Newbie in Sydney

AndrewHolt · Post by **AndrewHolt** » Wed Dec 19, 2012 11:02 am

Well, it must be the season for buying 6's. I hope your red M6 is coming along well Will.

Bought my first ever 6er last month - have loved and admired 6's for years...ever since one passed my on the free-way about 1995 doing about AT LEAST 180km/h. Aus delivered in late 86 163k on the clock, 635 Csi in Polaris Silver with M-tech bodykit. Seems pretty well cared for and drives really well with manual dog-leg box. Looking forward to meeting some members in the new year for a run & swapping some info & yarns.

One issue the car has - which is really annoying - is the brightwork on the windscreen is lifting away from the rubber seal. Anyone know who/how this can fixed? Called O'Briens Auto and they didn't want to know.

Will organise more pics soon.

Cheers everyone, and hope you all have a great xmas

billy635 · Post by **billy635** » Wed Dec 19, 2012 4:57 pm

Hey Andrew, Looks great in silver and nice wheels. Welcome.

TrevorB · Post by **TrevorB** » Wed Dec 19, 2012 8:50 pm

Nice toy Andrew, welcome along!

ron · Post by **ron** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 8:34 am

AndrewHolt wrote: One issue the car has - which is really annoying - is the brightwork on the windscreen is lifting away from the rubber seal. Anyone know who/how this can fixed?

You will have to take the screen out to fix this. The brightwork pieces are very soft and get easily bent out of shape. With the screen out, and the seal affixed to it, gently tweak the strips to fit the contours.

When you are happy with the shape, fit them into the seal, and then refit the screen.

AusE24 · Post by **AusE24** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 9:00 am

Nice Choice.

Looks great. Mine is an 86 Aus delivery Too.

There were 270 Autos and 89 Manuals Aus Delivered 86 to 89.

Regards

Greg

GazM3 · Post by **GazM3** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 10:43 am

Nice one mate. U don't see many in silver.

Shipper 01 · Post by **Shipper 01** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 11:13 pm

very nice and very local, Rozelle Bay supercruiser marina? We're driving early Jan so watch this space and come along.

ozbmw · Post by **ozbmw** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 9:50 am

A beautiful Polaris, nice find.

GripGreg · Post by **GripGreg** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 9:19 pm

WOW! Very spiffy. An '86 with a dogleg; isn't that rather rare?

MrE · Post by **MrE** » Wed Dec 26, 2012 7:11 am

Welcome Andrew, always good to see another Oz car. It looks pretty impressive. Its good & clean and seems well looked after, and a pretty good local pick up too given the bodykit and manual box.

Keep comin' with the pictures mate.

-Ellis.

AndrewHolt · Post by **AndrewHolt** » Wed Dec 26, 2012 11:48 am

Mad - blown away with your welcoming words and friendliness. Took the old girl for a major service just before Xmas at Peter Mabey BMW at Artarmon. Took her out on then M4 to Glenbrook for a quick (120km) spin a few days ago with all the windows down. Its hard keeping to 110kmh Found out when she's hot the exhaust makes a really throaty, crackling noise at slow speed driving around town. Getting the windscreen brightwork re-set at Ralph Moore at Mascot in early Jan as the brightwork is popping out (seal's deteriorated). Will be right for a run after that.

All I need to do now is figure out to reduce photos to under 2 Mb to be able to post to the forum.....any thoughts gratefully accepted (I'm a technical dufus of the highest order!).

Anyway - I hope everyone's enjoying Xmas.

Cheers
Andrew

MrE · Post by **MrE** » Wed Dec 26, 2012 12:11 pm

AndrewHolt wrote:Mad - blown away with your welcoming words and friendliness. Took the old girl for a major service just before Xmas at Peter Mabey BMW at Artarmon. Took her out on then M4 to Glenbrook for a quick (120km) spin a few days ago with all the windows down. Its hard keeping to 110kmh Found out when she's hot the exhaust makes a really throaty, crackling noise at slow speed driving around town. Getting the windscreen brightwork re-set at Ralph Moore at Mascot in early Jan as the brightwork is popping out (seal's deteriorated). Will be right for a run after that.

All I need to do now is figure out to reduce photos to under 2 Mb to be able to post to the forum.....any thoughts gratefully accepted (I'm a technical dufus of the highest order!).

Anyway - I hope everyone's enjoying Xmas.

Cheers
Andrew

Good to hear Andrew. Its always great getting the 6er out on the highway for a decent blast.

Here are some instructions I prepared a while back to help people wanting to post multiple pictures of varying sizes...

viewtopic.php?p=119091&highlight=photobucket#119091

This method requires you to create a Photobucket account on which to host your pictures, and you then use the photo tags generated by Photobucket to display your images on this (or any) internet forum. Photobucket is free to use, that's why I use it.

-Ellis.

AndrewHolt · Post by **AndrewHolt** » Fri Dec 28, 2012 11:36 am

2I6es · Post by **2I6es** » Thu Jan 03, 2013 12:34 pm

Andrew - nice to see another 86 in Oz, now just get a transfer up to Darwin and there will be two of us.

Cheers, nice find - Vinny

nagaro635 · Post by **nagaro635** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 10:02 am

Nice Andrew ! - she's got the same wheels as mine. Welcome aboard mate

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