )
but as Mike said,the disks used to cook after a couple of laps and the brakes failed..

Went like fook though,remember him stuffing it into a bank and totalling the shell.... ....Did get re-shelled though..

 

they used the old 2 caliper setup on f1 back in the day, alfa race cars and numerous other race cars ages ago

thanks, james

 

Hi James,
The Desert Storm owned by Kevin Gribble who ran Turbosystems in London is sitting in my garage and has been there since 1993. I get sooooooooo much stick from people about it lol, I just say "One day"

 

Get the pics up mate : )

 

Isn't the car that Kevin had built by turbosystems a different car again? Sure snow storm was bought by someone on here and is being rebuilt. Great to see they are still about!

 

yes i remember both off these! as tony worked on both mine & my bro's RS's but then i believe some tossa ran off with his mrs :-000 and all went quite!!!

 

taken from an old thread



















and where she is now

 

its aliiiivvveeeee! lol

 

Snowstorm is no longer owned by Ellis, it's was sold about 4 years ago. It's currently sitting safely in a garage and will be rebuilt back to its former glory, horrible 3 spokes, blue dash and fake walnut trim and all lol

 

I love it proper old Skool fast ford styleee

 

Nice 7 year thread bump and update





still an iconic car

 

cant wait for tony to crack on with desert storm but do love a good 7yr bump as Fil said

 

Always remember going to castle Combe supercar day when the xj220 had just been released, there was one there they had 500hp then snow storm turned up with 550hp, mental back then to see a 2.0 turbo with that power.

 

The big question is does snow storm still run or has its engine demised?

 

If does ever get rebuilt, I hope they keep the three spokes and twin caliper set up, uber cool!

 

what happened to the Escort ( Rally Storm )

Dessert Storm also wore a set of those Antera 3 spokes too at one point.

 

this car is in kent now and is in a garege and has been for years the car is mint