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The 90's best car decade!



Short Norman

ClioSport Club Member
  997 C4S
This was the pinnacle era of motorsport for me. Absolutely epic.
I'm sure I went to the watch a BTCC night race at Silverstone back then. Never did go to the F1 because we were poor, but did do loads of other stuff.

Car crime was also a bit mental back then too.
 

Short Norman

ClioSport Club Member
  997 C4S
the 90's tailed off towards the end for me, when in early 97 my girlfriend told me she was pregnant.

Went from single pringle, to partner, house and kid very quickly...
 

Clio_fool

ClioSport Club Member
I passed in 92, the 90's were epic for more than use the cars.

mine was a late 80's car but I have a 5GT Turbo at the age of 21

Rallying, touring cars etc etc where all great to go watch.
I passed in 92 too and a year later my mum siad I couldn't have a GT Turbo. My dad came with me when I bought it 😆. The turbo tin cans on the era were amazing, I wish modern hot hatches had some turbo lag to play with.
I guess I was especially lucky to be able to buy my dream car when I was young.
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Willo40

ClioSport Club Member
  M135i
Passed in 91, had a couple of normal fiestas then ended up going down the bike route as it was a cheap route to speed, always feel i missed out a bit, defo think the 90s was one of the best era's for interesting cars.

i will sound like an old t**t now, but the roads were so much different in the 90's you could enjoy driving, you could take the piss a bit when conditions allowed, a lot more enjoyable than now.
 
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mace¬

ClioSport Club Member
  Clio


Good watch this, and so true,
If this was your era?
Some great memories and so much better cars than the dull souless electric shite everyone will be driving very soon 😴

Never been a Mcdonalds in Keynsham.
 

Bluebeard

ClioSport Moderator
  Whichever has fuel
Passed in 91, had a couple of normal fiestas then ended up going down the bike route as it was a cheap route to speed, always feel i missed out a bit, defo think the 90s was one of the best era's for interesting cars.

i will sound like an old t**t now, but the roads were so much different in the 90's you could enjoy driving, you could take the piss a bit when conditions allowed, a lot more enjoyable than now.
I remember driving along an A road, doing about 70mph. My mate next to me so close we were passing cigarettes and lighters to eachother. 😂
Used to go out for a drive at about 9.30pm most nights as the roads were absolutely dead.

Sadly I was poor and had s**t cars. Would have been amazing if I had something that was good to drive, too. 😂
 

Willo40

ClioSport Club Member
  M135i
I remember driving along an A road, doing about 70mph. My mate next to me so close we were passing cigarettes and lighters to eachother. 😂
Used to go out for a drive at about 9.30pm most nights as the roads were absolutely dead.

Sadly I was poor and had s**t cars. Would have been amazing if I had something that was good to drive, too. 😂
Different times mate, sounds weird but u know what i am talking about.
 

Pacman.

ClioSport Club Member
  Did have a R27
I passed my test in 03 but remember all my brothers mates having cars like Mk1 xr2s and RS turbos and things like that. My brother even had two Chevettes lol
 

CrippsCorner

ClioSport Club Member
  208 GTi
Before I was into cars, I remember rocking up to my uncle's house and two of my older cousins had matching XR3i's... one red and one white, I thought they were cool.

Then my first burst of real acceleration was when my first girlfriend's big brother gave me a lift home in his R5 GT Turbo. That started a real love affair with them and to be honest they're still my favourites to this day.
 

Clio_fool

ClioSport Club Member
My little cul-de-sac had 2 nova sri's, a gsi that was swapped for a fiesta RS turbo, an escort XR3i, cavalier GSi, mk1 escort estate, my R5 then Delta and the bobby who lived opposite me rebuilt a 2002 turbo. What a time to be alive!
 
  Clio
I passed in 02 but my family were car traders in the 90s . My uncle had 1 of everything as that was his goal .

Stick out cars for me were brand new 22B, NSX, 911s, MR2 turbos , Evos 3 to 6,

Were I had my fun was the part exs . I'd have Novas for £50 . Tart them up and sell on . 205s clios coras .
My number 1 sellers were always cavaliers and vectras . Cavs always sold for £700 easy money! Vectras were good sellers at £1500 . Ls models etc

Also like dan said going out on a Sunday night with mates . Few handbrakes on a car park . Park up . Bang the tunes . Kick a ball about . Watch some dickheads race .

I find my self putting my old CD collection on in my car now and pretend I'm off out for the night with old mates 😌 them were the days !
 

davo172

ClioSport Club Member
  TCR'd 172


Also for anyone who may remember these too



Went up there a few times to see Tony with my mate in his saffy cos used to run about 330 and that was pretty epic back in the day.

He sold it to a lad who had wanted to buy it from him for years kept offering more and more money so eventually he sold it him.

He only owned it 3 days and wrote it off! 😞 330 rwd and lack of driving skills is not great combination, my mate wanted to kill him for smashing it up after all the time and money he put into it🤣

Used to take my fiesta RS turbo to Castle performance engineering all the years I owned it. Not far from Turbosystems.
 

NickReilly063

ClioSport Club Member
  182 Trophy Rs265
Passed in 1987 - I7 and out in Sierra Cosworth’s / 911’s and most other things you can remember back then -

Crazy times the late 80’s to early 90’s - however the one thing that sticks in my head was you couldn’t half get around the country in quick time and fuel was cheap 🤣🤣🤣
 

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davo172

ClioSport Club Member
  TCR'd 172
Passed in 1987 - I7 and out in Sierra Cosworth’s / 911’s and most other things you can remember back then -

Crazy times the late 80’s to early 90’s - however the one thing that sticks in my head was you couldn’t half get around the country in quick time and fuel was cheap 🤣🤣🤣


You had a cossie at 17!? was your dad a millionaire?
 

NickReilly063

ClioSport Club Member
  182 Trophy Rs265
You didn’t need to be a millionaire in 1987 to own one as they cost around 14k - but we did have a large fleet of cars due to being in the Motor-trade to experience -
 


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