Hello all,
After owning my lovely albi 197 for around 6 months now and after introducing myself properly on cliosport.net, I thought I would do the same on here!
Having owned a Mk1 1.2 Clio since I was 17 for four years, I thought it was time for a change. I am still at university in final year but luckily thanks to a paid work placement in my 3rd year, it allowed me to save up some money and finally get a hot-hatch that I had been craving for years. I went from initially wanting a 182, to a Civic Type R Ep3 and then back to clios again, finally ended up on a 197 of which I have no regrets as I absolutely love the thing!
Performance cars have been in my family since a young age with my oldest brother owning a 306 GTi-6 (Supercharged monster!), 106GTi & now an Evo 5. My other brother now owns a Silver Clio 182 as well!. A few months ago we also decided to go on a road-trip to put them through their paces which was very fun. We went through the peak district, up through the yorkshire dales and finally onto the north york moors...some fantastic roads, photos and good memories of which I hope to repeat in other places in the near future! Nearly forgot to mention in true french car style, within the first 5 minutes of our 'epic' road trip, my fuel filler cap decided to jam when filling up for petrol..typical!!
Unfortunately, in the short time I have had the car due to money constraints I haven't been able to make any major modifications (except for some tailpipes & other little additions) so when I graduate in a few months time, luckily with a job awaiting me...Let the fun begin!!!
As I am at Sheff Hallam, I am based in Sheffield at the mo. My User on cliosport.net is 'calumfletcher', I didn't realise there was another fletch on this forum so I'll probably try and get it changed to the same as CS.net at some point!
I have actually been browsing 197.net for a good few months but I thought I would introduce myself formally. (Will be joining as a full member very soon when a bit of spare funds allow)
Finally, if you have stook around long enough after reading my life story, would just like to say thanks and I look forward to being more active and meeting you all!
Some piccys below:
Cheers guys
After owning my lovely albi 197 for around 6 months now and after introducing myself properly on cliosport.net, I thought I would do the same on here!
Having owned a Mk1 1.2 Clio since I was 17 for four years, I thought it was time for a change. I am still at university in final year but luckily thanks to a paid work placement in my 3rd year, it allowed me to save up some money and finally get a hot-hatch that I had been craving for years. I went from initially wanting a 182, to a Civic Type R Ep3 and then back to clios again, finally ended up on a 197 of which I have no regrets as I absolutely love the thing!
Performance cars have been in my family since a young age with my oldest brother owning a 306 GTi-6 (Supercharged monster!), 106GTi & now an Evo 5. My other brother now owns a Silver Clio 182 as well!. A few months ago we also decided to go on a road-trip to put them through their paces which was very fun. We went through the peak district, up through the yorkshire dales and finally onto the north york moors...some fantastic roads, photos and good memories of which I hope to repeat in other places in the near future! Nearly forgot to mention in true french car style, within the first 5 minutes of our 'epic' road trip, my fuel filler cap decided to jam when filling up for petrol..typical!!
Unfortunately, in the short time I have had the car due to money constraints I haven't been able to make any major modifications (except for some tailpipes & other little additions) so when I graduate in a few months time, luckily with a job awaiting me...Let the fun begin!!!
As I am at Sheff Hallam, I am based in Sheffield at the mo. My User on cliosport.net is 'calumfletcher', I didn't realise there was another fletch on this forum so I'll probably try and get it changed to the same as CS.net at some point!
I have actually been browsing 197.net for a good few months but I thought I would introduce myself formally. (Will be joining as a full member very soon when a bit of spare funds allow)
Finally, if you have stook around long enough after reading my life story, would just like to say thanks and I look forward to being more active and meeting you all!
Some piccys below:
Cheers guys
