Hi guys, My name is Mike (Mick, Michael, its all good) and I currently live in Brisbane. I've been on and around here (driving club) a while now but here is my introduction thread.
Where to begin? I started wanting a hachi in 2002 when I worked for Hobbyco in Sydney, most Sydney guys should know it. Anyway, with all the models that came into the store, this one model kept appearing and confusing me.
I had never seen it before but I'm a sucker for pop-up lights, eventually I asked one of the Japanese guys who worked there at the time what it was and he explained all about it and it went from there. Recently I finally bit the bullet, 5 years of whining about them to anybody who would listen and it was time to do something about it. So i searched a while and eventually contacted a man you may know - Pro K.
Pro helped me from the get go! I gave him a budget and he nearly sent me photos of sweet Trueno's every day. After a couple Panda's that he said he didn't want to buy because they weren't up to his standard, he drops one on me and BAM I'm in love so I send him the cash.
What can I say? lets start withs mods:
175,500KM
AIR CON
LSD
FRONT COILOVERS WITH AFTERMARKET SHOCKS AND SPRINGS
CUSCO CAMBER TOPS
REAR AFTERMARKET SHOCKS AND SPRINGS
FRONT STRUT BRACE
AIR FILTER
NARDI STEERING WHEEL
EXHAUST - No extractors
EARTHING KIT
14" WATANABE WHEELS
FRONT MAZDA BRAKE UPGRADE
It landed in my hands on friday. Rocked up on the truck at around lunch and I finally had my hachi. At the moment I havent had a chance to take any extra pictures yet so the only ones I have are the ones predelivery, I'll have more for you soon but till then hopefully this tides you over:
So thats it for now. Soon to be on the road and going strong. I havent had a good drive of it yet (for obvious reasons) so I don't have any thoughts on its handling yet. The car is clean though. I gave it a wash and a wax and there was one crack and a couple of patches on the roof where the clear has rubbed off and thats it! Could not be happier with the car, exactly what I had in mind myself and the more i look, the more I love the colour.
Hope you dig :2thumbs:
Awsome man that looks mint as gotta love thoughs interiors.so this is what pro had waiting for u in his garage???it looks like the 1 i wanted to get but couldnt afford haha owell im happy with what i have coming..have you organised compliance yet??
tyson
mmmmm minty fresh, so hot man, and its alredy got some good shit in it, im jelous
do you mind how much you got it for??(landed)
you could PM if you dont want to post it..
One nice clean 86 THERE!!
do you get to keep the plates???
Cheers guys, it was about 10k landed (not complied) compliance hopefully by the end of this week and I'm on the road.
Hally, this is the one that I was telling you about. I bought it a while ago and It probably shared space in Pro's garage with your beast. He had it about a week and a half all up I think. Unfortunately, I didn't get to keep the plates, they would have made a sweet wall dec for my garage but oh well. It did come with some crazy Japanese engine maintenance book and of course the Japanese rego stickers that you gotta love.
awsome fuck pro does a good job ay??wander if you can get jap plates from any where wouldn't mind some for my beast..
Yeah I rekon, I would have loved to have kept some nice Jap plates.
Car goes for compliance tomorow...
that looks real cool.
good luck with it mate.
gret car mate. its that clean you could easierly eat a meal off it :crazy:
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