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Hi Duncan, how are you doing? Yes I can get the smaller ones mate , let me kmow what size you want , the next size down is a 26 amh. They make them the same size as odyssey.

Due to some people asking, I will have another group buy of these batteries. I have found some sealed batteries at a very good price, they are simillar to odyssey but don't have the steel case . I put one in my old 33GTR in 2004 , I sold the car some years ago to a guy that I know and the Battery is still going , car has alarm and a tracker in it . I have the same in my 34 GTR and a few others in this forum have them. I compared the specs of the battery to those of the odyssey 1200 and they appear to be almost identical in every way. Even the dimensions are the same.The only difference is the steel jacket on the odyssey. They are 20x17x17 cm , it fits it the r33 but you need another bracket , same with the 34 GTR too. This group buy will be open from now until the 15th of April. The price is $200+ delivery , about $22 registered to Melbourne and Brissy. Anyone interested let me know via p.m. you don't have to pay up front , you pay when I get them .

5% imopt duty and 10% GST on everything.

If you are not in any great hurry I'll have mine for sale in a month or so .

Looks like I only have the GTT wheel for sale now .

I have a series II wheel , same as the original in your car, with the bag, excellent condition in Sydney.

I will have mine for sale in a few weeks.

I have a 33 Series II with the airbag in Sydney, excellent condition, make an offer via pm . Series I will bolt on but they are different inside, you need to mod the plugs to fit .

I will let you know when I have them for sale but in any case around the $2000 without tyres.

I will have my GTR rims for sale in a few weeks time, if you don't find any by them give me a pm.

I still have the GTT and series II wheels. The series II wheel will bolt on series I cars but some plugs maybe different, I did the a conversion several years ago .

SOLD, thanks for the interest guys.

I have a set in Sydney, as new, make me an offer via PM if you like .

Series II wheel and GTT still for sale.

Still for sale

I own a liberty GT STI and use it as a daily , very nice car but by no means a GTR , totaly different cars. Do yourself a favour though, forget about buying one in Japan for now. If and when the $AU reaches 100JPY then consider buying a 35 R in Japan and bring it here to use as a race car only, forget about rego . Just in case you thing you will escape the TAX ( because its a race car ) forget that too.. All 3 taxes are payable , import duty , GST and LCT almost as BB stated above but you don't pay import duty on transport and no LCT on GST either. That wouldn't make much diffeence to his total cost . Of course down the track if the $=100JPY ( quite possible sometime in future) and you could buy a 35 R for 5 milJPY ( again that will happen sometime in the next couple years) that will make a lot of difference to the total cost and guess what you won't pay LCT either because she will be under $57k. By the way there are a lot of other people that are ready to import one ( if it was viable) long before you even think about it, me included... Ah and there are other ways ( than living in Japan for a year) that people will use to bring one as a personal import if and when its viable. Who knows down the track NIssan my stop importing it here , then you can bring one under SEVS. Thats one of my concerns if I was to buy one here .. Good luck with the GT and forget the 35 R..

If that was the case evryone would be doing that . You will have to pay ALL taxes , import duty LCT and GST and you will never be able to register it unless you own it there for 12 months!! By the the way you can buy a used one there from 6 mil yen at todays rate ( 1$Au=77 JPY) that is $78k

Nothing new here mat, if you sell it to another person the next day he/she will have to pay all over again( not rego , stamp duty) in NSW it is charged at 3% for the first $45k and at 5% on the balance . this is a state goverment TAX , why do we need state goverments ???? The federal goverment is a little better, you only pay import duty once , LCT once and GST once ( GST goes to state goverments ). Like gibbo said LCT, import duty and GST haven't been paid on the car because it wasn't sold new here, thats why you have to pay, we are lucky its only payable on the cost price and NOT the new car price!! Let me tell you if you didn't have to pay the above taxes if you import it how many people do you think would be paying taxes!! I for one wouldn't buy anything in AU again . Don't get me wrong I don't agree with the LCT and I have paid it several times over the years ( I just missed out paying the 33%last year, I got a car delivered on the 18th of June) but if we have it on cars sold here we must have it on all cars ..

Of course you can pick , I'm in West Pennant Hills, I go to the city a lot so if you are anywhere between WPH and the city we can meet up . You have a p.m.

I don't know where you get your figures from dude, I hate to tell you but you are way out.... Todays rate is 1AUD=72.85 yen just do some quick figures here based on the 6 mil it will cost you $82,361 just to buy the car if you get 72.85 yen to one AUD but if the rate is 72.85 the bank wants to make some PROFFIC ( just as well as I'm a bank shareholder), at best you are going to get 71max 72 yen. But we will work on 72.85 and lets say that is $82 k ( you got some discount ) +de rego in japan, transport to the dock storage there and some export work say $1000+ import duty at 10%on the total = $91.3 k+ sea transport lats say you don't care much about your car and you send it the cheap way RO-RO including QT and customs here a minimum of $2k . Now we are at $93.3 k + 10% GST on all that = $102.6 k and I thought you said 105 k registered. + LCT at 33% I won't go in to this to much as it is a little complex but I'll give you a rough figure about $8.6 k , new total now $111.2k , now you have to register it + you may need some mods for personal compliance but never mine that just the rego CTP and stamp duty about $5500, new total $116.7 k . How about keeping it in Japan for a year, insurance, parking etc...do you think she will be worth $120k in AUS in say 15 months time ?? An Aussie delivered maybe /probably but not a Jap delivered car . If our $ improved on the yen to say 85 , then it maybe worth looking at it , or if you want a race car . This is the current RBA exchange rate, I was a little generous in the above calcs, I used an earlier rate. 03 Jul 2009 06 Jul 2009 07 Jul 2009 08 Jul 2009 09 Jul 2009 United States dollar 0.7971 0.7950 0.7966 0.7869 0.7791 Japanese yen 76.55 75.89 75.96 74.17 72.52

This is the case in new cars above the magic $57k ( above luxury tax ) , cheaper new cars are about the same price, even slightly cheaper here at the current exchage rate. Don't forget base cars there have very small engines and don't have as many features as cars sold here . As far as used cars go they are much cheaper there than here the older they get the bigger the gap . There is a good reason for that too. We have an older fleet here, we keep our cars longer than U.K, Europe, Japan and USA . There is a good reason for that too, our cars don't rust like theirs . Used cars here are more expensive than almost anywhere and they retain their value better than almost anywhere else. The only cars that are cheap here are the Falcondores, a 4yo BA Falcon is worth about $8k , about 1/4 of the new price, this is about the depriciation you get in UK on a small car.

True but if you do the maths you will find it will come very close to buying one in AU so why bother ? Don't forget you will be up for 10% import duty from UK + freight ( I never brought a car from UK but I would think at least $4k+customs clearence and QT here) then add 10% GST on all the above,, ah and don't forget the LCT now 33%, payable on the cost price above $57K so at least $13 k LCT , what a joke . You will be up to $140k before long then register it and insure it for 12 months in UK, what about the interest on the purchase price? By the time you get her here she will be 15 months older and who knows how much you could buy one here for ?? If our $ to yen impoves to say 1$=85 yen then it could be worth doing this in Japan, you could land it here for under $100k .

To SA 5173 $26.00 I put you down for one Ali.

You can buy a used one in Japan from about 6 million yen , much cheaper than the one sold in UK and cheaper to transport to AUS but you will never register either in AUS.

Registered post to Perth is $40