Stavros

I love em Always dead interesting, loads of "official" conversions ive never heard of.

Plenty of FORD ones too- Didnt realise the old TVRs ran an Essex V6 with a turbo on em
http://www.pistonheads.com/tvr/m/turbos.asp

Obv theres been Capri turbos in the UK, but there was plenty done in USA too-
http://home.att.net/~CapriClubChicag....html#specials

1974 Manta Turbo
http://www.mantaclub.org/archive/manta_a_turbo.htm

This my fave, as its sooo horrid -
http://www.austin-rover.co.uk/index.htm?avonaccf.htm

Id love an old Gordini Turbo, or Cherry Turbo, etc, i nearly bought a Lancia Y10 turbo once but chickened out of buying the old POS

richm

my fave was the original Colt Lancer Turbo - animal in it's day and still looks good in a retro way now

http://www.lancerregister.com/mlr_brturbo.php

http://www.lancerregister.com/reg_ca...php?carid=79#/

http://www.lancerregister.com/reg_ca...s.php?carid=84

http://www.lancerregister.com/reg_ca...s.php?carid=85

http://www.lancerregister.com/reg_ca...php?carid=24#/

Matt

yeah you gotta love em steve.....

Benn 304R

This was the first turbo charged car i owned (not the one in the pic, just a standard one), 1.8 rwd, was good fun, bloody expensive when it went wrong though.
Had awfull orange interior aswell

Stavros

Yea, i was on the lookout for a silvia turbo a while ago, but now they got dead rare and not cheap anymore.

I had a bluebird turbo for a week! Same engine as Silvia Turbo but FWD. I REALLY wanted to keep it but someone offered me twice what i paid for it so it had to go.

old tasteless wank looking basic turbo cars from 25-30 odd years back are ace Just finding them for cheap aint easy

Benn 304R

When I had mine no one done any upgrades for it apart from a dump valves pmsl, When I sold it I found out about silvia engineering, was gutted then lol

Did like the car and have seen some nice ones about at the pod etc. Would make a good cheap track car i would of thought.
But as you say its finding a good one

One of my all time favorite 80s cars is the MK1 Astra GTE, I know its not turbocharge but thats easily sorted using a calibra turbo lump etc.
Will have one one day for a little project.
But same as the silvia, very rarte and and very hard to find a good one now, the good ones that are about go for alot of money.

SteveT

Benn - Your right re the Mk1 Astra GTE

First car I owned, here she was for sale 6 yrs ago....



steve