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This awesome looking R32 GTS-T coupe was up at auction today and sold for 440,000 yen car cost - that would have been around $11,000 landed in Australia (not including compliance n rego), not a bad price at all considering the cost of the parts included.

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Recognise it??

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Here is a high resolution image for anyone else that likes it as much as we do .. http://www.j-spec.com.au/list/3441/5.jpg

Its a shame the 15 year rule has ended, as this car is a 1989 model GTSt built by Do-Luck japan as a demo car for its bodykit, still wearing its signature brownyblack paint. Interesting also to note how prices have changed in Japan after Australians cut back on importing 15 year old cars, as this car would have easily gone for over 15k a few months ago.

Car's auction report said Accident repaired, so not eligible under SEVS, but even if it was, it would have been too modified to bring in.

yeah, that's including processing the car to get it onto a ship, dereg, degas, import taxes, duties, and J-Spec's $1000 fee. Compliance would have been around $800-$1200 depending on the workshop you took it to and rego would have been around $600 in melbourne (bloody extortion rates we gotta pay to VicRoads).

All up maybe around $13000 for a drive off the boat and into Autosalon car. The car itself cost 440,000 Yen which is about $5500. Whoever bought it is one lucky biatch.

$600 in melbourne (bloody extortion rates we gotta pay to VicRoads).

What you talking about? $600 is cheap compared to NSW and QLD!

Nice, but is it any nicer than any other R32 with a vertex kit? Does it have any performance gear? or just a bodykit??

if the parts haven't been removed fromt he demo car, it should have the following do-luck parts:

triple core radiator, intercooler, half roll cage, leather seats (front and back) and trim, underbody stiffening bars, rear floor bar, front and back sway bars, cluster, push button start, not to mention the 290,000 Yen original bodykit and the 280,000 Yen set of rims, and whatever else they decided to throw in. Looks like they left most of of the goodies on the car.

Look at it this way, if you were to go into DoLuck and say "I'll buy your bodykit and rims for 440,000 Yen" and they said, sure have a free car with it, would you say no?

I wouldn't expect it to have many go-fast bits, but it sure as hell would be a LOT better than a regular R32 with a vertex kit.

hey shan :wavey: maybe you can help us out

just out of curiosity how much would it be to import an r32.....

gtst ot gts, dont care

manual or auto, dont care

coupe

most likely combo i'd be after would be auto, non turbo, bog standard

could be the most average piece of crap. i've heard ones like this especially auto's and non turbos sell for next to nothing

jimbo its not that easy any more as they all have to come in under SEVS, or we have to find one with a supplier that's already got an import approval ready to go.

under SEVS they have to meet the power to weight ratio, so that means only GTSt's, GTS4's and GTR's, not the cheaper GXi's, GTE's, and GTS's. However, we've seen perfectly fine (boring looking) R32 GTSt's that have had no major accident history, which are eligible for SEVS go at auctions for as little as 50 to 150,000 yen, which should be around 6k landed, and by the time you comply and rego em you'll be looking at about 10k.

As for the ones that sell for nothing, we bought an R32 GTE (RB20E) 4 door auto a few months ago for 100 Yen off yahoo auctions, brought it in as a 15 year old car, cost the owner about 5k landed n complied still.

You can import for parts, but the new laws regarding parts cars says that it has to be a fully bare chassis, or a chassis cut in half. Stipping a car down to parts in japan, packing and sending via container will be pretty expensive.

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