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Hi All,
Probably about time I introduced myself properly on here >D
I've been into all things Euro since 2004:
1) '86 Golf cl - Cherry red with gold stickers, steel wheels and a tweed interior
2) '00 Polo s - Pretty boring
3) '93 Golf gl - 20k km's in 13 years, LOTS of rust
4) '95 Corrado VR6 - loved everything but the reliability
5) '04 Polo TDI - awesome little daily
6) '88 Golf GTI - head gasket went on the way home
After a while I got a tired of broken old Volkswagens and decided to get something modern and cheap to run.
That's about time the modding bug bit hard and I ended up as a mod on minitorque.com:
7) British Racing Brown we called it. Low and loud but a Friday build:
The mk1 JCW GP - awesome car just too expensive at the time:
9) Lucky, had everything but the power:
10) 178kw @ the wheels. Absolute weapon:
Unfortunately I had to sell that one as the economy took a turn for the worse and I decided to leave Glasgow for sunny Sydney
That meant:
11) '95 Ibiza GTI - temporary run around I bought from a racist old South African lady on Gumtree
12) '11 Focus ST - Company car that got the Stage 1 JWR treatment
Eventually I got bored of Ford ownership (despite the power) and picked up:
13) A lovely JCW that some of you may have seen on EST
That was another great little car but the community for mini's is pretty tiny here and the call of RWD beckoned. This led me to putting down a deposit and waiting three months for a GT86:
Of course when it arrived the dealer changed the terms of deal drastically which meant having to find something else pronto
I considered R26 Megane's (reliability), 350Z's (image) and even a Fiesta ST (interior) now new Abbott legislation has ruled out finance for 'boat people' like me. Even if residency is just around the corner!
It was around this time I started looking into VW's again as I'd always had a soft spot for them. The endless tuning options and plentiful supply pointed to MK6 GTI's but after some ****ing around on youtube I saw this video...
And the shortlist was cut to 3dr, DBP, MKV R32's very quickly. Funny that.
I called round about a few cars and although there was one with the exact spec I wanted 10k's up the road, the seller put me off and after widening the search area, I stumbled across the one.
A lengthy chat with the seller later and I was convinced. Only 34k km's, every option bar Recaros and an older owner with OCD. Perfect.
The missus was naturally delighted that I'd put a deposit down on a car 2000 k's away that I hadn't test driven. This required a little sweet talking and so tomorrow we're on the 645am flight to Adelaide to collect my new pride and joy, heading back to Sydney via Port Fairy, the Great Ocean Road and Melbourne.
Thanks for listening to my rant. Hopefully i'll get to see a few of you at the upcoming meets. The last two months have been spend running around in the ancient Corolla I bought as a stop gap (which the missus has now inherited) so i'm expecting the '32 to feel like a rocket ship tomorrow!
Ladies and gentlemen, it's good to be home.
Originally Posted by VRN510
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