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Hey I'm new to the whole forum thing so thought I'd try it out.
I have held an account on stanceworks for a while but that was so I could subcribe to build threads. Never really knew how to use forums (I'm not much of a computer person).
Anyway no point babbling on
I'm Sam and live in Auckland, New Zealand. Just like everyone else I am car mad! Have had a few cars now so will try to tell my story.
First car was a P10 Primera which I neglected so badly, after a year and a half and around 25,000kms it blew the bottom end bearing on me and instead of fixing it I went and got this...
Nothing special but at 16years old it was a handful. held onto that for 2 years or so and then bought this
soon the cost of running two vehicles hit me so I sold the subaru. New owner crashed and wrote it off within a month. I was pretty gutted I loved that car even though it was standard. Then my girlfriend at the time won a van. Yes, won! so we cruised in that until the WOF ran out and passed it on.
The Van:
After the Van was sold I started looking for wheels for the truck. Got a set of these Lenso's in 18x9 and saw my first tyre stretch. Wasn't much, 225/40 on a 9, but nobody had really told me about tyre stretch at this stage.
it sat pretty high up so I got the leaves reset in the rear with 2 inch blocks and wound the front torsion bars right down! It was hideously bumpy to ride in but I loved it. Even though it wasn't super low it only had about 5mm of travel. Did a 1000km road trip over new years.
Lenso's fitted
ride height sorted
then after a winter down at the snow I decided I needed another Subaru. Sold the truck and got another Legacy, this time a wagon.
owned this for all of three weeks before it was stolen.. so that was pretty shit. Even better I was so smart that I didn't get insurance right away. Had never been that stupid before and never again will I get a car without getting insurance too.
2 weeks later when the cops found it I picked it up with no wheels, suspension, radiator, battery, rear windows stereo, and many other parts. Figured it was cheaper to fix than buy a new car so bought a dereg'd wagon and swapped everything over.
got it all fixed and standard and drove for a year and a bit like that. went to the snow.
then this popped up on trade me (NZ's version of eBay)
so then I had two cars again. This time I'm keeping both until something else I like pops up.
Jetta is a 1990 mk2 1.8carb 3spd auto. Just enjoying it for now. A friend and I drove it from Wellington to Auckland (700km) sitting about 55mm off the ground.
Home Sweet Home
At this point thought I was happy with one low car and one standard. Then we did the same new years road trip again and while stopping for food I saw this
So I did this
and got this
so now I'm driving one low and one slightly low car.
Sorry for rambling on and all the photo's
Hopefully legacy will get some wheels if I can find the money.
Thanks for looking
I have held an account on stanceworks for a while but that was so I could subcribe to build threads. Never really knew how to use forums (I'm not much of a computer person).
Anyway no point babbling on
I'm Sam and live in Auckland, New Zealand. Just like everyone else I am car mad! Have had a few cars now so will try to tell my story.
First car was a P10 Primera which I neglected so badly, after a year and a half and around 25,000kms it blew the bottom end bearing on me and instead of fixing it I went and got this...
Nothing special but at 16years old it was a handful. held onto that for 2 years or so and then bought this
soon the cost of running two vehicles hit me so I sold the subaru. New owner crashed and wrote it off within a month. I was pretty gutted I loved that car even though it was standard. Then my girlfriend at the time won a van. Yes, won! so we cruised in that until the WOF ran out and passed it on.
The Van:
After the Van was sold I started looking for wheels for the truck. Got a set of these Lenso's in 18x9 and saw my first tyre stretch. Wasn't much, 225/40 on a 9, but nobody had really told me about tyre stretch at this stage.
it sat pretty high up so I got the leaves reset in the rear with 2 inch blocks and wound the front torsion bars right down! It was hideously bumpy to ride in but I loved it. Even though it wasn't super low it only had about 5mm of travel. Did a 1000km road trip over new years.
Lenso's fitted
ride height sorted
then after a winter down at the snow I decided I needed another Subaru. Sold the truck and got another Legacy, this time a wagon.
owned this for all of three weeks before it was stolen.. so that was pretty shit. Even better I was so smart that I didn't get insurance right away. Had never been that stupid before and never again will I get a car without getting insurance too.
2 weeks later when the cops found it I picked it up with no wheels, suspension, radiator, battery, rear windows stereo, and many other parts. Figured it was cheaper to fix than buy a new car so bought a dereg'd wagon and swapped everything over.
got it all fixed and standard and drove for a year and a bit like that. went to the snow.
then this popped up on trade me (NZ's version of eBay)
so then I had two cars again. This time I'm keeping both until something else I like pops up.
Jetta is a 1990 mk2 1.8carb 3spd auto. Just enjoying it for now. A friend and I drove it from Wellington to Auckland (700km) sitting about 55mm off the ground.
Home Sweet Home
At this point thought I was happy with one low car and one standard. Then we did the same new years road trip again and while stopping for food I saw this
So I did this
and got this
so now I'm driving one low and one slightly low car.
Sorry for rambling on and all the photo's
Hopefully legacy will get some wheels if I can find the money.
Thanks for looking
Loving the MkII and the Scooby. I have a soft spot for both
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