Hi All,
I actually made one post back at the beginning of the year saying I was getting my dream build. I just finished driving it home (from Auckland to Christchurch) yesterday. With it in hand, figured it worth properly introducing myself to the group.
I did not grow up knowing anything about Kei cars, originally being from the Southern US and working on classics there. However, I lived in Kuala Lumpur for a few years and owned a couple L700 builds. Honestly, they were my favorite cars I’d ever owned but sadly had to sell when Moving to NZ about 10 years ago. The whole time I’d been craving another, and things finally lined up for me to pick up one much higher spec than I could have ever hoped for.
Any how, I’ll post a more proper breakdown of the Mira later…and maybe a proper name for it will come to me by that time. Till then:
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welcome and that looks like a very nice L7
[quote=“David_A, post:1, topic:7213”]…they were my favorite cars I’d ever owned but sadly had to sell when Moving to NZ…[/quote]What was the hassle over shipping them in? Did NZ want to levy rediculous tariffs on them or did shipping costs and paperwork bureaucrazy superceed the value of these cars?
A few factors, but primarily didn’t have time to sort out paperwork and shipping, or have any place to store it while waiting on all of that to go through…and it seemed like it was going to take a lot of time. Also it was technically a Perodua Kelisa, so there was some “wait and see” on how that would fly for importing to NZ.
Still have a picture of the one I would have preferred to keep:
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yeah, I’m quite thrilled with it. Basically a road carted track car and proper sleeper. It’s last dyno was 124kw, but has since been remapped and probably closer to 140kw.
I presume it has a k3 engine in it then they are good numbers.
