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The Matrix has me.

So stoked to have @therealnickturner help me to document the restoration of my R32 GT-R. He’s just created this little teaser video of our trip out west to check out the car and in typical Nick fashion, it fucking rocks!

You’ve come a long way, baby. Once upon a time we were unloading a container of XXR wheels, now it’s Voltex.

Hello Nasty, where you been?

Sad but true.

Went out west to get the ball rolling on restoring the GT-R today, and I’m left with a mixed bag of emotions.

On the one hand I was excited to see the car again, but the hard reality of seeing the rust (in the usual places, around the windows etc.) hit pretty hard.

I’ve got no-one to blame but myself for letting it get this bad in the first place, so I have no choice but to be AOK with it. This is no spray job, it’s a full metal restoration.

Plenty of time, no deadline. Baby steps.

I did!

My old R32 Golf.

This question was posted on the GolfR Subreddit and I couldn’t help but respond:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Golf_R/comments/1bx53wd/a_person_said_his_brz_is_a_real_sports_car_and_my/

Those who think the Golf is the better sports car because it’s faster in a straight line surely wouldn’t agree that a Tesla is a sports car? The hatchback was designed to load your groceries in the boot easier, the “hot hatch” is a grocery getter modified with sporty performance and handling.

I’ve owned a lot of hot/hotted up hatches; ED/EG Civics, a Jazz/Fit with a K20 engine swap, an ABT Supercharged R32 Golf, a track modified MKV GTI and a lot of other track modified cars too (EVO 6.5 TME/8, R32 GT-R, S2000 etc.) as awesome as these cars were no car taught me how to drive better on the circuit than an MX5/Miata (I’ve had 2).

The very first time I was out on the race track and a friend handed me the keys to his brand new BRZ I knew what the car was all about. Stock for stock it’s a lot more fun to drive on the limit on the track than an MX5. Much more predictable and those “crappy” Prius tyres really make the chassis show off what it can do on corner entry and exit. Before you know it you’re truly controlling the car with the rear wheels, scrubbing speed with oversteer vs understeer etc.

Many years later Toyota invited me out to the track to test drive their 86 race car (used in the Toyota 86 Racing Series) and IMHO the stock BRZ was WAY more fun (playful) than the race car most likely because the race car had sticky race rubber and I wasn’t able to push it as hard as I could the stock car.

Love the comments!

https://www.reddit.com/r/CarsAustralia/comments/1bgp04b/i_lost_my_shit_and_sold_everything_a_few_years/