Buying in Japan

[sparrow971]

Hey guys i may be moving to japan in a couple of years so I was wondering how easy it would be to find a skyline r34 and how much they go for around there.Thank You!

[slowkid]

not hard, just have to have the money. as for the prices i dont know, i can never figure out the price tags they have on the cars. i bought my 91 gts-t for $2000, and i've seen r32 gtrs for $6-8k r33 for $12-20k, so im guessing the r34 is still up there in price

[Biggamehit]

Ill be up front with you... the struggle for parts is really not that much different than the states. you will pay to play.

yes parts may be more avalible in some places, but you will pay. my buddy here just paid about 25-27k for his R34 GT-R.

while i paid 4k for my ECR33

very very good shape... but it was never ment to be a show car, i drift it weekly

[slowkid]

off topic but, Biggamehit do you know a a1c Ouch? hes one of my best friends and is stationed up there. he told me he picked up a white r32 gtr with mismatch rims and carbon hood before he deployed.

[Biggamehit]

i have seen the car it was parked across from mine..... it sold for way to freaking much with the damage and issues it had. I knew every car history before buying because all of my guys there knew all of the owners.

A GT-R in better shape than his is selling for 2k right now. Sometimes you just get a break lol.

i don't know him though.
Modified by Biggamehit at 6:08 AM 12/19/2008

[slowkid]

yea he told me he paid like something like 6k for it. but i guess at the time he really wanted a gtr and that was the only one around i guess. sucks that most of the money hes saving on his deployment is gonna be dumped on that car

[Biggamehit]

na it was the only one on base for sale............... it sucks when people come here and don't know anyone... I knew all of my guys about a year or so before i came here.

the car was listed for 8k

[themadscientist]

Misawa? I hope it came with a snowshovel!

[Biggamehit]

hahah funny you say that.... im a vehicle operator... so my winter duty is to pull people out of ditches lol.

i just bought a snowboard to fill my time in between drifting lol.

[themadscientist]

I remember bs-in with a guy from Misawa while we were waiting for the C5 to get fixed, for the fifth time, so we could MAC out ot Yakota; He said sometimes the gate disappears in the snow. screw that!

[Biggamehit]

yea i screwing hate winter with a passion.

[themadscientist]

I am wearing a short sleeve shirt with my office door wide open. Okinawa is so cold, it must be 60 degrees in the shade, buurrrrr!

[slowkid]

holy crap, does it get that bad with the snow in japan? im from seattle so im used to driving lowered cars in the snow and what not, but this suspension setup i just installed is slammed, and if its as bad as you guys say, my suspension+my ****ty tires=winter fail

[themadscientist]

Where he is it does. Misawa is at the top right of the main islnnd, below Hokkaido. To the right of Aomori in Hachinohe I believe. I am down at the bottom in Okinawa. He can throw a rock and hit russia, I can go fishing for phillipine bar girls.

[Biggamehit]

hHHHAHAHH spot on lol

yea im from MD and we got big globs of snow.. so its not new to me. they make us use snow tires :/

[themadscientist]

Northern Virginia over here. Your cops are bungholes, dam! I always started to pucker up when I crossed the woodrow wilson bridge. speed checked by airplane, Can Maryland people drive well in the snow? I know you have seen proof my fellow Virginians seem incapable of pulling it off. My favorite part of winter, the 1 mph panic stop domino pileups at stop signs.

[Biggamehit]

lol........... the last time i drove in snow in MD.... i seriously drove around about 5-6 spun out vehicles with my 240 on 95 south

-welded diff-2inches from the ground-plowing snow lol-Falken RT-615's -driving in tracks left by others

ps

dude your cops are the ones that worry me. i never have any issue with the state troopers in MD lol........well except that one time that i got a $287 ticket lol.

[themadscientist]

VA cops really hate Florida cars. We get the drugs running up 95 from Florida to New York so they profile the hell out of them.

[g0ku]

I was over last summer and saw quite a few for sale, but they were a little out of my price range 30k and up. I ended up buying a lude.

[Boostedvette1]

Hey themadscientist I will be arriving at kadena the February 9 can you keep a look out for good deals for me. It would be greatly appreciated.

[themadscientist]

The Kadena lemon lot is full of cars at pumped up prices. Haggle Watch this site for out in town cars.http://db.datanext.co.jp/4DCGI...&AC=T

Some of the interesting ones.Nice R31, it is tempting.http://db.datanext.co.jp/4DCGI...0-001

Couple of R32 GT-Rshttp://db.datanext.co.jp/4DCGI...0-003http://db.datanext.co.jp/4DCGI...7-501http://db.datanext.co.jp/4DCGI...0-502http://db.datanext.co.jp/4DCGI...0-036

Stay away from this car, I looked at it. The trunk was full of water and it has been there for several months.http://db.datanext.co.jp/4DCGI...0-002

This place royally screwed a guy I know, avoid them like a hooker with cold sores.http://db.datanext.co.jp/4DCGI...8-501h ... GI...7-502

Hikari-san is a nice guy, I have bought a lot of second hand parts from him, never a car though. He has several very fast cars that do well at the drag meets and he does decent work for Americans.http://db.datanext.co.jp/4DCGI...0-501

[Boostedvette1]

Thank for all the help themadscientist I really want a R32 R33 gtr.
Modified by Boostedvette1 at 8:43 AM 12/29/2008

[themadscientist]

You can get a reasonably clean one for around 11K, the yen rate sucks right now.

[Boostedvette1]

Hey themadscientist do you know anything about this car http://www.goo-net.com/cgi-bin...earch

[themadscientist]

Hikari's again, I would trust him.

[sicwitit]

anyone else here from Yokota? I just got here a couple months ago and am just trying to connect faces with screen names?

JT

[themadscientist]

There is a guy with Yakota in his screen name. Finding him here is kind of like attracting wanderers in Tokyo Extreme Racer. Post a picture of a 240 on stock suspension with skinny 16 inch rims and he will come out of the woodwork and rant about the holy flushness.

He is an *** online but I am told nice in person. If you see a real nice manual StageA wagon on base that is probably him.

[Gold Digger]

Actually, Grant has gotten rid of the Stagea. He is running around base in a early to mid 90's Legacy wagon, yellow, slammed and about to get Lambo doors on it.

Or, look for an Olive green 4 door Jeep Wrangler with Volk TE37s on it...that's Grant.

[themadscientist]

I am going to make so much fun of him. First he goes Scoobie then sinks lower with scissor doors?

[sicwitit]

I've seen the Jeep with the Volks, I havn't seen Grant yet though. basically I just want to know where people meet or go to race. I'm more interested in road coarse type races, but anything is better then nothing.

I've seen the legacy too, I got to admit its clean, I've never owned a subi before and have never really been attracted to them either until the 04-06 STI came out in the states. Now I'm considering getting one just because they are very inexpensive here, I've found a 98 STi for right at 3K. I think I'll make it my track car.
Modified by sicwitit at 5:12 PM 1/2/2009