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Road Registered R35 Gtr In Woden Today

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i saw 2 of them at muscle car masters a few weekends ago... all i can say is damn.

there available thru a company in syd for $170k plus onroads from memory... one of them was there as an add, the other one i think was haltechs? someone like that anyway.

ill put some pics up if i get the time

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I was driving my Line today and spotted the same R35 GTR in Braddon.

It simply looks amazing seeing it for real :P

It was parked on the side of the road. I was going back to take another look. By the time I could turn around it drove off and was no where to be found.

The sound of it is just...amazing.

This makes me want one even more now. :cool:

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I have an idea who might own it, forget his name but one of his mates (who was driving his R34 GTR) came to get fuel from me said he actually had his R35 GTR in Australia complied and ready to be pitted for rego 3 months ago, but Nissan made him promise not to drive it publicly on the road until the R35s were offically allowed into Australia for road use. Could be him but then again I saw a pretty hot Ferrari F430 driving around Kingston looking for a park the other day so it wouldnt take much to get one of those complied personally (you can write in and get permission to have a single car complied personally with governments permission) with the right donations.

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Um... ok. I can quite confidently tell you his 'mate' is full of crap.

The car was brought in and complied by IMG in Sydney, the only company currently that can do so. There was no 'special one off treatment' (read: bribing) with the Government, it followed all the same procedures and rules that everyone else has to. The whole 'Nissan made him promise not to drive it' is a laugh as well. The car may have been in the country for several months, but compliance was only approved for the first lot of cars a few weeks ago - this would be the reason it hasnt been driven in 3 months, because you legally cant.

Also not sure what the F430 has to do with importing... you can buy them brand new from a Ferrari dealer...

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Um... ok. I can quite confidently tell you his 'mate' is full of crap.

The car was brought in and complied by IMG in Sydney, the only company currently that can do so. There was no 'special one off treatment' (read: bribing) with the Government, it followed all the same procedures and rules that everyone else has to. The whole 'Nissan made him promise not to drive it' is a laugh as well. The car may have been in the country for several months, but compliance was only approved for the first lot of cars a few weeks ago - this would be the reason it hasnt been driven in 3 months, because you legally cant.

Also not sure what the F430 has to do with importing... you can buy them brand new from a Ferrari dealer...

I did say has an idea, not that i definetly knew who owned it. But like you said 'compliance was only approved for the first lot of cars a few weeks ago' but for that to happen they need to bring in a R35, do significant testing to prove it complies to ADR then have that complied and I.D plated and apply for permission to comply a certain amount of the same vehicle. I'm not arguing that the guy might be not be full of crap, just seeing his R34 GTR Nur Spec 2 id think being a Skyline driver he wouldnt as it wouldnt amount to anything, I'm just saying having one vehicle complied is alot different then having serveral of the same vehicle complied so it isnt impossible to have one complied provided you have enough money to do all the testing (which is where the F430 fitted in).

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The owner of the car is Peter Leehmuis his is a good family friend.

He is bringing the car to the shop in a week or so to take a few of us for a drive...cant wait, as I hoping my old man sells the 350z and gets one of these.

Pete also owns a 348, 355 and has on order a limited edition 430.

There is alot of crap about compliance here is what Pete has told me. This was one of the first complied ie first 3 or so, Nissan still havent put in their import intentions yet but are kicking up a stick that there are private ones coming in, and did try and stop the first ones ever being driven etc, and compliance was around 12K.

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