Vic Wasteland Thread - 15.0

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On 4/5/2017 at 3:39 PM, Mohsen said:

ahhh ertan

nice bloke

Hey man, do you still want the steel intake pipe?

[TiTAN]

I'm wondering where V-spec performance get the money/capital to buy some of the most expensive GTRs that pop up for sale. I'm not too cluey on how supercar used car dealerships run, but when starting from the ground up it must be a massive uphill battle until properly established.
Looks like they almost have more cars for sale than they've sold since opening. I wonder if someone is fronting the cash as like an investment or buying overseas then giving it to the dealer to sell, dealer sells the car (eventually), both original buyer and dealership make money. The one getting pinged is the customer since theyre paying exorbitant prices for cars that sometimes dont have an accurate expected value.
https://www.vspecperformance.com.au/temp2

High end car dealers don't tend to buy their stock, the current owner puts it up for sale and the dealer stores it/ deals with marketing it and showing customers then takes a cut of the sale price if/when it sells. None of the financial risk if the prices go down or you have to hold it for ages.

[Leroy Peterson]

But would someone in Aus really buy a 1 of 3 Mines 34GTR and just hand it over to them to be sold? Thought stuff like that would go through exotic car auctions etc.

[TiTAN]

Who knows. They may own it I am just saying in general they don't own the cars, they just sell them on behalf of the owner like a real estate agent.

If they do own them it's a lot of money to tie up in something that's likely to take a while to move. The average cashed up car buyer isn't looking to drop 200k on a 15 year old Nissan.

[Birds]

The word you're looking for is consignment

[Kinkstaah]

My housemate knows the people at Vspec performance very well. Enough so that when I go there (or Raceline for an alignment) I get the people there start saying things that only my housemates would know for the lols.

The owner of it is also the guy who bought the first NSX in Australia. He collects them because he likes them. The capital comes from the same place a 25ish year old obtains Australia's first NSX comes from, i.e the same people that buy a lot of property in Australia.

They get put up for sale when they get bored of having them sitting around in a collection, to make way for other things. Supposedly a Ztune is coming soon, there's two 400R's there at the moment too.

[admS15]

Saw the 400r, never knew there was 1 in oz. Was on display at vtac today. Was wondering where the funding was coming from. They also had Tony D'alberto driving a new nsx and Nismo R35 for them. Definitely not short of a dollar.

[Leroy Peterson]

I noticed the nationality of everyone who worked for vspec so I didn't want to make things too obvious. Thought maybe overseas money buying the cars, apparently not.
Greg with dat insider info

[admS15]

Anyone know anyone from revzone? Pretty sure it was their evo that went up in flames today. Maybe the vspec guys can donate a replacement to them...

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My turbo timer went up in flames, can they donate me a new turbo?

[Birds]

Respect to the matt black Aventador showing off for me on the Monash - refreshing to see someone driving that sort of car how it's meant to be!

 

Hopefully wasn't freshly apexed...

[Leroy Peterson]

Lol not sure if serious. About 100 ferrari and lambos driving Swan Street during the week never changing out of first. Is that "how it's meant to be driven"?

[Birds]

In contrast, this guy was racing it like he could afford to smash it and any other cars he broke in the process...

[joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo]

2017 pathfinder s2 looks the goods... Thinking of upgrading the x-trail now

[Leroy Peterson]

27 minutes ago, joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo said:

2017 pathfinder s2 looks the goods... Thinking of upgrading the x-trail now

Nah, save up a bit more money and you're in Lambo Countach territory

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Lamborghini-Countach/332108251014?_trksid=p2047675.c100012.m1985&_trkparms=aid%3D777003%26algo%3DDISCL.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D42399%26meid%3D06d632af9d7f4a86ae1860338a4efd8e%26pid%3D100012%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D12%26mehot%3Dpp%26sd%3D272568321493

[Birds]

Replica*

[UNR33L]

48 minutes ago, Leroy Peterson said:

Nah, save up a bit more money and you're in Lambo Countach territory

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Lamborghini-Countach/332108251014?_trksid=p2047675.c100012.m1985&_trkparms=aid%3D777003%26algo%3DDISCL.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D42399%26meid%3D06d632af9d7f4a86ae1860338a4efd8e%26pid%3D100012%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D12%26mehot%3Dpp%26sd%3D272568321493

seems legit 

gimme a 2nd hand GTR over that anyday

[joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo]

Replica*

Bullshit. All lamborghini cars come with holden v8's. Everybody knows that

[Birds]

?

[Leroy Peterson]

42 minutes ago, joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo said:

All lamborghini cars come with holden v8's

if you get custom engine covers made up no one will know the difference.