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Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: $39,500 For A 1984 Renault R5 Turbo?
Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: $39,500 For A 1984 Renault R5 Turbo?-October 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:10:19

We're on a four-straight Crack Pipe roll, with 68% of you directing the to take its sorry self to Booth Number Two. Will today's car be the one to break the streak?

If you don't think the is one of the most awesome factory hot rods ever made, you need to reevaluate your automotive priorities ASAP! To build this rally monster, Renault ditched the front-wheel-drive setup normally found in the 5 and replaced it with a turbocharged engine mounted behind the driver and delivering totally unreasonable amounts of power to the rear wheels. The few hundred street-legal units sold for homologation purposes had 185 horsepower, and they sold for $22,500 in 1984. That's about $46,000 in 2009 dollars, so how much is worth today? Would you pay $39,500 for one?

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