To Stormeye, Remember that "beautiful" blue vert for sale....

[jrb240]

In early 2007, a thread was posted in the classifieds entitled, "Desperation Sale...first 6k takes it." The car was this beautiful blue JDM 'vert with "nismo" seats and a vertex body kit. Well, it was I who went 9 hours to Detroit, MI to buy the car.

This car was no beauty, in all reality, it was on its way to being absolute junk! After seeing the car in person I got this really really bad feeling in my gut. I had just driven 9 hours to buy a car that was nothing like what was described in the thread. It had many many severe rust spots, the body kit was busted, the interior was trashed all but the seats, the tires were bald, the wheels were damaged, the "harnesses" were like something you would buy at the Dollar Store and had fake nismo pads to cover up the spider stitched into their 1.5" wide seat belt straps. You haven't seen a paint job this horrible. The intercooler was mounted using exhaust hangers, the piping was 2" home-made steel pipe painted rice-tastic blue, the turbo was blown, the exhaust was home made, rusty, and consisted of a poorly stick welded straight pipe with a fart can on the end....This car was ROUGH to say the very least. After a very very long conversation with him and his parents, I purchased the car for 6k and literally cleaned him out of everything he owned 240sx related just to feel like I wasn't getting as badly ripped off, even though I was anyway.

So, I got the car back to Kentucky and began the disassembly. This lead to more disassembly, and more, and more. The deeper and deeper we got into the car the worse it got. Literally every single tiny thing that had been "modified" on the car had been "ninja rigged" for lack of a better word. I might has well of built this car from scratch, and I do mean scratch. The swap had to be redone, the front end had to be taken off and reassembled, I mean, I rebuilt the ENTIRE CAR!! (along with the help of some good friends) One full year after buying the car, I finally got to start it. I personally spent upwards of $7000 on top of purchasing the car to salvage the thing!

Moral of the story, do not buy cars from out of town based on trust in the owner. Do your homework, ask very detailed questions, ask for close-up detailed pictures, and never pay full price for day old pizza, if you know what I mean. Pictures of the car before, during and after will be added soon! It is hardly recognizable!

[Florida240sx]

Glad you saved it.

[krash]

oh man, I feel bad for ya. But its awesome that you stuck in there and fixed it! Glad the car got bought by someone like you instead of another ricer. PICS!

[twistedsymphony]

interesting story... I'm guessing you wanted a JDM vert REALLY bad to not have told the seller to get bent and drive 9 hours back home.

I'm getting ready to drive just 3 hours and I've asked the seller a million questions and had them send me dozens of pictures, and I'm still worried about what I might find.

if you wouldn't mind taking a look at the photos to see if you see something I don't that'd be fantastic: zerothread/341813I'm mostly worried I'll be paying too much since the seller wants top dollar.

I'd really be interested in seeing the before an after photos of your vert...

I'd love to see som

[jrb240]

I will definitely have pictures up soon, I posted couple of things that I saw on your thread as well.

[DeXteR]

AH...

The story we've all been waiting for. I'll save comments until later. I've gotta see the pictures.

Don't worry, no razzing from me about pictures in this thread.

[stormeye]

dang! just to think that i almost used part of the money i got selling my 86 buick GN just to buy that car.it's good though that you are fixing the car in the right way, and not one of those 'mickey mouse' job.thanks for the info and will be looking forward to some pics when they become available!

[jrb240]

I know, I lost my beautiful s14 to get this car. It is almost worth it now that the car is nearing completion. As soon as I get my camera back (tomorrow) you guys check this thread for pics

[twistedsymphony]

wow you gave up an S14 for your vert?

I want to get a vert but I'm not willing to give up my S14 to do it... it's too nice and I went through too much mental anguish to get it.

[jrb240]

I went through much financial anguish with my s14, but a JDM vert? No contest it was too rare of a car to pass up, and even without the SR, a very very cool car. S14's are a dime a dozen, you can count the verts by hand in any town. Don't get me wrong I love all 240's but an s14 for vert (plus a bunch of time and money) is an ok trade in my book. BTW for anyone who has the wrong idea, by JDM I mean it has a Silvia Front end...

[S15nS13vert]

thats why i kept both

[jrb240]

lol, I like the pic. During that time my finances weren't the best, so i sacraficed...

[brizanden]

I went through much financial anguish with my s14, but a JDM vert? No contest it was too rare of a car to pass up, and even without the SR, a very very cool car. S14's are a dime a dozen, you can count the verts by hand in any town. Don't get me wrong I love all 240's but an s14 for vert (plus a bunch of time and money) is an ok trade in my book. BTW for anyone who has the wrong idea, by JDM I mean it has a Silvia Front end...

shoulda got a kouki instead. you can count those on your hand in almost every state.

[jrb240]

Very true, but can you roll topless?

[S13_convert]

BTW for anyone who has the wrong idea, by JDM I mean it has a Silvia Front end...

Wait, wait, wait. So by JDM you DON'T mean a RHD vert with a clamshell top?.....For 6K?.....Hmmm

[Danrc30]

Wait, wait, wait. So by JDM you DON'T mean a RHD vert with a clamshell top?.....For 6K?.....Hmmm

Yikes... I was thinking the same thing. Just figured I'd wait to see pics before commenting... Where are the pics?

[jrb240]

Sorry guys, I had to do some repo's tonight so pics tomorrow. Yeah USDM vert, JDM front for that money....I know...

[Danrc30]

Sorry guys, I had to do some repo's tonight so pics tomorrow. Yeah USDM vert, JDM front for that money....I know...

[jrb240]

sorry guys, this idiot borrowed my camera, and I have yet to get it back...

[Eikon]

sorry guys, this idiot borrowed my camera, and I have yet to get it back...

Fail.

Sounds like it's time to REPO your camera.