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do a search mate, this topic has been posted a thousand times before .... Iron Chef, Prestige Motorsport, Redline, JSpec .... do a goole search and you will find many more ....

15 year old rule... have u looked it up?
what u mean?

i think she means that the rule has changed, it not the '15 year rule' anymore its more the 1988 rule therefore no more GTR's can be brought in cheap they have to have full compliance!

it would be better to find a local car so it can be test driven comp checked ect

better off finding something which has had a rebuild. theres a few good examples in the for sale section

or +1 for Iron Chef Imports

Edited by shy_s6

I got my R32 GTR through Iron Chef, best to email Kristian to work out your preferences and he'll go through all the jap auctions and contact you when he finds R32 GTRs that match your preferences/price range.

I'm gonna kind of go against what everyone has said a bit here, but the fact is that we import brokers all pretty much do the same job, so from that perspective, the big guys like J-Spec and Prestige are presumably doing a good job or else they wouldn't be in business. I don't really count myself in their league just yet!

I did some quick calculations and worked out that only about 40% of the cars I buy actually come to SA owners - the rest are sent all over the country - and the only reason I mention this is because, apart from your own peace of mind, it doesn't really matter where the broker is based.

One small point of difference is that I regularly head to Japan to find cars for customers, but most brokers will have agents there that they trust to do the same thing, and I probably 90% of all the cars I buy through one particular company because I trust the buyer's judgment as much as my own. My customers will know that this often means having to wait a long time for the right car to come along!

Probably 99% of the cars I buy are bought to order and are never put on the site - the ones on the site are usually stock that agents have in Japan, often as a result of customers pulling out after a car has already been bought.

With importing R32 GT-Rs make sure you have a good budget, as they are going up in value over there, and if you're thinking mid-high teens, best off looking locally, rather than risking getting a crappy one overseas, where you can't check it over or test drive it. A case of "better the devil you know"...

Oh and thanks for the kind words, guys :D

Edited by Iron Chef

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