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All the friends and colleagues who told me to grow up / stop spending money on a "depreciating asset" and sell it, are now onto their 5th cars since...consisting mostly of heavily-financed Tritons and Hiluxes which they cut their losses on every 3 years with a trade in, or VWs that require a safe word as part of vehicle ownership. Could sell that thing for what I paid for it...

lol you'll get it running reverse out the driveway and cop a defect from a car watching you

Yeah but GTS-T is faster

200rwkw on stock turbo at ~10psi should be pretty safe for a while. For 250rwkw look at a high flow turbo from hypergear or GCG, 555/550cc side feed injectors, Z32 AFM and a Bosch 040 fuel pump. 3" turbo back exhaust and tune a Power FC or Nistune with a manual or electric boost controller.

Did you need a RWC?

Leigh drive 5-10 minutes further than Rowville and look for a large sized older joint or decent sized new joint in Hallam/Endeavour or Narre for the same money. Fountain Gate is going to do to Narre what Eastland did for Ringwood...already happening.

Communication should be number one no matter where the process is at or what's gone wrong. Most are pretty understanding as long as you keep them informed. 30 second phone call.

Do you know if it's difficult to put these in V35s?

Do you know what rim size is needed to clear them?

I'm interested to see what comes of the farm out announcements. They're tight lipped about who and incremental updates for every signature they get on each piece of paper is just annoying, but shouldn't be too long now that they announce the terms of the farmout and that should give a bit of a short term lift. Might be your opportunity to exit before any other big projects. Awful as it is, US conflict with Iran is the best thing for US oil share prices...

wut

Leroy do you still own any 88E?

Hey I know you

I know they're rare but are they rare enough that the blue LM I saw at Monash hospital many months ago was likely one of these mentioned?

Get married at the registry - in and out in 20 minutes. Genuinely one of the better weddings I've been to. Your guests will love you for not making them stand/sit still for a couple hours and the bride has no excuse to be late. Spend the rest of the money you saved on a reception at with a 9 course meal at Sake down the road in their private/basement function room/bar; walking distance so no transport required. Guests will also love you for this.

Yes

Maybe it's your personal hygiene ?

Carsales

Here's the thing... I've always been polite and compliant and honest when pulled over. No moreso than I would be to anyone else - police don't deserve any special treatment or sucking up and any who desire that shouldn't be on the force. But I'm not rude just because someone is doing their job. It doesn't always work - sometimes you get a cop who is a prick and will go above and beyond to f**k with you - but it can't hurt your chances, where as being rude and aggressive can. I've been fined for stupid things and I've been let off with warnings, so I know which I'd rather try for in the case of being pulled over. Those prick cops do exist but are too few and far between for me to want to record every instance of being pulled over and get off on the wrong foot. My most recent run in was with a well known officer in Melbourne's east and although the circumstances in which I got pulled over under were arguably unfair and discriminatory, by being polite and compliant I believe I got off very lightly (minor defect) with someone who had a reputation for handing out major defects on shaky grounds, EPA noticed and notices of unroadworthyness...plus the $1200+ of fines to go with them.

You know you've been on car forums a long time when you can refer to decades

How can we possibly answer that without knowing your life situation... Me personally? I'd keep the Skyline but I'm a different person to you so...

The CGT reduction is 50%, so you only pay half the tax on profits from any capital holdings over 12 months old. If that's 20% of your shares, then you can nominate ANY 20% of your shares in the company to apply the reduction. As you haven't sold any of the shares you have realised a loss yet, so even if those older shares were sold at a loss, it's irrelevant. What matters here is your average purchase price and your average sell price - what is left over is your profit. 20% of that profit you could argue should only be taxed at half the rate, whilst the remaining 80% will be taxed at the full capital gains tax rate.

Predicting a heads or tails outcome isn't difficult, cause a stopped clock is right twice a day. People had been "predicting" a correction or bubble burst for about the last ten years...no one was able to say exactly when and those who did ended up very wrong. Too many variables to call that one...

Hence I'm still here...

Yeah I'm still around. Got a 33R to finish building!