GTI00R from Sydney around 1996.
Thanks to Dean Evans, the first Australian owner and long time GTIR-Oz member, for providing a snippet of how the car came about. A genuine 1990 RB in ivory.
After seeing Jim Richards’ red car in Wheels magazine, I fell in love with a GTI-R, and around 1996, I arrived into work one day with a message to return a call Jim… I thought it was a prank call, but it was actually Jim, and he told me of this white one for sale in Melbourne.It wasn’t the best buying experience, however, I got it home, and established the register with the NSW RTA, the first one in the state, and second one in Oz behind Steve Richards’ blue one.
I did some minor mods, 17-inch OZ wheels, 3in exhaust and HKS Super Drager muffler, lowered a little, HKS pod filter and HKS boost controller up to one bar boost.
It’s a quasi-RB, so added power windows, electric mirrors and AC. Its lack of rear wiper and pillar vent where the umbrella holder would be made it easily identifiable.
That’s all it needed to keep it both quick and reliable and my daily for a few years, and that’s how it was featured in Fast Fours, which was the highest-selling issue of the year.
Owned it for four years, but frankly wasn’t using it much in the end, and sold it around 1999/2000, so I could to do a season of motorsport and ended up winning the 2001 Mirage series championship.
Drag Battle from 1998
Bought a red race/rally-only GTI-R (link below) in 2015 also in Melb, and relocated it (and me) to NZ (married a Kiwi girl), unlocking its ability to be road registered. Both in NZ and back in Australia.
gtir-registry.com
Thanks to Dean Evans, the first Australian owner and long time GTIR-Oz member, for providing a snippet of how the car came about. A genuine 1990 RB in ivory.
After seeing Jim Richards’ red car in Wheels magazine, I fell in love with a GTI-R, and around 1996, I arrived into work one day with a message to return a call Jim… I thought it was a prank call, but it was actually Jim, and he told me of this white one for sale in Melbourne.It wasn’t the best buying experience, however, I got it home, and established the register with the NSW RTA, the first one in the state, and second one in Oz behind Steve Richards’ blue one.
I did some minor mods, 17-inch OZ wheels, 3in exhaust and HKS Super Drager muffler, lowered a little, HKS pod filter and HKS boost controller up to one bar boost.
It’s a quasi-RB, so added power windows, electric mirrors and AC. Its lack of rear wiper and pillar vent where the umbrella holder would be made it easily identifiable.
That’s all it needed to keep it both quick and reliable and my daily for a few years, and that’s how it was featured in Fast Fours, which was the highest-selling issue of the year.
Owned it for four years, but frankly wasn’t using it much in the end, and sold it around 1999/2000, so I could to do a season of motorsport and ended up winning the 2001 Mirage series championship.
Drag Battle from 1998
Bought a red race/rally-only GTI-R (link below) in 2015 also in Melb, and relocated it (and me) to NZ (married a Kiwi girl), unlocking its ability to be road registered. Both in NZ and back in Australia.
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Entered Australia without compliance. Sitting in a collection in Victoria. Sold circa 2015 for ~$6,500 and soon after exported to New Zealand with its new owner. The plan was to bring it back into Australia, after a period of time, to satisfy the import laws and road register.
gtir-registry.com
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