I finally bought my first car!!!!

Submitted: Sunday, Feb 29, 2004 at 21:24
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after months of umming and arring, today i finally made up my mind and bought my first car. Its a 1990 GQ petrol patrol. if you had of asked me 2 years ago what my first car would be this would have been the last car i would have imagined, but after a friend got me into 4wding a couple of years ago, im hooked and i have never looked back.
The beast has 127 000km on her clock and eats through fuel like there is no tomorrow, but ive always been a petrol head and figure she is worth the extra price at the pump. The car has been my parents since first purchased and has only been offroad the times i have driven it there, so i know im not buying into others problems. it has never skipped a beat and has just had the fuel pump and entire electrical system replaced (new battery, coil, distributor, points, leads... the lot) so i pray i have made a wise choice.

The only thing i need to do is replace the clutch, as it is on its way out. i do have a question though, is it necessary to fit it with a heavy duty clutch or should i stick to genuine parts? if anyone has experience either good or bad with a paticular brand it'd be great to hear about it. me and a mate are going to put it in, i cant justify spending so much money on labour when im desperatly trying to save for the new rubber.
Also, just having finished hsc and with the intention to do a hell of a lot more offroading i hope to join a 4wd club in the very near future. I live in Sydney, and am pretty sold on the toyota land cruiser club, but if anyone can suggest others i should check out that would be great. if anyone has any advise they could give me about the GQ or 4wding at all (as im fairly new to these waters) it would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers Chris
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