Help me Find Jap Dealer for R34 GTR

[Guest]

A Chaser was complyied the other day and to cut a long story short a airbag sensor went during compliance and their goes $800 and that was at cost on top of the compliance fee.

Well their is the R34 GTR V-Spec sitting in QLD that has to be exported due to marks on chassis rail, $80,000 dollars and it has to go some where.

The 4/B R34 GTR that went to England and was told straight low klm car, well the holes in the floor for the roll cage gave away its real life.

The car damaged in transit on the chassis rails at the docks in NSW that was to much to comply it was a cheap car so it was just scraped.

Going to Japan honestly dosent mean you wont get stuck with a problem unless you know alot about that model of car it is all about who buys the car for you in Japan he has to know them backwards.

I comply the cars spent 2 years at a workshop that converts Vipers, Ferraris and Vette's to RHD and have a boss that raced for factory teams including Porsche, Toyota, Nissan, first raced at Bathurst in 1974 and came 9th in a LH Torana and knows cars like the back of his hand but we dont buy GTR's in Japan that is the job of our buyier.

If we want a Porsche he can find a good one, I can find a good C5 certain people know their stuff we dont know it all, just going off an auction sheet is risky for high end cars as I will explain below.

Currently I have a RALLIART factory delivered EVO VII RS Spec 2 fully seam welded with only 300 klm's on it sitting in the work shop that came in as a Race Rally, it was to be used as a test car to add to schedule as due to low klm's DOTR's will grant approval to comply under RAWS but we are selling off for $50,000 ready to race.

This is because customers need to spend 2,000,000 to get a good car, easy to damage cars in transit enough to knock back compliance, expensive for stock parts to replace aftermarket bits, how many will we comply, we need to get return from investment without charging $7,500 for compliance, you try and tell somebody he just spent $40,000 plus to have it exported, I can go on for ever but that is enough on the subject.

[funkymonkey]

import duty drops to 10% in 2010 dosen't it? not 2005.

[jake32]

A Chaser was complyied the other day and to cut a long story short a airbag sensor went during compliance and their goes $800 and that was at cost on top of the compliance fee.

Well their is the R34 GTR V-Spec sitting in QLD that has to be exported due to marks on chassis rail, $80,000 dollars and it has to go some where.

The 4/B R34 GTR that went to England and was told straight low klm car, well the holes in the floor for the roll cage gave away its real life.

The car damaged in transit on the chassis rails at the docks in NSW that was to much to comply it was a cheap car so it was just scraped.

Going to Japan honestly dosent mean you wont get stuck with a problem unless you know alot about that model of car it is all about who buys the car for you in Japan he has to know them backwards.

I comply the cars spent 2 years at a workshop that converts Vipers, Ferraris and Vette's to RHD and have a boss that raced for factory teams including Porsche, Toyota, Nissan, first raced at Bathurst in 1974 and came 9th in a LH Torana and knows cars like the back of his hand but we dont buy GTR's in Japan that is the job of our buyier.  

If we want a Porsche he can find a good one, I can find a good C5 certain people know their stuff we dont know it all, just going off an auction sheet is risky for high end cars as I will explain below.

Currently I have a RALLIART factory delivered EVO VII RS Spec 2 fully seam welded with only 300 klm's on it sitting in the work shop that came in as a Race Rally, it was to be used as a test car to add to schedule as due to low klm's DOTR's will grant approval to comply under RAWS but we are selling off for $50,000 ready to race.

This is because customers need to spend 2,000,000 to get a good car, easy to damage cars in transit enough to knock back compliance, expensive for stock parts to replace aftermarket bits, how many will we comply, we need to get return from investment without charging $7,500 for compliance, you try and tell somebody he just spent $40,000 plus to have it exported, I can go on for ever but that is enough on the subject.

this is all part of the experience of buying "off the plan"

...something that is coming to an end as far as top shelf cars are concerned ...kind of get sick of seeing on this website ...rip off dealer wants 100k for gtr ..heres 1 on blah blah`s website @68k

of course blah,blah`s is an estimate and still in japan not complied..and they are the same tossers that organised that $80k piece of crap that cannot be complied

so a car complied sitting in a yard price is not really comparable to the "HOPE PLAN" apples to oranges really

this previous damage stuff is what stopped me from doing R32 for raws..did them for 7 years under low volume..my experience that 32`s with no previous chassis rail dents/bends or sill damage is like rocking horse sh*it ..i can see big problems with complying the early stuff as well

[Guest]

I am going to do R32 GTR's but September 1992 onwards but might only do 20 a year,

I know the car yards arent cheap but if you had $90,000 in a car invested took 3 months to get on the road would you sell it for $90,000.

When guys bring in cars them self even to save money do they sell it for what it cost them of for what the market will pay.

The person that pays cash and gets a R34 GTR imported himself isnt the same type of person the goes into a dealer and puts $10,000 plus down on top of what the car cost to bring it in.

Why do people buy EVO VIII's here new when it is just a low spec 5 speed RS and you can land a limited edition, higher spec, 6 speed and more hp one your selfout of Japan cheaper.

It is a big risk bringing in any car your self let alone $100,000+ dollars worth, a 2002 Nur was sold the other day for 7 plus million yen, the buyier could go to 6.6 it is big dollars, it is also why we are becoming a quarentine station to do cars ourself and we can containerise them and not let the wharfies near them (my father in law was one so I know what they do to cars).

The owner of the whole operation will not sell imports and will never sell them, we comply and next door modifies them, and the yard sells one of their 240 new cars (no I dont work for Skippers).

It is a different world and you have to be 100% commited know your cars, buyier and workshop that is all I have to say.

[wrxhoon]

import duty drops to 10% in 2010 dosen't it? not 2005.

10% from january 1 and 5% 2010 .

drift , all the more reason that i dont want to hand over $60 k for a car that i havent seen .

at least if i inspect then i only have myself to blame but i have enough knowledge to know when i see good car . now if they damaged it in transit thats why you take insurance .

as for aftermarket parts , i have a set of wheels to put on it + i can get my hands on a catback exhaust , i also have brambo pads to put on just for compliance if the pads on the car that i buy are worn more than 50% .

i dont blame you for charging $7500 for compiance , good if you can get but i can get it done for $5500 including tyres the normal price here is $6500 but that will come down as more people get plates .

[ricknismo]

how'd did you go?

[wrxhoon]

how'd did you go?

If you are asking me , i bought a gtr late 01 m-spec .

[gtr13]

how'd did you go?

Did you end up finding a local 34 GTR ricknismo? any details on it as iam almost ready to start the import process for one myself.

[funkymonkey]

Nige, what's the details of your RAWS workshop? And have you gotten any of the compliance plates you were saying you were working on? Might have a guy in Perth to send to you.