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saff_cossie Grand Master

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riggap that car looks awesome. Where is the drooling smiley when you need him :wassup: Found it :cheers:

I bet the pic was taken on the way down from Arthurs Seat? I have a pic of my car there somewhere around. :)

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hehe rigga..yes the good old boulevard.....my mate stakked his skyline there lollllllllll

its a great time to buy a skyline atm. Its a SHITTTT time to sell. The only way you will get rid of it quickly is to sell it dirt cheap.

I advertised on carpoint & unique cars. Advertised the car for 17K, I was looking for 15K because i wanted to get rid of it quickly because of financial troubles. Had a few tyre kickers and ppl wanting to drive it etc. I personally think that 15 was far too cheap, because i purchased the car a year ago for 22K. It was quite a nice example of a r33.

Eventually sold it to a mate for 15K. Lost out bigtime! I'm never buying another skyline again. The fines/canaries/epa's drove me insane. The car was nice but the running cost of up to 300+ bux a week in petrol was bullshit. The car depreciated hard in one year and because of all the bad publicity etc ppl dont' want to buy them unless its shit cheap.

Prepare to lose out. Thats all i can say. But put it this way. The longer you hold onto your car, the more you will lose out again. you might as well sell it now. R33 will fetch you probably 14-17K for a mildly modified model.

good luck.

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I'm never buying another skyline again. The fines/canaries/epa's drove me insane. The car was nice but the running cost of up to 300+ bux a week in petrol was bullshit. The car depreciated hard in one year and because of all the bad publicity etc ppl dont' want to buy them unless its shit cheap.

I've had my car for just under 3 years now and I've never been pulled over or defected in any way. I guess its probably because my car has more than a bees dick clearance and the exhaust is a legal sound level :thumbsup:

As for running costs, I drove it down to Phillip Island for the long weekend and got 283km to almost half a tank of fuel... says something about the tune its in :uh-huh:

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hey guys,

i bouhgt my r33 gtst it was a late 94 model and bought it off a mate from gym for 20k it had aroudn 100,000 km on it was black had a muffler air filter better globes and a full gtr kit and was clean and also came with log books from jap ..which i lost...

i had it on the forums with no real interst i guess cos it wasnt dirt cheap! put my numba on the car ..got 1 guy who called i think he was behind me asking stupid stuff like does it go alright...etc...wasted my time

had 2 calls from ppl off trading post....but nothign to serious....then i put it on carsales and one of the first serious ppl to look at the car said..i ike it and i thought ok...mayb wasting my time his gf rang me 2 days later sayn how much you gona do it for as we are seeing bank tomorw....i kept plates and took 500 off the price and said for 21k with gtr r33 rims full zorst off turbo now and about 120kms on the clock... i sold it

this was last year...so i think if you have a godo clean car and your arent desperate for cash...jsut wait,,,,in total think took me 1 month of on forums and another month of carsales n trading post and i sold it!

saff_cossie Grand Master

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I've had my car for just under 3 years now and I've never been pulled over or defected in any way. I guess its probably because my car has more than a bees dick clearance and the exhaust is a legal sound level  

As for running costs, I drove it down to Phillip Island for the long weekend and got 283km to almost half a tank of fuel... says something about the tune its in

That is exactly what I like to hear

by the way mate, firesport is a .com not a com.au :uh-huh:

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