Tres Xpress : Renault Fuego Turbo ( GTX actually )
2005. I'm walking through fort canning park and lo and behold a gold Renault fuego Turbo.
A distant cousin had one a long time ago.
When I was a kid, all i longed to see were nice cars, but it was the 80's and the roads in singapore were not looking too interesting. But then there was the Renault Fuego.
I can't recall how i first heard of it. And for years it was the... urm," Rare-nolt Few-goh"? ..Ah! I didn't care! It was just bloody exotic, It had arrived from another planet... i mean i had seen the odd ferrari around and there was always magnum PI to fill in the gaps... But this Oh la la, it was sleeque, dynamique, fantastique, baton, beret, all frenchy with 2 doors and no boot! whoooo... but most of all it had something called a turbo, which was to me, a magic hyperspace switch that made it the fastest car is the world. And it was RARE to boot. Magnum did not have one and neither did michael Knight.
No patience for long posts. So one day my cousin came over, and well.. the car was crap. I was 11. I was not, objectively, supposed to know that it was crap and slow . I mean... it was Pfftsssssssss.....zzzzzzzzzzz....tzchu tzchu chu...fpstttt....zzzzz....rarrrrrrarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr........tiewwwwwwwwwww........ooo gah ooogah... I wanted this car to blow my f*&$ing head off. i was prepared for a worm hole jump. all i got was the worm bit. I wanted to go back to tell my dad to ditch the opel and get this spaceship. but i didn't. and that was pretty bad for an 11 year old who spent all his time in class drawing cars.
Years later I still recall with some dread, my cousion trying to convince me to stare at the turbo boost gague ( still a cool thing ) and wait till it hit the far end of the dial . All hell was supposed to have broken loose. hmmmm.. the needle seemed to be moving faster than the car unfortunately.
2005 ( again ) . I was kind of happy to see it. In the fading evening light. It still looked ... kind of special in a slightly mental way. It was 2005 and cars on the road were hardly as crap as this plie before me. And in a very strange way. I kind of resent that.
P.S. the car is badged both " GTX 2Litres" and " Turbo" at the front. There was no 2 Litre GTX Turbo variant. So this owner is frontin'. But given that it is a right pile, I'll let him go, but jesus 3 spoke wheels? and who spells out "2- L I T R E S" . Well the French i suppose...
A distant cousin had one a long time ago.
When I was a kid, all i longed to see were nice cars, but it was the 80's and the roads in singapore were not looking too interesting. But then there was the Renault Fuego.
I can't recall how i first heard of it. And for years it was the... urm," Rare-nolt Few-goh"? ..Ah! I didn't care! It was just bloody exotic, It had arrived from another planet... i mean i had seen the odd ferrari around and there was always magnum PI to fill in the gaps... But this Oh la la, it was sleeque, dynamique, fantastique, baton, beret, all frenchy with 2 doors and no boot! whoooo... but most of all it had something called a turbo, which was to me, a magic hyperspace switch that made it the fastest car is the world. And it was RARE to boot. Magnum did not have one and neither did michael Knight.
No patience for long posts. So one day my cousin came over, and well.. the car was crap. I was 11. I was not, objectively, supposed to know that it was crap and slow . I mean... it was Pfftsssssssss.....zzzzzzzzzzz....tzchu tzchu chu...fpstttt....zzzzz....rarrrrrrarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr........tiewwwwwwwwwww........ooo gah ooogah... I wanted this car to blow my f*&$ing head off. i was prepared for a worm hole jump. all i got was the worm bit. I wanted to go back to tell my dad to ditch the opel and get this spaceship. but i didn't. and that was pretty bad for an 11 year old who spent all his time in class drawing cars.
Years later I still recall with some dread, my cousion trying to convince me to stare at the turbo boost gague ( still a cool thing ) and wait till it hit the far end of the dial . All hell was supposed to have broken loose. hmmmm.. the needle seemed to be moving faster than the car unfortunately.
2005 ( again ) . I was kind of happy to see it. In the fading evening light. It still looked ... kind of special in a slightly mental way. It was 2005 and cars on the road were hardly as crap as this plie before me. And in a very strange way. I kind of resent that.
P.S. the car is badged both " GTX 2Litres" and " Turbo" at the front. There was no 2 Litre GTX Turbo variant. So this owner is frontin'. But given that it is a right pile, I'll let him go, but jesus 3 spoke wheels? and who spells out "2- L I T R E S" . Well the French i suppose...
posted by Synth at 10:37 PM
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