New leone owner from Perth

GLF5_82 · Post by **GLF5_82** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 1:40 am

Hello everybody on the forum, My names Elliott and I recently bought an 82 leone GLf5 sedan, joined this forum to see if I could find a few older subie owners and find a bit more info and maybe some help if I need it (almost certainly will)

The car itself was a steal, $480, yeah it has a little hole in the radiator and the rego is due but it was owned from new by a little old lady who didn't drive it to much and later sold it to her next door neigbours daughter who drove it for a few months and now its mine

besides the radiator its really clean for its age and with only a touch over 150,000 it still runs really nice. my plans are not to go overboard and swap motors and that, more likely just a minor resto and clean up, recondition driveline and suspension and just a few little touches.

anyway glad to be here, look forward to seeing some cool old scoobies.

Tigger · Post by **Tigger** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 7:05 am

Welcome to the forum! It sounds like you have scored yourself a great little car!

There are plenty of people here that will be able to answer your questions so you've come to the right place

I look forward to seeing some pictures of your new Subie

Subydoug · Post by **Subydoug** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 8:37 am

Hey Mate,

Im right into the older subies too. Got a 1982 touring wagon.

Some pictures would be good

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Regards

Doug

RSR 555 · Post by **RSR 555** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 9:59 am

Hi and Welcome to AUSubaru Elliott

I love the old girls and have a small workshop in Rockingham that keeps these girls on the road. I have some parts if you need but they are getting harder to find these days

Is you GLF5 blue? I think I saw one for sale not too long ago on Gumtree. It looked in good nick

Cheers,
Paul

GLF5_82 · Post by **GLF5_82** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 10:57 am

Hey guys, good to see there are still a few old ones around

I have a few pics of mine . . . . . if it worked

Subydoug · Post by **Subydoug** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 1:01 pm

Looks great! certainly better nic then my old girl. Tidy for an old car.

Regards

Doug

Tigger · Post by **Tigger** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 1:45 pm

Looking very tidy for her age! Congratulations

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 5:57 pm

G'day Elliot,

There are plenty of older subarus still getting around - even though they are becoming hard to find... I've got a brumby that runs basically the same driveline as the MY sedan, except the brumby is the 4wd model...

Come to think of it I reckon you see more MY coupes than you do sedans...

Looking forward to your build thread, drop a link in here

Cheers

Bennie

RSR 555 · Post by **RSR 555** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 11:31 pm

GLF5_82 wrote:Hey guys, good to see there are still a few old ones around
I have a few pics of mine . . . . . if it worked

Yep.. that's the one.. TOONGA will be sad.. he had his eye on that one

Can't wait to see it fixed up.. though it looks like it won't take too much

Post by **TOONGA** » Sat Mar 15, 2014 9:27 am

Yeah but bottle tops and bread crumbs don't pay the bills or buy cars

Besides I was going to put a lift kit , EJ22, AWD box and numerous othe bits in it.

this Bloke is going to restore it ... good on him, I will keep dreaming

TOONGA