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building another vl

Started by [.nugget.] vbmenu_register("postmenu_868383", true); · 23 Feb 2006 · 124 replies

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Quote: Originally Posted by Sinister save the dreaming until the money actually arrives WERD Some original photos have not been recovered yet.
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if you wont we could work some sort of payment plan out like they do with the semarlians... you could sponsor me and i send you a few pics every now and then to show the progress kinda like what they do over their keep sending you pix of them getting healthyer and healthyer. lol i am serious man i give you my bank details and after the first monthly pay ment you will recive a photo of your new car...
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Quote: Originally Posted by DeVL wat u should bo it buy a vlct an put the compleet gtr drive line in the vl but keep the rb30 mmmmm....... awd rb30et that would be mad Good idea if you've got a spare 100k lying around to sink into it...
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Quote: Originally Posted by DUZ10S just buy mine hehe I reckon that's a damn good idea... Brad sell the skyline and buy DUZ10S and you've got a proven 10 second car with an immaculate paint job, clean S2 interior, and damn good rims... If I had 26k it would already be mine...
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i think if we all had 25k for it we would all have it or something exactly like it.. its a awesome idea if your going alone them lines which it seems you are going to be, good paint/engine/body/interior package..
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yep definatley buy somethin that some1 has already done...
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good to hear ya gonna get another vl Brad, GTR's are cool but vl's rock!
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its funny how much attention vl`s get isn`t it?
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there is a manual VLCT for sale at car sales with a 35/40, 22K i think he wants look good. Buying one already done will be a hell of a lot cheaper too.
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Quote: Originally Posted by holdonv8 its funny how much attention vl`s get isn`t it? especially when there is a spool of the turbo followed by tutututut.... gotta love that sound.
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i think the whole idea is boys he wants to build a car from nothing, rather than buying someone else's.... and the way i see it, if you have the money, time and patience for it then why not
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because its silly. building cars is silly. most the people who are telling him to buy a finished car are the ones that have built cars already for themselves ie. me. take note of that
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Why spend 40 or 50k to be 'different' and build your own? I've never built a 10sec car but I'm sure it don't come cheap... If you want to go that fast just spend 20-30k on something already well done and you can do numerous small things to make it yours and 'different'... Saves approx. 20k and a lot of fucking around...
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Quote: Originally Posted by DUZ10S just buy mine hehe Money well spent if he did ! Some original photos have not been recovered yet.
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He's got a gtr, hes had the satisfaction of of just buying a nice fast car. Now he want to have the satisfaction of building his own car from scratch, taking it for the 1st drive its ever had with 14psi pumping into it, thats satisfaction i could never go past.
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Yea, its true, building a 10second car is not cheap and very frustrating. But spending all that time and individually pieceing it back together, with all the gun parts and a spankers paintjob, is very satisfying. And that first time it see's daylight and you hear the 10 second engine run is a feeling that is hard to beat, and it gets even better when you drive it...
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damn straight ^^^^ plus you don`t have someone saying i built that car ..
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yeah you do. A mechanic, a spraypainter, a panelbeater, a interior trimmer the list goes on. You get the satisfaction of saying im stupid and through 20 -30k at a 80's commodore.
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Quote: Originally Posted by SilvaWags yeah you do. A mechanic, a spraypainter, a panelbeater, a interior trimmer the list goes on. You get the satisfaction of saying im stupid and through 20 -30k at a 80's commodore. But an 80's commodore thats on a different league to your ****box 80's commodore. That 80's commo your talking about is a classic in my books, the vl turbs are getting rarer everyday as the newer high tech crap comes out and pushes our 80's cars further away Some original photos have not been recovered yet.
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Quote: Originally Posted by SilvaWags You get the satisfaction of saying im stupid and through 20 -30k at a 80's commodore. And the rest, thats just on the engine Some original photos have not been recovered yet.
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