YouTube Nissan Skyline R33 400R - Nearly 20 years later

[Mook]

Dude is totally spot on about the obsession for the car starting with Gran Turismo

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[pulseczar]

I love R33s. Gran Turismo, heckyes

ot: I hate how F&F gets so much credit for Japanese/sport compact import popularity. Real car people knew all of the cars from that movie before it was even in concept phase.

 

[LoveSpank]

Would sell a ball & a kidney for one great video

 

[IDAFC21]

Awesome video. And now I wanna bust out gran turismo as well.

 

[RedBeard]

Ugh, I want a GTR so bad but just can't justify the price for such an old import.

 

[Intel]

At the old omori factory when I went to Japan. Not my photos as they only allowed one person in our group to bring in a camera. A lot of Rb porn in the album also from the engines NISMO buillds. The cool thing was we were with the head engineer for the R33 and R34. Super quiet guy with a lot of knowledge/insight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozo_Watanabe_(engineer)

400R Profile by Ahmed Rashid, on Flickr

400R Engine by Ahmed Rashid, on Flickr

I love these wheels. Someday I want a set for the Z.
400R Wheel by Ahmed Rashid, on Flickr

Nismo 400R Side by Ahmed Rashid, on Flickr

me staring at what I want someday lol.
IMG_0578 (Copy) by Ahmed Rashid, on Flickr

 

[Primalzer]

Granted it's "just" an R33, but I'd imagine this is what [MENTION=5]Mook[/MENTION] 's nightmares look like...

 

[Intel]

That video is why I laugh at the grey market cars with illegal vin or state registered vins. Just taking a gamble everytime you drive it in public.

 

[Mook]

Yup. I came close so many times to buying a R32 from TN or from FL, etc. But every time I was at the point of settling on a dollar amount, I remembered that if I ever got caught, the car would be destroyed and that killed all interest.

But now you have them legal and the prices have gone from 19k to your door to 27k...its insane.

 

[LoveSpank]

Granted it's "just" an R33, but I'd imagine this is what [MENTION=5]Mook[/MENTION] 's nightmares look like...

 

[cap42]

Granted it's "just" an R33, but I'd imagine this is what [MENTION=5]Mook[/MENTION] 's nightmares look like...

That's just a crying shame to do that to any perfectly good car, they should have at least gave the owner a chance of deporting instead of crushing it.

 

[Shibby50]

I used to hate the look of r33's but they're definitely growing on me.

 

[Mook]

Same

 

[Ear Rak]

R33 > R34

 

[dberz94]

Im still ready to drool over the r32 at the auto show.

Check out http://www.importavehicle.com/
So many things to get excited about.

 

[Mook]

R33 > R34

No

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

Yup. I came close so many times to buying a R32 from TN or from FL, etc. But every time I was at the point of settling on a dollar amount, I remembered that if I ever got caught, the car would be destroyed and that killed all interest.

But now you have them legal and the prices have gone from 19k to your door to 27k...its insane.

I still know a guy, and he's slightly more motivated to sell.....

 

[Mook]

Dave isn't federal legal iirc.

 

[Omicron]

When do r34's become legal to import?

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

Dave isn't federal legal iirc.

He claims you can round about get it federally legal by "importing" it again. I know he wants to get rid of it.

 

[Kaeghl]

I used to work for Insurance Auto Auctions, for about three years. Some of the title trails on cars were epic stories.

I think I heard you can re import by routing it through canada or mexico somehow.

There was this one famous story in the office about a guy that made a replica or something out one those japanese only supercars out of a car that was legal here. Full rebody and everything, imported the parts from a wreck in japan. California didnt believe him and took the car, we got it and were about to sell for export when he finally won something in court.
Seriously, california didnt believe the Vin on the car since the ID's on the rest of the parts didnt match.

 

[Rent Free]

Step #1 Fuck California always and especially if trying to import a car.

Step #2 I heard some shady stories about selling salvage title vehicles to Indians and once they are registered on a reservation they can get rid of a salvage title. So basically sell salvaged vehicle to an Indian then buy it back with a clean title. if that works but so I've heard from a few people in North Dakota and Minnesota. If it does work I'd have to wonder if it would work for imports too.

 

[bnr32]

34 - 32 - 33.

33 is my least favorite, it's a reason why it's nicknamed a boat the car is biggggg. As soon as i'm legally allowed to own an BNR34, i'm doing everything possible to make that happen.

 

[bnr32]

Step #1 Fuck California always and especially if trying to import a car.

Step #2 I heard some shady stories about selling salvage title vehicles to Indians and once they are registered on a reservation they can get rid of a salvage title. So basically sell salvaged vehicle to an Indian then buy it back with a clean title. if that works but so I've heard from a few people in North Dakota and Minnesota. If it does work I'd have to wonder if it would work for imports too.

California isn't hard to import a car to a port, but to make it legalized to drive by updating the emissions to CARB is the pain in the ass. cost around 12-15k on top of the price of the car usually.

 

[bnr32]

Granted it's "just" an R33, but I'd imagine this is what [MENTION=5]Mook[/MENTION] 's nightmares look like...

no GTR no care, it's like watching a 6cylinder mustang getting crushed. no value lost in my eyes!