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I got to drive my uncle’s 2015 Nissan GTR today… All I can say is wow! There is nothing that describes the feeling of launching a car like that. Around 600 hp with no traction loss
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It’s certainly an impressive machine! Coincidentally, I JUST saw the first GT-R I’ve seen in YEARS yesterday evening. One subtle detail that I absolutely love, the blinker, I love how it’s inset into the taillight ring.
My best and I use to have 05 Subaru STI completely done up for auto cross and track. We really regret sell it. That Skyline is amazing car.
This is the only one I ever saw in person. There aren’t many cars like this in my area
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Those GTRs are definitely quick. I’m not much on them though. I never got into the Japanese soorts cars much.
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That’s it beside the CTS-V he had before it. That car was crazy, he had it tuned to 590 at the rear wheels. I refused to drive it, rwd with that much power is scary. Driving someone else’s car that is.
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This is a few of my other uncle’s collection. He collects cars and would never let me drive them…
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Dano123 wrote:
1 minute ago, Dano123 said:This is the only one I ever saw in person. There aren’t many cars like this in my area
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Just one of the advantages of living in a pretty large city, especially one with three pro sports teams. I see about one supercar a week…never get to drive them though! Best I’ve ever driven was a V8 R8, not as fast as the GT-R! I was super excited about the GT-R coming out because in JH and HS I used to play the Gran Turismo games and those R34s were just soo sexy and beastly. I think I recall there being a GT-R in the game years before the concept was unveiled.
Geez! And a CTS-V? Another monster of a car.
That’s some sexy Mopar too!
What’s the red car in the first pic? Looks like a 69 Camaro
I liked the cts v better. The gtr is very small inside. I live in a city with about 22k people and there aren’t many nice cars here.
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I remember that game on ps1. I was just getting out of games then so I didn’t play it too much
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This was my favorite car of the 38 I have owned. 1967 Buick Wildcat with hydraulics. It was so much fun
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BMack37 wrote:
That’s some sexy Mopar too!
What’s the red car in the first pic? Looks like a 69 Camaro
It is a 69 Camaro. The green one is a Hell cat and the blue is an srt8. The purple one is old with a 440. He has around 30 cars and I haven’t seen them in person yet. He lives 2.5hrs away.
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Buick Wildcat on hydraulics before! I like the solid color, I appreciate the talent it takes to do the artwork on the Cali lowriders but I just don’t care for it.
That car was so much fun. I had it in 2001 when I was 19. I would love to find another one to build someday. It was a sedan and I had the rear door handles saved and I removed the side trim. If I had it to do over again I wouldn’t have done either
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Dano123 wrote:
17 minutes ago, Dano123 said:That car was so much fun. I had it in 2001 when I was 19. I would love to find another one to build someday. It was a sedan and I had the rear door handles saved and I removed the side trim. If I had it to do over again I wouldn’t have done either
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I think I agree with the trim but I really like the shaved rear door handle. It makes it look like a 2-door but it’s realllly long.
Nice mopar collection.
I liked the looks, but I didn’t put poppers in so I could only open them from inside and it was a pain.
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Loving the car pics crew!!
BMack37 wrote:
11 hours ago, BMack37 said:It’s certainly an impressive machine! Coincidentally, I JUST saw the first GT-R I’ve seen in YEARS yesterday evening. One subtle detail that I absolutely love, the blinker, I love how it’s inset into the taillight ring.
Thats funny I was behind a GTR coming home from work yesterday!
And here I am waiting for the 2018 civic type r like a fool.
Those are nice! The same uncle with the gtr had a 99 civic si with a turbo and a 2001 Integra type R turbo. I got to drive the civic, but not then Integra. I want a WRX next. I want a hatch though so I may have to find an older one.
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For sure. I just use my car to haul stuff and I don’t think I could do a sedan. I went from a 2500 suburban down to a 2012 impreza hatch 1.5 yrs ago and I am still getting used to not having the room to haul things.
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The mpg’s are nice though!
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Back before the housing crash, when I had some money to play with, this was what my garage looked like:
The ones on the floor are model year 2001… Sadly only the one on the left remains.
Guess what is under the red cover and I will post a picture of it…
Porsche 928?
nope… hint, it’s not a Porsche…
Ferrari
My guess is some variation of the Ferrari 348
Close… one model number off. It’s an F355.
As much fun as this car was to drive, I have to say that buying it was one of the biggest mistakes I ever made. It was deserving of the moniker “Money Pit”. Bought it used, and three days later the AC failed, costing me a bit over three thousand in parts alone. I can highly recommend that you never buy one of these if you want anything other than a garage queen. Even then it will bleed you dry.
Damn it, I wanted another guess. My actual first guess was going to be a Ferrari but I went with Porsche because of the others…I wouldn’t have gotten the 355 though, I was thinking 308 initially but competitiveness aside….
That 355 is beautiful, shame yours had issues. I think either the 355 or 360 had an issue with the plastic, it would become a sticky goo over time. It was soo common that there are easy to find aftermarket replacements for those pieces, which is terribly uncommon for Ferrari parts. You have great taste in cars despite the issues with the Ferrari.
Yes, the 355 had the issues with the clear rubberized coating on all of the control knobs turning to goo. The simple fix for it was to wash them all off with a cleaning agent like orange clean, but there were some items that you had to be careful with due to complexity or location, and just leave alone (air vents).
One of the main issues of owning the car turned out to be the expense of specialty tooling required to work on it. I prefer to work on my own vehicles and have stripped Porsches down to the frame, and also rebuilt a few as well. This one made me cringe a bit when it came to working on it, and I spent way too much time detailing it and attempting to find fluid leaks on the undercarriage. Changing the serpentine belt on a major service schedule required removal of the engine from the vehicle. Cost for someone else to perform that major service was astounding, to say the least. Cost of purchasing specialty tools needed to do engine work on it simply boggled the mind. Parts that failed were always special order and weeks away from delivery. And the list of issues just climbed from there.
Overall, the car was awesome fun to drive, but a nightmare in all other regards. Also, above 140 mph the car would require extreme concentration as it would get a wee bit squirrelly, where the Porsche Turbo was rock solid stable cruising at 155 mph and caused very little mental stress at that speed. The Porsche Boxster on the other hand doesn’t have the power to get over 120 mph, but as an everyday driver is awesome fun and much less expensive to drive and service than the others.
JMG wrote:
54 minutes ago, JMG said:Yes, the 355 had the issues with the clear rubberized coating on all of the control knobs turning to goo. The simple fix for it was to wash them all off with a cleaning agent like orange clean, but there were some items that you had to be careful with due to complexity or location, and just leave alone (air vents).
One of the main issues of owning the car turned out to be the expense of specialty tooling required to work on it. I prefer to work on my own vehicles and have stripped Porsches down to the frame, and also rebuilt a few as well. This one made me cringe a bit when it came to working on it, and I spent way too much time detailing it and attempting to find fluid leaks on the undercarriage. Changing the serpentine belt on a major service schedule required removal of the engine from the vehicle. Cost for someone else to perform that major service was astounding, to say the least. Cost of purchasing specialty tools needed to do engine work on it simply boggled the mind. Parts that failed were always special order and weeks away from delivery. And the list of issues just climbed from there.
Overall, the car was awesome fun to drive, but a nightmare in all other regards. Also, above 140 mph the car would require extreme concentration as it would get a wee bit squirrelly, where the Porsche Turbo was rock solid stable cruising at 155 mph and caused very little mental stress at that speed. The Porsche Boxster on the other hand doesn’t have the power to get over 120 mph, but as an everyday driver is awesome fun and much less expensive to drive and service than the others.
It’s crazy how stuff that you think would be have more downforce actually don’t, my friend had an E36 BMW tuned up and that car was rock steady at 150mph. I loved driving that car, it was soo damn stable and turned on a dime. The Italians seem to put everything into their styling department but the Germans are much better engineers. Though it seems the Italians are catching up since the 1990s, I think F1 has a lot to do with that.
I’ve picked up a few toys over the years.
Here’s the yellow one that’s probably the most fun to drive.
