Mr Camouflage

Welcome, but learn to post in the correct section. This is the spotted topic. Spotted a white '35 on South street WA just now (joe something or other was the licence plate). Made me happy and sad at the same time. Happy, because I love them (especially in white), sad because I'm too much of a lazy F*%@ to ever be able to buy one. He put on a bit of a show for me at the 2 sets of lights we were stopped at side by side (I was in a crappy but reliable Corona) flooring it off the line when the lights changed Got home and pulled into the driveway behind my busted ass R31 coupe I haven't driven in 9 months or more (Did I mention I was a lazy f*%@). Made me want to pull my finger out and fix it, or work on the C110 coupe, but I'm sure by tomorrow morning the feeling would have passed.

Spotted an R35 on channel nine news tonight. In the Perth police impound yard. Apparently the owner wont be getting it back after allegedly doing 200km/h on the freeway.

L20DET?

Spotted this the other day. http://perth.gumtree.com.au/c-Cars-Vehicles-Motorbikes-Parts-cars-NISSAN-SKYLINE-DR30-RS-FJ20ET-W0QQAdIdZ246974154 Just down the road from me too.

Pictures are now up: http://www.pickles.com.au/servlet/Auction/...pg?id=552265045 http://www.pickles.com.au/servlet/Auction/...pg?id=552265046 http://www.pickles.com.au/servlet/Auction/...pg?id=552265047

Pretty rare to have a hail storm of the magnitude we had last March. Pickles are still clearing hail damaged cars. There's an '09 R35 GTR in this weeks lot (Sat 08/05/10). No photos at the time of posting: http://www.pickles.com.au/damaged/vehicle/...lotid-552095166

It could also mean that the seller wanted at least $500 for it, so got a mate (w***e) to bid in small increments to up the bid to $500. It doesn't help that the seller can see (for example, not saying this happened here) that e***f put in an opening bid, then added another bid in the history. That's a green light for the seller to get some shill bidding going on. The thing with ebay is, that you have to expect that the item will sit near its starting price right up till the last few hours before it ends. If its is bid up alot before then, then the bidders are either stupid (new ebay bidders make this mistake) and must have it and bid early, or something dodgy is going on. If you want to win something cheaply, you try not to bid until the last minutes, otherwise your just driving the price up in the days prior and end up paying more. And if your a seller, start the item off near what you want for it.

Yeah that's what I was thinking. There's not much in a Z on that side of the bay for it to be a problem (Unless you have a LHD Z in which case the steering link is in the way). Would be interested in throwing them in my Z engine bay to see if they fit. I have a zed with a seized engine and rusted out extractors I could test fit them in. You heading up Perth way any time soon Ricky?

Whats the issue with using them in a z car? Looks like they'd fit ok.

Yep should be an L28. I pulled an engine from one of these once. Its still up at my old's place.

Yeah the grill is a GT-X grill with the center "cross" part cut out. Edit: I see Razor has updated the listing to say so. The rear Skyline badge is also not a GTR item.

Bidding started at $30,000 ended at $82,500. Referred to vendor again. Check back next week. I expect it will be for sale again. Insurance co should have taken the $92,500 they were offered last week.

It wasn't returned to anyone. Maybe you misread my post. Vendor would be the insurance company, if it was insured. If the bidding doesn't meet the insurance companies reserve then pickles will take the offer to the insurance company to see if they are willing to accept the amount, or negotiate with the highest bidder to try and get their reserve. If not it will be up for sale again next week I guess. Standard auction stuff. Same thing happens with people selling houses if bidding doesn't get over the reserve. Insurance companies greedy? No comment They would be making a huge loss on this policy. What's a GTR cost $170,000? paid out to the owner, who only paid one year of premiums. If they accept $92,500 for the wreck, that's almost $80 grand they loose. Maybe the reserve is more about them trying to minimise their loss than what they think the car is actually worth.

Bidding started at $20,000 Bidding ended at $92,500 on site bidder. Referred to vendor. (Hadn't met the reserve I guess)

Was it a red one that had a Chev V8. Was on the front cover with a yellow Vette. This Magazine : http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi...em=350234561439 If so your Dream Z is for sale. Same car that was in Street Machine all those years ago. The guy that owned and built it sold it to George some years back, and now George is selling it. http://www.viczcar.com/forum/index.php/topic,5520.0.html and on ebay here http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi...em=250498492588