Why did you buy an FTO and where did you first see one?

[khunjeng]

a friend of my gf in 1998 wanted to buy a car (i think a Honda) and we went to this joint that sold imports (by accident) thats when I saw Supras, skylines and this FTO..I thought they all were the bomb...but they were like 35k!! OMG and I was in uni and never worked before (thanks mum and dad)

Anyway some time later after I bought my XF Falcon for $7k on gas...what a machine (4 spd manual also) but eventually I traded up to the EL fairmont which I still own...never thought about the rice cars until my wife (who is a raice girl) said she hated the EL Fairmont! When I recovered from the shock she started pointing out cars she liked...she likes the rice so it was always a supra/skyline and then an FTO...I had this mate when I worked at NEC who imported one in 2002 and knew he was looking to selll but was too lazy to get it fixed up so I bought it off him a few weeks ago...damn its machine once I get the tappets fixed by Lee next Monday...

FTOs are great value to money 15K its like giving them away!

[GarryD]

Saw it at auction seemed ok checked prices got it cheap thought I'ld make a quick $ but she liked it so I wasn't allowed to resell it.
Now why hasn't that worked for me with all the Harleys I'vbe bought and sold might try it next time "But dear I like it"
Somehow I don't think that will work

[jonowong]

i was into skylines at one point (14yrs old) like most people because i was a young teenager... watched some initial d persuaded me to like skylines some more, one day someones brother drove him to school in a black veilside fto, n i was like what car is that, n the guys like its a mitsubishi fto! n then i looked them up on carsales n they were same price as skylines but so much hotter! so i was like gotta get me one of them! so i askd for more hours at burgerking! n 3 years later i had the fto with veilside!

[Raven]

i was 18, got a job that paid enough to afford a nice car, was not a car person at all but decided it was time, spent a week on carsales looking at everything.

remembered seeing an aweeesome car bout 2 weeks back on a work trip, asked a mate who i pointed it out to at the time, told me it was an FTO.

i said Whats an FTO? rest is history.. on my second FTO now, bought, resold, upgraded to the world of manual mivec

[Nacho]

Saw an FTO in a multi-level carpark around 6 years ago and I was blown away by the shape and honestly I thought it was worth at least $100000. I was blown away by the shape and have never seen anything like it. Imports were quite rare to see around Melbourne back then.

Later on I bumped into a website and saw that they were selling them for around $24000 and a few months later after having inspected many FTO's, my friend saw one on the freeway for sale and gave me their phone number. I had a look at that one and it was the best condition FTO I had seen............that was 4 years ago.........and I still drive it to this day.

[Raven]

I was blown away by the shape and honestly I thought it was worth at least $100000.

Thought the same thing, when my mate told me to look it up, the real price blew me away.

[BuCkEt]

This is probably the reason us younger fellows get wierd looks when driving them.



Not that I mind