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Hey guys,

During the week I had the stupid/crazy idea of getting Mark Skaife/Jim Richards to sign the glovebox lid from the GT-R the next time the V8 Supercars were in Melbourne. With the Sandown 500 on this weekend, it was as good a time as any, so I went along today with the high hope of getting them to sign it. Here is the result :P

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I got Jim Richards to sign it when he returned from his Porsche cup practice session and he was great about it, when I told him it was for my GT-R he said "Oh Top Stuff" and happily signed it and the cases of two 1:43 scale race GT-Rs I have too.

Mark Skaife was a much harder man to catch, after waiting patiently along the fence near their trucks, after nearly an hour I decided to walk into the fenced off pit area behind the pit garages and track him down. Luckily I did only a couple of minutes later. He seemed very busy and not that interested at all, but I expected it (and fair enough he does have a lot of stuff on) but I still told him how much I appreciated it.

Anyways just thought I'd share the pic, I thought if all the HDT/HSV owners do it with Brocky etc, I can do the same with my car, and I don't think too many GT-Rs would have that sort of thing.

Cheers

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Thanks for the comments guys.

Didn't do it to raise the value of the car, I don't believe it has/will, would be better off getting a standard glovebox and selling that one on ebay or something if I ever sold the car haha.

But I guess it does make the car a little bit more unique compared to the other ones out there.

Couldn't really embroid it as its hard plastic? And yeah Skaife sure is very hard to get hold of, I was lucky I reckon :P

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700HP-GTR33 Mentor

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Thanks for the comments guys.

Didn't do it to raise the value of the car, I don't believe it has/will, would be better off getting a standard glovebox and selling that one on ebay or something if I ever sold the car haha.

But I guess it does make the car a little bit more unique compared to the other ones out there.

Couldn't really embroid it as its hard plastic? And yeah Skaife sure is very hard to get hold of, I was lucky I reckon :D

Cheers

Hi again' I have a Noval idea.

Get both of them to autograph our stickers before we get them made.

That way we get their signature displayed on all our Skylines.

We could pass them a couple of bucks and say that they have made their previous followers and

current ones :P really happy.

dezz Grand Master

dezz

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dan's from WA... they're a bit behind.

teh cool word in vic is "tops"

tops idea with the glovebox.

its the word in vic...i wouldnt go so far as to call it cool ....

I used to be a ford forum member, and a lot of the guys there get there engine or rocker covers signed by v8 supercar drivers etc....never really thought about doing it on a skyline, but I guess you got 2 relevant signatures :)

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