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A while back Flavien talked me into purchasing something practical for everyday use. I agreed that I needed something with 4-doors that we could stack stuff into, but it was contingent on me selling my RX-7 first. Well, that sold, I sent Flavien some money, and he sent me this shiny red Isuzu Gemini Irmscher R.
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We got them in the US as the Stylus, but we didn’t get the 180 HP, rear-biased AWD drivetrain. (We got a slightly detuned version of that drivetrain in the Impulse RS though.) It landed at the port, but I was actually up in Breckenridge on business, so I wasn’t able to go get it until last Tuesday.
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In what was an exhausting 12 hours of driving, I shot down to Freeport, strapped the car down and came right back. The car fired right up with a jump and I blasted it down the driveway and back, and man this thing boogies.
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It does need to come apart though, as we believe it has a bad headgasket. Hopefully that’s all and it’s not something more sinister like a cracked head (like my 117 Coupe). Unfortuantely, I have so much work piled up on my desk right now, it’ll take me a bit of time to get stuck into it. In the meantime, it’ll be up in the hangar keeping the other 4 cars up there company!