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Yeah , i think that happened to me too.. best option i found was to call them... contact details are on there website i think

http://www.ironchefimports.com/site/

(not affiliated with them at all, so I am not trying to get a sale)

Good luck

powervehicles.com is run by english couple Andy and his misso (think thats their names I'm hopeless with names) and run the drift camps at Ebisu circuit.

They are top people and have very good contacts and have a strong association with the Team Orange drift performance team. They help a lot of people going to Japan to buy cars for the drift matsuri's and do a lot of imports and get some shit hot cars.

I'd personally have no issues using them for sending or sourcing a special vehicle and I am in no way affiliated with them.

Met them a couple of times and was impressed with their set up at Ebisu.

http://www.facebook.com/powervehicles?group_id=0

http://www.powervehicles.com/

  On 18/04/2013 at 7:40 AM, elrodeo666 said:

powervehicles.com is run by english couple Andy and his misso (think thats their names I'm hopeless with names) and run the drift camps at Ebisu circuit.

They are top people and have very good contacts and have a strong association with the Team Orange drift performance team. They help a lot of people going to Japan to buy cars for the drift matsuri's and do a lot of imports and get some shit hot cars.

I'd personally have no issues using them for sending or sourcing a special vehicle and I am in no way affiliated with them.

Met them a couple of times and was impressed with their set up at Ebisu.

http://www.facebook.com/powervehicles?group_id=0

http://www.powervehicles.com/

Yeah it's Andy and his partner Emily, and they are Scottish... (like me)

I was over in Japan a few years back and met them at Ebisu. Really nice couple and they do have a shit load of nice cars. They helped one of my mates who I was traveling with at the time buy a monster FC RX-7 so I'm pretty sure they would be more than helpful in sourcing a car for you.

IRONCHEF

how much roughly would it be to land her a R32 GTR. doesnt have to be perfect paint or interior.

Can have some fruit would be nice.

No HUGE amounts of rust.

Will be tracked only.

Just a rough guide would be good

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  On 30/04/2013 at 3:47 AM, Adz2332 said:

IRONCHEF

how much roughly would it be to land her a R32 GTR. doesnt have to be perfect paint or interior.

Can have some fruit would be nice.

No HUGE amounts of rust.

Will be tracked only.

Just a rough guide would be good

If you want to know rough prices for parts/cars using an english translated site of yahoo jp, i find importmonster.com.au is good to search with

http://www.importmonster.com.au/yahoo?cat=2084049202&cat-name=Skyline+GT-R#2084049202

Current GTR's

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