Hello all, Newbie from Sheffield
 

Hello all hope you are well?

I am new to the forum, I live in the Sheffield area and I am looking to buy my first Impreza.

I have had nearly 40 Performance cars since I started driving back in 2005, A string of Vauxhalls, Swedish Turbo'd cars, A few BMW's and Golf GTI Edition 30's, Also quite a few Jap cars such as Type R's and 200sx's etc

Never had a Subaru and have a little Suzuki Ignis Sport as a daily driver so I have been thinking about buying myself a Weekend toy.

I am big into Car detailing and have owned quite a few show condition cars over the years, OEM or Fast Road is my preferred choice! Non of that stretched tyres and Air Ride Bollocks.

I reckon an Impreza WRX STI ticks all the right boxes so I am looking to buy a Mint Blob Eye possibly a Widetrack.

Thanks Simon

Hi mate
I'm not far from you :thumb:

there is a local group on facebook called 'south yorkshire subaru club' we have monthly meets too

have a look at JCT cars, Jason Turner (owner) is on SYSC. he's not the cheapest, but cars are good quality.

our monthly meet will be starting again at 'sheffield subaru service' soon :thumb:

Hello mate!

Thanks for the heads up, I think JCT has a Grey Widetrack For Sale at the moment around the £10.5K mark if its the one I am thinking of?

Cheers Simon

Welcome along mate :thumb:
Good luck with your search,hope you find a good one.
You do get a few nice ones come up for sale on here,usually enthusiast owned so worth keeping an eye out.

Hello and welcome.

Wow, that's impressive! That's a new car every 3~4 months, are you a trader as well?

Good luck with the search.

No not a trader Mate, In my early Vauxhall days I was just buying and selling them for the laugh really. Most of them never really cost much more than £1500-£2000 to be fair. One month I had a Cavalier SRI, Then wanted an Astra GSI, The wanted a Cavalier Turbo.....And so it goes on LOL.

Longest I have ever kept a car was just over 1 Year and that was my Saab 9-3 Aero which I rebuilt from the ground up with a 2.3 Engine Conversion, I don't think I will ever keep anything long term.

I get the enjoyment out of Researching, Hunting for the best example I can find, Buying it and making the car as tidy as possible both mechanically and cosmetically....Then regardless of how rare or how good the car is I get itchy feet and start looking for my next car and sell the one I have just made pretty much perfect.

Great news for the buyer but most people and forum members think I am :cuckoo: as they follow my Build threads and cannot believe I would even consider selling up.

Until 2014 I was a Manager at a Garage and so in my spare time stayed behind and carried out some Minor Restoration work on quite a few cars. I have bought and sold to various Owners Club members and car collectors over the years.

I had a complete career change in June 2014 so I have slowed down buying the older stuff as I don't have daily access to ramps now.

Some of the really rare cars I have owned I will never have the chance to own again but you can't keep them all LOL.

Cheers Simon

When Dave? Maybe i should come along to a meet, not been for years. The meets that is. My Focus is always with Martin :lol1:

They should be starting when the clocks go forward, so first meet should be April.
It will be good to have a catch up with you, not seen you for years :thumb:

Mate, I'm sure I remember you doing a resto on a tidy gul

Cool, I'll keep an eye out on here for details. Will depend on work though.

Yeah I've been mega busy the last few years and cars have had to take a bit of a side line. I've still got the impreza, just not had time to really enjoy it etc.

Yes I did! I had the Volvo 850 T5R in Gul Yellow in 2013, Went to a collector who had a Lotus Carlton and a few other cars.

Funnily enough he also bought a Lightening Blue Saab 9-3 Viggen Coupe from me in 2014 too :thumb:

Ha, nice one, I'm still trying to convert t5Pete to the jap scene :cry::cry:

No chance, He wont convert :lol1:

Fancy seeing you over this side of things pal.

Zaff

I get about Zaff :lol1:

Hows it going mate?

The next meet at Sheffield Subaru Service is Monday 13th June from 7pm

Hopefully see some of you there :thumb: