Victorian Rebirthed R33 Skylines.

[br3tt]

Ive done a quick search, and it's come up empty.. so that makes me think either all these threads have been deleted, or no one has ever posted.

I'm not too sure where this goes, so I thought general Skyline Discussion was a good spot.

Im sorry if my search skills are totally crap, and there are 40,000 threads on this matter.

Anyway, to the story.

Earlier today I just got my R33 Series 1 GTS 1993 back from the RTA place where they have the Pits and etc, after it had to have a test on how genuine the VIN number was, and how genuine my car was. (e.g If it was a re-birthed car or not).

The news was pretty bad, getting my numberplates for my birthday and the guy tells us that all cars (supposedly 'thousands') have been dodgied up with this VIN number with a '97' in it. Being 16, and this being my 2nd car, I didn't really know what to think.

We got my Skyline from Victoria, the guy who sold it to us is a good bloke, and I immediately knew that he wouldn't of done it on purpose.

Now this man behind the counter is telling us we have to take it to this inspection immediately and to only drive from the RTA to the inspection bay and no where else.

We got to the place, the guy took the car into a garage where myself and my dad couldn't go in, but could see in (only just) as he scanned the car up and down, looked at joints, (for bodgy welds), and etc.. After some questions, he dropped a remark "in my 20 years of doing this it's not gonna be a re-birth.. don't take my word, but i highly doubt it is". Finally, some relief.

Now they had to send the details down to VIC (send or phone.. not too sure) and VicRoads had to tell us the outcome.

To cut a decent story short, we got the results back today and my car is clean, wasn't rebirthed and everything is cool.

I was just wondering if fellow SAU members have been hit by this '97 VIN' number, and what happened?

[raz0r$harP.UK]

There are a hell of a lot of Skylines out there with '97' in the VIN numbers, that's a pretty broad range to start from.

[br3tt]

Must be at a certain section.