Toot Toot Timmy

Nice GT, looks good with side skirts, always thought they should have been OEM.

That was the M3's debut year, it only had 250bhp where the Skyline had over 400 so not too unexpected up hill at bathusrt, the Skylines did well though, second and third.. More unexpected might be the winner that year, a crummy old Holden, King of the mountain.

I do at work, will post on monday.

Just installed my new leather seats and got my audio going, very nice place to be now, leather smells and looks great.

Yep. Mine is electrical tape.

My sponsor is the importer of the Sportline range, he has a few in stock, they are very nice quality made in Italy like all the good ones, I will be rocking one on my race car when I can find a boss kit.

Being Italian their website does not work.. I am sure Italy found out about the internet last Friday.

Will have a look when im there next but they do some like that OMP jobbie.

http://www.autoquip.co.nz/

Very cool truck, so amazing!

Holden could have picked up the phone and called Lotus/Vauxhall and asked for all their Turbo’s please, smacked a Holden badge on it and pwned all.

Alternatively

Guten Tag. Giz us ze tech plz?

“I think that is the Turbo”

Looks like fun. Now get out and race it.

Quietly laughs at the thought of Holden trying to build a GTR beater... remember they had to sell them locally.

1989 Commy

1989 Skyline

The day Group-A died for me, was so sad as a kid.

Cheers, hope all that dynamat works, has given the doors a nice noise when you slam them.

"installing an alarm cause your in akl" makes me feel like i should get some better locks on my toyota

Way I see it is newer cars are are hard to pinch so something older like this would get targeted. Plus its only got 3rd party.

How much does he want for it? I sold my last mint one for over 6k so people do pay good money for them.

Oh, because I live in Auckland I have had Installed a black wired five star alarm with dual immobilizers and remote central locking, better to be safe than sorry, especially after all this effort and seeing these cars are easily stolen.

Been mucking around and taking a OCD amount of time and care with this install, im waiting on my front seats to come back from the upholsterers so have more time than I normally would.

New speakers in the back, vinyl wont stick on edges and looks shit.

Some running of cables, laying of the amps..

Hot air intake and fuse

Dynamat..

Refittrd most of the interior, spot dyed the red carpet, new back seats in factory grey leather.

Still have to finnish the front speaker mounts.

Group-A died. Was very sad. Given the formula wasn't abolished we would have seen some great spin off road cars and true evolutions. The GTR was just the scape goat.

Meh, was good to see the Sierra get stomped when the GTR come along, every man and his dog was in one of the pohm bombs.

I was only in it for the BMW's TBH. The most successful Touring car of all time, even beating out the mighty GTR in a few races, not bad considering the E30 was 10 years old had half the power, no turbo's and was RWD. as long as the M3 was racing I didn't care if the gun at a knife fight GTR was winning, no one respected the guy driving the GTR, everyone respected the guy who bet it in a old BMW

I fell a barrage/montage of M3 coming on. Cue euro trash music.

Beautiful car, love that you are keeping it all OEM or OEM+, its choice with the leather, have never seen one with that option.

Good to see there are some good ones left, most have been munted with lowing springs, cut out bumpers, repco intercoolers and chrome wheels. These were a very fast car back in the day.

wonder what boost pressure they wound it up to for the qualifying. i know it wasn't uncommon for the group a sierras to run 50 odd psi boost for qualifying

God i want one...

Sounds like the BMW Turbo "Qualifying" engines from the early 80's, 1,300BHP on qualifying boost! But much less in the race so it would last 2 hours.

My sign writer had a Road Going RS500 new in the 80's, was specked up to just under 400BHP in road trim, cost him two years worth of income (75k). He tells me it was a seriously difficult car to drive fast on Kiwi roads but was a lot of fun trying, with the Group-A turbo it would be off boost or sideways, nothing in between. Its one of those old man stories and I half believe him.

Seeming we are videoing.. Fuck they sound good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXgRUQbr1n8

This thread needs more 635CSI

Best sounding car in Targa IMHO. Sounds like all the good bits of a V8 Mixed in with a Straight Six. Cudos to Gerry for racing too as it is a genuine Factory Built Schnitzer Group-A Car

And more JPS

To many Nissans and way to many EXA's. And for the record is Ee. Ex. Eh. not Exsa.

Most successful Class 3 cars of the day.. AE82, the Ae86 and AE92..

From the Bathurst Museum. Car was a Jap model with a Ausi front on it, the Ausi’s never got the three Door AE82.

Corolla’s

about 5 years ago, me and some friends went to the gold coast,

me and a motor racing tragic mate made the treck out to the DJR workshop. Was awesome had all his cool stuff there on display. The rear tires on the greens tuff falcon were so fricken massive. Also had his sierra there with the green mustang and a EB falcon v8 supercar.

Well worth a look at the museum, we went but missed out on the factory tour.

92' Nissan Mobil 500, best weekend ever!

This was at Speedshow last year.

Was a sad Bathurst the day this come to a rest.

Old fords in general and its not specific to era, think you have taped into an oldschool demographic , I like this topic!

Mid 90's my group of mates mates had, 2x RWD Mazda Wagon's, a Mitsi Mirage Panther, a Mazda 323 FWD and three of us had AE82's..

air = ear or something different lol/

Lol yea, ear, auto correct. Did get quite a bit of air though

1985 Toyota Corolla GT. Paid $5,800 for it when I was 15 and it took me a year to pay off, crashed it, fixed it, lots of fines and good times, crashed it, fixed it, crashed it properly.

Was trying to find The Rock FM for mandatory Metallica, found it, looked up, locked up off the road and rolled 4 times… lost my ear then found it and sewed it back on.. no seat belt saved by the head rest.

Would still rather a bent eight but I can admire what he did there.

nice add. your so right.