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hey guys...

last friday night i was driving out with my girlfriend for dinner

but that's not the suprising part... what suprised me most about it... was i was getting my drive on... and i saw a nissan maxima... my interest was raised becasue the tail lights were different...

i said to jess "what the hell is the deal with the maxima?"

she goes

"yeah it looks funny..."

then...

same like this

cefiro.jpg

it was an A32 nissan Cefiro!

i said "WTF OMG BBQ cefiro!?!?!"

she goes oh yeah wait i seen that car already it's a cefiro i bought it up with you months ago and you said it was probably some kid badge swapping a jap badge onto it"

(which did happen)

but i looked closely over the car as we over took it...

it had, weird cefiro tail lights... cefiro emblems on the wheels... cefiro badging on the boot and grill... and a cefiro chrome grill...

now... we all should know here that no Cefiro ever made it to SEVS. we should also know that A32 never made the cut for the old fifteen year rule...

which narrows it down to two possibilities...

1) it's a "JDM" retrofit maxima. (unlikely. because if this was the case, the car was done top to toe in japanese gear...which is too far lengths to go to considering the car was in absolutely CRAP condition.)

2) it was brought in as a personal import... also unlikely, because.... it's just an A32. no point bringing it into the country. furthermore the car was in TERRIBLE cond. faded paint. chemicals spilled on it, looked like junk

point 1 and point 2 are both unlikely because it was being driven by what could only be described as the most disgusting seedy atrocious looking arabic guy. to put it bluntly his appearance reeked of "dodgy wrecker" / Car rebirther.

so, forum... what do you think has happened here? it's been racking my brains since i saw it...

...any chance of some REALLY dodgy shit going down?

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1989 model, brought in on the tail end of the old 15 year rule would have been my guess - but that looks a little later than the 89 models I think. Perhaps a loophole in the old pre RAWS system? Heaps of Coronas came in under that scheme.

hey guys...

last friday night i was driving out with my girlfriend for dinner

but that's not the suprising part... what suprised me most about it... was i was getting my drive on... and i saw a nissan maxima... my interest was raised becasue the tail lights were different...

i said to jess "what the hell is the deal with the maxima?"

she goes

"yeah it looks funny..."

then...

same like this

cefiro.jpg

it was an A32 nissan Cefiro!

i said "WTF OMG BBQ cefiro!?!?!"

she goes oh yeah wait i seen that car already it's a cefiro i bought it up with you months ago and you said it was probably some kid badge swapping a jap badge onto it"

(which did happen)

but i looked closely over the car as we over took it...

it had, weird cefiro tail lights... cefiro emblems on the wheels... cefiro badging on the boot and grill... and a cefiro chrome grill...

now... we all should know here that no Cefiro ever made it to SEVS. we should also know that A32 never made the cut for the old fifteen year rule...

which narrows it down to two possibilities...

1) it's a "JDM" retrofit maxima. (unlikely. because if this was the case, the car was done top to toe in japanese gear...which is too far lengths to go to considering the car was in absolutely CRAP condition.)

2) it was brought in as a personal import... also unlikely, because.... it's just an A32. no point bringing it into the country. furthermore the car was in TERRIBLE cond. faded paint. chemicals spilled on it, looked like junk

point 1 and point 2 are both unlikely because it was being driven by what could only be described as the most disgusting seedy atrocious looking arabic guy. to put it bluntly his appearance reeked of "dodgy wrecker" / Car rebirther.

so, forum... what do you think has happened here? it's been racking my brains since i saw it...

...any chance of some REALLY dodgy shit going down?

Mr Eps Grand Master

Mr Eps

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nope! both wrong gents...

A31 cefiro (the "cool" ones that everyone mistakes for S13) were made 1988-1994.

A32 ranged from 1995 - 1998

A32(1995-1998)

from wikipedia

1995 Nissan Cefiro S Touring

Nissan Cefiro wagonWith the debut of the A32, Nissan changed the market orientation of the Cefiro from a small premium sports saloon (A31) to a slightly larger executive saloon. Generally the A32 was only badged as the Cefiro in Japan for the domestic market, A32's that were exported new from Japan usually wore the Maxima badge.

220px-Nissancefiro1995.jpg

it was this exact colour, that car, those wheels, everything. everything about it was purely "cefiro"

this has me rather perplexed. i'm thinking...

personal import scheme, and has since been "sold off" once in the country to different owner / owners

but the guy driving looked like the seediest dodgiest slimiest slipperiest of sorts. of possibly iraqi decent... which generally denotes he owns a wrecking business (that is definately how things are out in WA)

which makes me wonder if he organised some realllllyyyyy suspect stuff..

like rebirthing.

kakimoto33 Rising Star

kakimoto33

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Or possibly one brough into QLD back in the days when personal import laws were different in every state and very relaxed especially in QLD .. back then (in the mid to late 1990's) this car would have been a cheaper option to an almost brand new Maxima, then add up to 15 years of general abuse and you have a pretty poor condition Cefiro here in Australia.

PRIMO Experienced

PRIMO

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ITs come over from New Zealand as personal import from a NZ resident who has moved to Australia it was very common place and i have seen a lot of these kind of imports floating around brisbane Queensland areas. Cefiro was very popular in NZ in its day.

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