Hi all,
thought it was about time to introduce myself after lurking around for a month or two.
I've owned about 4 or 5 1600's back in the 90's, a poo brown one, a light blue one, the orange beast, my beloved minter wagon and the SSS.
I sold the SSS around 1996 to a buddy of Steve Dunstan of Huffer fame when they were raarking them up in the Southern Lakes. It's still live apparently, so would be stoked to see where it got to. Wagon was an absolute minter, but sold it to fund uni. I built up the Orange beast a bit further than the photo below suggests. Super low circuit styles (optimistically aiming for SS2000) with Koni's all round and a worked L18 with dog leg 5 speed, exhaust etc...of course the 19 y.o dumb ass in me had to ding it up after a 3rd gear doughy and I lost the love. It's also still live.
So, many years later, I needed a new project! Looked for a super long time for a p510 and even considered doing a mish to the US for one. Was very tempted to grab the blue one in Hastings as it looked like a solid build (Craig?), but the missus would have absolutely no bar of a circuit car, even if I promised to convert it straight away and not go near a track (yeah right!)....so the wait continued.
so, happened across a one owner since new 1200 coupe after another evening passing the time on the interwebs. Buddy had one with an A15 in it back in the day, and it just so happened I'd been to Hahei for the Leadfoot festival a month or so before. Rick Bone is an absolute legend, kicking ass in that little coupe was just sick...and his exploits amongst the Porsches in the GT series was pretty funny too....So, decided the potential power to weight ratio of a 700kg car was too good to pass up (and my p510 hunt could continue). That and the fact there was a cool little back story of an un-molested one owner since new 1200 being sold by the owner's daughters who had been unwilling to part with it, 9 years since her passing. It was certainly a case of continuing the love and freshening the little beast up again.
I'll soon start a build thread, however here's some pics of old and new...missus looks pretty stoked with the mint work equips eh
(the offset of the mini lites were a little off at zero although looked pretty sharp)
cheers
Stu
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