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Hey all,

I'm 17, and just 18 in a few weeks. I've always loved cars, and I can remember reading the 'Drive' section of The Age when I was reading my first words.

Growing up with me and my friends that are slightly car obsessed, I can recall driving with my parents, with me and my friends pointing out every single car and make that drove past us - Drove my parents nuts. It was always Holden, Ford, Holden, Ford, Holden etc.. But then at our local supermarket I remember seeing a Black R33, and I was fascinated, so I actually approached the owner of the car just to ask him what it was! (A big thing to do by yourself at 8 years old!). After finding out about 'Japanese car technology', going back through the 'Drive' section of The Age, there was nothing about Nissan Skylines.

A few years went by, and as Skylines among Silvia's grew in Playstation games, this only interested me more. I'm totally car obsessed, and I love talking to Japanese car owners about there cars, their pride and joy. It seems that this car culture was great, and along my travels I haven't come across really smug driver yet. You buy these cars with your heart - not with your brain.

Yes, I'll be on my red P's, and the car that I was settled on, the Skyline, will now give me as what my family refers them to as 'Jack-Bait'. I'm not some idiot driver, and I'm all for the open day track events, keeping the hoons off the streets. I don't tell anyone this, but I think in this case, to save my ass from ' Just another young hoon who wants to drive a Skyline' comment, I won the 'Victorian young driver of the year' at METEC Driver training centre. I have a passion for these cars, and I'm not a hoon.

But in now days, the reputation on Skylines has plummeted, due to some dick heads that think they're FullY H3ct!c, and can own the streets with their car.

Who are these people, and why are the media so against imported cars?

There are plenty of 'Slammed' Commodores, but the Police and media tend to point the finger at Skylines etc..?

Thanks!

Jimbo

So many answers and every one of them will get someone's panty's in a bunch.

Do what the rest of us do. Drive your skyline and ignore slings and arrows. I'll guarantee you 99% of the knockers have never even had their crack in a skyline seat.

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* Skaife & Richards

* Fred Gibson & Terry Ashwood

* Wheels Mag > title 'Godzilla'

* Kirozawa, Toshio Suzuki and others in Japan

* Andy Middlehurst in UK

* Dirk Shoisman in Germany

* Chevron DVD/Channel 7 commercial DVD on "Bathurst 1000 1991-92" (thru JB Hi Fi)

* Duke DVD "Nissan Skyline GT-R" - the 200mph japanese supercar

* Performance Imports Mag

* Jetmedia DVD

* All Japan Day (S.A.)

* Project D Drift School and last but not least...

* SAU

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* idiots - immature, angry, double-digit-IQ...

Edited by CARSICK
So many answers and every one of them will get someone's panty's in a bunch.

Do what the rest of us do. Drive your skyline and ignore slings and arrows. I'll guarantee you 99% of the knockers have never even had their crack in a skyline seat.

Well said,i agree totaly. :nyaanyaa:

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