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59sw20
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Greetings IMOC!!

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Nice to meet you all!
Owning an SW20 has been my dream since my college days, when I was too poor and a bit young. Finally I got mine when my 92 GT-S reached its 20th birthday in July this year, to be qualified as a "classic car" by definition, and exempt from emissions and noise tests before it can officially first registered in Hongkong. This GT-S is from Hokkiado, so don't be surprised to see those winter tires on the stock 15"s in the picture. And yeah, a bit of ugly rust on the underbody. I'm in the progress of converting the outlook back to it's original shape. Well, not many items to go. :D
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HighwayStar
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Hello there fella and welcome. Really enjoyed my time in Hong Kong but that's more than a decade ago now. Congrats on the 2. Nice to get new wheels especially when long cherished. I've had my 23 year old rev1 for 13.5 years. Great cars.

I hope you enjoy it.

R.

PS. Get some pics up ... loads of mine in my garage. Welcome again.
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wilkie senior
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Hi there and welcome, look forward to hearing more about the car

get some pictures posted when you can :thumleft:
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Nero_slk
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Welcome to the club mate, GTS wont stop putting a smile on your face for a looooong time :)
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59sw20
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wilkie senior wrote:Hi there and welcome, look forward to hearing more about the car

get some pictures posted when you can :thumleft:


Right! but I have trouble posting pics here... :? I have uploaded an avatar and one shot of the whole car. Do I need to have more posts before I can do that?
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59sw20
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wilkie senior wrote:Hi there and welcome, look forward to hearing more about the car

get some pictures posted when you can :thumleft:


Right! but I have trouble posting pics here... :? I have uploaded an avatar and one shot of the whole car. Do I need to have more posts before I can do that?
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Steve Horrocks
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Welcome to the club!

Yeah, you need a minimum of 15 posts before posting pics or links, it was a fix implemented to stop spammers signing up and posting rubbish and/or porn.
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59sw20
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Steve Horrocks wrote:Welcome to the club!

Yeah, you need a minimum of 15 posts before posting pics or links, it was a fix implemented to stop spammers signing up and posting rubbish and/or porn.

Thanks for explaining! so that works like a turbo... need to build up the pressure before it gets kicked in
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synXero
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Hahaha. Good analogy! I like you.
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59sw20
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synXero wrote:Hahaha. Good analogy! I like you.

hahaah Thanks! :clap: :clap:
I have owned over 10 cars since driving age, but this is my first turboed car. A lot to learn from you guys. A long way to go :D
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Hello and welcome :) Beautiful part of the world you live in, I'm most jealous :mrgreen:

Throw some more words about so we can see this car of yours :thumleft:
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59sw20
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Magic Beans wrote:Hello and welcome :) Beautiful part of the world you live in, I'm most jealous :mrgreen:

Throw some more words about so we can see this car of yours :thumleft:


haha! Thanks. It's beautiful here (in not many ways!) For sure, it is NOT beautiful AT ALL regarding driving and owning a car. Roads are slow and jammed with lots of cars. No wonder the government here discourage people owing any cars. Crazy tax on gas, on import, on renewing license, on insurance... Want us to take buses? HK maybe the biggest market for Dennis etc. in the world. Those 12m monsters are piling up in the road. Do they take up more space, or do MR2s take up more space on the road? hhaa
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59sw20
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Magic Beans wrote:Hello and welcome :) Beautiful part of the world you live in, I'm most jealous :mrgreen:

Throw some more words about so we can see this car of yours :thumleft:


Well... but it's truly beautiful when we want to order and ship goodies from Japan, :clap: although we are not being favored by the exchange rate these days. We got tonnes of agents that do apparently anything, so we can just sit in front of a computer and pay, and then the new toys arrive :D
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wilkie senior
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59sw20 wrote:
Magic Beans wrote:Hello and welcome :) Beautiful part of the world you live in, I'm most jealous :mrgreen:

Throw some more words about so we can see this car of yours :thumleft:


Well... but it's truly beautiful when we want to order and ship goodies from Japan, :clap: although we are not being favored by the exchange rate these days. We got tonnes of agents that do apparently anything, so we can just sit in front of a computer and pay, and then the new toys arrive :D

I have a missues who has discovered the joys of online purchasing!!! As long as she doesn't realise al the mr2 stuff I have ordered lol

So as to throwing some words around does it have a left front wheel? :wink:
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59sw20
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15 posts! but still can't see the button to attach pics. Here is one on my facebook
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59sw20
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One more shot here from my garage. OoOops... the same stance =P~
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Nero_slk
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the second one is lovely mate :>> :cyclops:
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craig
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Looking good mate :D
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59sw20
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Thanks guys! :D
Just had the stock exhaust put back yesterday. It feels like a different car in a couple of ways... the sound, the power, the boost, and the look! I like dual tips much better than the common single sided
Havne't got a nice shot done yet. Will post more when
1. weather gets good
2. a nice shampoo
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