My parents bought a white Subaru XT around 95, It became my favorite car at the time, I was amazed with the digital dash, it was fwd turbo, no 4wd. I wish they never got rid of it. I never got to drive it since I was only around 8 to 12.
I fully believe that the owner put enough work into this car to make them feel like $29k (or a best is where they break even. Whether or not anyone is actually paying $29k right now is another question, but then Burbank, that particular moderately wealthy upper-middle class corner of Los Angeles, is an absolute HAVEN for weird cars (within a few blocks of my not-yet-in-laws, I've seen a Honda NSX and an Isuzu Vehicross!) so I'm not surprised there's a pretty clean XT hanging out there. My '84 Leone GL hatch drove extremely well, I can only imagine what an actual Subaru sports car of that era was like to handle
Also fun fact, thats a factory rear seat for 85!! The checkered pattern as well as carpet on the rear shelf was only added to 86 and later models, the 85s at least here in the US all had that vinyl rear seat and also vinyl wrap material on the rear shelf with the speakers, my blue 85 is the same way!
@@leediffenderfer9326 I figured it was US spec. Has different seat belt self up also. Didn’t get it here in Aus. I like the idea of the vinyl potentially holding up better.
@@MQN8R trust me, it doesnt… i just pulled the rear parcel shelf out of my 85 to replace it with the marine carpet like in my 86, looks a little nicer in my opinion, im still going to keep the rear vinyl seat, just replace the vinyl on the rear shelf
@@leediffenderfer9326 Yes indeed, have to admit I’m fortunate I was filming skateboard stuff before cars so had a chance to learn. That being said I’m still not confident talking or being on camera.
It's sad how underrated these cars are so they keep getting junked. I'm in NZ where there's about 20 in the whole country so I'd take anything I can get and save it, it's been my dream for ages to restore one. That red one is so nice. The XT brown interior is my favourite interior of any car, it's so warm and comfortable looking (dream spec for me would be a white on grey one with the waffle hubcaps and that interior) and although the red one is hella expensive, it's nice to see their value go up.
@@lj7421 Yeah the point of the video was to use the price of the car as a discourse for how historically significant these cars are. The brown interior is quintessentially Japanese. They are rare but Australia still has a few decaying in yards and sheds. You may have to import or migrate.
@@Motorsportmemories 100% , send me an email at henryamcewen@gmail.com and we can work out what suits. Obviously there’s context collapse and transformation as I edit my videos for a different audience/purpose but more than happy to acknowledge the source which makes it possible. 👍
I remember a friend getting one of the early batch of imports, and they were processed through the ACT in order to be deemed road legal. They were initially knocked back because of non-compliance with our ADR's, because of the lack of bassinet restraint mountings!! The cars presented were all rally cars, goodness knows how many budding rally drivers were going to be throwing their newborns in the back for a joyride.
RXs had no right to handle as well as they did, with so much inbuilt understeer and no handbrake. Credit to the demon drivers who worked out how to overwhelm the laws of physics. And thanks too for the 4-frame cameo of my silver 'chase' car.
Thanks for sharing this historic footage! 😀👍👍 I remember ''Sweeping' the extremely wet Alpine Rally in 1986 in my 1985 DL Sportswagon. I completed almost all of the special stages after the field had passed through. It was so wet that being AWD, it was the best of the TAYELL team cars for that purpose! ... and almost 40 years later, i'm now driving a 2024 WRX Sportswagon. Gotta love them Subarus!
