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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 ;)

The Relevance of THIS ^^^

...should echo within the craniums of every Australian who owns a GT-R; and not just a BNR32.

Thank you Kristian for your feedback :yes man:

PS I never noticed how tall you were.

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I'm in the process of trying to find one. I have Troy from Iron Chef looking in Japan. Its been a couple of months now with barely any luck.

I've been looking for a 4.5 with less than 60k and have a fairly decent budget but am getting 1 car a week, if that, and most seem to have really low km (under 20k) and seem to exceed my budget.

I have only considered one car in Aus and that was the gunmetal nismo edition that sold a few weeks.

I'm too impatient for this... I guess the search continues

Oh and if anyone is thinking of selling, please let me know.

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I'm in the process of trying to find one. I have Troy from Iron Chef looking in Japan. Its been a couple of months now with barely any luck.

I've been looking for a 4.5 with less than 60k and have a fairly decent budget but am getting 1 car a week, if that, and most seem to have really low km (under 20k) and seem to exceed my budget.

I have only considered one car in Aus and that was the gunmetal nismo edition that sold a few weeks.

I'm too impatient for this... I guess the search continues

Oh and if anyone is thinking of selling, please let me know.

There's a guy in WA on FB/gumtree who reckons his is pretty nice... Price is pretty "nice" too. lol.

http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/bentley/cars-vans-utes/1994-nissan-skyline-r32-gtr/1089642050

dont like the climate control relocate.

no holes drilled through speaker mesh is a plus i guess.

edit: still 4 years until that one can go US...

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There's a guy in WA on FB/gumtree who reckons his is pretty nice... Price is pretty "nice" too. lol.

http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/bentley/cars-vans-utes/1994-nissan-skyline-r32-gtr/1089642050

I've seen that one, not a big fan. Too many bits and pieces I'd remove and its boosted...

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