Another Canuck

[canuck]

Found this form a while ago but am just getting around to the introduction. I am from Abbotsford, BC. I got my first Safari (Y60), a 1991 5 spd 7 pas, from an importer in July of 2006. A few years later, a friend and a importer noticed a collection of JDMs abandoned on the docks. Turns out that Customs Canada was getting ready to crush them as the exporter was not going to pay for them to be shipped back to Japan. He contacted the exporter and snapped them up for a song. He offered me the one Safari in the lot because he knew I was searching for a parts vehicle. The price was $3000 if I bought as is or $5000 if he gave me a chance to check it out. I gambled and picked up my second, a 1992 5 pas auto Safari for $3000. I could see a dent on the LF guard and a broken rear pas window. Later I found a broke regulator, dead batteries, and rotten rubber. So, SWMBO now drives the auto and has no intent of letting me use it as a parts vehicle. With a verified 84,000 kms on the clock it was a lucky find. Guess I will have to keep my eye out for another one. Looking forward to when the Y61s are 15 years old so I can buy one of those too.

Cheers, John

[Bigrig]

G'day mate - Welcome aboard. Great people, information and laughs to be found on the forum, so don't be shy and join to make the most of it ... which appears to be the case already!! lol

Enjoy!

[DX grunt]

G'day John

Welcome to the forum and great to have you onboard.

Take care out there.

Rossco

[macca]

Welcome to the forum mate. Hope you have a good time here.
Macca

[Sir Roofy]

welcome again john enjoy your stay
throw up some piccies mate we love piccies here

[nowoolies]

g`day John
welcom on board mate
heaps of laughs and bucket loads of info here enjoy
nowoolies
Paul
p:s piccies we luv piccies

[canuck]

Thanks for the warm welcome. Here are some pics from this past August in Washington State going the less traveled route from Cascade Mountains over to the Okanogan Valley. The wife's shopping cart finally got trail broke and some pin striping... all due to me following a GPS short cut which according to the GPS was a real road. She was not impressed.



The road...








I'll post some pics of my 5 spd later.

[Maxhead]

G'Day John, welcome to the forum mate

[Dhuck]

welcome to the forum mate.

[AB]

Welcome to the forum mate, looks like a nice little area over there!