Iron Mike

Heuson you're killing me! I wanted this car so badly last year when Jason was selling it and you beat me to it by a couple of hours, now you're already getting rid of it for a euro car and it hasn't even been a year!!

**posting a price is a must on the forums**

Definitely......they all probably end up on the Westside of sydney!!

Has anyone else noticed how the large majority of import theft occurs in the western suburbs and where it doesnt the car ends up there anyways

YOU PISSERS!!!!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

The perfect way to ruin a good day..............besides running out of fuel in the middle of the great ocean road....

you bring a jerry, ill bring a trailer.......I really should have bought my own petrol station a long, long time ago

Oh and lastly, how often do we stop for fuel? I won't make it past 190 km

wow 20-40 for some reason in my head I was thinking this was huge, like 100+ cars!! Im sure itll still be a tonne of fun. any police trouble in the past??

Dan how many cars can we expect? (yes before anyone asks i am a member waiting for processing ) Also, is there anything organised for lunch or is it every man for his own??

Ahh the old ball and chain. I dread the day I must sell my beloved GTR to free up cash

pwoh I've missed out on a bit since i've been away hey>> when did you get facebook??

ps. Anth when did you get yours tuned on e85??

Poor bastard. I know how you feel about being hassled.....and about spending endlessly on them....its an addiction that takes you over... ps. Anth he's still got heaps to worry about besides the high mount and air filter for an EPA!

Hmm there's a couple going around for close to that (1 even under that i think ). As mentioned, what you pay for is what you get and fixing a rust bucket BNR34 is far from cheap - very, very far from it. Just look into the cost of engine and tranny rebuilds....make sure you're sitting down when you do....

WOW sexy car Can I ask why you are getting rid of it and not in any need to sell it?

can't wait!!

LOL heard about this wedding, didn't know you went.......... ye im down too if you dont mind your guests leaving deaf and possibly burnt by exhaust flames..........inbox me if you want. I have a Nismo sorted bayside blue v spec II

err wtf, i've known ali for years but hes fallen off the map, didn't know he got a skyline?! did he.....?

Terry - It's amazing how into American culture the Japanese can be - especially given their wartime history with the US. I even saw a few dedicated american muscle car clubs at the Auto Messe - something I really did not expect in Japan!! Four-twelve - may have just been your luck/my bad luck, but I'm very surprised you saw a few supras. These cars I found were bloody rare. As I mentioned before, none at the auto messe, only 1 on the streets, and none at any of the workshops I went to except at Top Secret where it was in a rusting scrap heap outside. Steve - my GTR is my baby, I can't imagine ever getting rid of it or selling it to anyone, EVER!! Having said that, the Japs have a tonne of respect for the R34 GTRs - They are still a prized possession and highly respected & sought after amongst car enthusiasts, so you may be right about making a tidy profit

I remember reading about this in the news. Such a waste

So I just got back from Japan where I did my lifetime pilgrimage to Nismo, Nissan, and all things GTR. I’m a self-confessed GTR nut and have been for the last 15 or so years so it was only right that on my first trip to Japan, I visited all the workshops, car parks, and car shows that I’d been reading and watching VHS videos about since I was a young pup. I went there with big ideas in my head and thought it would all be as I’d seen it in the mags and videos, but it wasn’t, it was very, very, far from it. During my first week in Japan I was in Tokyo, and it just so happened that the HKS private day was on in that week so I made the trip to Fuji speedway to have a perve at some fine cars and HKS brilliance, a fit way to start my automotive sightseeing trip. I was not let down in any way and saw some mind boggling modifications and heard some earth-shattering sounds – I’ll leave it at that. Too much to say for the purpose of this thread. In that first week, I like many other people, was expecting to see the streets of Japan filled with JDM auto erotica. GTRs, Supras, RX7s, Evos, Silvias, NSXs etc etc. WRONG!!.... During that first week I saw the likes of no GTRs, 1 non-turbo Supra, 1 RX7, and nothing of anything else. I was utterly shattered. If there was a cruise/modified car scene in japan as I’d thought, it had definitely died out. On my third day I managed to visit the new Nismo Omori factory in Yokohama (a real pain in the ass to get to from Tokyo – Find your way to Namamuggi station then a 25 minute walk). The new factory has a small museum at the front (officially opening to the public on the 1st of March) which I was lucky enough to be given a sneak peak of. The rest of the factory comprises of a workshop for customer’s cars and another workshop on the other side out of public view, for their own race cars. The customer’s workshop is closed off to the public, though I was lucky enough to be given a tour of it as my brother-in-law is acquainted with a few people there after venturing to Japan in 2006/2007 to bring back a z-tune to Australia. While there another customer struck up conversation with me and directed me to the famed Dykuko Futo parking lot which we were asking about. The advice I was given was to “go tonight (being a Friday night) at around 9.30, don’t bother on Saturday cos the cops usually bust up the party.” So I did just that - We hired a car and drove to the carpark (which incidentally is just 5 minutes down the road from the new Nismo factory). If you are a ‘gyjin’ (foreigner) like me, you will most probably have Buckley’s chance of finding your way in. The carpark as you all know is enclosed by many winding freeways above the ground. We naively tried to access it from street level where it is located, though you can only get in via freeway access (the freeway has a dedicated exit to this carpark – only 1 way in and 1 way out). Needless to say, we eventually found our way in at which time it was 11.15 pm and there were hardly any cars there. A few botchy drift cars, sedans on chrome rims and a few 370s. Disappointed, we left and decided to come back the next night, as supposedly Saturday night was supposed to be the big night there with only the possibility of police. Sure enough, we rocked up earlier on Saturday though this time as half-expected, the police had come and completely blocked off the freeway exit so that no cars could get in. That second night we went, an employee of Top Secret drove us out there, all the way from Chiba (not close to Tokyo at all in case you were thinking of going). Also in case you were going, the maps for both Top Secret and the Nismo Omori factory are laughable. All the maps contain is a bunch of streets with no names, maybe a train station somewhere on the edge of the map and a 7/11 or other known point somewhere. And they’re all in Japanese!! It took us 3 hours to get to Top Secret, and the address they have on their website is for Top Secret II (their body shop), not Top Secret I (Smokey’s hideout). They are very far from each other so if you get stuck like we did you will be facing a $150 AUD cab ride there from Top Secret II. In-between visiting Tokyo and Osaka I went to Chiba, Nagano, Kyoto and Hiroshima. In Kyoto I saw 1 NSX and 1 evo. Nothing anywhere else. Once in Osaka however, I managed to get along to the Osaka Auto Messe, basically the west coast version of the Tokyo Auto Salon. Here I guess I was most surprised. Even up until recently I had seen pictures of such events where myriads of worked RB GTRs were on display. The Auto Messe was held in a venue which was for people in Melbourne, basically 6 times the size of the exhibition building. It was HUGE. It seemed that each room had a particular theme. The first 2 rooms solely contained phat VIP cars and vans (think ridiculous negative ‘oni’ camber and DEEEEEEEP dish rims under massively stretched guards). We thought that that’s all there was to it. The next room however was an entire room dedicated just to the new Toyota 86/Subaru BRZ. While there were some nice cars here from respectable tuners such as HKS, Amuse, and Trial, if you weren’t a fan of the 86 then this room wasn’t for you. The next room was dedicated to worked European cars, Ferraris, Lambos, Minis, Benzs, BMs etc, and the final room (Exhibition room 5 was all eateries and paraphernalia shops) was the only room where you could get a glimpse of thoroughbred Japanese sportscars. In it however, I saw only 2 R34 GTRs, 1 R33 GTR, 1 R32 GTR, NO SUPRAS, 1 FD Rx7, 1 FC RX7, no s2000s, 1 s15, no NSXs, no EVOs, maybe 10-12 R35 GTRs, a few more Toyota 86s and a few 370zs. I did see 2 R33 GTRs on the streets outside the event, but that’s it. This room still contained VIP cars and a bunch of weird over the top chop-and-change projects. On my 2nd last day in Osaka, I made my way down to Global Auto for some business, where I was very kindly driven around/picked up by Matsumoto San. As he filled me in on the current tuner-car scene (or lack of) in Japan, it became painfully obvious to me that it was a very dead car cult. He told me that there were no big meets in Osaka as there sometimes was in Tokyo, but that even Dykuko Futo as I’d already seen, had seriously died down. The street drifting he also told me was virtually non-existent, except somewhat in the small southern islands of Japan. While with Matsumoto, he was also kind enough to take me on a tour of the local workshops (he knows all of them well), where I got firsthand access to their garages which are off limits to the public. This included Auto Select!!) So that’s how it is, in case anyone was planning a trip to Japan where they hoped they’d get to see a bit of petrol-head fantasy, keep dreaming, because that’s where it’s all at!! A bit of a disappointment but the Japanese are so friendly, courteous, polite, respectful and helpful, and there’s so many other things to see and do, that even for an obsessed JDM car nut, it is still a country very worth visiting!

HAHAHHAAHA what does it matter, she was cute right? Always a thrill to see a good looking chick drving a skyline.....still waiting for the day i see a girl driving a monster R34 GTR......

What were the minor issues that made you drop 5k from the asking price, then almost 10k?? ''