hey guys, my name is Phil and I've just picked up a '97 Peugeot 406 2.0 sedan as a bit of a 'do-er upper' which prompted me to join here. There's a few familiar faces I see here - V8Pete, KK-Kolonel, CaM and 'Man with beard approves'.
I've pretty much only owned Mitsubishis and a couple other Jap cars up until now (with the exception of a Mondeo estate which I had for all of a week).
My current steeds are a 1991 Galant VR-4 Evolution in more or less 100% stock standard condition and a 1980 Eterna GSR coupe in not so stock condition:
(http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l230/te71se/91zero/91ZERO003.jpg)
(http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l230/te71se/Eterna/IMG_2609.jpg)
I'll post up pics of my 406 after I've given it a clean, but there's not much to see - just a standard maroon/red 406 on hubcaps.
406s are the future.
Put this in it http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=289964744 (http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=289964744) or in that yellow thing.
Its happened to you too? I blame Petey
::)
Hi Phil.
Hello Phil
Its joe/flange here
xox
hello phil/fuel. nice eterna. i had a mitsubishi once. it hated me and the feeling was mutual
welcome
Quote from: zephyrheaven on May 16, 2010, 01:16:05 PM
Its happened to you too? I blame Petey
::)
yeah I blame Pete!
Quote from: pugMi on May 16, 2010, 08:57:54 PM
hello phil/fuel. nice eterna. i had a mitsubishi once. it hated me and the feeling was mutual
welcome
haha cheers, yeah a few people have shared that experience haha.. sometimes I wonder why I keep on with them..
Hey mate , hats off for keeping the evo zero stock, so hard to find a stock clean one like this these days. Always loved these since my uncle had an ex rally version. Here is an interesting bit of history as well. When the citroen bx 4tc was homologated , Mitsubishi bought 2 of them for research in the 80s. (This was in Classic and Sports car magazine by a Japanese car collector)
hi Phil
I approve of your new purchase
MWB
Love the VR4... so very very rare to see them in good stock, unmolested condition these days... a future appreciating classic for sure! :)
Quote from: DFF53 on May 17, 2010, 08:02:59 AM
Hey mate , hats off for keeping the evo zero stock, so hard to find a stock clean one like this these days. Always loved these since my uncle had an ex rally version. Here is an interesting bit of history as well. When the citroen bx 4tc was homologated , Mitsubishi bought 2 of them for research in the 80s. (This was in Classic and Sports car magazine by a Japanese car collector)
hey, I think most the credit should go to Kris the previous owner of the car, I'm just continuing on with his efforts. I've spent the last week sanding and painting the factory rims back to a nice silver for instance.
Yep wouldn't surprise me that Mitsi purchased the BX's - that's the Japanese for ya, just copy and make improvements, but somewhere along the way they lose the soul or character the European cars have.
Quote from: Carpentry on May 17, 2010, 08:35:00 AM
hi Phil
I approve of your new purchase
MWB
awesome ;)
Quote from: Esprit on May 17, 2010, 10:28:28 AM
Love the VR4... so very very rare to see them in good stock, unmolested condition these days... a future appreciating classic for sure! :)
that's what I'm hoping! 'tis pretty much stashed away in the garage most of the time - I plan on hanging onto it for a while yet. I figure it's bound to be one of the very few factory VR-4s let alone an Evolution VR-4 in tidy stock standard condition left in the country.
Hi Phil
Welcome and all that :)
Quote from: DFF53 on May 17, 2010, 08:02:59 AM
Hey mate , hats off for keeping the evo zero stock, so hard to find a stock clean one like this these days.
+1
Had evo 1 kept it stock for ages, loved that car :'( sold to pay for house.
Regards Twin Cam
Wow evo 1 , don't remember ever seing one in the flesh that was stock. Loved all evos right up to 6.5 Makkinen edition, not too sure bout the new ones though.
yeah brought it in the early 2000's when every car dearler in NZ was importing the shit out of them. I think I paid 16-17k I purchased it because it was stock, I have to say I was tempted many a time to change those horrible wheels they come out with. Even keep the orig tiny twin exhaust, even when all my friends said get a big exhaust (piss off knobs) 6.5 tommi were nice, the new ones are still better than the new WRX (yuck). Also nice Eterna as well. I have a big passion for old jappa's hence the 72 mazda rx3 sitting in the garage.