history of perth-wrx! i better get comfortable

you have to think back to 1998-1999 when paying 10$ for an MRT parts catalogue was the norm. Once in your hands you treated it like sacred partchment. You would dream of possible combinations of parts, but then, snapping back to reality, you would realise you couldn't afford anything from that list, except maybe a few stickers! No wait, that was me.

The first wednesday of every month at the jaguar club rooms with the wrxoc of wa was the catlyst for perthwrx. myself and others would meet on the previso of showing off what we had done that month. exhaust one month, fmic the next, strut brace and on and on. Fueled by your peers you would go one-up-menship everytime. As a result a core group of friends had some very wild rides for the time. James Ling, perhaps and at least in my eyes, one of the most influential and pioneering wrx's in perth. Steven Tawnbanan took things to a level that almost 10 years later is still considered a benchmark. Dion Thompson in what has to be perth's best wrx then and now. Rony Windelow, Phil Smart, Wes Tran and many more pushing that envelope and this was all before the y2k!

From these meetings, well, more like get togethers outside in the carpark it grew to exchanging emails, then e-groups, then yahoogroups and of course finally the forum, both beta versions I (black) and now II (white).

Then forget once a month, how about, once a week, spice it up, how about food, will go one better, how about go-karts and it all slowly grew into this monster.

The cruise, maybe started with about 3-4 cars one weekend into what, 70-80 cars for the annual possum memorial cruise.

Motorvation is a big deal for perth-wrx, its basically all of the above, its core values, its constitution no less that to get the most out of this experience you really have to experience the mv weekend. Some of my best memories and lack off come from this weekend. MV03 was the best. 04-07 haven't been bad, but what a weekend in 2003!

I have met, what i consider my best friends, because of all this. Funny how things work out that way.
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I must admit i no longer have the enthusiam i once did for pdiddy. Finding time now is very hard. I can no longer break down a reply almost sentence for sentence as i once did for years. that thirst for knoweldge is amost over because everything is out there for you. you don't have to spend weeks, months, years compiling information about gearboxes! second hand info and the overnight guru is the way it is now.

perthwrx's history is not an assortment of dates and who did what when but rather its that passion for the wrx, even if you fall outside that 18-35yo age group and actually only drive a "wrx"!

I leave you with some random trivia facts about pdiddy

Trivia:

perth-wrx sticker was moddled after a version 4 sti rear graffiti style "WRX" that was on the back of my boot for years (one of the only things i did actually buy, and was able to afford from that mrt catalogue) by Jason Monzu's friend Gavin.

Simon Cooke is infact an original god-father of pdiddy, not that we really want to admit it.

Daniel Carson is the man most responsible for the website and forum in all its incarnations.

Richard Gaze was the person who actually started "perth-wrx" on the yahoo network.

Perth-WRX is affectionely called pdiddy by its life members.