Iron Chef

And I will laugh heartily if Gearing is seriously considering the Will V...

Find me an article and I'll submit it! Yeah but you're old and you don't get that young people like Jukes I've got someone in Sydney prepared to drop folding on the test car and pay for all the testing too. Like most newer cars, they may not be a good bet now, but they will be in a couple of years.

They came with a 1.6 litre direct injection turbo with six speed manual, that's why I'm interested

I'm keen to get the Juke on SEVS, but I need an article (not an online one, a real magazine) on it to get it over the line. Anyone got a UK mag with a comparison in it?

I was saying he should respond with HE is stupid, not they are lol - I used to teach my students to say "watashi wa baka desu" to Japanese visitors, always good for a laugh. Anything with "chin chin tama" in it always gets a reaction too

I would've gone with watashi rather than anata, but pretty close

1) Go there for a holiday first 2) If you still like it, remember living there is VERY different to having a holiday there 3) Get a working holiday visa 4) Get a job teaching English (if you have a degree) or in a bar earning shit money 5) If you get REALLY lucky and land a job work at auctions, you will be working for someone else, working 70 hour weeks and if you don't sell, you don't make any money, while your expenses keep racking up. The word 'stress doesn't begin to describe it. If it took you 6 months to build up a client base (which is hard these days), you would easily be $50K down by that point.

Sileighties were officially sold through Nissan dealerships and had 'Sileighty' written where the 180SX stickers normally went on a kouki Type X. They were built at Autech though, a bit like Holden getting cars modded by HSV but still sold through Holden dealers. There were bugger all made, and original factory ones fetch stupid money (like $30K plus).

Lol don't waste valuable thinking time on a 1985 Mustang, unless it's Dick Johnson's old one.

PS don't trust that Iron Chef fella - he's the father of my children!

It's not wise to play the correction game with a school teacher around...

If you want to help collect money on the day, I'm all ears.

In Japan, their prices met about half way through last year Low km Nurs are fetching 5 million plus these days...

Even if the car was free you'd be looking at $4K. My magic 8-ball says "Outlook not good".

Just to clarify, the stripes were originally made to suit each model. I can get genuine Nismo ones for another vehicle and trim them down, but they wouldn't look right in my opinion. Same applies for the Acromann ones, don't want generic length ones. Boz, the side stripes look pretty good but the bonnet stripe is the wrong angle and the wrong length. (Sorry I'm a bit anal like that...) Terry yes you are correct, my sticker guy (in Oz) recommends changing them every two years to stop the stickers breaking down and eating into the paint, especially if the car is regularly exposed to sunlight.

I've got one pending for a customer, so we'll soon know if I'm wrong...wouldn't be the first time DIT has made running changes and not told anyone

News to me...

If you can find me a link, let me know.

Ok my journey thus far... I've been looking at getting a genuine Nismo stripe kit (side stripes, bonnet stripe) for my GT-R - the only problem is that Nismo stopped producing them a while ago, so they no longer sell them. Having trawled through some very crappy looking eBay specials and ruled them out immediately (I wanted original), my journey led me to a guy from GTROC UK who had the original Nismo stickers on his car. As it turned out, he'd had a front quarter panel replaced at one point (like in about 2005), so he got a sticker guy in the UK to take exact measurements of the factory design still in tact on the opposite side of the car and replicate it. Interestingly enough, the quality of the new stickers was better than the originals so they ripped the Nismo originals off the other side and replaced them. I got in touch with the sticker guy who amazingly still had the design on his computer, so we started talking the sphincter of the universe (WTF! I wrote turk3y!). Originally wanted a fairly hefty chunk of coin to send me a set over, but he's agreed to a fairly hefty price reduction down to GBP300 (around $450ish) plus postage if I can round up 4 other interested buyers. That includes both sides, the bonnet stripe and the Nismo bonnet logo. Given that this is the closest I'm probably ever going to get to the real deal, I'm in. Do these float anyone else's boat, or am I barking up the wrong tree? Pics of the kit on the other bloke's car:

Just park it on Parramatta Road, it'll have 45,000km in no time lol

Hehe I can answer that, but I shan't spoil the party It also has clear glass instead of privacy glass because it's thinner/lighter too.

lol always well maintained, yet it's fresh into the country with no number plates...uh huh...and I remember that 168,000km V-Spec Nur well, I knew it would end up in Sydney...

Hey Matt, are your rims 19x10.5 +15? They look bigger than mine

When I get off my bum and get it tuned and tidied up a little, it's going in HPI, so you can read plenty about it then I know of one bloke who built what I think was a 400R replica (a very convincing one) after his real one got written off, it was competing in Targa Tas this year. Aside from that, I had someone sniffing around one for a little while, but I don't know of any already here.

This is about Terry's car, not mine