Your first 'performance' car...

[G B]

We all had to start somewhere I guess. Just wondering where everyone started off originally with their first ever 'performance' car.

 

Not sure it was ever brought to NZ, but mine was an MG Maestro 1600. Pretty advanced in is day being the first ever fully CAD production car. Came with an R series motor (developed from an an Allegro/Maxi motor IIRC) with twin Weber carbs. Biggest thing of note was the talking solid state 'digital' dashboard which was very Knight Rider-ish in its day!

 

 

A Fugly looking car, but I loved it

 

 Went on to own MGs for many years after that so it obviously wasn't all that bad a car

Edited October 24, 2016 by G B

[94 Leone]

I think I've ownly owned "Performance cars"  1997 Honda Accord SiR-T
went hunnits.

[calebwrx]

RB30 VL Commodore was my first ever car......rolled it

[ADIKT]

First 'performance' car was a sti type r 

[Skatieguy]

Bought a V7 STi back in Feb 2012

[Guest]

1994 Mitzi libero GT. Bought with no running gear for 600 then put GSR RS running gear and fmic into it. Steep learning curve at 15 and quite daunting putting loom and engine together not knowing what any of it was about. Started and ran first pop tho. Shell was also on cutties so that changed pre wof.

 

First non project was a 1996 Libero with full plastic evo 3 kit. Tuned by kent/speedsource to 160wkw @15psi with Evo 3 bolt ons and it drove awesomely. 

[Jay2]

1990 Bc5 GT Legacy

[pedro]

1935 morris eight..Higher performance than the pushbike it replaced..

[SpeedySub]

I don't think Ive owned a 'performance car' yet!

I don't think I can call any of my cars performance. Hopefully I should have one in a couple of weeks.

Unless you call a 1600 mk4 Cortina a performance car

[Passtheacid]

1996 ST205 Celica GT4

 

Heavy beast, but pretty fun.

 

Gave up on it after figuring out drawing power out of them was very exspensive

[chulozumo]

99 wrx ra limited, most people on here know the history of that one lolol 

 

Now just the ra-r 

[D1Style]

1985 AE82 Toyota FXGT 18 or so years ago, back when $5 got you 5 litres of gas. 

 

After i sold that it was a 1996 EP91 Toyota Glanza V.......my first turbo car.

Edited October 24, 2016 by D1Style

[G B]

4 hours ago, Passtheacid said:

1996 ST205 Celica GT4

 

Heavy beast, but pretty fun.

 

Gave up on it after figuring out drawing power out of them was very exspensive

 

I had one of these a few years ago - one of five NZ new WRC spec cars. Did a few mods such as Lynn Rogers head along with suspension. Like you say, heavy beast, but fun

[Technikhaus]

If it could be counted as one, then my FTO GPX would be my first 'performance' orientated car, followed by my RS-RA, which was a big step up in power!

[Guest]

7 hours ago, D1Style said:

1985 AE82 Toyota FXGT 18 or so years ago, back when $5 got you 5 litres of gas. 

 

After i sold that it was a 1996 EP91 Toyota Glanza V.......my first turbo car.

 

Ha i learnt to drive in the latter. Quick little car that cost zero to fill and maintain. Cant drive fwd for S*** these days.

[hunter951]

i guess my 1992 bluebird doesnt count... so mines a 1998 v4 wrx GF8, damn it went well. Held its own against my mates factory evo 4.... been stuck with Subaru ever since

[jonboy]

Vauxhall Chevette checking in....

 

[newsuba]

On 24/10/2016 at 6:28 PM, G B said:

We all had to start somewhere I guess. Just wondering where everyone started off originally with their first ever 'performance' car.

 

Not sure it was ever brought to NZ, but mine was an MG Maestro 1600. Pretty advanced in is day being the first ever fully CAD production car. Came with an R series motor (developed from an an Allegro/Maxi motor IIRC) with twin Weber carbs. Biggest thing of note was the talking solid state 'digital' dashboard which was very Knight Rider-ish in its day!

 

 

my old fiat tipo dgt had a digital dash too !

in typical italian fashion it didn't stay working for long, most days fine, some days blinking, some days packing a complete sad and not lighting up at all.

 

as for the maestro, a few came in as plain austins.

we did get mg versions of the metro, metro turbo, montego and montego turbo

i drove the latter and it was bloody awful

fast in a straightline but handled like a drunkard with the poor chassis totally overwhelmed by the turbo motor

 

those austin/mgs were fully imported back when most nz cars were still ckd/locally assembled.

fairly expensive/fairly rare with a multitude of spec levels, nz was a dumping ground for orphan rhd cars.

 

my first performance car was an nz assembled ae82 corolla gt.

local leather inerior, chris amon tuned suspension, no emissions gear !

the thing revved like a motorbike to 8200rpm

good enough to see off much more expensive '80s euro hot hatches.

 

 

 

[loner]

AE82 Corolla. As above, back when petrol was dirt cheap and $10 would last all week.

Edited October 26, 2016 by loner

[Dairusire]

Hmmmm my first performance car would have to be my 2001 Subaru Legacy B4 RSK. Loved that car. Was awesome.

[G B]

9 hours ago, newsuba said:

we did get mg versions of the metro, metro turbo, montego and montego turbo

i drove the latter and it was bloody awful

fast in a straightline but handled like a drunkard with the poor chassis totally overwhelmed by the turbo motor

 

A number of years ago I took part in the Taga NZ Rally as co-driver in one of those...

 

Came 2nd in class too

 

 

Back in good 'ol Blighty, I heavily modified one adding a Rover T16 motor to it and was featured in one of the UK's leading Performance Car magazines. A mate loved it so much, he asked me to do the same conversion on his MG Maesto and it ended up being featured on Top Gear  (from 3:27) I didn't get named but still my main claim to fame

 

 

[dvssub2.0]

Mine was 1991 r32 gts-4 two door still own the dame thing some 11 years later. So many good times! Have never been able to move past the early 90's so bc5 as daily!

[B4 I was 250T]

First real performance car was 1991 R32 GTS-t Skyline. Man that thing could move!! Glad I grew up, that car was going to be the death of me especially on rainy days!!

 

[Steviep168]

On 10/24/2016 at 6:28 PM, G B said:

We all had to start somewhere I guess. Just wondering where everyone started off originally with their first ever 'performance' car.

 

Not sure it was ever brought to NZ, but mine was an MG Maestro 1600. Pretty advanced in is day being the first ever fully CAD production car. Came with an R series motor (developed from an an Allegro/Maxi motor IIRC) with twin Weber carbs. Biggest thing of note was the talking solid state 'digital' dashboard which was very Knight Rider-ish in its day!

 

 

A Fugly looking car, but I loved it

 

 Went on to own MGs for many years after that so it obviously wasn't all that bad a car

 

My auntie had the 2.0l version as a company car back in the late 80's and yes agreed it was proper Fugly indeed.......😝😝😝

 

First performance car was a my96 V2 STI and had her for 10yrs and only sold her before I moved out here......👍🏻

[Niran]

1999 VR4 Legnum Type S. Amazing car, handled so dam well! And pretty quick. Was at 175km and was putting holes in my wallet so was time to go. 

 

Was a beat up mess when i got it. Picked it up for 4.5k at 135km on the clock. Spent a lot of money getting it as tidy as below. If only i could have kept it..