Buying A R34 Gtr Body Shell Brand New?

[steven_c]

I was wondering if anyone had done this before? also where could you get one from? could i go in to the nissan dealership and go buy a brand new body shell? just thinking about options thats all,

Another thing would i have to go direct to the factory to buy the bodyshell? over in japan.. i think nissan will have the links and contacts to do so..

cheers much help needed with this and advise...

[Bronx]

as much as i know they are not in production anymore and you cannot buy one brand new, not even the Z-tunes were brand new, even they were 2nd hand cars built to z tune....

but someone prove me wrong

[R31Nismoid]

you cannot get a shell.

you need to buy a car

[mxfly]

Even if Nissan did have this option to buy a shell, it would be hell of a lot cheaper to buy a whole used gtr.

[steven_c]

yeh i am thinking that.. it would be silly money..

[Nee-san]

You might be able to source enough parts to build one up but....... Don't do it unless you have atleast 100 million dollars. of personal wealth.

[Bronx]

on another thought, even if nissan would still make the shells, anyone think that they would be on back order???

if they would sell them i think a shell would cost close to the original market value of a R34 gtr, back in the day.

[GTRNUR]

There was that bare falken prepared race car shell floating around a few years back. Cage built all the way through it, acid dip lightened shell too I believe. Anyone's guess where that is now though. Not new technically, but if you wanted to build something special it would be a great place to start.

[N1GTR]

I'm sure there's a muscle car having new shells made (or "reproduced") in USA. It might be the mustang but not 100% sure.

There's also a heap of places making reproduction parts for those muscle cars.

Shame the GTR Market isn't big enough to warrant that happening for us

[GTRNUR]

Yeah thats the old 1970's Camaro's. You can buy every single part of the car as an new aftermarket spare component, including the chassis/shell.

http://www.corbettsauto.com/1969_camaro_new_body_parts.htm

[N1GTR]

There you go!

Shame it won't happen for GTRs

[Nee-san]

Who knows Steve with the way manufacturing is going, a chinaman might decides its a good idea, I would buy one !

[Chris Rogers]

I do know you can buy them in bits...

(I'm doiung it with a R32.)

cost- best you do not ask.

[Nee-san]

Yeah that's pretty much what I found.

$3500 per front seat ?

Cha Ching !

[Chris Rogers]

close. the frontal area is a fraction over $4k in bits and you still have to assemble it.

[Nee-san]

I'm buying a new front for my 32 at the moment chris, for the most part excluding the dash its all fairly well priced, but the price i had on seat assemblies was $3500 per side :s