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How many Turbo plated (LW5) cars have survived?

Started by YEP_boost vbmenu_register("postmenu_1687378", true); · 3 Jan 2008 · 29 replies

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Ok so Im sick of reading these threads that dribble on about what is rarer and therefore worth more so I have made the following poll so we all have an idea what has still survived! I ask all people quicky check the tags on their cars and reply with the appropriate answer. THIS IS FOR TURBO LW5 CARS ONLY. I havent covered all models specifically ie HDT, HSV and the like as these were cars based off std cars. What I want you to answer is the model prefix and engine option/trans codes and tick the appropriate box as to what the tags read, not what the car is as we are bound to have a lot of swaps and conversions! For those with 2 or more cars, post model and which one you voted for, then post the OTHER. Just so we can keep track of numbers in the thread. ie. VOTED SL ,LW5,MX7 OTHER Calais, LW5 ,MS1
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Engine: LW5, Trans: MX7 mine's origional turbo manual for sure Some original photos have not been recovered yet.
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Engine: LW5 Trans: MS1 Vin: 8K198JJ173978
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Lw5 Ms1
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LW5 MX7 SL wagon
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Poll is up now. Edit it took me ages. God damn word limit. Just tick in the boxes. Be good to see whats still floating around! Remember NO CONVERSIONS, we want to keep this accurate as possible!
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2x Exec Sedan(bt1) -8VK19-LW5, MS1 however both have been converted to manual, one r33, and one mx7
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Edit in the top post for those with 2 or more cars. Marmo can you list which one you voted for and the other one as other in this thread please. BTW. 8VX19, LW5, MS1 is what mine read.
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Calais - 8X19 -- Engine LW5 - Trans MS1 Converted to MX7 5 speed now though Some original photos have not been recovered yet.
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what if all my genuine runing gear is now into my calais?
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Nope. I started the poll based on genuine cars that are matching models and tags. So a conversion or swap of running gear from a turbo car into what was a NA Calais is not matching the tags! Its more so we as a community here can guage how many real ones of what model of left.
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SL - LW5-MX7 converted to MS1 trans
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VOTED - SL,LW5,MX7 OTHER - Calais Wagon,LW5,MS1 I'd be very interested to see how many SL/Exec turbo wagons appear as you'd have to think it's be a pretty rare option.
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voted Calais Sed -8VX19-LW5,MS1 other Calais wagon -8VL35-LW5,MS1 non a9y (hdt calais) other bt1 lw5 ms1 sedan not sure if exec or sl il find out
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I was thinking the same thing. Prob find there would be very few turbo SL wagons around! This is interesting, we have 21,523 members on here and after this poll being open 18hrs with a lot of regular/active users, we only have 34 votes! I thought we would have had more than this by now?
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Quote: Originally Posted by VLTWhite1 VOTED - SL,LW5,MX7 OTHER - Calais Wagon,LW5,MS1 I'd be very interested to see how many SL/Exec turbo wagons appear as you'd have to think it's be a pretty rare option. I heard that there was around the ~160 mark of VL Berlina turbo wagons made, so there should be even less exec/SL ones...
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Quote: Originally Posted by YEP_boost I was thinking the same thing. Prob find there would be very few turbo SL wagons around! This is interesting, we have 21,523 members on here and after this poll being open 18hrs with a lot of regular/active users, we only have 34 votes! I thought we would have had more than this by now? Maybe this shows how few are in their original drive-line layout.
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Sl ,lw5,mx7 Some original photos have not been recovered yet.
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voted calais sedan lw5 mx7
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my white vl was a series 1 berlina turbo LW5, MS1 my blue vl was a series 2 berlina turbo LW5, MS1 But i dont no if i should vote coz they were both stolen and who knows if they still have the original tags ?
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