Calif seizes Nissan GTR's - Page 2

PurpleVenom · #1 (**permalink**) 10-02-2009, 09:02 AM

Saw a black one of these after a baseball game in St. Louis parked in the players lot. I didn't think these were available here. very cool looking car though.

Excaliber · #2 (**permalink**) 10-01-2009, 06:10 PM

OH, I see what you mean! We have some Skylines here in Hawaii and I'm pretty sure their illegal, but they sport current plates.

A mid 90's R is cheap compared to the new ones. You can pick up a used one for about 40 to 50K, only 10 years old too!

elmariachi · #3 (**permalink**) 10-01-2009, 06:11 PM

Here is a new one in the paddock at Texas World Speedway this past weekend. It may have just been the driver, but it did not "appear" to be much of a contender with other cars running against it. Had some purty gold brake calipers though.

Excaliber · #4 (**permalink**) 10-01-2009, 06:18 PM

Probably was the driver, heck even the older versions were killer fast with great handling. The new ones just kick it up a notch.

rustyBob · #5 (**permalink**) 10-01-2009, 07:12 PM

Shuting down the SB-100 would be a bad thing,everybody would probably have to make there Cobras smog compliant......

*13* · #6 (**permalink**) 10-01-2009, 07:19 PM

It has it's good points, but it's kind of like a concentration camp for special interest cars. At least "up" the number applicants per year.... How much are we really adding to the Smog problem?

lovehamr · #7 (**permalink**) 10-01-2009, 07:25 PM

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Originally Posted by rustyBob

Shuting down the SB-100 would be a bad thing,everybody in Mexifornia would probably have to make there Cobras smog compliant......

There, fixed it for you.

Steve

*13* · #8 (**permalink**) 10-01-2009, 07:26 PM

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Originally Posted by lovehamr

There, fixed it for you.

Steve

It's about time!

Excaliber · #9 (**permalink**) 10-01-2009, 07:36 PM

I don't even live in California, I mean Mexifornia, but I follow the market there closely. What happens there has an impact, one way or the other, on most of the replica industry. From manufacturing to the sale of used cars. It's to big and to significant to be taken lightly.

Dangerous Doug · #10 (**permalink**) 10-01-2009, 08:53 PM

Hhmm, oh, sure, make fun of California (which has an annual gross product of over $2T and is about 15% of the US GNP...and is ranked in the top 10 economies of the world--- peered only by nations in that respect).

Gee, should I drive my Cobra to work tomorrow? The weather is going to be sunny and warm... Ah, no worries. I can drive pretty much year 'round.

Heh, heh, heh.
DD

cobrajeff · #11 (**permalink**) 10-02-2009, 05:34 AM

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Gee, should I drive my Cobra to work tomorrow? The weather is going to be sunny and warm... Ah, no worries. I can drive pretty much year 'round.

Gee, thanks a lot, Doug, I needed that

Gassed up my ERA yesterday (sunny and nearly 50 degress), added the Sta-bil to the tank....then back to the lift and into hibernation....

Been a mighty short and cool summer here in the heart of the RustBelt.

Jeff

Excaliber · #12 (**permalink**) 10-02-2009, 09:45 AM

If I recall correctly someone in Australia was using a Skyline for drag racing, an early version, 6 cylinder. They were making something like 800 horse with the motor!

KM480 · #13 (**permalink**) 10-03-2009, 10:11 PM

Well whatever you do with the illegals and the Nissan GTR's don't ever let the SB100 go away. It is about the only thing that California DMV does that is fair and makes sense. In fact, it should be bumped up to 1000 numbers per year. Do something smart for the economy, for once!

*13* · #14 (**permalink**) 10-04-2009, 06:26 AM

& That is it's biggest problem. If there are restrictions as to what can be licensed under SB100, why are there only so many per year? Why should we have to hope for a # when we obviously aren't going to drive these cars every day & have almost zero% extra impact on the environment.

Instead of wasting resources on tracking down the GTR's why not Refuse to allow Nissan or any retailer to import or sell the cars into the US & make the fees to register them here extremely high, for those individuals who do? We have so many bigger issues as a country.

Ron61 · #15 (**permalink**) 10-04-2009, 07:22 AM

Because the state is ran by politicians and tree huggers who want to blame these cars for everything. They can't figure out that they would take in a lot more money if they let more of them get that SB-100 number, and it isn't cheap by the time you go through the process. When I was talking to one of our anti car Senators a year or so ago I asked him about the number and he said they should all be done away with because of the smog they create. I asked him just how many he had seen in the big traffic jams that create most of the crap and he had to admit he had never seen a single one.

Ron

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Originally Posted by *13*

& That is it's biggest problem. If there are restrictions as to what can be licensed under SB100, why are there only so many per year? Why should we have to hope for a # when we obviously aren't going to drive these cars every day & have almost zero% extra impact on the environment.

Instead of wasting resources on tracking down the GTR's why not Refuse to allow Nissan or any retailer to import or sell the cars into the US & make the fees to register them here extremely high, for those individuals who do? We have so many bigger issues as a country.

Maurice Butler · #16 (**permalink**) 10-06-2009, 11:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Excaliber

If I recall correctly someone in Australia was using a Skyline for drag racing, an early version, 6 cylinder. They were making something like 800 horse with the motor!

My son is working on a nissan RB30 doing a twin cam conversion & twin tubo aiming for 1000 horse, the drag racers are aiming for 1200 horses

rustyBob · #17 (**permalink**) 10-02-2009, 06:28 PM

OK everybody dont let Doug fool ya........IT'S NOT ALWAYS SUNNY IN CALIFORNIA.......I lived there most of my life it does rain and it gets cold(low 30's in Sacto.) and man let me tell ya it can get foggie there....I left hopeing to never return....well maybe i'll come back for the Knotts show......

Excaliber · #18 (**permalink**) 10-02-2009, 06:34 PM

It was raining here yesterday, couldn't go for a test drive with the recent install of my flywheel/trans. Went out today, PERFECT!!! AWESOME!!! Did a magnificant throttle over steer through one particularly nice corner I like. Held the rear out "just right" all the way through the corner and then nailed it when I got straightend out. YE HAW!!!!

Dangerous Doug · #19 (**permalink**) 10-02-2009, 06:47 PM

Weather was pretty nice today in Santa Cruz, Los Gatos, and West San Jose...

...perfect Cobra driving weather. Drove the Cobra to work, and took the long way home.

DD

*13* · #20 (**permalink**) 10-02-2009, 07:09 PM

Coastal Mexifornia is pretty nice if you are north or south of Los Angeles. Unfortunately I'm in LA... Little too much smog for my taste. When did it rain last?