Project FTO Black Hole

Technikhaus · Post by **Technikhaus** » Fri Apr 27, 2012 8:38 pm

Sooo it looks like I have found A car

1996 GPX manual, 123,XXX Kms, completely stock

He has accepted my offer, and it will be picked up and driven down on monday, unless someone else makes a better offer

he said no one else has shown much interest though, apart from 2 test drives.
So it looks to be almost certainly mine

it's a bit more than i would like to have spent, but for the condition of it, I'm quite happy

Technikhaus · Post by **Technikhaus** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 3:54 pm

I've now paid for it, and my Dad is driving it down for me from Christchurch tomorrow

I'll get some good pics of it uploaded tomorrow

Post by **bjk** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 4:02 pm

Looking forward to seeing it!

Although you may see me shaking my fist from across the ocean.

Technikhaus · Post by **Technikhaus** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 7:00 pm

So it is here now

Just some quick snaps for the time being, as it is 8PM....

And the added bonus that I didn't expect

Post by **Vectose** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 7:06 pm

Looks good mate.

Congratulations on the buy.

JOA81 · Post by **JOA81** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 8:51 pm

Wow small world just realized I'm a friend of a friend of yours I know Aaron I am going skiing in August with him in NZ nice FTO man we have 2 of them there a nice car I hope you have fun working on it

Astron_Boy · Post by **Astron_Boy** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 9:32 pm

Will say again.

Screw you scoring those gauges.

Car looks good meanwhile, looks like the mis-aligned panel issue was fixed...

Technikhaus · Post by **Technikhaus** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 9:46 pm

Astron_Boy wrote:Will say again.

Screw you scoring those gauges.

Car looks good meanwhile, looks like the mis-aligned panel issue was fixed...

Haha yea, Glad I got the gauges

The panels look all right, could still do with a little work though.

Vectose wrote:Looks good mate.

Congratulations on the buy.

Thanks

Shenal wrote:Wow small world just realized I'm a friend of a friend of yours I know Aaron I am going skiing in August with him in NZ nice FTO man we have 2 of them there a nice car I hope you have fun working on it

Haha, small world indeed, as I'm going on the ski trip too

Both Nick and I will be driving up in our FTOs

Technikhaus · Post by **Technikhaus** » Fri May 04, 2012 4:04 pm

Finally cleared out the garage so that I can park it inside.
So I decided I will give the car it's first wash since I got it on Monday

Looks much better now

Post by **Shhtuart** » Fri May 04, 2012 6:18 pm

That's got a facelift steering wheel?

Technikhaus · Post by **Technikhaus** » Fri May 04, 2012 6:24 pm

An Air-Bag Wheel, I believe it was optional...

Kustom · Post by **Kustom** » Fri May 04, 2012 6:46 pm

Yeah optional.

Great looking car mate. Well done !

PHIL069 · Post by **PHIL069** » Fri May 04, 2012 9:14 pm

Looking good, isn't it amazing what difference a good wash makes

(then it rains and you have to do it all over again)

Technikhaus · Post by **Technikhaus** » Sat May 05, 2012 10:38 am

Thanks guys

Yea it looks muuuch better now that it has been washed.
I've never seen this car clean before haha, when I went to view it, the previous owner didn't have time to wash it, and when it arrived here it was dirty

I waited until the garage had been cleared out before I washed it though, as it's been raining most of the week

the real technikhaus · Sun May 06, 2012 6:12 pm

And now not only is the outside clean, but the inside is spic and span! Hired the rug doctor and cleaned both Braydons and mine!

Post by **95gpx** » Sun May 20, 2012 12:30 am

i have the same sideskirts on my gpx. my mate is jealouse coz he still has factory

Sahin · Post by **Sahin** » Sun May 20, 2012 1:09 am

95gpx wrote:i have the same sideskirts on my gpx. my mate is jealouse coz he still has factory

I think they are stock lol

phi-tec · Post by **phi-tec** » Sun May 20, 2012 1:54 am

Sahin wrote:
95gpx wrote:i have the same sideskirts on my gpx. my mate is jealouse coz he still has factory
I think they are stock lol

the skirts are stock?? LOL

Technikhaus · Post by **Technikhaus** » Sun May 20, 2012 10:15 am

I think they where standard on the GPX

Post by **kiz** » Sun May 20, 2012 12:51 pm

Yea they are stock. I was looking at the pics wondering what you guys were on about. Not bragging but my GPVR came over from Japan with Creative side skirts

FTO AUSTRALIA