DatsunR30

Is the car still available for sale?? Wheres the pics?

My friend Matt took me out for a short blast in his R33 GTS25-T. It has a big intercooler, Titanium Sports Exhaust and a Cold Air filer with around 240 KW and that thing absolutely hammers. It is beyond fast, it is awesome, i cant imagine Porches and Ferraris from the same era being much faster. He never really used more than half throttle and it was easily as fast at 50% as my Fairmont going full blast. Needless to say i was hugely impressed and this has rekindled my interest in Japanese Sports cars, mainly Nissans.

They Certainly seem to dont they..mine was a "grandpa spec" that belonged to the dealers father who passed alway and was 80 something. I havent seen a sinlge one for sale in Adelaide since i got mine tough so my hopes arent too high at the moment. I wouldnt mind a nice Ti with all the Luxury goodies and the nice plush seats. I currently Drive a 1990 Fairmont Ghia so im used to Luxury motoring.

Well, this is my first post on www.skylinesaustralia.com I shall take this opportunity to warmly greet everyone and i look forward to many more posts. This is basically my story, briefly. I am 19 years old, and ever since i was a little kid i have been greatly interested in Japanese Luxury and Sports cars. My first car was a Mettalic green 1983 Datsun/Nissan Skyline R30 Sedan, with the L24E engine and a 3 speed auto. I got it early last year for a measly $950, with less than 170,000 kms on the clock. It was in overall good nick, but rust was BADLY eating into its front right panel in front of the door. I used it for delivering pizzas and its fuel consumption of 16.5-18.0l/100 (im not joking, i know it was only a 2.4 and i didnt thrash it all the time) was a bit shocking to say the least. I sold it after about 4-5 months for a measly $550..Before you flame me and smack me in the mouth over the internet, i was in a pretty bad financial situation, the Skyline HAD to go..because, i had purchased a 1989 Ford Falcon S for (it seemed low) $1000 and i was afraid i would get defected becasue of my poor Dattos chassis rust problems. The Falcon was a bit of a pig, it had assloads of low end toruqe that kind of got me hooked on Performance fords..I got a 1990 model mint condition Fairmont Ghia for my 18th birthday for myself, after selling the Falcon for a small profit. After just over a year of owning the Ghia, i am now well and truly bored of it, and i have purchased a 1998 Toyota Starlet for delivering Pizzas in, in these times of high fuel prices..and then it dawned on me..I WANT MY DATSUN BACK!! I still see it driving around sometimes, here in the Lower North Eastern Adelaide area, by the same guy who i sold it to, Damien i think his name was. If your on these forums mate, message me, i want to buy my car back from you!! As for anyone else, what advice do you have to give to a crazy bugger that wants to buy an R30 again? Are they too old? Any mechanical problems i should be aware of? Are they an under-appreciated modern classic? My budget is a bit limied right now so i wont be buying R34 GT-Rs anytime soon so throw me a bone here. Am i still worthy to be a Skyline enthusiast?