Christmas present to myself...

I lost my last weekend/toy car back in June at the Nurburgring, as followers of my blog will know it died an untimely death at the Nurburgring, but you move on and at last I have moved on and replaced it...


With a Nissan Skyline R32 GTST.


I finally found one, after so many months of looking around for one to grab me, and make me want to spend my cash, I finally have one!


Also before I begin talking you all to sleep about it, I need to shout out to the guys on Twitter who guessed what my new car was, fairplay lads :)


Right also a BIG thank you to all the local Skyline members that I have annoyed during my hunt hehe, your help has been nothing but appreciated.


Anyway when I own a car I usually run articles on my blog to keep what I'm doing to it in order and show all of you, hopefully it will be of some interest :)


So I'll start at the beginning with a few pictures from its for sale ad.

So there you have it, those are the pictures that enticed me to go view this car :)


Deep down I've been after an R32 since the beginning, I thought to myself well if your looking for an example of one of the greatest Japanese cars ever made... well you may as well start as near to the beginning as you can hehe.


So its classic lines sold it to me, and I was lucky as this one in question was in very good condition for its age, so taken from the for sale ad, here are the details:


1992 J Reg KLO Silver GTS-T Type M, imported 5 years ago.
111K kms, still reads in KM and is still limited.
RB20DET engine.


Described as "Stage 1"
Apex FMIC
ACT uprated Clutch
Catch Tank
Blitz Air Filter
HKS SSQV
Turbo Elbow Back HKS Exhaust system, heat wrapped and centre box taken out.
Superspark Coilpacks
Grade 8 NGKS
Z32
Grooved front discs with Ferodo pads on front and greenstuff on rear.
Hicas Lock out bar.
Diff recently shimmed
Freshly refurbished R32 GTR Wheels with Toyo R888 tyres
KYB SR shocks and springs
Walbro fuel pump
Greddy Profect B2
Running a safe and easy 275bhp with Dyno sheet.
Nismo Dash clocks, dash in very good condition with hardly any rattles.
GTR bonnet and boot fitted as well as GTR front grill colour coded to rest of car.
Just recently been undersealed once again.


Anyway that's the spec so far.


So I went for it... brought it back home on the 16th, the day before my area was hit by snow.

Some extremely invaluable reading literature that came with the car.

The first night, view from my window :)

So here comes the snow photos....

The amount of paperwork this came with is so reassuring, and its been very well looked after in the past! A credit to the two previous UK owners that came before me.


I haven't got many full body pictures of it yet, but I have some up close and personal macro ones, so I'll leave you with those for the minute.

Items I need to buy for it include a Cambelt kit and tensioners + water pump.


Items I would like include are an R32 GTR interior just to update the interior a bit, and I'd like to find it a new stereo, this doesn't have one and as much as it makes an awesome noise, I would like some music again.


And so far I've simply bought a nice snug fitted cover for it to hide away during these months.


I have to say though, I've only driven it from the Reading area to Swindon (about 40miles to my non UK readers) and back for Christmas and I already love this thing, its awesome.

Anyway here are a few more pictures of her from the first few days, all iphone ones though so I apologise for quality, I'll take my camera gear to it soon ;)

The only full body shot of it taken in my ownership, showing off my little run around in the background too, love that Aygo.

And then now its all wrapped up to keep the weather away.

Plans with this are mainly to keep looking as it does, maintain and enjoy it, I've wanted one for soooooooo long, and now I have one, dream come true really.

Thank you to all my friends from the Skyline Owners club that have helped me find one to suit me over the last few months, all your help, advise and knowledge has been invaluable, thank you, you know who you all are.


Been messing around with it today, tried a friends stereo in it and all the speakers work, so I'm chuffed about that :) and done some messing around with my camera and a glide track system my bros has built me :) video to follow!


Right that's it for now... much more to follow.


Thanks for looking!