Went to the 30th anniversary meet this morning (..yesterday morning now..), and all good things! great turnout, location, and weather. Nice to chat to a bunch of familiar faces again too.. it'd been a while!
Unfortunately I wasn't able to take the AW11 though, which is still just sitting at home, unregistered. <_<
 
A couple months back I had tried to get a UVP to head off n get a wheel alignment, only to find that I was unable to thanks to the car having an uncleared defect as the last thing on Vicroads record. Shattered, and had never heard of this before. Just makes everything more difficult, as anywhere it goes from this point requires a tow-truck or trailer.
Sort of lost motivation with it again from that point, and has sat for another 3 months to now.
 
A little undecided what my next move is; whether changing a bunch of the engine/wiring parts back myself, and then just get it towed to a roadworthy place; take it as-is with a bunch of parts and getting it all changed back by them.. which is likely only happen if I magically find a heap of cash; or try and bodge up the ITB setup and other misc parts as-is and attempt to get a roady - least desirable for the risk of ****arounds towing it back and forth as it inevitably fails for those things anyway...
We'll see. It'll happen eventually..
 
Anyway..
Pics of it, as is, this afternoon.









 
Has been over 18months since I've properly driven this now..! argh...
 

There appears to be far too many wheels at your place

But Seriously, i've admired this car for far too long. 
Such a shame it is off the road! Don't lose hope/interest in it, as this (as im sure many people have said before me) is the single best looking AW11 out there.
 
This is probably the single reason im looking for a red AW11 and not any other colour...

Ha. There def is just a couple... :P
 
I have put in on the backburner for the last little while, as other than rego (saying it as if its a small thing..) the car is complete. Doesn't take up a whole lot of space; and sitting as-is in the garage, it would only be deteriorating quite slowly thanks to time alone..
shooting myself in the foot if I don't get it sorted by the change in club reg regs (soon to require RWC too afaik), but just looking at the date as i type this, I think i may already be too late. Hard toe believe its already august!
I'd love to have it regoed for summer anyway...

Done!


Skimming over the details between August last year to now; I mocked up an airbox setup for the car - plumbed into the factory intake, got a roadworthy, a wheel alignment, and as of friday just gone - got it re-registered again.
Cant fkn believe it. So stoked.
Drove it straight back home, pulled the airbox back off, and drove.
..and drove.
..and drove.
Did almost 1000km over the weekend alone.
It had been well over two years since It last on the road, yet instantly picked up where I had left off - just with the car having gone through a huge tidy up!
Its funny; I had almost forgotton how much I loved driving these cars. I still no doubt loved the adub; but after years of sitting in the garage, id forgotton how it was to really be in - loving it more for sentimental and nostalgia reasons..
 
but holy hell..
The familiar and rediculously-comfortable interior.. the razor sharp steering.. the willingness to rev.. to turn.. to brake.. and the noise..!
 
Anyway; probably sound a bit retarded right now, as I'm just so smitten with it.. while simultaniously bloody tired! But yeah.. awesome. Awesomeawesome.
Go AW11!

Congratulations on finally getting it on the road. It looks fantastic, and is a real credit to you.

****ing awesome mate, you've made my day hearing that this is back on the road.
 
Now time to tell my missus I'm racking up the credit card to get mine working.

Great to see it on the tarmac where it belongs.

How awesome.. Congrats man

Looks amazing!

Seriously congratulations on getting it back on the road, still looks phenomenal!

What sort of air box set up did you use? Did it go over the trumpets or replace them entirely?

Still love that interior!!


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