The Bogan

When I had my old R33 I spent more time driving hire cars that that old boat. Track it, break it, fix it, rinse and repeat. Old Uncle Duncan did warn me about tracking my daily, I was just to stupid to listen. I do still have all the oil stains to remind me of those days gone by though, and the masive hole in the bank account that the Mrs reminds me of every time I modify my other cars or bikes. Fun times though

As a first car that he wants to work on? OP, "Tokyo freeway racing scene and also a bit of rally here and there" I would look at a some turbo RWD drift type pig, or a Impresa WRX or older EMO. https://www.hotcars.com/surprising-facts-about-the-japanese-underground-car-scene/ Or a Ferrari......or a Civic......with neons Or..

Questions 1. Budget (car-insurance-rego-spare funds for when stuff break) 2. Is this your only vehicle 3. Do you have an OPAL card (or access to another vehicle or pushbike when it breaks) 4. Your mechanical aptitude 5. Work space (garage-carport-driveway-street) 6. Licence type (manual-auto-p plate) 7. Seating capacity and passengers (whislt the 86/brz is a good little package, if you need to put a normal size human in the back they will end up hating you after 10 minutes) 8. Tools 9. Do you have someone to take with you to "inspect" a vehicle 10. Patience (you will require alot) 11. AWD-RWD-FWD preference 12. Main use of car (street-track-rally-mad skids) 12. The understanding that all the money you drop into a car will not be recouped at sale time For a first car I always recommend some cheapish stock car you can learn to service and spanner on, and one that after a year or so you can flip if needed and not lose to much cash on

Welcome brother

Waiting for parts is tiresome...I need my high stall and I want it now... Today was a big cleaning day though, took the Mrs to Goulburn in the SS to lunch with the daughter last week and the car got smashed by bugs, then, the next day......I rode the bike to Goulburn to lunch with the daughter, again......yeap, hitting a swarm of bugs at 110kph makes a mess of that Dart screen. I'm really glad I got that screen, I was only wearing a light kevlar jacket and the bugs that hit my biceptacons stung like a bitch, I would hate to be taken them "in the face", the canola is in bloom and the bugs are thick as 10 thick things. In other news I have officially stopped looking for a new car, I'm really enjoying driving the old Commonwhore, it's mad comfy, and lays mad skids.

I bought a Yaris for my daughter I believe the Yaris was only meant to be a car that fathers buy for their female offspring as a first car

Or a phone call... "hello Subaru, this is Toyota, when will our new 86's be ready" LOL at Toyota, their only 2 sporty cars are made by BMW or Subaru.

Drop some pics and a little story about your 2 beasties mate. Or shoot a link to your build threads if you have them.

Marketed right, 30k minimum in this market In 5 years time it won't be worth half that Disclaimer: I'm old, jaded and dumb

Whilst a clean low km original car may be worth bookoo coin the modified rust repaired variants will still be only 5 figure cars. People will pay for clean OEM's, like every other classic, but modified is less desirable. The yanks have over inflated the prices for these cars because of their love of F&F, once the dust has settled, like every orher massed produced classic the price will stabilise. The time now is the sellers market. Remember the GTS, GTHO and Shelbey prices 10 years ago, what are they worth now? Don't get dragged into to futures markets with cars unless they are "limited edition" type cars. Meh, my VX SS is currently (apparently) worth 100% more than what I purchased it for.......LOL, luckily for me I have all the parts to return it to 100% stock, which is what people are looking for. IRT my SS, It will be worth the sum of its parts when I'm finished with it because I use it like a dirty bitch. LOL at the people who treat their cars as investments and don't truly enjoy them. Do a maaaaaaaaaad skid for baby Jebus ya maaaaaaaaaaad karnts. Lets race!

Because I like the casual drive an auto gives. I loved manuals in small sporty cars, and I wouldn't use anything other than a manual on a circuit, but now I don't play race car driver anymore, I want something that is effortless to drive in traffic and fun at the drags. As for the autos giving horrendous performance, it depends on what you use it for, the old slush boxes are fairly reliable and robust, cheap to replace, and importantly, cheap to modify. Stock, yes a slush box has some issues, but from my experience they come into their own with some minor modifications i.e shift kit, cooler, high stall. And as an avid car abuser, they are cheap, how much does a DCT or CVT cost to replace. A for around $5k you can get a slushbox that can hold over 1000hp. They slush box seem to be working well in the new Zupra. Meh, each to their own.

Z06 LS7, YES PLEASE, I'll take an auto please. I'm old and am enjoying LS slush box life. Those Corvettes are legitimate weapons and sound boss when your on the loud pedal. I cannot understand the yanks fascination with the old RB's, yes they were good, but compared to stuff that the yanks can get local for a typical price??????? Meh, the grass is aways greener.

I only wish I could piss away cash. I would buy it, daily it for a while, then track it until it broke, then, rebuild it, boost the bejebus out of it, and then, typically, I would crash it... Then buy another one to rinse and repeat.

Some of it has to do with dying baby boomers and redistribution of wealth. At my age (55) I know quite a few people that are now getting inheritances consisting of multiple properties and other large assets. A couple of my friends are in this boat, mum and dad invested well, and now the kids, who are now in their 40-50's are riding high. One guy I know well from my youth ended up selling/cashing in all the assets during the settlement and became instant multi millionaire. He now owns a heap of classic cars and bikes, he basically found the best condition stuff he alway wanted and dropped the cash. Now his biggest concern in life is needing to buy a bigger house because the current one has run out of places to park up all the stuff he has and the other stuff wants. Good on him, because you cannot take it with you.

Is this one of the "rebuilt by NISMO" cars, fully stripped down and rebuilt in Japan? There was a purple 34 a while ago that some aussie guy had rebuilt there, cost was apparently, alot... Meh, rich people and their toys #IwishIwasrich

Oil cooler was a little tricky, but it is on and doesn't leak...yet.... Still don't have a temp gauge for it, I'm looking for a dip stick oil temp gauge. The bike did get well hot in traffic though, air cooled bikes and traffic jams are not good bed fellows. Adds about 200ml to the system In other news, my jacket is being held up by COVID "apparently", hopefully no #becauseCovidexcuse for my high stall

LOL I actually liked the look Until....... What has been seen cannot be unseen Hopefully the police bike that watched me riding down the breakdown lane on the M5 yesterday cuts me some slack due to my bikes COVID-19 PPE compliance..

Apples and oranges really. There will never be the hype for the new Z like the cult status of the 80-90's early 2000 Japanese hi-po Nissans. Plus you would be able to park the Z in the city and return 4 hours later and it would still be there, unlike a R32-33-34 GTR. The Z is a nice modern sports coupe which I would love as a daily, the Skyline GTR's are next level, but, require a lot of sacrifice.

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50k usd maybe

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Excellent I see no downside to that at all. Blasphemy

Nothing, there is only a limited supply, which gets shorter as time passes. Rust never sleeps.