My car history
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Been lurking on this forum for a few years and thought I would put up a few pics of some of my previous cars, Only 25 so hopefully many more to come.
My first car was a 1.4 RT Phase 1 Clio, did a few subtle mods such as clear side repeaters, 15" OZ Super T alloys, colour coding ect. Dont have any digital pics of this though.
When i Turned 19 i bought a Celica GT, my first reasonably quick car. Speant way too much money on it looking back now! Car had 18" OZ superleggras, HKS filter, JDM real lights and a smoothed out GT4 rear spoiler. Spoiler divided opinion but i liked it.
After a year I decided I wanted more power and bought a ST205 GT4, car came with usual filter, exhaust etc. Never really got on with this car at all. Neither power or handeling lived up to my expectations so sold after about 4 months
Wondered what to get after that untill a friend turned up in his new DC2 ITR, took it out for a test drive and had to have one. Found a mint 1998 DC2 with 34k on the clock. Did a few subtle mods and added a couple of strut braces. One of my favourite cars iv owned.
Kept for over a year and then decided to try somthing else, Regretted it almost as soon as I sold it so bought another one,This time a later 2000 model. This one had had a lot of work done including, filter, full exhaust, VTEC controller and a unichip. Kept for another 6 months then realised i could get insurance on one of my childhood dream cars.
Speant ages looking my my next car. Wanted a totally stock silver EVO 6 GSR. Finally found one in great condition. After keeping it standerd for the first year (due to insurance costs) I then added Tein springs, full 3" decatted exhaust, apexi filter, greddy boost controller and a remap. Car made 370bhp at 1.6 bar. Had pops and bangs added to the map and it would crackle, pop and spit flames on demand. Was worried that buying a car I had wanted for years would be a dissapointment. It wasnt, this is still the best car iv owned.
After 18 months I decided I fancied somthing with a bit more style. A few years ago I saw an E46 M3 when they they had just come out in silver grey and had wanted one since. Manged to find a well specced one with black leather, HK and sat nav. Very good all round car but lacked the fun of some of my previous cars.
In addition to these Iv also had a few runabouts in between cars:
5 series BMW - big old tank but quite fun
Rover 214 - bought of an old chap in mint condition, never let me down
VW polo 1.4 - solid little motor
Pug 306 - Never again!
1.5 EK civic - you cant beat jap reliability.
So that concludes my car history, still unsure what to get next so running the civic for the winter till i work out what I want, quite fancy a S2 elise.. to be continued...
My first car was a 1.4 RT Phase 1 Clio, did a few subtle mods such as clear side repeaters, 15" OZ Super T alloys, colour coding ect. Dont have any digital pics of this though.
When i Turned 19 i bought a Celica GT, my first reasonably quick car. Speant way too much money on it looking back now! Car had 18" OZ superleggras, HKS filter, JDM real lights and a smoothed out GT4 rear spoiler. Spoiler divided opinion but i liked it.
After a year I decided I wanted more power and bought a ST205 GT4, car came with usual filter, exhaust etc. Never really got on with this car at all. Neither power or handeling lived up to my expectations so sold after about 4 months
Wondered what to get after that untill a friend turned up in his new DC2 ITR, took it out for a test drive and had to have one. Found a mint 1998 DC2 with 34k on the clock. Did a few subtle mods and added a couple of strut braces. One of my favourite cars iv owned.
Kept for over a year and then decided to try somthing else, Regretted it almost as soon as I sold it so bought another one,This time a later 2000 model. This one had had a lot of work done including, filter, full exhaust, VTEC controller and a unichip. Kept for another 6 months then realised i could get insurance on one of my childhood dream cars.
Speant ages looking my my next car. Wanted a totally stock silver EVO 6 GSR. Finally found one in great condition. After keeping it standerd for the first year (due to insurance costs) I then added Tein springs, full 3" decatted exhaust, apexi filter, greddy boost controller and a remap. Car made 370bhp at 1.6 bar. Had pops and bangs added to the map and it would crackle, pop and spit flames on demand. Was worried that buying a car I had wanted for years would be a dissapointment. It wasnt, this is still the best car iv owned.
After 18 months I decided I fancied somthing with a bit more style. A few years ago I saw an E46 M3 when they they had just come out in silver grey and had wanted one since. Manged to find a well specced one with black leather, HK and sat nav. Very good all round car but lacked the fun of some of my previous cars.
In addition to these Iv also had a few runabouts in between cars:
5 series BMW - big old tank but quite fun
Rover 214 - bought of an old chap in mint condition, never let me down
VW polo 1.4 - solid little motor
Pug 306 - Never again!
1.5 EK civic - you cant beat jap reliability.
So that concludes my car history, still unsure what to get next so running the civic for the winter till i work out what I want, quite fancy a S2 elise.. to be continued...
Edited by paulw123 on Monday 11th October 20:15
Edited by paulw123 on Monday 11th October 20:19
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