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New engine bay frame / chassis rails will be ready in around 4 weeks - pm me to reserve your pair. Made from Lazer cut & CNC folded 1.2mm Zincseal, with Sway Bar & tow mounts installed. One pair: $660 incl GST and postage to anywhere in eastern Australia.

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Ryan I watched this video a few days ago and felt your concerns. Keep you head up mate. Get the car stripped, then tackle one section at a time. It’s not going to be a short or easy journey but it’s all doable. It will be very gratifying when it’s all finished. Jeff

For comparison. The ones with the tyres are narrow. The one without is "wide".

Well, some of that 'discussion' made for heavy reading. The word unscrupulous comes to mind. Others may just jump in and take advantage of the price. Jeff

Rare early series 1 model Datsun 240z $20,500 Wollongong "Project . Car is sand blasted and primer ready for repair. Good points:- there’s nothing hidden all repair points are exposed. Early car one of the first 550 built. Enough parts for 2 Cars with all the rare parts there will also include a rotisserie. Perfect dash and console. All Matt’s carpets and Vinyl in food conditions. 4 seats , 4 doors, Heaps of photos available and happy to answer all questions. Please ring rather than message" Gumtree Z 12 Oct 2020.webp

And that's not even the worst of it. The more the car was taken apart, the more it revealed. And this was what was being described as "immaculate" by the importer. Much of it was rectified and/or mitigated, but it's still half made out of other cars. Apparently it won a prize at ZCON in the USA a couple of weeks ago....

Thing is, I can understand the relative rarity of nice R34 GT-Rs helping to drive prices up (with what, something like 12,000 or less built and very few having escaped radical modification and abuse?) along with it perhaps being seen as one of the *the* Skyline GT-R high points, but these BaT guys are bidding against each other on cars that seem to keep popping out of the woodwork almost every week. There must be a finite supply of 'early' HLS30Us, but there certainly seem to be plenty of them coming to the BaT auctions and a lot of them appear to be being sold by dealers and flippers. There must be quite a few such cars that are being sold off in probate sales or by owners who are just too old to use them anymore, and *that* is where you want to be buying. Taking pride in paying the most for something amongst fellow collectors seems to be more about ego than true love and appreciation for the cars. And anyway, I think the whole BaT thing is weird. Who wants to be bidding in an auction where anonymous comments are encouraged, but often vetted or edited by admin while the auction is live? It opens the whole format up for abuse and/or manipulation. All rather odd.

Probably will, but I have to say that this BaT phenomenon of high-selling S30s (and it is almost exclusively HLS30Us) seems to be fuelled by a small coterie of self-styled 'Collectors' who are trying to out-Billy-Big-Balls each other. The same few characters seem to be active on almost every auction of similar cars, and when they've rinised the arse out of that particular scene they will probably move onto the next 'up and coming' marque and model. The guy who bumped the bids up by 85k USD in one shot is the same guy who bought the 918 Orange 432 that was recently put back together and sold here in the UK, and which - when it was imported from Japan in a case of the blind leading the blind - was made out of large sections of RLS30 stuck together with expanding foam. Back half of the car is about four years younger than the LH front of the car, and three years younger than the RH front. But apparently the new owner is a "renowned collector and marque expert". LOL. Which is an object lesson on what happens when markets get a little overheated, people who don't know what they are looking at get advised by people who don't know what they are looking at, and the whole shebang is egged on by people who don't even care. These are the same people who shout "Get in the hole!" at professional golf tournaments.

Another worth watching.. https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1971-datsun-240z-160/ Wil it crack $200k USD? Thats all dattos are cheap little inexpensive mass produced cars and its all they ever will be they are nothing special although people on this forum act as though they are gold lol. - Hayden.

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