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Re: GTA on Salvage Hunters : Classic Cars

Postby rupert » Thu May 07, 2020 10:48 am

Finally got round to watching this on youtube last night.
Why do these shows always have a nice presenter sidelined by a really irritating one!
Nice looking original low mileage car.
Loved the bespoke luggage in concept at least, the final look of it wasn't great I thought, but tempted to get a set made for my car (to my design), and the Spider for that matter...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72qiSvPaOgM
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Re: GTA on Salvage Hunters : Classic Cars

Postby Dave Williams » Thu May 07, 2020 4:28 pm

Here's a picture..perhaps a little fussy for my liking...but the idea of bespoke luggage is a good one.

However...in reality we all know most GTA owners have overalls, trolley jacks, spares, tools, 10 litres of coolant, jump leads ...under the 'giant petrol filler flap' .Image
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Re: GTA on Salvage Hunters : Classic Cars

Postby PaulC1959 » Thu May 07, 2020 5:08 pm

Thanks for the link Lee. :up Seriously considering this for the Venturi and the Minari kit car.
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Re: GTA on Salvage Hunters : Classic Cars

Postby stephendell » Fri May 08, 2020 12:34 am

The shame is that weird Star Trek symbol on the bag was meant to be the Alpine “A” but Renault UK refused the production company permission to use it. Short sighted in my opinion as it would have been great free publicity / brand exposure. Just idiotic and unnecessary revenue protection. Manufacturers are highly unlikely to be selling in big numbers.
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Re: GTA on Salvage Hunters : Classic Cars

Postby Petehuws » Sun Jul 05, 2020 8:15 pm

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Last edited by Petehuws on Tue Jul 07, 2020 1:22 pm, edited 4 times in total.
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Re: GTA on Salvage Hunters : Classic Cars

Postby miles thomas » Sun Jul 05, 2020 9:12 pm

Well done just the car for enjoying the north Wales roads. Look forward to hearing all about it once you have both settled in :up
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Re: GTA on Salvage Hunters : Classic Cars

Postby stephendell » Tue Jul 14, 2020 9:37 pm

Petehuws wrote:1


Hi did you buy the salvage hunters car?

It’s had a lot of work and is a great buy.

They called me recently as they suspected it needed a replacement driveshaft prior to sale
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Re: GTA on Salvage Hunters : Classic Cars

Postby Petehuws » Fri Jul 17, 2020 6:50 am

Hi Stephen, :newbie I did :)
I'm sorry about that above post just reading "1". I had left a friendly, & lengthy introduction but noted that when I use Tapatalk through my android tablet & go back onto a previous post, for some reason it edits it to "1", it looks like Miles Thomas managed to read my original post before it fell into a black hole.
But yes, we did a deal on the car a few weeks back & happy to say it was delivered to me on Monday. There are a few small issues with it & as you touched on a rumbling, knocking driveshaft on the NS from what I can detect.
The car does twofold for me, satisfies a hole in my heart from a regrettable sale of my old 5GTT that I was always sad about, & gives me a nostalgia lift. I remember being on a 3 week school French exchange trip many years back, the family I was staying with sent me down to a farm one Saturday morning with an empty bucket for wine; outside was this incredible looking red GTA, (was the first I'd ever seen), like the first 1955 scene from Back to the future when old man Peabody goes into his barn and the family views the DMC as a spaceship - that was for me, it looked like nothing I'd ever seen before, long, low, aerodynamic and beautiful, those emotions never left me, whenever I see one it takes me right back to that hot South of France summer of 1989.

I always enjoy whiling some spare time looking at old classics for sale, & have a love for the 80's French turbo cars & era, I'd looked at a few GTA's but only online, both turbo & Atmo, but warmed more to the Atmo for more simplicity.
In fact I had my eye on the Salvage Hunters GTA after seeing the show, & occasionally checked on its sale progress noting that it had been up and listed for a while. As chance would have it the weekend they dropped the price I was heading down to Cambridge for work that following Tuesday so called to see if I could view it as it would 'relatively' be on my way - it was very nice albeit I detected the driveshaft issue, the gears in the side mirrors were not liking being operated, the cabin
blower directional slider was not engaging properly, a few small scuffs, & age related marks here and there, together with a bit of a sagging front bumper on one side, but in all honest, & nothing really too wrong with it at all.
Suffice to say 2 days later a further deal was done & James & I did a virtual handshake over the phone & a deposit sent.

I've already got a huge amount of my questions answered by searching the forum & have a few more of my own to post.
But for now all is good & I'm jolly happy with it, please excuse the mess in my garage.
Many thanks Pete
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