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not bad. mine is sitting on its sit at the moment stripped again. been ordering small bits and pieces for it over be last few months. new interior panels are planned as well.

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The panel shop can be where projects die. Some signs of a start with the steel GTR widebody going on.

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I guess we both keep "raising the bar" as we go, getting in deeper and making the build more full on. We both said at the start of our builds we were taking our time. I know I'm a bit older than you and most on the forum, and am happy to just stick with it, surviving the amazing budget blow outs at times, but persevearing, with what are basically unloved cars except for the few GTS4 extremists. I've always loved following your build Chris as have many! My car will have a trip to QLD for audio plus enhancement, and a photo with yours I hope.

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what started as a rebuild for me went fairly full on once i started doing the body. figured if i was going that may as well do the entire car properly.

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More than two years at a pre-paid panel beater. Even my mum has asked what's going on? Is he just a huckster? Not really I had my role in the delays as well. If the body was finished with a glass wide-body as I had planned, I wouldn't have been pleased. The guy does steel wide-bodies...Life and projects are complicated. I gave up GP for specialist, then private for public, had another child late in life, so if the panels were done the game would be on to finish the thing, and having done sums, the ATO and housing sadly come ahead. With time and moving Cities, ideas change, at the moment it's a metal widebody. Based on a GTR wreck he sourced. (no GTR badges are planned...). I had Brides waiting but being 50 plus years old, I'd rather stay standard or Recaro so with a move my Bride seats were sold. The panel shop has had a couple of moves as well. I'd drop faith in the guy but other work, smaller he's done for my other cars, a friends have been fine. Hopefully the panels as a GTR based widebody will get done, and I can think about what direction in completion the project will take.

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mine is sitting in MY shop in a corner with a cover over it. like you ATO and bills and the purchase of a building for the shop to permanently reside took precedence to this car. still buying bits for it though.

so you are swapping the full front as well?

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I can certainly relate to running a business and heavy donations to the ATO, but it beats an audit. The car will go to the GTR front, the panel beater sourced a very bent donor R32 GTR car, as well as what I sourced piecemeal. Regarding the GTR rear quarters both inner and outer guard work is being done, partly to make room for wider wheel clearance and wheel/tyre fitment choices. I don't plan to badge the car GTR, the current aspirations are a Quaife front diff and transfer case mods. If it heads to registration the idea is what the Senator is vs a GTS, a GTE vs a GT or what is really is a GTS 4 vs a GTR. The colour will also be a non GTR colour. Naturally this is a slow project and work and family issues come ahead of it.

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post-42767-0-28050000-1456035947_thumb.jpgIt's a chance for the panel shop block to unblock. The project has gone on so long, and I have been driving non Nissan nissan powered cars(HSV VF senator, Audi TDI), the keen attitude of the panel shop from nowhere caught me unawares, life is happy without an r32, I've totally lost interest, but after 5 years it seems like movement at the station depending on what now feels like paying black mail money

(reasonable trade rates), but then in 5 years, crazy stuff has happened with house prices (in my favour). The value of old aussie cars is now insane, financially. I wish I'd paid him to work on such rather than the r32. Any way it's a critical stage, go metal widebody or part it out. Even if the project was crushed the panel beater has taken so long I've outgrown the r32. I am old compared to when he got the car. Talks with wife and family verify I am insane, and can just buy a registered car. But here it is ready to be metal wide bodied.

A search of the accounts reveals black mail money, my inclination is that completed cars are so cheap as to leave enough in reserve to just buy one.

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