Subaru's American History Collection tour part 1: GRAND TOURING: Journey to Subaru of America’s History Collection, Part 01 | Japanese Nostalgic Car

Part 2: GRAND TOURING: Journey to Subaru of America’s History Collection, Part 02 | Japanese Nostalgic Car

XT restoration: Subaru’s 1986 XT Turbo Restoration | Japanese Nostalgic Car

I consider myself really lucky to have personally gotten to experience a lot of these cars in their natural habitat. Not these particular cars of course, but my family had hundreds of Subarus in and out of our shop over a 10 year period, cars from '72 or so up to about '84 being the latest. We had old early 70's 4x4 wagons, sedans, had a '74 coupe that I remember with the classic script "FrontWheelDrive" emblem on the trunk. We had several "beater" cars around, like an '82 hatchback that I learned to drive in at age 10. My pops even made a stretch out of two '80 sedans. He converted non-4x4 cars for people and built custom one-off Subarus for folks out there in the boonies (northern Oregon). A lot of those cars are still running around today.

 

Nice.

 

Wow nice.
I've been collecting some material for our RX.



There are more pictures on our facebook page if anybody is interested.
We are trying to be "race ready" for the December Race @ Sonoma.
https://www.facebook.com/8BitRacing

 

Thanks for posting these! Great stuff.

-Brian

 

Of course there is always this one on here too I wasn't sure about it at first, but I think it has become one of the more interesting builds around (though not going for historical accuracy )

https://www.i-club.com/forums/ongoin...-turbo-248591/

 

OMG.. An RX! A white '88 RX hatch was my first car. I was so stoked. It lasted 3 days.

I will definitely check out your page when I get a chance!

 

Ya, it is a great build. Our hope with our RX is to eventually (after a few races) have the budget to swap in an EJ25 or EJ22 (maybe even go Turbo). But for now we are going to stick with the stock EA82T and Transmission (and crappy 4x140 bolt pattern).

Oh that sounds like a story. Hopefully our RX last more than one race weekend. We are trying to get it ready for the December race @ Sonoma. But we never have built a roll cage nor have we rebuilt engines and the RX had its EA82T swapped out for a regular even-crappier EA82 so who know what sort of state will be in by then

Theme wise, we are gonna try to go rally style


with a little mp3-playing-computer and manequin as our co-driver to give all the helpful hints!

 

Reporting in for historic roll call.

 

MY GOD. My dream is a black XT coupe w/ Impreza drivetrain and MKII Supra rear wheel arch flares. Doubt it will ever happen, but hey.

I grew up on the Big Island of Hawaii. Bought on Wed, head-on by a Papaya truck in my lane on Friday. Broke the engine off the tranny, bruised my leg when the shifter hit me, passenger side dash was pointed at the ground, ripped all 4 tires off the rims. I walked with bruised ribs. SUBARU STRONG.

You there right now? I am on the way. Don't wait up for me if you have been for a while. Incoming loud Bugeye.

 

Sorry already back at work. Went across the street to see the guys at Auto Pro Films and let them take it for a spin. Sorry I missed you, thinking about hitting up Devils Canyon after work though. Hit me up if you are interested. 650-three three tree uno two 8

 

YOU bought that one you bastard?!

 

My girlfriend did! She lets me drive it though because she is rad!

 

No worries, I got a late start anyway. Parked in the same spot. Those people next to you like to get down as they were still there.

Probably cannot do the DCBC thing tonight as I am on my way to pick up my pup from surgery and he needs to be cared for unfortunately. So, I will be drinkin' with my dawg tonight.

Ha! That's how it started with me and my '91 4x4 4door. Picked it up ostensibly for my wife. She hasn't even driven it for a few years. Poor little fella is like a homeless pet Suby now, just kicking around where I can park it.