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G'day all, just introducing myself. Your average Melbournian, over the last decade I've owned and loved two identical 89 silos and recently said goodbye to the second love :/ Some heads may remember me from the 31 mob (Tha_D). The call of the skyline is just too strong, so after 10 years of owning two white over grey babes back to back and much deliberation, I'm now in the process of picking up a bathing black beauty, V35 in a week or so and figured it'd be a good idea to get involved again in the aussie nissan community.

I've never owned this model car before and could use all the tips I can get, will probably take a sickie over the next week once I pick her up and get familiar with this forum as its been a few years since I was active. Currently pouring over the usual start up shit with this car, fascia replacement, dropping her an inch etc so anyone with a few lead ins for me, will be greatly appreciated.

Always valued being part of the 31 scene and the extended skyline scene, met a lot of cool cats over the years, was part of heaps of events and will slowly try to get back into it. Kind of hard these days, taken a big backseat as life starts hurling other priorities at ya.

Anyway, I'll update this profile once things start to firm up but yeah, see you round the traps.

- D

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Sorry mate, notifications are a bit of a crank setup on my end. Yep, I've got the car and have wasted bugger all time getting it sorted out :) I should start a build thread, haven't considered the membership as yet. I a) am broke and b) generally work weekends/public holidays etc when most club events occur. If I find I'm getting active again on ye olde forums I'll probably throw a few coins this way but for now, I'm generally off the radar >< Thanks for the heads up

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