RWD_cossie_wil

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Because it is an Italian turbo charged classic! I want one again as well, I loved mine.

Smiggy

Probably the fastest feeling car I've ever driven. Was a flying machine.

I too occasionally look around to see if there are any for sale. Would love another.

Mk1 all the way

Great wee cars

Lambchop

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A good mate had one in 98 as his second car. It was only 4 years old at the time! red mk2 L plate. Another friend had a g plate mk1 which at the time was a mother ship! I have plenty happy memories of those cars

RSricRS

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A mate of of mine had a uno turbo was a rapid little car,

Talking about punto gt turbo's there was one in our village that i past on the way to work for two weeks that was just parked up on the side of the road just before it joins the a1, which i thought was strange to say the least so one day after work i went to see it and had a good look round it couldn't see any damage but still thought it was odd so called the police and reported it to find out in the end that it had been stolen ! so some lucky chap got his car back, never heard anything after that would of liked to know who's car it was.

dingla rs

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i had a mk 1 uno and me mate had a mk2 both were fun with the boost turnd up,carnt see either of said cars been on the road now

cossiecrew

theres a lad on here called dunc who had one maybe still does have one dunc maclean or something

RS SHORTIE

Dunc's one is a mk2 i think

nealo

Remember Charade GTTi's? they where quick little rotbox's aswell!

Korda

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had the punto gt turbo very quick car you never see a uno turbo anymore

Icurus

A friend of mine had a Turbo IE many years ago, don't know what mk it was, but he spent ages finding one with the digital dash, then after a week of owning it decided he hated the digital dash!

He too played around with the boost and blew the engine.

LHD220Turbo

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Gus; i'm sure that ended up in swindon, belonged to a lad called Ben - he still had it last time i spoke to him (few years ago now) it was in his garage with a blown motor

matts1

one parked about 10 doors down from mine, covered in tree sap and mildue lol!! it's a mechanics places so guessing he has picked it up to fix up.

jonny s2

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dont see many mk1's about, more mk2's but even there pretty scarce, very quick and kinda cool looking car

kosman

i know where theres one rotting in a front garden in stockport. ita a f plate is that mk1 or2?

RS SHORTIE

mk1 mate

lacey

i so am going to have a nose round for another one , race ya shortie lol, i nearly brought one about two years ago and i was a mk 1 they look so good , this is get bad not only do i want all the scaletrix in the world and all the tamiya vintage rc cars but now a mk1 uno turbo is on that list, what ever next lo

Nick-001

love them, imagin the running gear into a classic mini :O that would be good

rallycross

We always wanted to put the running gear in a Panda (the proper original panda, maybe with the rare 4x4 sisley system), would have been great with the standard 13" steel wheels and 145/70 tyres squeeling like a pig!

I once had a turbo charged Fiat Cinquecento, it got part exchanged to a Lotus dealer I knew quite well and they offered it to me before it went to auction.

It had been built by Van Aken as their demo car, no idea why they'd chose such a crap car to turbo charge but it was quite fun, complete with a garret T1, afm, uprated suspension, mini-lites etc.

For a 1.1 it was quite quick (it could just about keep up with my Integra Type R up to about 50 mph) but was nowhere near as quick as an uno turbo (and probably heavier).

The best bit was the daft stickers up the side, Van Halen rule!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ME/cinqi02.jpg

crumpet

Worse turbo cars in ther world imo, engine designs are from the middle ages, rust like nothing else and handle shocking, interiors are cheap and tacky, and suffer with electrical issues, theyre rare for a reason

RS SHORTIE

Lol they are -24yrs old now and like any hot hatch of that era.
Find a good one and its all the way!

crumpet

Theres no good ones left pal and if there was you couldnt use them daily, uno/punto turbos are shite from the experience in the past ive had with them

RS SHORTIE

No good ones left? - http://www.turbocollective.net/phpBB...cc7cd3822b9ab3

They were rare 15yrs ago,mainly due to being cheap to run/insurance they ended up in the wrong hands.

crumpet

1 decent one out of the what, 8,000 made?

RS WOLVES

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my old mk1 uno was quick little motor, for a 1.3 turbo

rapid3door

rah i remember this car i had a imperial blue one at the time and a grey one

crumpet

Wheres duncan? dint he have one?

crumpet

When did you last have this bud? iirc saw your old one down coppice road in brownhills 3 years ago,There also was a 16 year old with a white converted 1.0 one from walsall

rapid3door

just spoke to my mate hes still got hit black one as well

RS WOLVES

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i brought from a bloke in brownhills it was more like 5 years ago tho
i lived in aldridge and short heath (willenhall) when i had it then sold it to a chap in cradley heath way

crumpet

could of been 5 years ago then! i would of only been 14 then though pmsl, do you know a guy called from your way who had a escos and now drives his mrs's evo 9?

vaughant

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Agree on the handling and possibly rust but your SO wrong about the engines,lovely things,so quiet,sweet pretty tough too,between me and my mates we had about 10 of these and never had an engine issue.

Gearboxes however?I was the only one that didn't blow mine!!!

I loved the interior,especially the clocks,oil temp,oil pressure,boost,water temp a million LEDs down the middle telling you all the things wrong with it,cheesy red carpets,mine was poverty,no sunroof or leccy windows but when I saw the windows in operation winding them up seemed a good idea!!

Rust wise,IMHO not nearly as bad as a mk3/4 escort,mini,metro anything like that but certainly not the best!!!

It's weird how they disappeared overnight really,in Swansea around 1995 there were about 6-7 regular ones,my black one on a c plate,a mint f reg one from Bridgend that got in a few magazines,a lime green one,few White ones,citrine yellow one,a mint grey one and a roughish blue one,they were well popular!!!

I'd say more reliable than an r5 gtt as well but mine kept me busy on the spanners!!!

You've got a good point about daily drivers,mine wasnt too reliable,seemed to let me down at the worst possible times as well,but it was my only car so I had to keep it going,it taught me a lot about cars tbh!!!

I'd love another but it's a heart over head moment for sure!!!

My mate reminded me of a funny story years ago last Friday with my shitbox UNO!!!

They filmed twin town in Swansea and in one of the scenes you can see a bloke doing pressups in front of a mk3 escort with tiger stripes on it.well we could see them filming and were all trying to get on film,driving about,showing off etc.

They block the road off a bit to set up so we park up and grab something to eat.get back to the UNO and it won't start,fuck!!!bonnet up,nothing obvious?try again and she goes,woo hoo!!!notice theres no lights,indicators or fans working,car runs but literally none of the electrics work,bonnet up,start trying battery connections,no joy.in the end as the filth are everywhere decide to drive home with the only form of lighting being the interior light on!!!So I never even saw the filming let alone got a cameo in it!!!

It broke down 2 days later with an ignition switch burn out!!!which I cut off a scrapper and chock blocked back in,bodging cunt that i am!

crumpet

Mate that was 15 years ago... just admit it, theyre shit, the head designs are wank, they have shit injection systems, the manifold/turbo design is shit, the gearboxes are weak, compared to any other 1.3-1.4 turbo car from the 80's and 90's engine bays are cramped and tiny

vaughant

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I CAN'T,I JUST CAN'T I LOVED IT,EVEN IF YOU ARE RIGHT!!!(real tears).

Still better than a 5 turbo though with it's pushrod engine,that was a clue because you WERE pushing it,every fucking day!!

And the metro turbo,now they were shit!!!

Can't think of any others?

crumpet

well there was the a series which is shit, the c1j r5 gt engine which is shit but id raher work on one than a uno/punto turbo engine, the 4efte toyota starlet engine which is great imo

massivewangers

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Can't really see why they're "shit". Seen some proper quick ones over the years.

At the end of the day, they're a bloody old car. Even ten years ago most of them were old. Like most hot hatches of that era; they were fast and fun but, by today's standards, a bit fragile and don't handle ever so well.

I think we're spoilt by modern cars and just how much quality has improved, in terms of build and performance, so often don't realise that that's how cars were back then!

crumpet

you havr to think aswell though, i wasnt around back then to see that, im 19 and in the past 4-5 years ive seen/worked on/drove/ been in alot of cars and its all changed, id love to go back to 1995 to see what it was like.

I fucking hate the 2000's, the newest year of cars id ever own is 1996

vaughant

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Honestly were the bollocks back then,for me they were what it's all about,racing supras,bmws,mercs and fucking embarrassing them!!tuning them yourself in the garage or street in my case and just spending a day ragging it up the road to check it's boosting ok!!!

Street racing was THE thing to do then as track days were few and far between so something quick to 60-70 mph was more desireable than something that could do 140 as you didn't often get to those speeds.

They were proper David and Goliath cars,like a staff versus a big sheepdog,by the time the sheepdog gets in it's stride the staffs done the business!!!

Yes they were tight under the bonnet but look at the plastic shite that's out there now,people paying £1500 on a pump and injectors on a fucking Mondeo!!we'd have just bought another 2 UNOs for that money,stripped the bits we wanted and scrapped the rest.

I got into fords through my love for the series one turbo if I'm honest and the Cossie of course but as much as I love them now the UNO was well up there with it's closest rival the xr2 of the time,don't forget the UNO wasn't escort sized.I never even bothered racing xr2s as they weren't considered fast,same with xr3i's,only the turbo gave it a run for it's money and then a mildly tuned one,standard for standard I'd go fiat everytime.

Reliability the ford wins hands down but even back in 93 when I passed my test boys were fitting new battery trays in 4-5 year old escorts so rustwise I don't buy the fiats as being any worse.

I'd say the best cars of that era imho were the 205's and astra 16valves but for pure entertainment the UNO was a class act.

Vroommmmmmwapppppop pop bang vroomm!!!

Now,where's that fucking eBay app gone!!!NOOOOOOOOO!!!!

crumpet

pmsl, like i said, i wish i could of passed my test back then, but i didnt im stuck in an era of these fucking WANK focus rs's and st's, astra vxrs and all this other complicated shit

massivewangers

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Just buy old cars then

crumpet

thats what i do but its hard to find decent cars i like, im immensly picky