AE86DC May Competition

[oz_eight6]

When do the winners get announced?

[Nicko]

We got some great last minute entries over the weekend, so i'll look over them tonight and announce the winners tomorrow.

Any stories posted before 6pm tonight will also be eligable.

Cheers

[jakel]

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[Nicko]

lol @ deleted reply I saw what you wrote... lol

[jakel]

haha, ye lol. I though you would wait till the end of the month, or have the stories slowed down?

[Nicko]

We're going to run a comp every month, so really, a week is fine to get the results. Most people are on AE86DC at least once a week and won't miss out.

[randomskate]

I was 16. I was doing some research On the Internet on what would be a good first car that was also cheap.After reading a lot on the internet about cars, I wanted to get a Toyota because they were reliable. Corollas came to mind and then I discovered the AE86 just seemed perfect after reading so many great articles about it. So I went to these auctions at Newcastle with my dad one weekend. Being so naive and impulsive I saw this white corolla come out with rego and 140,000ks on it, they guy on the loudspeaker mentioned "1986 corolla" and immediately I thought about those articles on the internet(in my head... omg it's an AE86!!) So i placed bids on it and won it at $1600. Having only saved $1100 i had to beg dad to borrow the rest!



When I got it home I then realised, this is no AE86 at all, this is A F**KING AE82!!!

So young and uneducated, I thought that the "SECA" back end resembled the distorted memories of that research I had done a few days ago on the internet.



After Swapping an old PC with a cracked version of the new and almighty "windows vista" at the time for this Clean ST162 below(unreg'd & needed a new clutch), I thought to myself (this is a pretty sweet deal!) and things were starting to look better. So I ended up with both these cars sitting on my parents lawn.



I drove it to a mates house, the AE82 had a flat tyre at the time. I stayed there for a couple nights then came back home to find that my AE82 was gone. I was devastated. My mum kicked me out of home and sold my AE82 to the wrecking yard for $50. All I had was the Celica which basically cost me next to nothing, living at a mates house at this time, I modded it and got it registered:





Then I CRASHED that Celica into a RAV-4 which crumbled, leaving the celica totally drivable and the RAV-4 written off. The front end was smashed in real good and neither popup headlights worked anymore so I drove it home, had to pay $8000 to AAMI because i was uninsured at the time.

I sold that as-is for $500 with about 2 or 3 months rego left i think. I went to a nissan pulsar n14 sr20 which I picked up for $900 still have today as my daily driver. After parking in the same carpark as this AE86 at blacktown TAFE doing an IT course full time, the numberplates were"16DOHC" i think, or "DOHC16" definately one or the other, I envied this owner greatly. I used to look at this car every day I went to TAFE. 3 months ago I finally picked up my very own genuine ADM AE86 (not AE82 SECA) from a friend from work for $1000, And I even get to pay it off. (aka Project Rust Destroyer)

Damn straight.

[randomskate]

totally just saw the comp cut off date then. spewing

[Nicko]

You made it. Cause I am busy

[Nicko]

Wow this one was a killer to re-read through all the entries.

There was a pretty high standard of story writing and that made it very hard to pick the four winners.

So I have Actually extended the comp to 7 winners. You will get a PM from me soon if you won to get your details to send your prizes out.

1st Place
[-not-agn-]
AE86DC 2010 Gildan Hoodie + Sticker

2nd Place
regginblack
AE86DC 2010 Gildan T-shirt + Sticker

3rd Place
Waddles
AE86DC Retro Beanie + Sticker

4th Place
Meadan
AE86DC Keyring + Sticker

5th Place
HJ60
AE86DC Keyring + Sticker

6th Place
ae8620v
AE86DC Keyring + Sticker

7th Place
randomskate
AE86DC Keyring + Sticker

Thanks to all who entered. We will be running another competiion starting 1st of June - so keep your eyes peeled for that one

-Nick