My first drive of a car was in a '74 GB Galant- It was mum's car that she bought new. 1400 Saturn, drum brakes all 'round, vinyl seats and dealer fitted radio.
After driving other cars, I decided a Galant was the go!
I bought a GB rally car in need of some serious TLC, which was scrapped after I bought a GA with a decent shell. This was around 1981.
Swapped all the good stuff from the rally car and had a ball with that doing club motorsport until I had given it such a hard time, I decided a re-shell was in order.
Bought a GB shell from a wrecker and swapped bits over - this time it looked OK too!
While I was doing that, I bought a GH Sigma as a daily. Eventually swapped that with mum's Galant.
Traded the Galant in on a new JD Camira in 1985.
Sold the rally car when I moved away and then it was a while before I had one again.
Cue 1988 and I needed a work wagon, so I bought a GC wagon and stuck an import 4G52 and 5-speed into it. GE Sigma (SE) seats, GH struts and brakes + GH Booster/master cyl.
Wasn't that fast but did lots of kms in it. Eventually I had to fix a heap of rust, so I sprayed it white with Dulux house paint with Electric Blue bumpers.
In between, I bought and sold another GC wagon and a GE sedan to make some cash.
When my first daughter was due, we needed something better that the GC wagon, so I bought a GJ wagon.
Sold that when daughter 2 came along, as we couldn't fit enough stuff in it.
When my eldest daughter turned 12, we bought a GJ sedan to use in club motorsport. This was dubbed the "Sigma of Death" (SoD).
Nothing special, just a rebuilt 4G54 with EFI, race seat and harneseses, Pedders H/duty front springs and shocks.
I also ended up with another GJ sedan, which was was in better condition.
After bending the LHF chassis rail on the SoD, we swapped the bits into the nicer GJ and "SoDII" was born.
I bought a GA rolling shell fitted with a Triton LSD as a future project, which has been sitting on the front lawn for a while.
The SoDII has lasted a couple of years doing motorkhanas and khanacrosses, but a few too many bumps into trees means that the drivetrain is going to go into the GA shell. This should be a good thing as we will lose about 200kg - more fasts!
So you can see I have had a few old Mitsubishis. Add to that my mates had Galants and Lancers as well and I have played with heaps of them!
cheers
Gaz
