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.
@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.
@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.
@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.
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.
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.
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.
@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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"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..."
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.
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.
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?"
@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.
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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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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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Now, Dear Graverobber, we need more fins in these NPOCP entries.
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If I want something that looks like an old Peugeot, I'll just get an old Peugeot.
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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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Alas, I painfully press the crack pipe button.
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Unless you're a really, really, really big fan of ancient Japanese steel, pass the pipe.
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Use reverse.
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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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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..."
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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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...if the seller gets that rust taken care of.
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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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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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I'll vote Crack Pipe again for you.
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I might be projecting, there. But still.
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