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I was dropping the GF off at work this morning and came across a horrid sight, one written off DR30 4door, some of you may have seen it in HPI before, its a grey/silver over black 4door with crome rims, iron mask front...

looked to me like a one car accident, maybe lost it and rolled, car is oval shaped now...

Hope there were no injuries though....

i'll look tonight for the mag i saw it in and post a pic of it in its better days....

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I think it was issue 46 in 2004 and it was the worked FJ20 pumping out 300 hp at rear wheels. It sold a couple of months back. The car was mint and had a lot of nice work done including front mount, bigger injectors, microtech, apexi turbo, fantasy manifold etc. It is also one of the feature cars on FJ20.com

I hope the owner is alright....my thoughts go out to him.

cheers

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  • 4 weeks later...
This makes me sad.. Even worse is I heard the car was advertised in the trading post for 7.5k a wile back.. Obviously some fully sick drifter P plater got his grubby unexperienced hands on it :dry:

I wonder if the owner will now be wrecking it for parts?

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