Took some pics of the daily driver this evening...
Took some pics of the daily driver this evening...
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blackcossiestu

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466 posts

201 months

Sunday 15th April 2012
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Hope you like....limited edition "special version" Mitsy twin turbo GTO.

Hope you like smile

















crazy about cars

4,454 posts

191 months

Sunday 15th April 2012
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I'm liking it. Very hard to find a GTO in such good nick.

blackcossiestu

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466 posts

201 months

Sunday 15th April 2012
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Cheers fella. Its a rolling project...was abandoned on a friends driveway for seven years, so its been a long haul back. Next up is to get it through my works body shop and have her paint seen to...got another standard front bumper to replace the cut one, going to try and mount the standard front fogs back in place, just to try and hide the fmic pipe work a little more.

Evil.soup

4,047 posts

227 months

Monday 16th April 2012
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That looks a goodun! Lots of gadgets too by the looks...............

VumGarda

4,479 posts

197 months

Monday 16th April 2012
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I really like that, the wheels are ace.

Very nice smile

DanDC5

19,748 posts

189 months

Tuesday 17th April 2012
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Where did you get your front plate from? I've been after one like that for ages and can't find anywhere that does them.

blackcossiestu

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466 posts

201 months

Tuesday 17th April 2012
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Cheers everyone biggrin

I also spent ages searching for someone who could put my idea into place with regards the jap style plate. Its tricky due to the amount of digits that need squeezing in (JDM have less), plus no one seemed to have the font available. In the end it was underground graphics owner Chris Dempsey that sorted it for me....first one he had done as well!

http://www.undergroundgraphics.com/Car-Show-Plates...

Get in touch with him and tell him you've seen the one on Stu's GTO wink

Slurms

1,254 posts

226 months

Tuesday 17th April 2012
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Nice one finding a car with the moon roof - thats a rare option..

Changedmyname

12,549 posts

203 months

Tuesday 17th April 2012
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Nice car, glad you haven't gone for the big exhausts.

BorkFactor

7,278 posts

180 months

Tuesday 17th April 2012
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That is fantastic - I have very fond memories of these from Gran Turismo!

There is a red one, not as nice as yours, that runs about Aberdeen and I always stop to look at it when I see it.

Lovely car, hope you enjoy it! smile

blackcossiestu

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466 posts

201 months

Tuesday 17th April 2012
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Cheers guys biggrin

The moonroof is only a small part of the rarity....the colour is much rarer as it was only available on the "Special Versions". Mine was part of a limited run of 300 GTO's in 1992, that came in one of two colours (Corse Gray or Kalder green) along with every option box ticked and then some little extras on top such as corse gray colour wheels with diamond cut lips and GTO embroided seats to name a couple.




My seats..


It came with a huge HKS super dragger exhaust (one I fitted up for the last owner back in 2001) but I ditched that in favour of a stock system. Ive decatted it and also removed the centre silencer. It has a weird hashness to the note now....kind of the sort of harshness you get with a exotic car, but toned down a little....its hard to explain lol.

chan268

8 posts

220 months

Friday 20th April 2012
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very nice

james_gt3rs

4,816 posts

213 months

Friday 20th April 2012
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Love 90's Jap stuff, underrated in the looks department!

Mastodon2

14,144 posts

187 months

Saturday 21st April 2012
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That front numberplate looks great actually, is it a pressed metal plate or just a flat plastic printed plate? I know you said it was a custom graphics job, but it looks like a pressed metal plate, if it is a printed graphic its very, very good. Do you use it as a show plate only or does it stay on full time, and if so, do you ever get any bother from the plod about it?

blackcossiestu

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466 posts

201 months

Saturday 21st April 2012
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Cheers guys biggrin

The plate is printed, it's actually very dark green letters on a white back ground, just to try and keep it looking more authentic. I tried all over the world for a pressed plate, but gave up seeing as nearly all of them come from Japan you just cant get enough characters on. I also know not many places have the Jap font on file either, and some of it had to be custom made from scratch, things like the 9 digit.

Ive had it fitted in place now for around seven weeks, without trouble. No doubt I'll get stopped eventually for it....I should know better though with being an MOT tester lol.

AshCos

250 posts

169 months

Saturday 21st April 2012
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More envious of your 3dr Cosworth smile

blackcossiestu

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466 posts

201 months

Saturday 21st April 2012
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lol cheers, I took that old girl out for a drive last Saturday...first one since last September....felt great biggrin


AshCos

250 posts

169 months

Saturday 21st April 2012
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Sure I've spoken/written on a few of your threads on the RSOC forums

blackcossiestu

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466 posts

201 months

Saturday 21st April 2012
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Sorry fella I dont remember, I hardly ever go on there nowadays to be honest.