Na R34 Gt

[LolWhut]

Hi guys, P Plater here

Im looking for Silver NA R34 2door coupe

Ive been to top secret imports, but no NA 34

E&M motors, there is one but 20k... too much for NA

im thinking around 15k for car thats done under 100000kms.

I started looking at private sellers, but besides carsales.com.au, I cant find anywhere else..

have you guys seen any NA R34 around?

[JGTC]

Hey bud

I'm from Sydney also, i got my R34 from Shane at Power Road Carsales in Melbourne, if you decide to fly down - he will pick up up personally from the airport, or if u can get it inspected by someone down there he has a driver Alan - he's a 71 yr old truckie, good bloke wont trash your car, who will drive the car up to you for free.

These are the R34's he has in stock atm - he doesn't have an official website but his cars are on carsales

http://powerroad.carpoint.ninemsn.com.au/p...topDefault.aspx

Took me a good year and a bit to find the right one so be patient and wait for the right one with your name on it!

Happy hunting =)

Danny

[Iron Chef]

$20k for an NA R34? Jeez talk about supply-and-demand...

[Blipman]

At $20k you'd want it to be pretty good! When you're after something a bit rare and specific (has to be silver) that can make it a little tricky in Austrlia, if importing you'd have a lot more choice and I think around $15k is a good figure to work with, Here's an example from a used car dealer in Japan, and there would be more to choose from at auction.

2000 Nissan Skyline 25GT coupe

2,500cc non turbo engine

5 speed manual

76,000km

Silver

No major accident history

Power steering

Power windows

Climate control

CD player

Dual airbags

ABS brakes

Factory 17 inch wheels

598,000 yen FOB, or around $14,100 landed and complied.

[LolWhut]

At $20k you'd want it to be pretty good! When you're after something a bit rare and specific (has to be silver) that can make it a little tricky in Austrlia, if importing you'd have a lot more choice and I think around $15k is a good figure to work with, Here's an example from a used car dealer in Japan, and there would be more to choose from at auction.

2000 Nissan Skyline 25GT coupe

2,500cc non turbo engine

5 speed manual

76,000km

Silver

No major accident history

Power steering

Power windows

Climate control

CD player

Dual airbags

ABS brakes

Factory 17 inch wheels

598,000 yen FOB, or around $14,100 landed and complied.

landed and complied? but how much would it cost me all together in the end?

[Blipman]

landed and complied? but how much would it cost me all together in the end?

Hmm let's see, for Sydney around $1,000 for registration and stamp duty, and around $400 for new tyres and up if needed. There might be a couple of hundred in transport within Australia but actually I allowed $2,500 for my original estimate for compliance and frankly that's not hard to beat these days ($2,200 is not hard to get for an R34) so maybe on road about $15,500 let's say. If the car needs other work done that would be additional but it's common for that not to be needed.

[LolWhut]

So where do i go? where do i start?

I dont think i can buy interstate though.. thanks

[Blipman]

Ricky shoot me an email at [email protected] so I've got your email address, and we can go from there.

[kralster]

looks as though that thing has done much more than 76,000 km more like 176.

[Reggi34dr]

looks like it could be a GT-V though so at least the basic upgrade parts are easy to come by

[Blipman]

looks as though that thing has done much more than 76,000 km more like 176.

Since the only imperfections visible in the photos are some scratches to the console I find that statement a little hard to swallow. By all means enlighten us as to how you can tell that.

[kralster]

gear knob is extremely worn for 76,000 km.

[Blipman]

gear knob is extremely worn for 76,000 km.

I wouldn't say so necessarily. It's hard to see from that photo how much where there is (could be none depending on the lighting), even if you assume the worst from the pic that's not unusually high wear for 76,000km. It will vary a lot on the car, for example my R33 had low mileage when I imported it backed up with complete service records, everything was mint inside and out except for the shift knob which was disgusting... the stitching had started to fray and you could see the plastic underneath, it was horrible. And that's a car with records. Likewise sometimes you'll see high mileage cars and the interior is just perfect. When looking at a car one normally has to take all of the evidence and little tell-tale signs into account, to judge the mileage of a car based on just one aspect is rarely accurate... for example have a look at that shift boot... it's perfect and that almost always goes before the shift knob does.

[666DAN]

I wouldn't say so necessarily. It's hard to see from that photo how much where there is (could be none depending on the lighting), even if you assume the worst from the pic that's not unusually high wear for 76,000km. It will vary a lot on the car, for example my R33 had low mileage when I imported it backed up with complete service records, everything was mint inside and out except for the shift knob which was disgusting... the stitching had started to fray and you could see the plastic underneath, it was horrible. And that's a car with records. Likewise sometimes you'll see high mileage cars and the interior is just perfect. When looking at a car one normally has to take all of the evidence and little tell-tale signs into account, to judge the mileage of a car based on just one aspect is rarely accurate... for example have a look at that shift boot... it's perfect and that almost always goes before the shift knob does.

Saying that though a gearboot is a $20 item and easy to replace, judging by those scratches, that centre console has been in and out more times than I'd care to imagine.

My previous R34 N/A was a genuine 47,000kms (back in 2002) and it looked literally new, that car looks like it's had a hard 76,000kms.

[Blipman]

I spend so much of my time having to educate people and basically fight to correct all of the incorrect stuff they have learned on forums, from what in this case is just a case of people making very broad statements based on pretty minimal information (not that bad) right up to things that are just plain outright wrong. It's tiring... I would have so much more time if I wasn't always fighting the misinformation people pick up from forums, posted by people who make firm, difinitive statements about things that are unknown or that they have no real experience with.

If this particular car has had a rough life fine I don't care, it's not mine and since all I did was pluck some photos and info from the dealer maybe it has, I haven't yet been in contact with them to find out more since it's not a car that anyone is looking to buy. To make any judgements on it's condition or mileage based on frankly a near complete absence of facts is totally misleading though. What other people will pick up from this conversation is:

- worn shiftknob = 176,000km.

- scratches to console = rough life

Think about it, that's what you guys have implied here.

If people think hard about that of course the above is not true, but that's what has been implied and will be in people's heads after reading this, and then one day I'll have to deal with someone who has picked all this info up and files it under fact in their head, and that could be after they've gone and told 50 other people. So much bad and untrue information is around and for no reason.

Based on those two above points (and I still don't think there's actually any wear to the knob) are we saying that that's enough to constiture a hard 76,000m? 95% of 76,000km, 10 year old cars will have some sort of imperfections like that, so 95% of them have had a hard life? And that's not to mention that anyone who's sat in a lot of R34's knows that scratches to that soft plastic of the console is not uncommon.

Example: I had a customer who was looking at either importing a Chaser or buying one from a dealer in Melbourne. Actually from what he told me the car with the Melbourne dealer sounded really sweet and was at a good price, so I actually said that it was probably worth buying as in this case importing one similar wouldn't be any better. He got on a forum, heard about how every imported car had wound back mileage (ie total garbage), he got cold feet and a week later he bought a local Falcon. A FALCON! That's what bad information from people who didn't know what they were talking about got him instead of happily buying a really sweet Chaser. A Falcon. Think about it, could you live with that on your conscience?

I'm not having a go at you guys as you've just stated your opinion and that's cool, I don't greatly care about this car as it was just to show an example, the truth is none of us knows what condition it's in at this point since no one's sought more info. But I'm asking people to think about what they post and making firm, unequivocal statements when realistically there's no way to do so, it just contributes to the huge pool of unreliable information out there.

[Silver_GT]

still got mine here i sent you a pm about a few weeks ago champ.