Timmy G

what is involved in prepping? stripping the old paint off?

i am having 1 panel resprayed already, what do you reckon they'll charge on top of that to respray front / rear bar? couple hundred?

famous: will you allow people currently with you to pay monthly with 0% interest that mention skylines australia? it's only fair to encourage your customers to stay!

is your caps lock key broken? at the start of this thread there were a couple of replies saying they had made claims and they were fine.

yeah roof racks sound the go for me, i'll get around to it when i have $400 to spare for the rack and a bike holder

haha yeah it's like a bumper bumper. i think i am gunna cart my bike around in my cabin for a while, i can't afford $300 for a towbar / prolly more for roof racks just yet, i just blew all my money on my bike lol

impressive jamez, i thought roof racks had to stay on! how much did that set you back jamez?

a tow bar will look okay, the roof racks will make me look like a mid life crisis family guy i've got my street cred to look after mmmmkay

Hey, Has anyone got a tow bar for their R33 Coupe? I just got a bike and need a bike rack as putting the whole bike in my cabin taking up 3 of the 4 seats isn't really an option

i have an r33 gts-t and i spend about $50/wk on fuel. approx $200/6mo for servicing so like $63/wk (including rego, but not including 3rd party insurance or comp)

i've seen mini cooper s police cars in nsw and some other novelty ones. i would say they were all donated, maybe the companies are trying to bid to get a contract and they are test driving them.

is that the new or late model, vtec?

young drivers (<25s, me included) can look at "sporty" hatches like the sp20, or the sportivo corolla. more expensive than a skyline (new), but you'll save more money on insurance and resale value. not trying to say don't go for the car you want, but if it doesn't work out, they are pretty cool alternatives

i thought the diff between a 2L altezza and an is200 was the altezza was 4 cyl and the is was 6 cyl?

i am 21 and i was lucky. when i was 19 (late feb 2001) i got a used n15 pulsar 1.6 lx or whatever (base model). my dad put the policy under his name but it still cost $2500. renewal in 2002 cost $1600, which was pretty sweet. got my skyline r33 gts-t in dec 2002. i found out only when i was trying to get my skyline that the poliy wasn't under my name, but i sent a letter to famous saying i had been a *named* driver on the policy since feb 2001. they luckily accepted it, they didn't have to. technically i had 0% no claim bonus, but they accepted 30%. so in a way, i was in your boat, but i wouldn't count on it working twice. it was kinda do or die for me cos it was after i put a deposit on the car.

guilty: long term (2 years): get a slower car or borrow your parents' cars but get an insurance policy with a big company *under your name*. you will get a 30% NCB from this (if you have no claims of course). then get your skyline. short term: get a car a bit slower than a skyline and get less-screwed on insurance, but stick with the car for the foreseeable future and build up your NCB. i am with famous now, I don't know if big companies will respect their NCB referral when i get a "normal" car and go back to one of the big companies other cars... my friend is going from an s15 200sx to perhaps a used vti-r prelude or my98/99 rexy. corolla sportivo? i don't know if there are any cars similar to skylines who you don't get screwed on insurance for (supra, silvia, etc)

you can put it under your dad's name, but they will charge you as much as if you put it under your name, and worse still, you won't accure a no claim bonus cos it's not under your name. you'll find famous, just car and every specialist insurer has this policy. with normal insurers you can get away with that, and at-fault accidents simply incur a higher excess (cos it's not under your name).

maybe there are old r34 comp plates left?

group buy on hand moisturiser cream?

for a low low price

series 8 is the bat mobile looking one (actually i think the last few series were bat mobile looking ones)

shit we're getting a bit technical here. i agree with red, let's just all go commando

yeah i touch my car whilst putting my feet on the ground. sometimes i still get shocked, confuses me. the scientific explanation must be "the harder you drive, the more you get shocked", okay?

haha funny smoothline

oh duh. i didn't realise he had a gtr