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best bet is to hold onto it, love it and spend your money in the right place and it will hold value.

they don't hold their value unfortunatly especially because of the supply and demand thing

i think we all wish they did....

its all sentimental value, you love the car, you've spent xxxxxx amount of dollars on it, you'll never get it back on a R33

And a car is not an investment. You always lose money unless you got a great deal when you bought it.

Wrong....if you have an Aussie Muscle car...got one in the showroom for 700k....

Wrong....if you have an Aussie Muscle car...got one in the showroom for 700k....

very true... even now the american muscle cars are an investment

my mate had a original VL walkinshaw about 6yrs back, he sold it for around $25k but motor was fully worked etc.. and it was a fully restored car

only a couple weeks back my friend baught a walkinshaw that has to be restored for i think around $50k he was saying

i dont see this happening with an r33 lol

very true... even now the american muscle cars are an investment

my mate had a original VL walkinshaw about 6yrs back, he sold it for around $25k but motor was fully worked etc.. and it was a fully restored car

only a couple weeks back my friend baught a walkinshaw that has to be restored for i think around $50k he was saying

i dont see this happening with an r33 lol

Awesome story... Needed space invaders and Tim Allen.

My HG GTS Monaro will sell for more than I paid for it! When I buy my next import, R34 GTT or JZX100 Chaser I Think Ill keep it for a long time. To much mucking around to sell.

Im only really selling as I am bored of it, 33's are great cars to drive & modify, but ive had it for over 6 years and want something new, something a bit more hi-tech, something newer, something really different to a 33gts-t. So im in a loose loose situation really. Either drop the price to some stupidly low figure just to get rid of it.......or throw more good money at bad to keep me interested in the car. Either way it'll be loosing money.

Guess it may not be worth re-spaying it a custom colour, as mentioned that would really only attract younger buyers tending to be more interested in street attention then quality of car. Which unfortunatly now.....is illegal for them to drive on P's anyway. Might just add a Nismo/Mines stripe or something?

keep the feeback / opinions coming, makes for an interesting read, some very valid points being made thats for sure!

maybe if you tidy it up a little, not saying its shit or anything but these people these days would be very picky in buying a s1 r33, if you clean it up cos your pics make it look like its a bit rough just say, might attract more buyers i maybe...

seriously i'm not just saying its not worth the money you're asking, really it is worth it cos in the long run people would spend more than that modifying it true?

also the p-plater laws like you said dont help, people these days are wanting the sleeper look, your car looks very agressive might attract more attention

but really it looks tuff ;)

dismantle the car and sell it for parts......probably would get more back.

yeah I've been doing that a little, sold my customcarbon bonnet, carbon d wing, sports seats an a few other small parts. I just dont want to wreck the car by stripping it back much more. but your right. I may have to to get any kind of decent money back

It could be far worse...stop crying your cars are only worth so much because thats what you have been offered.

:D:) :)

If you had bought a Monaro Fully optioned for 95K...5 years ago and have to sell it for 45K now.

If you had bought a Porsche,BMW,Mercedes you would have lost 40% of the cars value in 5 years.

Sure if you want to keep it for 40 years...it will be a collectors item...and worth good money.

Personally I would strip what I could off the car(that is if you don't want it no more) and sell it to the highest bidder.

Where have you advertised your car?..I am sure you have not covered all your market

Good luck with your sale....

as someone thats in the market for a skyline right now and that happens to be the first car off my p's, i have some very specific tastes. Two of them are black/silver with a sunroof, in a 96/97 series II. I can't speak for everyone that would be looking at your car, but I assume theres others there like me who would not bother even looking at your car because of it being white. Personally I would spend more on a stock car with these features, than a modded white one without them.

its very hard to get the money these cars are worth these days, I was wondering that if it was a custom colour, would you be more likely to sell it & get a decent price for it??

whats your opinion?

my 33 is just white, its an awsome quality car that ive spent heaps of time & money in getting all the right top quality bang for buck mods, yet i've had such little interest. If I gave it a good quality low budget re-spray (lots of friends that are spray painters), think it'd get more interest?

have you recently sold a Skyline? what colour was it an how long did it take to sell? did you get what you were after for it?

look forward to seeing people feeback

cheers

Hate to say but by the look of your car's photo,

You've got GAY RIMs and GAY body kit, GAY side mirrors. No offence and i appologise if i do but a skyline that has been done up the JDM way always win more heart than any other ways.

Neat, simple and nice.

I also lost more than 10K when i sold my GTR but that's just a part of the game, i've had enough fun with it, simple though i'm planing to buy a 33gtr next year or so, damn gotta miss that 2.6 zorst note.

lol....no offence taken. Whats wrong with black BBS wheels? Whats wrong with stock mirrors? and the Veilside rear bar isnt everyones taste, but you dont like 400R sides an a genuine GTR front bar?

i think it looks neat simple & nice.....but maybe im wrong (or maybe you think it still looks the same as my signature picture an havent looked at my for sale thread?)

:D

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