jezgreen911
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Jay. said:
Yes looks to be done pretty well,
Should at least give a Toyota MR2 (cough) Ferrari a run for its money! :floor:
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Vauxhall 996 turbo....
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Yes looks to be done pretty well,
Should at least give a Toyota MR2 (cough) Ferrari a run for its money! :floor:
diverzeusy
Suzuka
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I think you will find that a 996 Turbo is still 'miles' more expensive than a calibre :dont know:Disco said:
diverzeusy said:
Of course - think that you missed the emphasis in the answer to the question of why. The point was that it is very likely that the job would have been done when the 996 was a current model, and the person doing it would have (even after the parts and work) ended up paying a fraction of the price of a brand new 996 Turbo using a Vauxhall as a donor. At the time the frankenCalibra would probably have been significantly cheaper for a younger or higher risk driver to insure too.
The other reason why you would suspect this to have been done a long time ago is of course the matter of where you would get a decent Calibra donor car these days. There is currently only 1 on PH, none at all showing on Autotrader and well below 800 in total still taxed in the whole country: they aren't exactly ten a penny anymore for something that used to be pretty ubiquitous with tens of thousands sold.
What that means is that actually - the Calibra donor car is actually rarer now that the 996 Turbo that this one has been dressed up to look like. Which is nuts.
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