End of an era - my coupe

After having enjoyed the summer using my Coupe I have decided it is time for me to move on. In the current climate no buyer is likely to come forward for it and I always had concerns that anyone who bought it would have stacked it and hurt themselves in a rush of adrenalin.


In my long tenure of coupe ownership I’ve really enjoyed the ownership experience. People have always been very friendly and helpful.
As the tuning section has really been my ‘home’ on the forum I wanted to post up and thank everyone who has supported me over the years.


So the good news for everyone else is I am breaking it for parts!! Most parts will be available, I will put up an initial list today on the ‘coupe parts’ section

????why you give up your car??

let me get this straight.

you are not going to sell your whole car to someone because its so powerful that they would find it overwhelming?

Nooooooooo



John, you've always been a tuning legend and a long standing user of this forum, it's a sad sad day when you leave us and a crying shame to break your coupe.

Dont do it John, or I will be forced to buy it... that car is not meant to finish his life this way...

JohnS you have any pictures of your Coupe?

This just isnt right!










At least wait until i have some money

Well three people walked away after a test drive because they did not appreciate how fast it is.

how powerful and fast is your Coupe exactly?

Not sure if these stats are up to date?

me!

it'd be a shame John for you to break it up, especially after the hard work & humble beginnings of your car.

600hp+ from a FWD drive car is a testament to having over 3x the original power when it left the factory !!

I'd love to have that power, but if deffo can corrupt, even on my measly output , in the wrong hands, it could easily be a licence loser at the least.

I'd personally either think about a few other options, as in reality we both know we'd never get the initial outlay, just don't work that way & one we'd never expected in the 1st place.

Don't chop it up yet please

yeah that, thats some car. how much were you looking for the whole car???

i could be interested in saving this

Well it was up for sale for quite some time at around £11k and then down at a whisker under £10k, a bargain!

(and my commission is very reasonable too )

But as Taz says, please don't say you have to break it John

JohnS please please please DO NOT break your Coupe.

Its too important to be broken. You have your totally standard examples and then you have this- an achievement in tuning.

To think you got a 220bhp Fiat Coupe and took it up to the dizzying levels of power that high end exotic cars run at- its really impressive.

what will you get now John ?

LOL all these people saying don't break, you can't break, I can save this car, etc, etc - this car has been up for sale for nearly 2 years, put your money where your mouth is, as it were!!!

I am sure John has thought long and hard about this, well 2 years I guess, and this is his decision.

Good luck John

Sorry, I don't really see any other way than to break it. Anyone who wants to do it on the cheap can pick up some of the key parts that are for sale if they want to 'put their money where their mouth is'. Particularly the turbo, exhaust manifold/exhaust and ecu.

Thanks for all the support guys

I'm with JimO on this! At the end of the day John can't drop his price of the car. It just doesn't make financial sense.

Sad to see you go John! I'm sure it will be really hard for John to do this so people should try and support him instead.

You could have give me a few months notice because I want to buy some bits.

Sorry to hear it is getting broken John but understandable if you need to move on given how long it has been on the market.

Good luck

Nooooo

Too late, the parts are being sold left, right and centre.

Sorry to see this John

As Barbz said earlier, John was always pushing the Coupe tuning boundaries and I'm always wondering how would a 600hp+ Coupe perform on streets / drag strip

Do you have any videos of the car in action?

Sorry to hear this, such a legendary coupe and im sure it will still one that’s talked about for years to come!

The worrying thing is What next John?

its a shame you have to break it but at the end of the day the cusse for concern for other people is too great, i know for a fact i would end up in a tree in that monster!

but i know i would be smiling my off at the same time!!!!

good luck with the sale John!

I look forward to a Nissan GT-R with 2000hp.

At the very least, get the performance measured using a GPS device. It would be nice to find out the limits of traction with FWD

Very sorry to hear about your decision John. I do understand where you are coming from having had to do this myself, though on a slightly smaller scale. You will make your money back, and you would have the same end result if you sold it to someone that crashed it, or did not know how to look after it properly.

Good Luck - and thanks for all the advice over the years.

I hope you find another project that you enjoy.

It's an understandable decision. I can imagine people who have come along to buy it don't appreciate what 550 bhp feels like. That's more power than most Ferraris.

Will the car be "returned to standard" or completely stripped? I understand that it has had a full respray, but to do this it would basically need a complete engine / brake / suspension transplant!

Even if it's broken up, the legend will live on in the forum.

not sure what will happen to the rolling chassis, no decision on it....yet!!

a very very sad day for the Coopunity

its not right

John

Gutted to hear you're doing this, but i suppose if you need to recoup some of the money, then this is the only logical way to do so. I hope that the money from this isn't going into the wife's beetle project that you have been intending to do for the past X years

No money to wife! Just say NO man!!!

I hope that you do not leave the community after you sold the last camshaft....we need guys like you here. You are like the Star trek guys (where no man has gone before), been at the front line of tuning, pushing the Coupe engine to new levels.

Good luck with whatever you decide to do John!

quick question, why not keep the engine and build a kit car? say like a rear engine car??????

or i was thinking the other night a 4x4 16v turbo??? hf turbos used the same engine didnt they??

This was the car I aspired to own.

I'd be lying if I said I would have been able to buy it any time in the near future unless an unexpected inheritance comes my way, but I've always held on to a thought that one day I'd be able to say "I'll give you the full asking price for that" and I wouldnt have thought twice about doing so.

Good luck with the sale of all the parts John. Maybe one day I'll be driving a different Coupe with some of your parts in it.