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The car ain't in Balcatta, it's in Adelaide :D

I'm sure if you call the number, you'll get some fabulous story about how the seller used to be vice president of Rauh Welt in Nigeria or something, and how you need to pay for the car upfront before he can show it to you :lol:

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for someone to be able to appreciate such cars, they are most likely to have done their homework.

but to pay so much for a clone/fake/replica....?!??! :down:

What they cost here, is a function of what they cost in Japan. They're like the oldschool GT Falcons of Japan...the clones are expensive, and the genuine ones are even more ridiculously expensive :)

Real 2000GT-R Hakos would start at about $90k landed, and that would be for a car that needed some work. Real mint ones would be about $150~200k landed. What drives the value in Japan is the rarity...they're only a few hundred 2000GT-R's left.

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In terms of availability, you can't compare the older Skylines to the 32/33/34. IIRC, Nissan made 80,000 32/33/34 GT-Rs, and so they're relatively easy to find. But back in the day, there were only 2200 Hako/Kenmeri GT-Rs made, so they're much rarer.

Also...32s and 33s are starting to get rusty already, so imagine how hard it will be to find a clean one in 20yrs time. Hakos are four decades old now, so in terms of rarity, even a non-GTR Hako is more like trying to find a 32/33/34 GT-R in 25yrs time.

And as for the genuine Hako GT-Rs, there's only a few hundred left, so those are more like finding say 400R/Z-Tune...in 25yrs time :D Needless to say, Hakos are priced accordingly in Japan.

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What they cost here, is a function of what they cost in Japan. They're like the oldschool GT Falcons of Japan...the clones are expensive, and the genuine ones are even more ridiculously expensive :)

Real 2000GT-R Hakos would start at about $90k landed, and that would be for a car that needed some work. Real mint ones would be about $150~200k landed. What drives the value in Japan is the rarity...they're only a few hundred 2000GT-R's left.

:w00t: luckily i'm not a big fan of those... omg...$200k?????

Well the mo

:w00t: luckily i'm not a big fan of those... omg...$200k?????

Well the most exxy one I ever saw on public sale was this car, which had a Y15mil sticker on it :

JapanTrip056.jpg

It was off the chain :)

JapanTrip173.jpg

Y15mil is $170,000, so call it just a tick under $200k landed.

JapanTrip057.jpg

It's possible that ex-race cars with the right provenance, or road cars with really rare Sport Corner (ie Nismo) options might go for even more, but those sort of cars tend to change hands behind the scenes.

Like I said, to put the values of classic GT-R's in context, you have to think of what a Z-Tune would be worth in 30yrs time :)

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^^ That is clean as!

For rare / nostalgia / originality and if you got deep pockets then yeah, go for the KPGC10.

But for $200K, that's R35 GTR Money and over...

For Super Car Performance, I'd take the R35 GTR.

^^ That is clean as!

For rare / nostalgia / originality and if you got deep pockets then yeah, go for the KPGC10.

But for $200K, that's R35 GTR Money and over...

For Super Car Performance, I'd take the R35 GTR.

I spose it's no different from foreigners coming to Oz and saying that they can get this and that car for what an XY GT Falcon costs...it costs what it costs, value for money doesn't really come into it :)

Dropping that sort of coin on a classic GT-R might be a dangerous financial thing to do tho. They may be worth that sort of money in Japan, but outside of that it might be hard to get your money back if you wanted to sell. I giess it's the same as the XY GT Falc example again...what's one of those worth in the USA or UK?

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it costs what it costs, value for money doesn't really come into it :)

Dropping that sort of coin on a classic GT-R might be a dangerous financial thing to do tho. They may be worth that sort of money in Japan, but outside of that it might be hard to get your money back if you wanted to sell.

yeah...one man's meat is another man's poison...

I spose it's no different from foreigners coming to Oz and saying that they can get this and that car for what an XY GT Falcon costs...it costs what it costs, value for money doesn't really come into it :)

Dropping that sort of coin on a classic GT-R might be a dangerous financial thing to do tho. They may be worth that sort of money in Japan, but outside of that it might be hard to get your money back if you wanted to sell. I giess it's the same as the XY GT Falc example again...what's one of those worth in the USA or UK?

Yeah no doubt about that :)

Well the mo

Well the most exxy one I ever saw on public sale was this car, which had a Y15mil sticker on it :

JapanTrip056.jpg

It was off the chain :)

JapanTrip173.jpg

Y15mil is $170,000, so call it just a tick under $200k landed.

JapanTrip057.jpg

It's possible that ex-race cars with the right provenance, or road cars with really rare Sport Corner (ie Nismo) options might go for even more, but those sort of cars tend to change hands behind the scenes.

Like I said, to put the values of classic GT-R's in context, you have to think of what a Z-Tune would be worth in 30yrs time :)

Wow that is immaculate. An amazing find there!

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