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Greetings...or g'day. My name's Evan, I'm here from New York visiting Australia and Sydney for a bit. Life-long motoring enthusiast with a particular affection for Honda (hence the username), but with a soft spot for Nissan as well.

As you probably know, we are not so fortunate as to have GT-R's aside from R35's in the States. I've had the opportunity to command a few R35's back home, and don't get me wrong, they are amazing machines. But the R32, R33 and particularly the R34 are the stuff of legends are made of.

That said, I was wondering if anyone here would be kind enough to take me for a spin in their GT-R on one of your world renowned mountain roads. Not asking to drive, just a ride at the hands of someone who knows how to drive their machines...without killing me.

In addition to fulfilling the wishes of an appreciative yank, the experience will be featured on a popular blog that a few of my mates and I run back home, IvyLeagueEast: wwww.ivyleagueeast.com. We have a pretty large audience so you'll get a bit of exposure, including about 85,000 likes on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IvyLeagueEast

Bio: http://ivyleagueeast.com/staff/evan-motl/

Please post or message if you're interested. Located in Sydney Inner West.

I'm also attending the Bathurst Motor Festival this weekend. If you're gonna be around that way give me a shout, would love to shoot the shite with a few locals as well.

Few pics attached. One of me behind the wheel of an R34 M-Spec, the first RHD car I drove here (complete with shit eating grin). Others of my own Nissan's back home: '13 Fairlady 370z with Volk Re-30, coils, pipes, etc.; '73 240z; not pictured an SR swapped S13 with GT28 and bolt ons that I built with a few of my mates.

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Cheers,

-E

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