Meet Emma.
Estoril Blue = EB, EB = Emma Bovary. Yes, I have named the car after an adulterous literary character. It's a good book, and I'm a nerd.
As I'm sure everyone on this forum with a pulse is aware, Slater is selling his Estoril ZHP Coupe. Whelp, I'm the buyer. I'll be flying up in mid/late January, meeting my friend (user ZHPizza) in Toronto, importing and then driving this unicorn back to North Carolina.
Be prepared for many future pictures. I'm a detailing nut, and have an extensive background in photography. Subscribers are welcome.
(Photo cred on this goes to Slater)
The first thing I have to address in order to bring it into the States legally is the speedometer. It seems the ability to import a car with a kilo-only speedometer is completely subjective, and is more or less based on how shitty of a day is being had by the agent inspecting the car at the border. I'm not interested in getting stuck in upstate New York in late January, so I've been looking at my options. The Bimmian faces are nice but I'm not in love with them, they're $115, and the redline is off. Since I was likely not going to have an accurate redline, I started looking for cheap E46 clusters on eBay/Craigslist to take apart and pull the US/MPH faces out of. When looking for sub-$100 clusters, I found this:
$21 shipped. And it's from a ZHP. You can't tell me buying this car wasn't meant to be.
...much more to come...