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Hey everyone! I'm quite young and I don't have enough to get a car right now but I love Nissan Skylines (Specifically the r34 GT-R. I'm so original I know.) and I would love to buy one in the future. I have no background knowledge, only an interest in cars, but I'd love to learn how they work so I can mod in the future. I've done some basic research on what model of Skyline I would start with and what mods to get started with are but nothing else. I'm here to learn!

Hope you all have a great day :D

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Welcome. We're all grumpy old men (and a few grumpy old women) who are slowly coming to hate these cars. Any of the newer owners who have joined in the last few years are rapidly catching up with us as they realise they have bought a basket case and that parts are getting difficult to find.

Just be realistic about your goals. You'll need a fat stack of cash to buy an R34 GTR, and you'd be far better off using that to buy absolutely anything else (ie, shares, a house, scratchy tickets) unless that fat stack of cash is only ~10% of the actual fat stack of cash that you have. You'll never want to drive an R34 GTR on the street if you have fear of it getting destroyed. That's more or less true of the 33s and 32s also.

Most of the RWD cars have been drifted backwards into power poles. No-one knows what they are worth these days because they are not changing hands. My car has notionally been down to <$10k value at some point and was probably sellable for $40-$50k in the height of COVID stupidity, but I have no idea what it's really worth now. It's irreplaceable anyway, because... where would I find one to replace it?

Being realistic means either paying a lot of cash for a really really clean example that you will only drive on sunny Sundays, or buying one to daily that you will not want to be really really clean, for the same fears of destruction that applies to the GTR. I daily mine and some people think I'm crazy. But....to me it's just a car that I bought last century with the express purpose of driving it as my daily. The silliness that has happened since doesn't affect my original purpose. I have well and truly amortised the initial purchase cost and most (probably all) of the subsequent modification costs. But I don't think I could go out and buy one now to daily.

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3 hours ago, GTSBoy said:

Welcome. We're all grumpy old men (and a few grumpy old women) who are slowly coming to hate these cars. Any of the newer owners who have joined in the last few years are rapidly catching up with us as they realise they have bought a basket case and that parts are getting difficult to find.

Just be realistic about your goals. You'll need a fat stack of cash to buy an R34 GTR, and you'd be far better off using that to buy absolutely anything else (ie, shares, a house, scratchy tickets) unless that fat stack of cash is only ~10% of the actual fat stack of cash that you have. You'll never want to drive an R34 GTR on the street if you have fear of it getting destroyed. That's more or less true of the 33s and 32s also.

Most of the RWD cars have been drifted backwards into power poles. No-one knows what they are worth these days because they are not changing hands. My car has notionally been down to <$10k value at some point and was probably sellable for $40-$50k in the height of COVID stupidity, but I have no idea what it's really worth now. It's irreplaceable anyway, because... where would I find one to replace it?

Being realistic means either paying a lot of cash for a really really clean example that you will only drive on sunny Sundays, or buying one to daily that you will not want to be really really clean, for the same fears of destruction that applies to the GTR. I daily mine and some people think I'm crazy. But....to me it's just a car that I bought last century with the express purpose of driving it as my daily. The silliness that has happened since doesn't affect my original purpose. I have well and truly amortised the initial purchase cost and most (probably all) of the subsequent modification costs. But I don't think I could go out and buy one now to daily.

Thanks for the advice! It is an entirely unrealistic goal to own a GT-R. It would be something I'd like to do if, like you said, I would only get one if I came into a significant amount of money. I was looking to get a GT-V or GT-T or something like that. I think it would make a cool project build or something. Or I'm completely in over my head and I should just appreciate other skylines and never own one. I probably would daily a GT-V to be honest. Just because life isn't hard enough right now.

Anyway thanks for the welcome!

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5 minutes ago, RA708 said:

I probably would daily a GT-V to be honest.

A GT-V would be a fine daily. Not fast, and no point in trying to make one fast. Well, that used to be true, but perhaps if the only nice R34 you can find is an NA, then the "sell it and buy a turbo instead" advice we used to give becomes out of date.

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12 hours ago, Duncan said:

Yeah either way you're going to want something with all wheel drive and a good heater to deal with those Antarctic roads

Oh yeah gets really bad down here. I’ll have to upgrade the heater and wind screen wipers as well for optimal performance.

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Welcome.

Dont let anyone dissuade you from your dreams. If you want a gtr, keep sabing and you will eventually get one.

I feel like if I had have bought stocks, those companies would have gone bust and I would have lost my money. 

There's a gamble in everything we buy. I've had good times and bad.

But... I've also met my absolute best friend through this network and can't imagine life without them(more like a brother).

Keep in mind, some specific mods will change as technology gets better.

If you feel like general chat, there's always the wasteland.....

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4 hours ago, RA708 said:

Thanks! I'm gonna go for a high paying job so a gtr should be in the budget at some point. Is the wasteland the place for general socialization?

It's a place for non car talk.

There's whoretown which is general shit talking.

But also other threads coving all sorts of stuff(a lot still semi car related)

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On 04/05/2025 at 6:09 PM, RA708 said:

Good to know, thank you!

The wasteland, as least traditionally too, was the place with more relaxxed shittery/rules. Not to say you can post porn etc, but it was the place for good joking around, and a bit wild.

There was also plenty of unwritten wasteland rules, such as what any user must do if someone posted up asking for likes/votes for a contest... Which was to go in and vote for someone else instead 😛

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20 hours ago, MBS206 said:

The wasteland, as least traditionally too, was the place with more relaxxed shittery/rules. Not to say you can post porn etc, but it was the place for good joking around, and a bit wild.

There was also plenty of unwritten wasteland rules, such as what any user must do if someone posted up asking for likes/votes for a contest... Which was to go in and vote for someone else instead 😛

Apwr, voted for the other guy....

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