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Hey everyone, happy new year!

Okay straight to the point, I brought a skyline 4 years ago when I was 17. R33 GTST. I love up in karratha (north WA), I brought the car from Perth, over the phone. I had a mate go look at it for me and he was blown away with it. So being 17, I brought it straight away. Stupid I know, but anyways... It was a complete LEMON! My first drive in it, it started over heating, 4th crunched, after a few months up here in the heat the second hand paint job went to shit, all the mods were backyard jobs, it has 2 12" subs that always drained the battery! Out of the 12 months owning it I drove it for about 2 months...

So basically I'm after another skyline, most likely a r33 GTR! I still love skylines and said one day I will get another!

So here I am, just signed up on this site knowing that there are very knowledgeable people here that can give advice!

Like I said, I live in WA, so I'd like to buy from WA saving costs for transport from over east ect!

In anyway can help me look/find out that would be awesome, or any tips idea ect would help!

I'm not interested in taking it to tracks or anything as there isn't any where I live, just to drive me around town and to and from work will do me! So something that isn't to to work and over board on fuel!

Thanks for reading

Mitch

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There is a thread somewhere on the forum that is a buyers guide, it will be a massive help for you

If you're not confident to look for yourself I would find a workshop that specialise in imports and take it to them to inspect (for a fee of corse)

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