Jump to content
SAU Community

Recommended Posts

If anyone is looking to buy, my mate is selling his but isn't on carsales. Its for sale on Facebook. He's no BS, what it says in ad is how it is.

1989 R32 GT-R
Gunmetal grey, has had a respray recently.
92xxx KMs
Body and paint are in great condition.
R33 GT-R N1 motor
Twin -5 turbos
Custom 3" dumps into a 4" exhaust
Power FC
CSC 4 pot brakes
Wedsport TC105n's 18x9.5 +10
Pedders coilovers
2x Recaro seats, 1 is immaculate one is looking tired
Mods have been engineered
11 months rego

The bad, needs a service and the rear diff isn't super happy at life. Catch can setup is sub optimal. Tyres haven't got a lot of life left in them

11866396_10153568236779458_5418865943126

$22k

Edited by 10 4
  • 2 weeks later...

They will get harder and harder to find...

Every week another one is crashed or parted out etc.

Some even going to Merica.

Let the prices rise!!!

  • Like 1

Also i just did the math, i already would have made my money back after a full rebuild+the price i bought mine for if i sell it now, not that i ever will!

there will be a surge in original gtrs/people restoring to original.

judging by some examples on the market it would be a good thing for the longevity of our cars.

too many are hacked up pieces of crap - and i do agree with Sinista32. big single and power isnt everything if the car is a bucket.

i thoroughly enjoy this thread from calaisturbo http://calaisturbo.com.au/showthread.php?t=107889

with the age and affordability of the cars these days, current tech and things like the Motive DVD GTR Challenge. the GTR scene is only just warming up.

  • Like 2

I think most of it has already been mentioned.

At the moment the US is relatively undeveloped as a market, so they're buying the kind of cars that we would generally reject - heavy accident, tampered odometers, rusty etc. Plenty of JDM wood-ducks for the exporters to burn before they start to wise up over there. With the exchange rate taking a dive, cars ex-Aus are looking more and more attractive, but the US would rather buy crap and keep prices landed in the US under $20K there than worry about quality.

The market will start to develop though, and as time goes on, buyers will be looking for clean cars globally, and paying big dollars for them.

It's the same phenomenon that has seen virtually every 240K coupe disappear from Australia, mostly to the UAE.

Most collectible sports cars go through a depreciation cycle, then rise again. In Japan, prices of clean 32s started climbing about 7-8 years ago. Clean series 3 R33s have also been rising for a while, and R34s hit the bottom of their cycle about 5 years ago too.

Australia's cycle is a little longer, so we're only starting to see the rises occurring now (although demand from the US is speeding that process up). If you're buying locally, look for clean late model R33s and clean, genuine km R34s as they're money in the bank as far as I'm concerned.

I'm hoping to send my N1 to the US in 2026, in the hope it will fund my retirement ;)

  • Like 2

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now



  • Similar Content

  • Latest Posts

    • There's a good German place in Brisbane if youre up for the drive 😛
    • The German place in Cabramatta was rock solid, fresh pretzel cooked to order back then. Then it went all quiet, after all the poker machines were removed, then I believe it closed for good. I did drive past the other week and noticed outdoor lighting a big screen, but no idea what is there now.  
    • Yeah I suspect even if you hold airmass per cycle/cylinder constant if you get too far away from stock you're still going to have problems running the factory tune within the bounds of the factory load scale. Cams, different displacement/rod ratio, etc. I'm just lucky that the GTIII-SS with wastegate boost + CA compliance cats is pretty much equivalent to stock turbos. When I have actual space I can finally get it tuned and modify the fuel system for flex fuel to 100% handle any detonation concerns when cranking the boost to whatever those dinky turbos can put out.
    • I would say no, why, because my daughter, who also lives in Goulburn, hasn't recommended us going there Pity, as we miss all the German joints around in Sydney, actually, the restaurants are the only thing I really miss about Sydney, and a special mention to Ishibanboshi at Bondi Junction, their Kara-age Don is heart cloggingly deliciousness (always added a special boiled egg...or 2) 😋 
    • Does that German restaurant still exist in the old place out the NW end of Goulburn? When I say "out the NW end of"...I am really being vague. It was 1997 when I was last there, and the only point of reference I can recall is that it was on the opposite side of the main drag from the big merino. And when I say "opposite side of the main drag", I don't mean "on the main drag". It was either a couple of streets back from there, or might have even been out in the sticks a bit further. Was an old farm building or mill or somesuch. And when I say "the big merino" I might actually be thinking of a completely different part of town, because I just looked on maps and the big bugger is not where I remembered him to be! The food was good, consisting largely of various German mystery-meat sausage/loaf things and kartofflen.
×
×
  • Create New...