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Air shocks were screwed. Their design is you cant replace the shock, so for a 15 year old car, they were gone. Couldnt get a roady here (not dodgy) so I sold it. I was too honest about the car and only got 8k for it.

It was a nice car to drive around illegally yes :P

  • 2 weeks later...
darrinspencer Grand Master

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Looks like the my White Stagea has been sold last night

Deposit taken

Car arrives on Monday and then off to compliance

The new owners are is Adelaide, so that should make the local Stagea owners happy :laugh:

Just need to wait now for the my silver S2 Stagea to arrive, it is still sitting in some 1 horse town in Japan waiting to get in a shipped :P

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shhhhh on the local front.... :D playing it quiet until we get it on the road

yeah paul wants to keep it quiet so when it arrives he can hit the town in his batman outfit and impress everyone

thanks for everything darrin! can't wait till it gets here - spewin you have to wait even longer now for you new stagea, but i'm sure it will be worth it! :drag:

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shhhhh on the local front.... :ninja: playing it quiet until we get it on the road

'sif anyone from SA reads the Stagea section! :D

yeah paul wants to keep it quiet so when it arrives he can hit the town in his batman outfit and impress everyone

LOL - classic :mellow:

Looking forward to checking it out when its finally down here, well done. :)

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New owners are Paul and Melissa

It will be Melissa's (Miss nismo) car

They should have it in 2-3 weeks

Cheers Darrin.

The Stagea arrived in our driveway on Monday afternoon, after leaving Southport about the same time last week (apparently the transporter came across a flooded bridge and had to find another route).

I have spent the public holiday today cleaning it all up and familiarising myself with this piece of family wagon magic. The white pearl colour is simply amazing when freshly washed.

Engine runs extremely smooth and quiet, with the nismo exhaust giving only just a noticable note, fantastic.

The premium Addzest sound system sounds fantastic (Bass engine under passenger seat, and Digital sound processor under driver's).... although some of it will end up being binned (Sat Nav and TV is in Japanese and the head unit will need a FM expander). ANYBODY HAVE ANY NEED OR IDEAS ON WHAT TO DO WITH THESE COMPONENTS?

I was lucky enough to find three small tokens of the previous owner's life with the car also:

a 10 Yen coin, a Cigarette that had been dropped down the seat, and the rear ashtray was full of aqua coloured little 'pearls' (old airfresheners I assume).

Its off to vehicle inspection and ID check tomorrow and then she is on the road!

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