check out what my best friend's brother just bought
http://www.kaizousha.com/index3.php?p=1

 

cant read jap dude

 

my bad...go to page 12...4th car down..


also a friend of mine back home has the first one on page 12....but it is no longer maroon he it painted TOP SECTRET GOLD

 

thats hot, i want!

 

how much is 1,000,000 yen in dollars?

 

About $10Gs...

 

actually about 8500

 

Actually $9165.48 at today's rate. Either way it's short money for that car. Too bad the shipping and conversion on it puts it out of reach...

 

isnt' it like 80Gs after shipping and convering a R34?

 

well that would depend on where you lived....back home i see those cars all the time....there is no need to do any converting or anything like that...the shipping is also like $2000..

back home they have
imprezas, evos, silvias, pulsars, skylines, fto's, gto's,
pretty much all the jdm cars you can think of

 

Where is back home for you? I know Motorex in Cali charges close to 100G's for an R34. They have to convert to meet emissions and regs. Do you know how much it'd be to get an R34 to FL?

 

it would cost about the same to get it here to florida...
i am originally from the Cayman Islands...but i live in Tampa Florida

 

dude why would you reg that car, i would only drive it for a meet or to race it, it looks too nice

so whats going to be the overall hole in your pocket for this car?

d98clturbo: do you have more pics of the first skyline on pg 12 that your friend has? i would kill to see that car in person, it looks sweet

 

For those too lazy to "click". :P

 

If shipping's only 2k on top of 10k for the car, hell I'd buy one, screw the emissions

 

wow.. such a sexy car...

 

if it were really only 10g's plus 2g's for shipping i'd really look into it, but I aint gonna pay several thousands to have it converted. does anyone know if it is really that expensive to have it converted?

 

what does "converting" involve?

 

i think it involves things like : door handles, emission stuff.. and i cant think of anymore.. lol.. they pretty much make the car safe to drive in the US.

 

if its ok to drive in japan its ok to drive here

i would love a right hand drive r33 gt-r or a brand new gt-r skyline like the one on the last or one of the last pages for like almost 4 mil yen

 

damn i wish those cars were more affordable. I would buy an R34 so hard:P

 

tell him to have fun getting it legalized to drive on the street

 

the car is in the cayman islands....there is no need to do any conversion...all of the cars there are from japan

 

think again

 

skyline =

 

i like the skylines, but if someone offered me a sylvia with the skyline's specs I would take it over the skyline in a snap.

 

maybe i should say it differently....the car is not coming to the states....it is in the cayman islands, it will be staying there....that is where i am from and that is where my best friends brother lives

 

explains the situation better

 

Now dont go off getting an attitude:P

 

who me?.....nah cuuuuzzzz, im straight. no attitutde here

 

As CL Power stated getting it legalized to drive on the street is the hard and expensive part. Thats where the converting comes from through Motorex. Cali has the strictest emission laws; Originaly from CA.

 

Why was the Skyline never sold in the States?

 

good luck trying to title a JDM car in US even putting it as kit car becomes difficutl

 

i used to live in nassau, bahamas. i could've gotten a car just like how he did. but a) the roads are pretty fucked up and small to drive a supersports car b) i totally don't feel comfortable buying a car from japan w/o me looking and test driving it 1st.

but it can be done.

i think in the cayman islands, they drive on the left side too, right?

 

well the right side is no big deal here cause you see mail trucks are that way and other things, i think its mainlly emissions

 

yes we drive on the left too

 

well actually, it's not that hard to get the avg honda imported over here. Skyline is difficult for insurance reasons and you can't simply swap vin #'s.


You can just get the vins off a domestic honda and swap them onto a JDM car and be fine. And nowadays it's getting even easier. The skyline is a difficult one along w/ JDM supra's, etc.

 

and actually, you can now import anything relatively easily under the new show display and race importations. But you are limted to around 2,000 miles a year.