always wanted one. saw em a lot in mags and videos on youtube, saw the first one in the metal when i was at highschool, probably back in year 8, 32 GTR flooring it on the main road at the back of the school, lots of wheel spin, gate, limiter, snap second, repeat. awesome. first ride in a skyline was in that very same car, was constantly pinned in my seat and in awe.
after that i drove various friends 31 GTS-X's, 180's, s14's and s15's (which were still around $40,000 when i drove one) and thinking; "these things are f**king awesome and i want one." then i started getting into the vip side of imports, celsior's, cima's, and crown's on fat wheels grinding rails.
got a job at the casino a couple years ago and figured it was time to buy a car, celsior came up for sale for the wrong price but i still got it. it was a bit of a bucket, dumped about $7k on it and it was then pretty awesome. after a few months with that i decided i was tired of cars, it was time to sell, and maybe buy a GTR. sold it for f**k all, and then figured i was tired of wasting money on cars, the celsior had almost killed my passion.
got a call about 6 weeks later from a bloke i used to work with at the casino, he works at a car lot these days, and he told me about an s14a they'd just had traded in, told me how much they were gonna sell it for, and i said id be in to look at it as soon as i could. went in a couple days later and theyd already sold it. to a wholesale yard. so i had a quick look at it in their backyard, thought it was pretty awesome, and gave the guys my card to pass my details onto the yard that purchased it.
half an hour later i got a call from the new yard, had a quick 5 minute conversation where i basically said i know what you spent on it, and im not paying anymore than that. he half agreed, said he'd look at the car and get back to me. got a call back about 3 hours later, we agreed on the price of $9,500. what they spent on it, and they even had it professionally detailed for me, how sweet. spent the next 4 days getting finance organised, went in on a monday with the cheque to have the owner of the yard tell me they'd been offered $13.5k over the weekend for it. awesome. handed over the cheque and drove it home... well, drove it to work. couldnt wipe the grin off my face. i was ecstatic, in one 5 minute drive this car had restored my passion for all things automotive.