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MoleT-5R
Monday 21st July 2014, 15:32
As I have let a few people know in the forum and few more when we attended avon at the weekend, I am the mystery buyer of FoamMan's Gul. I am very excited to have purchased the car and I am in the process of clearing it a nice dry garage to be it's new home here with the rest of the collection. I envisage the Gul remaining pretty much standard, as I have the olive for chasing the 1/4 milers, but I will looking to restore her to her former glory (not that it's bad, Mark has done bits and pieces and I know how fussy he can be so I know it will be better than when I last saw it :) ), unfortunately due to the work that a certain man up north is doing on his Gul the bar is set rather high now, I hope my efforts will be somewhere near. So here are a few shots of her from when I first saw this car at the Demon Tweeks meet. To use one of Mark's phrases Pete and I "might be able to get are bananas together".......lol :funkybana:funkybana:funkybana:funkybana
http://i1290.photobucket.com/albums/b526/MoleT5R/VPCUK%20North%20West%20Meet%20Demon%20Tweeks%2027t h%20July%202013/DSCN3076_zps17aceefb.jpg (http://s1290.photobucket.com/user/MoleT5R/media/VPCUK%20North%20West%20Meet%20Demon%20Tweeks%2027t h%20July%202013/DSCN3076_zps17aceefb.jpg.html)
http://i1290.photobucket.com/albums/b526/MoleT5R/VPCUK%20North%20West%20Meet%20Demon%20Tweeks%2027t h%20July%202013/DSCN3074_zps36da7136.jpg (http://s1290.photobucket.com/user/MoleT5R/media/VPCUK%20North%20West%20Meet%20Demon%20Tweeks%2027t h%20July%202013/DSCN3074_zps36da7136.jpg.html)
http://i1290.photobucket.com/albums/b526/MoleT5R/VPCUK%20North%20West%20Meet%20Demon%20Tweeks%2027t h%20July%202013/DSCN3075_zpsc9780f7e.jpg (http://s1290.photobucket.com/user/MoleT5R/media/VPCUK%20North%20West%20Meet%20Demon%20Tweeks%2027t h%20July%202013/DSCN3075_zpsc9780f7e.jpg.html)
http://i1290.photobucket.com/albums/b526/MoleT5R/VPCUK%20North%20West%20Meet%20Demon%20Tweeks%2027t h%20July%202013/DSCN3078_zpsf52652de.jpg (http://s1290.photobucket.com/user/MoleT5R/media/VPCUK%20North%20West%20Meet%20Demon%20Tweeks%2027t h%20July%202013/DSCN3078_zpsf52652de.jpg.html)
http://i1290.photobucket.com/albums/b526/MoleT5R/VPCUK%20North%20West%20Meet%20Demon%20Tweeks%2027t h%20July%202013/DSCN3079_zpsd0e11c9d.jpg (http://s1290.photobucket.com/user/MoleT5R/media/VPCUK%20North%20West%20Meet%20Demon%20Tweeks%2027t h%20July%202013/DSCN3079_zpsd0e11c9d.jpg.html)
http://i1290.photobucket.com/albums/b526/MoleT5R/VPCUK%20North%20West%20Meet%20Demon%20Tweeks%2027t h%20July%202013/DSCN3080_zps844b339d.jpg (http://s1290.photobucket.com/user/MoleT5R/media/VPCUK%20North%20West%20Meet%20Demon%20Tweeks%2027t h%20July%202013/DSCN3080_zps844b339d.jpg.html)
stands out where the olive blends in.....lol
http://i1290.photobucket.com/albums/b526/MoleT5R/VPCUK%20North%20West%20Meet%20Demon%20Tweeks%2027t h%20July%202013/DSCN3084_zps31070411.jpg (http://s1290.photobucket.com/user/MoleT5R/media/VPCUK%20North%20West%20Meet%20Demon%20Tweeks%2027t h%20July%202013/DSCN3084_zps31070411.jpg.html)
Jamest5r
Monday 21st July 2014, 15:37
Worst kept secret on the forum mate lol :)
V70 Graham
Monday 21st July 2014, 15:38
So what are your plans mate, respray ?
t5 pete
Monday 21st July 2014, 15:56
That's now two people im worried about on this forum wanting to get their banana together with mine lol
MoleT-5R
Monday 21st July 2014, 16:15
So what are your plans mate, respray ?

Hopefully a respray, will give her a good look over to decide how far to go, at present I think she is good enough so will be late next year for paint I'm thinking, over winter
stribo
Monday 21st July 2014, 18:28
I think you should break it. ;)
MoleT-5R
Monday 21st July 2014, 19:52
I think you should break it. ;)

LOL.........:troutslap

That will never happen mate, not whilst there's a beat in my ticker, I have always wanted a Gul T-5R but none about when I bought the olive estate, 7 years ago, so it will be nice to have the saloon to complete the pair
merc85
Monday 21st July 2014, 19:59
Good purchase she's a very tight car and handles the nutts, I never thought the paint was bad tbh, Just the rear 1/4 :/ glad she's gone to a good home. I hope she's on her Titans too
WOODY T5
Monday 21st July 2014, 19:59
Its defo gone too the right home and man ;)
foammanmark
Monday 21st July 2014, 22:05
Good purchase she's a very tight car and handles the nutts, I never thought the paint was bad tbh, Just the rear 1/4 :/ glad she's gone to a good home. I hope she's on her Titans too

Back on her Titans since the R went last Sunday, I'm pleased to say!!
foammanmark
Monday 21st July 2014, 22:05
Its defo gone too the right home and man ;)

You mean I wasn't? Lol!!
martybelfastt5
Monday 21st July 2014, 22:21
congrats:daisy:
the-man-that-can
Tuesday 22nd July 2014, 06:34
Poor old car! she keeps getting bought then sold again! When I sold her many
Moons ago the chap said like all the people who previously bought her about getting a respray but never seem to have happened lol. Can't wait to see the car fully restored was always a good car when I had it :)
foammanmark
Tuesday 22nd July 2014, 06:40
Poor old car! she keeps getting bought then sold again! When I sold her many
Moons ago the chap said like all the people who previously bought her about getting a respray but never seem to have happened lol. Can't wait to see the car fully restored was always a good car when I had it :)

If I didn't have so many cars, then I wouldn't even have thought of selling her. She's not being used enough for my liking, so that made me think that someone else should enjoy her, who will use her. If she'd been an estate car, then I could have used her a lot more.
the-man-that-can
Tuesday 22nd July 2014, 06:47
At least it ain't ended up in some halfrauds or motabitz boys hands and
Wrecked with neons spoilers and gay stickers hahaha. To be honest I don't know
What's rarer the estate t5-r's or the saloons in the manual form of course :D as when I was looking for another saloon I simply couldn't find one not even an 850r LOL
foammanmark
Tuesday 22nd July 2014, 06:55
At least it ain't ended up in some halfrauds or motabitz boys hands and
Wrecked with neons spoilers and gay stickers hahaha. To be honest I don't know
What's rarer the estate t5-r's or the saloons in the manual form of course :D as when I was looking for another saloon I simply couldn't find one not even an 850r LOL

To be honest, they were mods that I had lined up for her, but only messing!! She has got black mirror covers on, but still has the gul coloured ones as well to go with her, but besides that, a K & N air filter and strut brace, and that's it.
the-man-that-can
Tuesday 22nd July 2014, 07:06
To be honest, they were mods that I had lined up for her, but only messing!!

LOL :D
MoleT-5R
Tuesday 22nd July 2014, 11:55
I can't wait to drive her, as I know she will be completely different to the olive estate, as that is quite different to Claymore's T-5R, when we drove them back to back just to see what each others car was like for a comparison. OK there is approximately 150,000 miles difference between Colin's car and mine and I think the heaviness of mine is due to wear and tear and getting the end of service life of steering and suspension components, which were in line for replacement but have been shunted back a few months as I could not let Mark's Gul slip by.
evo230
Tuesday 22nd July 2014, 19:15
Congrats - I've always wanted one of those!
MoleT-5R
Saturday 26th July 2014, 20:15
Congrats - I've always wanted one of those!

Me too. I always wanted an 855 in Gul yellow, but these days I'm preferring the 855 in Olive and the 854 in Yellow