Ah yes the famous B(L) REMBOs.
I had an x brace on the rear axle, fatter ARBs, 175lb -1” front springs and a strut brace. One day I chased a Golf GTI down a back road. After lifting his inside rear wheel on three bends he finally binned it in a hedge. Ye olde 2.8i cruised on by.Pondrew wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 11:51 pmAh yes the famous B(L) REMBOs.
I had a Crapi once. Nothing wrong with the brakes, everything wrong with the suspension (or lack of). Mine had an amusing alternator fault, which would, on occasion, forget it was 12v and think it was 240v. Always happened in the dark, when obviously it blew every bulb on the car.
Them was the days!
Excuse me....
Nice looking car, colour really suits it. Must admit with me, my favourite back in the day was the XR2i (or even better the Fiesta RS turbo
). Sold tons of them when they were new, only one slight problem... Ford released them with 5 alloy wheels (a full size alloy spare), didn't take long for the toe rags to get a jack under the flimsy cage where the spare was fitted and off it went (less than 5 minutes), only needed to find 4 XR2i's parked up and you had a set of new alloys! Right back to VW 
Well it would be interesting comparison between a MK1 XR2 and GTI. I wouldn't be surprised if the Fiesta was the better drive over the Golf at the time, thinking that performance VWs were still a new thing in the 80s where Ford were an old hand at it by then with a much more sporting heritage.
