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Hey guys, was involved in an accident last Monday, some tool went into my lane driving in the hills, I swirved and lost control (roads were wet + VERY tight space) and hence just found out today my car is being totalled ;):D We can't find the other driver, either he didn't see me crash (likely due to the amount of trees obsuring his view) or he just plain didn't bother to stop, so the excess is left to be paid by me; how nice!

Anyway, now I'm looking for a new car, definately gonna be a Skyline again, probably a S2 R33 but I gotta find the right one, prefferably with a sun roof. Anyone looking to sell me their baby nice and cheap? :wave:

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Yeah I'm fine, save for a little bit of a sore back. Definately thank god for insurance, if I didn't have it... well lets say I wouldn't be too happy! Those Skylines are built like brick shithouses though, coming out of an accident like I did with basically no injuries definately says something for Japanese engineering

Was looking at something like this, I know it's in Sydney but I could always fly down (or up - symantics :)), what you guys think?

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/in...3entry2131073

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Sorry to hear about what had happened to your car.

The white R33 seems very neat to me. The price is also quite reasonable, looking at the amount of mods it comes with the car. The only thing that you would have to consider is that you might have to spend some money to remove all the illegal mods when it gets to SA. Transporting the car down/up from Sydney to Adelaide would probably another additional cost of 500-700 bucks, not unless you want to drive it back.

Have you tried looking around locally? But if a couple of $k's different doesn't trip you off the cliff, I guess the white R33 looks like a fantastic choice.

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hey dude sorry 2 hear about the car....

i seen 2 white 33's on main north rd in a dealer near the radio rentals accross the rd, i checked 1 out n it had heaps of work done 2, 250 at the wheels or somthing..might b good checkign it out...other was stock 33 s2....consider upgrading 2 a 34!

also some guy on here was selling his silver 33 s2, dunno if its still up...

how did the car hit? wat areas of the car were damaged etc etc?

ur car was like mine hey? how much was it insured 4 n which insurance were u with? (if u dont mind me asking)

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Hey man, you wanna try and organise a day with me to look around adelaide for a new baby. We can take my car and make a day of it. you need a new one and i know how much you jerk off about the s2. Im sorry to hear that you cound not save the car.

For those who haven't seen his car it was...clean and neat and look shit hot. Best condition 33 i have seen in a very very long time.

Take care man!

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Bad luck man... don't be too worried about purchasing from interstate... I have done it twice in the last 12 months. Just bought my GTR from brisbane a couple of months ago and provided it is currently registered then it does not have to go thru regency. You just have to go for an identity check which can be done at sturt depot not regency... just to check engine/vin no.s ....its no big hassle.

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Bad luck man... don't be too worried about purchasing from interstate... I have done it twice in the last 12 months. Just bought my GTR from brisbane a couple of months ago and provided it is currently registered then it does not have to go thru regency. You just have to go for an identity check which can be done at sturt depot not regency... just to check engine/vin no.s ....its no big hassle.

I bought mine from Melbourne last year. Yes you are right... It's only an identity check thing. But if you are unlucky, they will still ask you to take off all the illegal mods before getting your rego in SA. It happened to me. They asked me to take off my tint because the legal tint in SA is 70% instead of 30%. Asked me to increase the height of my car... this and that..... :thumbsup: Cost me a couple of hundreds to get them fixed.

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Oh guys that's great news, I was worried about the whole regency thing, but it is registered so hopefully I'll be alright. I'm still looking around here in Adelaide for one but if I can't find one then I'll seriously consider interstate

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Oh guys that's great news, I was worried about the whole regency thing, but it is registered so hopefully I'll be alright. I'm still looking around here in Adelaide for one but if I can't find one then I'll seriously consider interstate

I got my Stagea (registered) from Qld last year, took the obvious stuff off (like boost guage, boost bleed control, turbo timer, etc) on the side of the road prior to going thru Sturt Rd for the engine # inspection, and it wasnt a problem. Pulled over down the road and put it all back on again!

If the interstate vehicle is in a high state of tune then there could be problems, if mildly mod'd then just take off what you can prior to having the identity inspection. Dont get reamed into going to Regency tho......

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Yep what the other guys said is true regarding blatantly obvious mods, but put it this way... I got passed at the id inspection in my 32GTR with an R34 motor, N1 turbos, pods, big injectors, cams, coilovers, bov's etc

So... its not real hard!!

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Thanks for the support guys! vange, I'll take a look at that dealer, see if they have anything of interest, do you happen to know the price?. I've considered upgrading to a 34 but I'll probably stick with an S2 33. I've always said to myself the only 34 I'd get would be a GTR :)

As for how the accident happened, LONG complicated story to explain on the forum in text but basically, some ass came into my lane in the hills, sent me out of control and kept going...

My car was exactly like yours but a series 1 and had a sunroof, was a great little car, miss it VERY much. For insurance I went with Just Car and they insured me for $18500 so I get a bit of money back but I'd rather have my car and no hassle of buying another.

All these stories of passing through from interstate inspections is sounding better and better. I'd say the only things I'd have to remove are the PFC hand controller and boost controller, the rest should be cool

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