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Dedicating My Second Coming To Thrashing Skylines (r33 Sedan Gt3071)

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Hey Guys

I have been a vehicle enthusiast since I learnt to skid my push bike. I've been into sleepers and have always built my own cars, the last being a 1JZ powered E30 BMW. I look at it as my apprenticeship working/building cars and I resisted the urge to ever own a mainstream performance vehicle. Mid life has caught up with me and other projects have taken over my car building time so the BMW never made it to the track. I'm keen to spend more time driving and less time under a car. .........................An opportunity came up last week to swap my E30 for an R33 Sedan. I apprehensively did it and so far this family chopper is really growing on me. I'm loving the fact that everything works and it handles really well for a slightly porky car.

Some of you may know the car already as it came from a forum member here who kindly gave me the low down after the car went through another pair of hands in the last few months.

I'm looking forward to getting to the track at some point, hope to meet some of you out there.

Cheers

Andy

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Hey Andy, welcome to the site! :welcome:

Does that mean that this car will become a bit of a track regular? They're so much fun.

The E30 sounds interesting, any pics?

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Hey Andy, welcome to the site! :welcome:

Does that mean that this car will become a bit of a track regular? They're so much fun.

The E30 sounds interesting, any pics?

Cheers PranK

Yep thats the plan.

here's a build thread of the E30, http://www.performanceforums.com/forums/showthread.php?67289528-E30-1JZ-R154-Jizz-machine-JZ30

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