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The strangest thing happened (well strange for me anyway) - I was at monash clayton tonite, and bumped into a workmate of mine. We were stopped in front of the tennis courts and were talking about our cars (he bought a 00 rex just recently). On the other side of the road there was a guy walking with a girl. The girl went towards the tennis courts, and the guy crossed the street and came towards us. He went behind my car (seemed to be looking at either the number plate or the bumper). I said "hows it going" and he replied and came around the passenger side - then he started talking to us - how his friend has a r33 and all that. Then my friend asked him if hes got a skyline, he said no he had a barina - and anyway after 2 mins he left. We thought it was a bit strange - but my friend said he didnt like how the guy had his hands in his pocket. Apparently his friend had been car jacked or something - and the guy who spoke to him had his hands in his pocket too. ;)

Anyway - this was all strange to me, as I never had anyone come and talk to me about my car (maybe cos the car I drove before was crappy), and 2) to me be looked a bit suss - but then again maybe im just a bit paranoid as this car cost me 6 years worth of casual jobs. Do any of you get approached by strangers asking about your skylines, or having your car checked out?

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Always mate, i had a guy in a black VS V8 ute that his missues was driving have a big chat with me at one of the shell or bp servos, he loved my car, asking all about it. Everyone always asks what does my number plate mean etc. Asking all about my car, turbo, power, etc etc, mostly older guys down here that have had old school muscle, yeh they might hang it on me but they respect it, these are the cars of our generation. I love talking about my car/skylines/imports to anyone who wants to know abit more.

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the hands in the pockets is a respect thing i reckon. i do it, it shows that they are just looking they wont touch, kinda thing.

ive only had one random person speak to me and that was a cop wondering how much i paid for it ;) he thought it was pretty good till he saw me odo lol

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Had a guy at Brighton Yacht club approach me when I was showing someone my old Lexus. Seemed a bit odd as they are hardly an unusual car but he was nice enough and an older guy as well. Seems to be the older people from my experience with that and a couple of other cars I have taken to work.

Maybe they are trying to relate to the younger people on a common ground or just interested in something they otherwise would not normally get up close to in the case of a skyline and wasnt released locally.

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I get it a bit, its on and off.

Its usually from older people (30+) who remember seeing mine and then the 32R's go around in the old Group A in the late 80's early 90's etc.

They are surpruised when they see mine, its like they expect it to be long gone these days hehehe :D

They always say, "Gee i remember seeing these things years ago"

:)

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I had two nice old ladies at midnight mass on christmas eve come up to me let me know that I had two flat tyres...

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My best was about 20 people cheering after I bounced the car while a friend with ample clevage sat in the passenger seat.

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lolz yeah. like someone else said, you get people who will come up to you and ask you a million questions etc, and then you get the wanks.

dunno if its jst me but i tend to get eyed off by old ladies a fair bit lol.... like im always doing something wrong, even if im jst parked on the st talkin to someone lol. but 98% of the time all the comments and stuff people make are positive. :D

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My best was about 20 people cheering after I bounced the car while a friend with ample clevage sat in the passenger seat.

ROFL

Anyway its not always a good thing when people come up to you and want to talk about your car... you guys take it for granted and enjoy the ego stroking (no offence intended to anyone) which is a very good way to find out exactly whats in, or not in, the car when thieves and potential car jackers go hunting.

At the end of the day you should be more worried about your own well being than whether someones going to steal the car, if you're not getting in/out of the car at the time, I'd be more inclined to say it's not yours, especially if they seem dodgy.

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just look at the type of person and make a judgement on them..

i had 2 kids about 13-14yo come up to my car and started takin pics on there phones while i was just sitting in it, in a car park, but i thought there kids.

but if it was a 20yo guy id be worried that they got the plates n car etc.

just be careful who u talk to and what u tell them u have done, coz u never know whats running through their mind

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the other day, was in springvale with the missus, and had a kid telling me my car looks nice, but i was tryin to turn left, just waiting for traffic to go past so i could turn... because of all the traffic i felt like i was gonna be highjacked cos i had that kid and his mates walking from the left of me around the back of my car and another 2 guys walking from my right....

yeah but i get ppl askin what boost its running, what mods it has, etc etc

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