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Old 04-05-2007, 07:45 AM
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Well I've been lately experimenting with some video editing software and have put this together as my maiden voyage. Hope you like it. I added some music to see what the mix was like.
More to come including some good Alfa stuff I have stashed away.

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Old 04-05-2007, 01:04 PM
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Well I've been lately experimenting with some video editing software and have put this together as my maiden voyage. Hope you like it. I added some music to see what the mix was like.
More to come including some good Alfa stuff I have stashed away.
Fun video! My second sports car was the second R5 Turbo (chassis 344 I believe) imported to the USA. It was an absolute blast to drive, the steering may still be the best I have experienced. It was nearly flat around corners yet had some eight inches of wheel travel. I drove it at Laguna Seca and it spanked the Ferrari's I was running with. Unfortunately it had chronic fuel leaks that became terminal. It met with a firey dimise. - George
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Wow. Unreal driving on one of the smallest roads I have ever seen. Crazy!
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Old 04-05-2007, 04:47 PM
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Fun video! My second sports car was the second R5 Turbo (chassis 344 I believe) imported to the USA. It was an absolute blast to drive, the steering may still be the best I have experienced. It was nearly flat around corners yet had some eight inches of wheel travel. I drove it at Laguna Seca and it spanked the Ferrari's I was running with. Unfortunately it had chronic fuel leaks that became terminal. It met with a firey dimise. - George
I'm so sad to hear that George. It's terrible when rare and wonderful cars are destroyed like that.
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Wow. Unreal driving on one of the smallest roads I have ever seen. Crazy!
I've got footage of an E30 M3 running the same Corse (pun time) and it's way crazier.
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Great footage..geez that co-pilot would get on your nerves though after awhile eh?
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The Renault 5 turbo sure was one of the craziest cars ever in history.
No other manufacturer has built such a little explosive bomb package,
even it was Renault again to bring out the Clio V6,
which is a midengined housewife car with supercar handling.
These cars are in a certain way even crazier than Porsches or Ferraris and a dream to drive.
I had a R5 turbo too and sold it unfortunately years ago.
It was one of the very best cars I ever owned,
the perfect machine to learn about understeer and oversteer and to crash it in the same time.
Today they are worth a fortune even when they´re not in good shape.
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The Renault 5 turbo sure was one of the craziest cars ever in history.
No other manufacturer has built such a little explosive bomb package,
even it was Renault again to bring out the Clio V6,
which is a midengined housewife car with supercar handling.
These cars are in a certain way even crazier than Porsches or Ferraris and a dream to drive.
I had a R5 turbo too and sold it unfortunately years ago.
It was one of the very best cars I ever owned,
the perfect machine to learn about understeer and oversteer and to crash it in the same time.
Today they are worth a fortune even when they´re not in good shape.
I am always so jealous when people talk about having owned and sold cars that I have always dreamed about.
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Old 04-05-2007, 09:55 PM
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I'm so sad to hear that George. It's terrible when rare and wonderful cars are destroyed like that.
Thanks for the empathy. It happened back in back in '83 so it is kind of ancient history, but it left a pretty vivid impression. I was driving out hwy one towards Stinson Beach, under a canopy of oak trees, when an explosion blew through the firewall on the passenger side (had someone been there they would have been toast). I continued another quarter mile to a clearing before stopping (I was hoping to avoid a forest fire as well). The fire dept got there within minutes, but it still took over an hour to extinguish the blazing fiber glass, alluminum, and twenty-five (plus) gallons of gas. Not much left.

The good news was that I started shifting my interest to vintage cars, like Alfas. Cheers, George
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The R 5 turbo has had always the subtitle "Fastest lighter of the nation".
Again in best tradition the Clio V6 holds on.
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So is the fuel also at the back?
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[quote=George J;345073]Thanks for the empathy.
Not to be a smart ar*e but in greek language empathy is the oppossite of sympathy. Maybe that's what you meant.
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Thanks for the empathy.
Not to be a smart ar*e but in greek language empathy is the oppossite of sympathy. Maybe that's what you meant.
Different in English: sympathy is sort of 'feeling for you', empathy is sort of 'feeling with you.
Hard to explain but have a look at an English thesarus or dictionary.
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So is the fuel also at the back?
Yes, it´s in the back too
but this time not under the seats anymore as in the the R5 turbo.

By the way, the R 5 turbo was the car which made me change from an Alfa6.
I dreamt from the Alfasud sprint 6C, the car never was produced so it became the irresistible R5 turbo.
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Old 04-06-2007, 08:42 AM
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So is the fuel also at the back?
There were two molded plastic tanks that were contoured below and behind the seats. They were on the occupant side of the firewall. The total capacity was just over 25 gallons. - George
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