Renault 11 Turbo's in UK how many left? Attempt to track them all down...

Big_Steve_Raider · August 1, 2014, 8:01am

As you may be aware I’m in the process of restoring a R11 Turbo and have been keeping a very close eye on Renault 11’s for the past few years that have come up for sale etc. According to howmanyleft.co.uk there are only 8 R11 Turbo’s still registered on UK Roads, and their data shows there were 35 declared SORN back in 2007.

So I thought I would try to create this thread to see if we can’t trace every (potential) 43 R11 Turbo’s in the UK?? If you have one that is not shown on this thread, then please post a photo?

If I have any further detail or additional pictures I posted them here. Different pictures show different time’s they’ve come up for sale and they condition they were in at that time:

E469 WDA / E11 TBO Owned by me, currently undergoing complete restoration:

D100 0GB - Previously owned by me, scrapped for parts:

E23 TTH - Previously owned by TurboRenault Members @Turbell (when it was Minty Looking) and then @Adey when it was looking a little more grungier :D. Believe it’s now owned by Mike at GT Turbo Spares..?
Brilliant write up here from when @Turbell owned this car:
E23TTH was mine from '92 to '08/09 at a guess, bought with 52999 miles on the clock when I was nineteen.
I paid £3000 plus my ‘82 Fuego GTS and thought I had won the pools ( think lottery if you’re not as old and crusty as me! ) my mate bought a 5GT and that was another grand or so ( E*** VUB, red ?) which shows the S/H price difference then.
In time it had a little boost upgrade at well lane, a green induction kit and a scorpion exhaust and I had loads of fun in it, mostly beating nobbers in SRi XR etc crap.
I never went mad tuning it, but it was a good strong engine that always pulled and boosted well, so you could pick your enemies at the right point and just muller them!
Even though it bigger than a five I don’t think it was that heavier, all the panels were really thin.
I did the head on him and put a clutch in, plus brakes etc etc
As he ( sorry, he had a name…Terry Thomas, ( E23 T T H… bit of a cad you see…) got older the handling went off the boil and I nearly rolled him more than once, so I bought a ‘92 16V 19 with the engine in the boot in bits which I had rebuilt and ran it for seven years until a kindly drunk gyspy with no insurance rammed me into a Polo and made it a few feet shorter.
Terry had sat tucked up in a corner on the front of the house, so I drove him into the garage and set about putting him back on the road as I was carless and no insurance money.
The lower part of the sills inner and outer had bulged, so I cut some 5 door outers down and let some plates in for the inners, not pretty but it was only to get him back on his wheels, the sunroof panel had been leaking so I took it out and put some new pipes on the inner and repair the bubbling sliding outer, and two packed the roof and bonnet, the sides were fading but OKish.
Other than that I put him back on the road and I think I spent about a ton on him, we had a Clio 172 cup at that time from nearly new so he was just a second car, the handling by now was shite and the Dunlop sp sports I had fitted were now cracking, but the night before I sold him on ebay for £800, I chased a brand new Corsa VXR down the local bypass and he couldn’t get away!
The Corsa driver to his credit wasn’t a mardy bum like you normally get, ‘cos at the last roundabout he pulled up and asked ’ What the f**k is under your bonnet’ and ’ Don’t ever sell that car’ sadly within 24 hrs he was gone…
I’ve always toyed with hunting him down and buying him back…but the past is the past, love to know how he is tho’ I had good times in that car.
Thanks for reading, sorry if I’ve rambled.

D235 SKX - Restored at some point?

F533 HNM - Owned by TurboRenault.co.uk member @R5turbo2

E877 JDL- Previously owned by TurboRenault member @Neal R19 who sold it to guy called Michael Goode in November 2010. Car was roadworthy but without MOT at the time. He said he was a Renault enthusiast and would be restoring it as a project but it hasn’t had an MOT and has been SORN since. ?

D340 OOD - Owned by TurboRenault.co.uk member @Prab

E262 LYY - Believe Scrapped

F579 FTT - Owned by TurboRenault member @alper

F200 RHN - ?

F582 RHN - Same dealer as the car above when sold. Restored ?

E560 FNO - ?

F888 KDX - ?

E11 MJS - ?

E939 OEG - ? (Originally a Peterborough car I’m guessing from the “EG” numberplate)

F659 JFC & F757 FLH - Believe both scrapped?

D611 TGB - Recently for sale on EBay

C247 SLX - Previously owned by @DaveL485 but now owned by @plvehicles This is how the car looks now:

This is how the car looked when @DaveL485 owned the car

B630 NLY - ? (Very Early example!)

E314 KDU - ?

E694 UFD - Would guess scrapped?

E411 GRX - ?

E443 GPK - ?

http://turborenault.co.uk/attachments/2547/

E596 YGJ - Previously owned by TurboRenault.co.uk member @martink

27 Mar 2015 @martink sold the car on eBay and she was looking a lot better for herself:

UPDATE 1 Jul 2019! The new owner of E596 YGJ is TurboRenault member @Matthew Rosier and he’s giving the old girl a spruce up with headlights and paintwork.. Looking lovely!!

UPDATE 13th August 2023. We now believe, this car is owned by TurboRenault member @paulh and was spotted at Retro Rides Gathering 2023.

F487 VHG - Owned by TurboRenault.co.uk member @Rob Smith

E912 AGJ - Owned by TurboRenault.co.uk member @Rob Smith

E162 GCJ - Originally Owned by the brother of TurboRenault.co.uk member @Rob Smith Current location Unknown

A372 WGF - Originally Owned by TurboRenault.co.uk member @Rob Smith Started life as a GTL then he got bored and did a full phase 2 conversion inc looms to full turbo spec. Everything salvaged from two bent cars he bought . Car was destroyed in a fight with some black ice. - RIP

E52 GLT - Owned by TurboRenault.co.uk member @jack11electronic

D87 BRP - Spotted by @KrisM at Castle Coome circa 2007/2008

D506 WRG - The second 11T owned by our very own @Brigsy back in the day. Fitted with a B18 Motor. Sold to another TurboRenault member @Haz, and you can see in the last picture, it’s now afraid of the light… :grin.gif:

D506 WRG with @Haz waiting to be transformed into a VAG 1.8t Monster..

B300 JPK - Owned by TurboRenault member @plvehicles

E842 WNS - Owned by TurboRenault member @Cheryl

??? ??? - Monte Carlo Bodied R11T being Sold on eBay in June 2017 for £4500 by someone called neilf907. Unknown details

E504 PHA - Owned by the Internet’s most reasonable car seller Bethany Scarrot and has been for sale for £1500 for some time now..

19th July 2021 a chap called marty_my classic cars posted this picture on Instagram. It would appear the old Bethany Scarott Chariot has lived on, and is looking presentable.
13th August 2023, this car is now owned by @MattM and going well!!

F315 KMX - Sold on eBay in March 2017 for £2000 and caused a stir with many people bidding and talking about it. Unknown who the new owner is?

PWP 333P - Owned by TurboRenault member @Nik dobson

D427 RGO - Owned by TurboRenault member @Nik dobson

C400 PMO - Owner Unknown? Listed for sale on Facebook 5GTT Site on 12th January 2018

UPDATE - June 2018 and Jamie is selling this car again on Facebook..

E170 BFT - First 11T owned by our very own @Brigsy back in the day. Long time dead

B359 DTY - The last 11T owned by our very own @Brigsy that was bought for parts back in the day. Again, Long time dead

D911 YPF - New car to the list, owned by TurboRenault member @martin weemes who has had it for 20+ years. Currently looking a little sorry for itself, but plans to bring it back to standard!!

E862 SEC - 11T owned by the Renault Old School Legend Logg aka Andrew Robey. Died back in the day.

E287 GGT - Mint White 67K Mile 11T Advertised for sale on eBay in Jan 2019 by seller called peterw214 for £10,000. Knowing what I know now following my 11T Restoration, I’d be buying this in a heartbeat!!!

Big_Steve_Raider · October 1, 2014, 3:31pm

F298 PYO - ? (Used to be owned by a very young looking Sakir Mehmet back in the day. Not sure what’s become of this one now..?

E11 MJS Recently Sold on CarandClassic.co.uk (Unsure of price) and apparently the private plate has been removed:

D253 CEF - Blue One blue with the whale tail spoiler owned by a chap called Alex Lattimer back in the day.
Sorry no pictures

E104 ELT - Owned by serial Renault Head Roger Hewitt back in the day

D967 ARY - White phase 1 11 Turbo, again owned by serial Renault Head Roger Hewitt back in the day
Sorry no pictures

C285 NBL - Owned by a chap called Jamie Brown

E182 DMJ - Owned by a chap called Joe Franks who bought it on 1996 for £350 with a leaky rad and shot steering rack. He remembers constantly looking at the temperature gauge and bleeding it every time he drove it that aside, it was a wicked comfortable drive and when it ran nice she used to see gtes and xr3is off

F554 KCG - Was a white 11 turbo owned by @Beardo and Tiny Tim back in the day. Tim ended up selling it on but can’t remember to who but they wrapped it around a tree!. Mot ran out in April 2009 so I’m guessing it got written off

C398 SRX - Silver Phase 1 and D203 GYO - Black Phase 2 - Two cars owned back in the day by a chap called Chris Fortt. Sorry no pictures.

E522 MCR - White Phase 2 owned back in the day by a chap on Facebook called Chris Piper

E650 MPX - Red Phase 2 11 Turbo owned in 1992/1993 by a chap on Facebook called Dassos Morby. Sorry no pictures yet.

F520 RHN - Black phase 2 discovered by TurboTed

UPDATE!! Turbo Ted put this up for sale in Jan 2021 for €1500:

E188 DPL - Black phase 2 discovered in Ireland by Turbo Ted On an Irish registration number so obviously exported sometime in its lifetime:

D72 DPD - White phase 2 owned by TurboRenault member @Hbombsdad back in 1990:

E78 DTF - Black Phase 2 spotted on a picture uploaded onto Facebook “Cars you don’t see anymore”

D430 GPX - White Phase 2 spotted on Facebook owned by a chap many years ago:

Paul_B · February 5, 2015, 10:19pm

Richie , from the old RTOC gang still has 2 , Red 11 Turbo’s… both phase 2…, 1 was a runner and used until recently and the other was being done as BIG HP car… but still sat there..

jackerts · February 27, 2015, 9:14pm

I own a phase 2 r11 turbo in silver also F*** RHN.

It has been in storage forgotten about since around 03/04 and is in need of work as it was an abandoned project ( I was 16 at that time and had bitten off more than I could chew tbh) it is easy salvageable though and I will hopefully get round to sorting it sometime soon.

I will get some photos next time I’m there to add to this post although it is looking rather sorry for itself untouched for over 10 years!

At least that’s another one to add too the list above.

Thanks, matty

Big_Steve_Raider · February 28, 2015, 4:01pm

Nice one @jackerts! Get some pictures up and we’ll add it to the list!

DaveL485 · February 28, 2015, 8:09pm

Better for cooling though, in the bigger engine bay.

@jackerts get that thing resurrected dude! One more on the road

TNT_Mr_Raider · March 1, 2015, 9:41pm

Larger heavier shell, widened track so handling wise abit better than a 5, not as fast as weighs more. Bigger engine bay, better wiring,same trusty old C1J with either phase 1 or phase 2 cooling/breather systems.

Grizzly · March 16, 2015, 9:32pm

Are they only 3 doors model in UK ? no 5 doors ?

TNT_Mr_Raider · March 16, 2015, 10:07pm

The Renault 11 Turbo was only made in 3 door version, the Renault 9 Turbo was a 5 door, both in the UK. As far as I know, there were no 5 door Renault 11 Turbo’s made for the UK market.

DaveL485 · March 17, 2015, 9:05am

4-door saloon…

Turbell · February 20, 2016, 9:28am

E23TTH was mine from '92 to '08/09 at a guess, bought with 52999 miles on the clock when I was nineteen.
I paid £3000 plus my ‘82 Fuego GTS and thought I had won the pools ( think lottery if you’re not as old and crusty as me! ) my mate bought a 5GT and that was another grand or so ( E*** VUB, red ?) which shows the S/H price difference then.
In time it had a little boost upgrade at well lane, a green induction kit and a scorpion exhaust and I had loads of fun in it, mostly beating nobbers in SRi XR etc crap.
I never went mad tuning it, but it was a good strong engine that always pulled and boosted well, so you could pick your enemies at the right point and just muller them!
Even though it bigger than a five I don’t think it was that heavier, all the panels were really thin.
I did the head on him and put a clutch in, plus brakes etc etc
As he ( sorry, he had a name…Terry Thomas, ( E23 T T H… bit of a cad you see…) got older the handling went off the boil and I nearly rolled him more than once, so I bought a ‘92 16V 19 with the engine in the boot in bits which I had rebuilt and ran it for seven years until a kindly drunk gyspy with no insurance rammed me into a Polo and made it a few feet shorter.
Terry had sat tucked up in a corner on the front of the house, so I drove him into the garage and set about putting him back on the road as I was carless and no insurance money.
The lower part of the sills inner and outer had bulged, so I cut some 5 door outers down and let some plates in for the inners, not pretty but it was only to get him back on his wheels, the sunroof panel had been leaking so I took it out and put some new pipes on the inner and repair the bubbling sliding outer, and two packed the roof and bonnet, the sides were fading but OKish.
Other than that I put him back on the road and I think I spent about a ton on him, we had a Clio 172 cup at that time from nearly new so he was just a second car, the handling by now was shite and the Dunlop sp sports I had fitted were now cracking, but the night before I sold him on ebay for £800, I chased a brand new Corsa VXR down the local bypass and he couldn’t get away!
The Corsa driver to his credit wasn’t a mardy bum like you normally get, ‘cos at the last roundabout he pulled up and asked ’ What the f**k is under your bonnet’ and ’ Don’t ever sell that car’ sadly within 24 hrs he was gone…
I’ve always toyed with hunting him down and buying him back…but the past is the past, love to know how he is tho’ I had good times in that car.
Thanks for reading, sorry if I’ve rambled.

All digi pics are from his second bout of use, there’s more but I need to upload 'em into photobucket, not sure what’s your preferred photo lark…This is one of the ebay pics I used, think it will be feb 08/09, pretty sure it’s 09 as I bought the Slaguna on an 04 and think it was about four and half years old.

New owner came from Stoke I think, didn’t seem to know his arse from his elbow as far as Renault Turbo’s were concerned, had to go to the bank to fetch the cash, I think he expected a shitbox, and was going to wriggle out of it.
He rang me a few days later and said he really enjoyed driving the car, but when did it have the cam belt done?..oh dear.
I think he rang me again and said the starter was playing up, but then I lost contact with it until I spotted on a forum or website or summat with red mirrors and clio 16v wheels and a 19 16v rear beam, felt like someone had fiddled with a family member a bit…but at least he was getting attention.
At the time I had mine on the road, there was a really nice F plate local to me that a women used to drive, and it came up for sale in the trade quite a while after…I always kick myself for not buying it.
I remember a white doggy looking one in Sheffield I used to see, and a 9 Turbo in Worksop with Ph1 19 16V wheels that looked nice.
Hmmmmm I got an itch!

sdvcatfish · May 22, 2016, 7:23am

When I was running a C reg R11 Turbo from new in 1985, did visit a Paris showroom and the 11 Turbo was sold in 5 door, there was one in the show room. Early R11 Ts where rear tube torsion bars. When I ordered mine it came with the modified rear angle bar configuration for the 1885/86 model year. When a work mate went out with me he couldn’t believe that my 11 was faster on acceleration than his 2.8 capri! Happy days.

plvehicles · May 31, 2016, 7:49pm

just bought a phase 1 11 in red/pink colour reg no B300 JPK today to add to the growing pile of non running old Renaults, (pics to follow)
unsure of weather to restore to standard or change the lump rip out the interior and track it???

Big_Steve_Raider · June 14, 2017, 4:44pm

Hello All!!

I’ve been updating this thread a little today (Check back to the first post for more cars and details) and also built a little Excel file of all the known R11 Turbo’s on UK road so far. Can’t seem to upload it to the site, so you’re going to have to take my word for it and just see a few screen shots!! :au:

So what does this tell us?

The newest car we know about is the Silver R11T (F315 KMX) that recently sold on eBay for £2000 that was registered on Jan 89!

The oldest car still in existance (according to the DVLA) is B300 JPK owned by our very own member @plvehicles :friends.gif:

The Only two R11T’s currently roadworthy in the UK are owned by @R5turbo2 (F533 HNM) and @Prab (D340 OOD)

Keep updating this thread guys & girls if you want your car added to the list! :ea:

plvehicles · December 28, 2017, 12:04am

@Big Steve - Raider ive bought another one now as well a white ph1 reg ends in SLX, il let you know full reg so you can add it to the list

just checked the pics earlier in the thread and its the one thats on there already, owned by @DaveL485 at some point but its got a ph2 front end on at the moment

DaveL485 · December 28, 2017, 10:57am

IT’S ALIVE!!!

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Nik_dobson · January 6, 2018, 5:21pm

Another one to add to the list

Black Phase 2 11 turbo D427 RGO

It’s my friends been off the road for about 3 years but nothing wrong with it, he will be mot’ing and it will be back out this year.

Wiscos · January 11, 2018, 4:32pm

Just joined the group. Have a GTA from '89 that I’ve owned since '92 and giving it a light refresh after too many years of not really using it.
But saw all this and memories (all happy) of my R11 Turbo D reg in red came flooding back. It was so quick and comfy and almost refined, and mostly drove well although I remember some understeer. Loved it. Hard to believe it’s only 115 bhp but they were nice and light.
Splendid - and good luck and thanks to anyone still enjoying these rare old beasts.

Big_Steve_Raider · January 11, 2018, 6:18pm

Welcome to TurboRenault @Wiscos

If you’ve got any pictures of the car we can update the thread.

gordini_stu · April 8, 2018, 3:34pm

Just checked my old car F 92 RBX died a long ago sadly