Hey guys. As promised I'm starting a thread on one of my other projects.
This time it's a 1992 Mitsubishi GTO TT
She is my first and most certainly not the last! As up until last week I had 5 of these, for my sins, 2 were NA auto and one of them got sold to a friend who is now discovering what an ass raping feels like good job it's only a NA!
Back to J Tec.
Im not sure how long i will have this car, if it has come to me for the dire TLC it was in need of to be then sold back on or if it is one that will stay in the ever growing collection of classic J-Tin.
Either way, it is here with me and a step in the right direction.
This long story starts back to around the last week or two of July 2015.
Rob (my other half) was looking on a FB page to do with old Volvos and was talking to a guy from St Helens about an ex funeral limo volvo that was on a 98 plate (although the cars model ended in 89).
out of interest we asked the guy what else he had in his collection, and we was shown about 9 other cars. one of them being the GTO, now, we asked him if that was for sale and we was swiftly told a firm no.
humm... ok then.... fast forward a week and we ask again, and again we was told no.
right.... fast forward another week and again we asked. this time he said yes, so we made arragments to go up and view the car on the 1st aug. what a *#*#*#*#*#*#*# trip that was! not only was it pissing down with rain and i ended up getting soaked cos the windscreen in our tank is in need of resealing, but it was non stop traffic.
Anyway, we arrived and went off to the car that the guy had left parked in his works carpark.
was told it had no MOT and not been driven in about 6 months.
i asked if we could start the car to check it all over, and after a jump it roared into life (oooooohhhhh that sounded sweeeeeeet) all sounded ok, bar a whistling from a pully? i dunno, its quite now, and a bit tappy, but that was down to the oil being right at the bottom due to non starting/moving etc.
while the car was running, i gave it a good going over with a fine tooth combe, inside and out, under and over.
found a few things wrong, but they were used for a good bargining tool.
It had a massive scratch down the passenger side, front to back and damage to the n/s wing mirror. the drivers seat was a bit tatty as was the steering wheel and the gear knob. the folding mirror switch didnt work and the exhaust was blowing. on top of that there was no service history, only the word of the guy that he had the cam belt changed in 2012.
i was happy with what i had seen and we begain the bargining battle. in the end we settled on £1700.
I handed him over £600 for a deposit and told him that we will be back on the 10th aug to bring her home.
5 weeks on the car has had a clean bill of health in the form of an MOT with no advisories, the scratch has been made to vanish as well as the damaged wingmirror, the drivers seat has had its upholstery changed and the coolent system has been flushed.
i am curently saving up for the big service while tackling a couple of minor issues, such as the ECS not working and a dodgy Aero kit.
The sound has been sorted too and im running all infinity speakers, sub and amp. i was running a standard single din head unit but sadly i think its now dead, it died on the drive back from JAE , iv got a double din, but it does not fit and i do need an adaptor plate or something like that.
Iv been keeping a log on the MPG too and its proving to be better than my Legnum VR4.
Im going back to mitsi ciren and ordering a standard back box and im on the hunt for mark 1 alloys, i did for shits n giggles enquire about a new set from mitsi.... £1500, yeah... think i will pass on that one.
since getting the car i have attended 2 meets, the south west one and JAE. both fantastic and the start of many more to come.
The key to this car is to keep it as orignal as possible..... we will see how long that lasts eh!
This time it's a 1992 Mitsubishi GTO TT
She is my first and most certainly not the last! As up until last week I had 5 of these, for my sins, 2 were NA auto and one of them got sold to a friend who is now discovering what an ass raping feels like good job it's only a NA!
Back to J Tec.
Im not sure how long i will have this car, if it has come to me for the dire TLC it was in need of to be then sold back on or if it is one that will stay in the ever growing collection of classic J-Tin.
Either way, it is here with me and a step in the right direction.
This long story starts back to around the last week or two of July 2015.
Rob (my other half) was looking on a FB page to do with old Volvos and was talking to a guy from St Helens about an ex funeral limo volvo that was on a 98 plate (although the cars model ended in 89).
out of interest we asked the guy what else he had in his collection, and we was shown about 9 other cars. one of them being the GTO, now, we asked him if that was for sale and we was swiftly told a firm no.
humm... ok then.... fast forward a week and we ask again, and again we was told no.
right.... fast forward another week and again we asked. this time he said yes, so we made arragments to go up and view the car on the 1st aug. what a *#*#*#*#*#*#*# trip that was! not only was it pissing down with rain and i ended up getting soaked cos the windscreen in our tank is in need of resealing, but it was non stop traffic.
Anyway, we arrived and went off to the car that the guy had left parked in his works carpark.
was told it had no MOT and not been driven in about 6 months.
i asked if we could start the car to check it all over, and after a jump it roared into life (oooooohhhhh that sounded sweeeeeeet) all sounded ok, bar a whistling from a pully? i dunno, its quite now, and a bit tappy, but that was down to the oil being right at the bottom due to non starting/moving etc.
while the car was running, i gave it a good going over with a fine tooth combe, inside and out, under and over.
found a few things wrong, but they were used for a good bargining tool.
It had a massive scratch down the passenger side, front to back and damage to the n/s wing mirror. the drivers seat was a bit tatty as was the steering wheel and the gear knob. the folding mirror switch didnt work and the exhaust was blowing. on top of that there was no service history, only the word of the guy that he had the cam belt changed in 2012.
i was happy with what i had seen and we begain the bargining battle. in the end we settled on £1700.
I handed him over £600 for a deposit and told him that we will be back on the 10th aug to bring her home.
5 weeks on the car has had a clean bill of health in the form of an MOT with no advisories, the scratch has been made to vanish as well as the damaged wingmirror, the drivers seat has had its upholstery changed and the coolent system has been flushed.
i am curently saving up for the big service while tackling a couple of minor issues, such as the ECS not working and a dodgy Aero kit.
The sound has been sorted too and im running all infinity speakers, sub and amp. i was running a standard single din head unit but sadly i think its now dead, it died on the drive back from JAE , iv got a double din, but it does not fit and i do need an adaptor plate or something like that.
Iv been keeping a log on the MPG too and its proving to be better than my Legnum VR4.
Im going back to mitsi ciren and ordering a standard back box and im on the hunt for mark 1 alloys, i did for shits n giggles enquire about a new set from mitsi.... £1500, yeah... think i will pass on that one.
since getting the car i have attended 2 meets, the south west one and JAE. both fantastic and the start of many more to come.
The key to this car is to keep it as orignal as possible..... we will see how long that lasts eh!
