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I'm amazed there is one in the country. Pretty sure no importers have compliance for them so SEVS is out, they are post 1988 so you can't use that rule. So any car came in under either personal import or race use only.

btw $36k is a spectacular price. I paid $5k for my march super turbo which is even more rare.

sorry just read the ad properly. it is a personal import

unsure. I know motorman has a fair few there. RCN (I think this is correct - Sbyder correct me here.) was the raw that did them.

I do know when they were new tey were raffled off as there was that much interest in them. 1mil yen new in 1990 I beleive was the askig price. plenty of bits available in the UK for them - the radio was one good thing (clarion did a GREAT rework on it.) that was available.

Shogun/RCN had plates for them at one stage, but shut down the company that had the Figaro plates. If you're desperate, maybe you could convince another company to buy the evidence off them, but given that decent examples are getting so hard to find over there, I doubt you'd have much luck.

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Saw one of these just the other day on the road, had absolutely no idea what it was. Saw the "FIGARO" embossing on the rear boot handle, snapped a pic and looked it up on Wikipedia. Weird and wonderful story behind the car; you had to win a lottery in Japan to buy one, and apparently 20,000 were made in four colours, each representing a different season of the year. the Topaz Mist was least popular but since only 2000 were made in that colour it's the rarest and probably now most collectable.

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There was a young blonde driving :D , didn't seem the least bit interested in the GT-R though :)

godspeed i must confess i was looking @ your gtr yesterday and drooling - i don't really like R33 gtr (probably because it's the GTR most favoured by "modders" who have a thing for tica mica coloured interiors..) but when 33R is modified perfectly and kept clean with clear maintained headlights.... like yours is... they are close to perfection in a car

quintessential japanese styling, tough without explanation, round yet boxy.. underassuming yet classy

good car.

/poem

anyway

that particular figaro is for sale on carsales i beleive... it's a personal import btw

godspeed i must confess i was looking @ your gtr yesterday and drooling - i don't really like R33 gtr (probably because it's the GTR most favoured by "modders" who have a thing for tica mica coloured interiors..) but when 33R is modified perfectly and kept clean with clear maintained headlights.... like yours is... they are close to perfection in a car

quintessential japanese styling, tough without explanation, round yet boxy.. underassuming yet classy

good car.

/poem

Thanks Rowan for the compliment and hyperbole. I think I will now print out your post, frame it and put it up in the garage. :) I know the 33 is also probably the least popular out of the three modern Skyline GTRs and it is a shame to see so many in poor condition. Hope this one will eventually go to someone who will appreciate it, whenever I choose to let it go.

Yeah it looks like there are a few of those Figaros for sale on Carsales. Not my sort of thing but an incredible little car all the same

Saw one of these just the other day on the road, had absolutely no idea what it was. Saw the "FIGARO" embossing on the rear boot handle, snapped a pic and looked it up on Wikipedia. Weird and wonderful story behind the car; you had to win a lottery in Japan to buy one, and apparently 20,000 were made in four colours, each representing a different season of the year. the Topaz Mist was least popular but since only 2000 were made in that colour it's the rarest and probably now most collectable.

17042010791b.jpg

There was a young blonde driving :blush: , didn't seem the least bit interested in the GT-R though :ermm:

Gee that thing looks so ugly,i'll have a gtr any day. :D

Is the figaro based on the fairlady?

Nah I think it was just influenced by the Fairlady's deisgn. Wikipedia said "Its appearance has a resemblance to the 1960s Datsun Fairlady models." but I suppose you can't take anything Wiki says too seriously. They do appear to have some similarities but the Figaro has that cutesy bubble car look about it.

'67 era Fairlady, front 3/4

Figaro, front

I know which one I'd rather have

Further the the above Datsun 2000 Sports model, check out this one, fitted with an SR20. Looks awesome.

http://www.cardomain.com/ride/698904

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And further to this

http://www.superstreetonline.com/featuredv...y/photo_08.html

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