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    Get a Skyline View for $20,000!

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    11/23/09

    In reply to Get a Skyline View for $20,000!
    This is not an amazing deal. Nor is this a completely horrible deal. The sellers seem douchey but knowledgeable, the car is straight and well-kept but not entirely accurate.

    The latter point doesn't matter to anyone in their right mind - it looks clean and near-stock, aside from the Watanabes - but it seems to me that only a collector is likely to pay that kind of dough, and... well... they care.

    It's no crack hit, but I can't call it a Nice Price, either.
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    Image of Xelmon Xelmon
    11/23/09

    In reply to Get a Skyline View for $20,000!
    I think the immediate effect on me was "Ehhh, it's a ricer."

    Then I looked at the title again. It IS a total ricer.

    In all honesty, it looks really nice from the outside... However, that is a bit too much for something like that.

    *takes a puff, passes it along*
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    Image of dolo54 blows minds and blows engines! dolo54 blows minds and blows engines!
    11/23/09

    In reply to Get a Skyline View for $20,000!
    It's a really cool car, but just not worth the price.
     Reply
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    Image of Ford Tempo Fanatic Ford Tempo Fanatic
    11/23/09

    In reply to Get a Skyline View for $20,000!
    Crack pipe all the way.

    Now, Dear Graverobber, we need more fins in these NPOCP entries.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    11/23/09

    In reply to Get a Skyline View for $20,000!

    If I want something that looks like an old Peugeot, I'll just get an old Peugeot.
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    Image of snapoversteer 'bout to get told snapoversteer 'bout to get told
    11/23/09

    In reply to Get a Skyline View for $20,000!
    Think of the 510 you could have for this price.
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    Image of long_live_the_E36 long_live_the_E36
    11/23/09

    @snapoversteer 'bout to get told: Is a 510 truly preferable? I'm honestly asking because I know nothing about Datsun/Nissans.
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    snapoversteer 'bout to get told promoted this comment long_live_the_E36 was starred long_live_the_E36 was unstarred
    Image of snapoversteer 'bout to get told snapoversteer 'bout to get told
    11/23/09

    @long_live_the_E36: 510 vs. Skyline? Hell no. But since this isn't a Skyline, I'd rather put $20K into having a very nice, updated 510 with lots of go fast bits.

    #tips
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    Image of Sheed's Bald Spot Sheed's Bald Spot
    11/23/09

    @snapoversteer 'bout to get told: It's a Skyline, just not a GT-R. All Skyline GT-R models were just sporting versions of the regular old Skyline coupes and sedans, which is a major reason Nissan dropped the "Skyline" moniker for the current, unique-chassis GT-R. Also, the gap in performance between a Skyline GT-X or GT-S and the GT-R didn't widen considerably until the R32 models came out in the late '80s, which makes me support a tentative Nice Price on this ride.

    Still, for $20K, I agree with you. I'd rather spend $15 grand building a 13B-powered 510 and hold on to the other $5K for the inevitably large amounts of whiskey and psychiatric care that such a build requires.
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    Image of snapoversteer 'bout to get told snapoversteer 'bout to get told
    11/23/09

    @Sheed's Bald Spot: 13B? You are a brave man.

    #tips
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    Image of Sheed's Bald Spot Sheed's Bald Spot
    11/23/09

    @snapoversteer 'bout to get told: Some people drink themselves into the gutter, some folks get into fights for fun, others listen to N*Sync 24 hours a day. There are plenty of forms of masochism out there, but I consider myself lucky that mine has manifested as an obsession with hellish Frankenstein death projects involving obscure, technologically nonsensical and completely unreliable Japanese iron.
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    Image of bmoreDLJ bmoreDLJ
    11/23/09

    In reply to Get a Skyline View for $20,000!
    I like the point about leaning over for the drive-thru...but isn't this car narrower than the driver's seat of the average modern crossover?
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    Image of Sloop_John_B Sloop_John_B
    11/23/09

    In reply to Get a Skyline View for $20,000!
    For quite a few grand more, this could be an EPIC project. Congrats Graverobber, in the last few weeks you have elicted truly emotional response from me. These cars are awesomely beautiful, but tragically overpriced. In the realm of 13-15k, this car is begging for an engine swap.

    Alas, I painfully press the crack pipe button.
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    Image of HurtsSoGood HurtsSoGood
    11/23/09

    In reply to Get a Skyline View for $20,000!
    OK, so it's not perfect, and any brand new Toyota Corolla will beat it both at the track and your pocketbook, not have a single spot of rust on it, and have that satisfying new car smell to boot.

    Unless you're a really, really, really big fan of ancient Japanese steel, pass the pipe.
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    Image of HoonThatFerrari HoonThatFerrari
    11/23/09

    In reply to Get a Skyline View for $20,000!
    It's pretty cool, and very clean in some respects... but I could only see this being a $20k car if it were all-original, in concours-ready condition. Gonna have to vote Crackpipe.
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    Edited by HoonThatFerrari at 11/23/09 8:46 AM HoonThatFerrari was starred HoonThatFerrari was unstarred
    Image of that ain't the way to have fun, son that ain't the way to have fun, son
    11/23/09

    In reply to Get a Skyline View for $20,000!
    RHD is easy to adapt to drive-thru lanes in LHD world, and it requires no mods, whatsoever.

    Use reverse.
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    Image of Tiberiuswise is all ate up with sarcasm Tiberiuswise is all ate up with sarcasm
    11/23/09

    @that ain't the way to have fun, son:
    I got yelled at for that. They wouldn't take my order and threatened to call the cops. For the record, I was like 32 at the time and did it because my wife (at the time) couldn't make up her mind. I figured that way she could confuse the guy herself and I needn't get involved.
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    Image of that ain't the way to have fun, son that ain't the way to have fun, son
    11/23/09

    @Tiberiuswise is all ate up with sarcasm: Threatened to call the cops.

    That's hilarious.

    I can hear the 9-1-1 call, now.

    "911, what's your emergency?"
    "Um, yeah, I work at the fast-food joint and a guy backed through the drive-thru..."
    "Again, what's your emergency?"
    "Well, this guy backed through the drive-thru..."
     Reply
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    Image of tonyola tonyola
    11/23/09

    In reply to Get a Skyline View for $20,000!

    Too much money for an inauthentic and none too attractive show-not-go coupe. For $10k, it would be an interesting curio. There were better looking Nissan/Datsun coupes even in 1970 (not the least, of course, being the 240Z). For instance, there was the Laurel 2-door hardtop, which looked like an enlarged and sleeked-out 510. Much better looking than this Skyline which looks more like 1964 than 1970.
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    Edited by tonyola at 11/23/09 8:24 AM tonyola was starred tonyola was unstarred
    Image of Paul Y. don't drive too fast. Paul Y. don't drive too fast.
    11/23/09

    In reply to Get a Skyline View for $20,000!
    I think at half that price, with all pretense of GT-Rness removed, it might be an ok deal.

    ...if the seller gets that rust taken care of.
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    Image of Rust-MyEnemy Rust-MyEnemy
    11/23/09

    In reply to Get a Skyline View for $20,000!
    As Prince once sang: All that glitters ain't gold.As Prince Motor company once built; All that glitters ain't gold here neither.

    As much as a pretty-authentic-if-you-don't-look-too-close, replica of a car nobody in the UK knows anything about anyway appeals to me, which it does, a lot, and for sheer rarity value, i'd be tempted to go Nice Price.However, I can't grasp the concept of swapping twenty thousand of my dollars for it. Crackety pipety.
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    Edited by Rust-MyEnemy at 11/23/09 8:17 AM Rust-MyEnemy was starred Rust-MyEnemy was unstarred
    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    11/23/09

    In reply to Get a Skyline View for $20,000!
    Oh, man this is an easy one.

    Pushing 40 years old, a pretender to a performance spec that it doesn't actually achieve, right-hand-drive so my ambidextrous spouse can more easily smash it into things, and just to make sure it's completely RCH (restomod car hell), it's JDM! "You want parts for a what? From when?"

    For $20,000? No possible way.

    Can I vote Crack Pipe again?
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    Edited by Elhigh at 11/23/09 8:14 AM Elhigh was starred Elhigh was unstarred
    Image of Paul Y. don't drive too fast. Paul Y. don't drive too fast.
    11/23/09

    @Elhigh: Thanks to some weirdness in IE on my work machine, I can vote every time I view this page. I normally don't do so, but it's funny that I can.

    I'll vote Crack Pipe again for you.
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    Image of Sloop_John_B Sloop_John_B
    11/23/09

    @Elhigh: Yes, but the looks of this car at least makes hitting the button painful, doesn't it? I love the look of these cars. God, it's just so RIGHT!
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    11/23/09

    @Sloop_John_B: No denyin' it looks fantastic. If I could have it, I'd drive it. But I'm not laying down any amount of money followed by four zeros for a car. No way. Especially not one that is almost the same age as me - stuff starts getting that old, it don't work so good. Gets slow. Creaky. Hard to fire up in the morning.

    I might be projecting, there. But still.

    #tips
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