New toy, clubman

storms_of_fate · Postby **storms_of_fate** » Sat Jan 30, 2010 3:23 pm

I took delivery of this last night. It has been 6 months in the waiting, and currently not registered in NSW. It is a 1994 Roadster Clubman in Laguna blue. The purchase came with hardtop, spare set of wheels, new spare clutch, spare rubber bits, spare light, original exhaust, the original bilsteins, Brown Davis roll bar in black, spare radiator and few other things I forgot.

Currently it has a carco custom exhaust, routed so the spare wheel fits under the car. It has NB brake upgrade. Koni/Eiback suspension bits, Skunk2 shift knob. The rest are original.

The car will be cleaned up, and used as a faily and track car.

Bauer · Postby **Bauer** » Sat Jan 30, 2010 3:32 pm

nice pickup. I like that blue. looks great

StanTheMan · Postby **StanTheMan** » Sat Jan 30, 2010 3:37 pm

Huh?

you've been a member here since 2003? :shock:

belated welcome.

you need to watch out for some seedy characters.

Craig, deserves special mention.

don't believe anything AJ, UA, boagsy, STM, Spy, bigdog & okibi say about anything

& please.....whatever you do. don't use mulicoloured zipties for visual effect.

mmmm Craig should soiling himself with that colour.

broady · Postby **broady** » Sat Jan 30, 2010 3:43 pm

Whoa! Laguna Blue clubman!? You must be able to count them on one hand! Awesome.

storms_of_fate · Postby **storms_of_fate** » Sat Jan 30, 2010 3:44 pm

StanTheMan wrote:Huh?

you've been a member here since 2003?

belated welcome.

you need to watch out for some seedy characters.

Craig, deserves special mention.

don't believe anything AJ, UA, boagsy, STM, Spy, bigdog & okibi say about anything

& please.....whatever you do. don't use mulicoloured zipties for visual effect.

mmmm Craig should soiling himself with that colour.

Yep, I have watched this forum for a long time ;) I joined a few things when I got the Clio, you will find I'm also a member of the roller club hahaha. I wanted to have a feel about actually driving and not being an idiot at that time, i still was for a while. But it was my way of getting my self interested in cars. I had no interest prior!

I will stick to what you say!

storms_of_fate · Postby **storms_of_fate** » Sat Jan 30, 2010 3:49 pm

broady wrote:Whoa! Laguna Blue clubman!? You must be able to count them on one hand! Awesome.

So I've heard ;)

93_Clubman · Postby **93_Clubman** » Sat Jan 30, 2010 3:58 pm

Congrats again Karl - Good to see you've finally got the Clubman!

1 of 12 laguna blue Clubmans in '94, & 1 of 15 overall ('93-'95).

sliq · Postby **sliq** » Sat Jan 30, 2010 4:21 pm

storms_of_fate wrote:
StanTheMan wrote:Huh?

you've been a member here since 2003?

belated welcome.

you need to watch out for some seedy characters.

Craig, deserves special mention.

don't believe anything AJ, UA, boagsy, STM, Spy, bigdog & okibi say about anything

& please.....whatever you do. don't use mulicoloured zipties for visual effect.

mmmm Craig should soiling himself with that colour.

Yep, I have watched this forum for a long time ;) I joined a few things when I got the Clio, you will find I'm also a member of the roller club hahaha. I wanted to have a feel about actually driving and not being an idiot at that time, i still was for a while. But it was my way of getting my self interested in cars. I had no interest prior!

I will stick to what you say!

don't listen to what STM says.. if there was ever an all in brawl on this forum.................... he'd be sitting on the sideline with his popcorn and enjoying the view.

Jeo · Postby **Jeo** » Sat Jan 30, 2010 4:31 pm

Nice find.

Who did it come from?

Bauer · Postby **Bauer** » Sat Jan 30, 2010 5:29 pm

storms_of_fate wrote:The car will be cleaned up, and used as a faily and track car.

from that comment I thought it might have been an MG at first

storms_of_fate · Postby **storms_of_fate** » Sat Jan 30, 2010 5:46 pm

The car came from ACT, owned previously by Jon Hawkin, who essentially runs the F3. And is also an official at F1, moto GP etc. This car was his work car, it has quiet high miles as a result. But most of it is highway. It has been maintained at carco in the ACT, the shop there knows the history of the car as well. I rang them for something else, and started talking about this car, great guys, very open about the history, well I did say I was buying it. It has been to a few track days, not as many as I will be taking it to though.

I started chatting with Jon, a mate of someone I work with who used to race F3, and the most PRB Clubman racing champion at a circuit club track day. And by chance he started talking about a car he wanted to sell. This was July last year, and although I wanted to have 1 year off, when the conversation lead to an MX 5 Clubman, I was very interested. Various reasons stopped the car from being delivered to me in that time. I had no idea about rarity of the colour at that time either.