The purchase.

August 2009
I came into the car market with a fairly biased opinion. I wanted 2 door. I wanted Nissan. I wanted manual and by god did i want turbo. I was budgeting around the $15,000 dollar mark.
My brother had the s13 market sewn up (check his blog, link at the right, hes up to his third!), i didnt want an s14, maybe an s14a and i couldnt afford an s15. I wanted a Skyline. Always been a fan and I thought id have an R32 as my first import. By the time came around for me to buy a Skyline i could afford the newer R33 but not an R34.
For initial and ongoing costs a GTR was out of the question. So the hunt began for an R33 GTS-T in my price range that had been modified to my taste. After looking at lots of ads i remembered one that had been for sale a month or two earlier when my friend got me to find him an R33 to buy. When I was looking on his behalf i found two cars i really liked. He bought one, and as it turns out, i bought the other.

This is the photo i fell in love with from the original ad. (As i type this i just had a "wow it looks so different" moment) The car seemed to be fit all my criteria. The bodywork and paint was mint, the only exterior modification was the 18x8 Lenso DC-6 wheels and it had a solid list of well thought out modifications.

This car was the first car i test drove. I loved it. I wanted to take it home right then and there. I immediately thought to myself that i should settle down, that i was getting carried away with the excitement. I looked through more ads, I made phone calls to owners that were thouroughly unimpressive with their knowledge of their own car and my short list never made it past one car. I test drove it again and to quote Jack Nicholson thought; "What if this is as good as it gets?"

On the 12th of September 2009 i took the keys from a very reluctant seller and the car i always wanted was now mine. Suffice to say that felt pretty damn good. Still does.

SW