sry_not4sale
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I am going to use this thread to keep track of progress with my car, and also record its history to date. I could easily write a novel about this car, but I'll try keep it simple lol.
My name is Aaron, and I live in Wellington, New Zealand. I brought this car on the 4th of July 2004 for $1,950 from a mate in Tauranga. At the time I lived in Taupo, and thought the car looked familiar.
The car came without an engine and exhaust but was otherwise complete. It came with the awesome tri-spokes you see above
and had 196,997km on the clock.It is a 1983 Cosmo Limited coupe, the series-1 shape - originally a carby 12a automatic, it had been removed and replaced with a cosmo 12at and 5-speed before I brought it (although I got it minus the engine).
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Know the owner of this... funny
And that Subaru is like the epitome of crazy 80's japanese design hahaha
Keep it coming!!
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Haha sup Mr Adam
Too bad I am busy the whole time I am in Taupo this weekend, would have had to have a catch up at the meet!
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era error... fingers move faster than my brain
eewwwwwwwww
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These things give me major horn!! The start of the turbo error when the Japanese weren't afraid to make wacky/impossible to use dashboards and cars with little windows that don't do much!!!
r30 skylines
s12 silvias
mk 2 celica supras
hb cosmos
80's soarers
That sorta thing!!
Post some and I'll love you long time
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Scary, i was in his class in Form 1 & 2
Is he still just as shocking in person?
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Thanks mate! Yeah was a hard decision to justify the money at the time but I'm so glad I did now!!!
Theres a SPAZTK getting around somewhere too...
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early '80s coupes FTW!!!
P.S. Is this Adam?
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Moved to welly from Taupo, don't move if you hate the idea of cramped roads and near misses all day long in the traffic lol
Finding a decent garage that isn't against the roadside can be a little difficult I found.
Also found it really is like a concrete jungle. If you need sun and grass to be happy, don't move lol. Not unfriendly, but I recon most of the time most of the population keeps to them selves, my Ms who is home looking after our 1 year old found it really hard.
Great place otherwise!!
P.s. I may be a dad but I'm only 20 so don't take it too much as a "fathers" opinion
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Hey peeps! New member, love the site and the randomness and the sexy 80's japanese muscle
Name: Aaron
Location: Wairarapa
Cars you own:
1983 Mazda Cosmo coupe 12at
1982 Mazda Cosmo coupe 2ltr (to be FE DOHC)
1986 Ford Telstar fully sick daily
Mods:
'83 Cosmo is my baby, plates SPASTK, 17" Kylamis, lots of NOS bits. Had Tein HA coilovers but sold as looking to find some lower k ones. Engine out being rebuilt.
'82 Cosmo, looking at doing a FE DOHC conversion
How you found out about oldschool:
Found it ages ago but just decided to sign up
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Name: Aaron
Location: Wairarapa
Cars you own:
1983 Mazda Cosmo coupe 12at
1982 Mazda Cosmo coupe 2ltr (to be FE DOHC)
1986 Ford Telstar fully sick daily
Mods:
'82 Cosmo is my baby, plates SPASTK, 17" Kylamis, lots of NOS bits. Had Tein HA coilovers but sold as looking to find some lower k ones. Engine out being rebuilt.
'83 Cosmo, looking at doing a FE DOHC conversion
How you found out about oldschool:
Found it ages ago but just decided to sign up
and had 196,997km on the clock.
Aaron's '83 Mazda Cosmo [SPASTK]
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The car came with a huge amount of spares, and was getting a bit rough. My first object was to tidy up the rust in the car and try get my hands on as much near perfect exterior parts as possible...
I priced up replacing the front veneer and fixing the rust in the boot, and went ahead with only the front as at the time the rear was out of my price range ($1000 was what I was quoted for the boot).
(yes, the tacho is LONG GONE
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It came out looking a million times better considering the tiny price I outlaid. The paint wasn't the greatest but the parasitic rust was gone and replaced by a NOS veneer straight from Mazda's japanese warehouses
I also found out why the car looked so familiar. For 5 years of my college life I walked past the car every morning on the way to school! Since being imported the car has spent its entire life in Taupo until brought by the previous owner - in fact my father had even worked on it in his workshop previously, and it had been offered to a friend for $2000 only a few years before!