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What don't you know about the R33 Skyline? - EP.33
What don't you know about the R33 Skyline? - EP.33
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About this episode
Exploring the often overlooked R33 Skyline, this episode dives into its unique characteristics, sub-models, and the misconceptions surrounding it. Hosts Bobby and Aaron discuss the R33's design evolution, affordability, and the various models available, including the GTS and GTR variants. They share personal anecdotes, including a nostalgic story about a high school friend who fulfilled his dream of owning a Skyline. The episode also touches on the R33's cultural impact, particularly its appearance in the Fast and Furious franchise, and highlights the rarity of certain models, making it a fascinating listen for fans of Japanese performance cars.
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r33 skyline
sub-models
affordability
fast and furious
cultural impact
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gts vs gtr
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rarity of models
japanese performance cars
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Hey, and welcome back to the right-hand drive guys podcast episode 33 all about the 33Yep, if you're watching on YouTube behind us and you see we got a 33 in the studio ready to kind of just break it downI'm Bobby. This is Aaron. Let's get into it. So the 33 yes, it's the
IDon't know I guess you could say it's the middle child of theThe later skylines right between the 32 33 and 34. It's right in the middle. Yeah, it's often the red headed step child
Yeah, and I think a lot of people sleep on it and a lot of people like oh, it's a boatIt's heavy and big and blah blah blah all that stuff right? Yeah, I heard it all for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah
So I mean in reality, I don't think it's that much heavier and it's really not that much bigger than the 32You know, I think it was only a couple it. I think it's one inch wider and
Three to four inches longer right and I think it was just thatkind of transition fromThe square like shape-like body lines to that more rounded body line right right right that kind of made people see it like in a different lightYeah, I think so too. I mean like yeah if you if you look at the car it is kind of bubblier which kind of puts out a
I don't know I guess you could say a bigger presence then right compared to an R32. It's a little more boxier
Just a little more. I don't know. It just looks more compact which it is but like
I don't know it's hard to explain but I mean if you see the two cars right next to each other you can definitely see yeahLike the R33 definitely looks bigger. I mean
But if you put it next to the R34It's really not it doesn't really look biggerRight, but it does look more round right right you put it next to a 35 it's smallBut nobody talks about that right right now everyone just gets stuck onYeah, but whatever I think it's a great chassis and honestly I think it's one of the kind of most slept on chassisEspecially if you're trying to get into one of these you know right-hand drive sports carsYou know an affordable rate. Yeah, because yeah, obviously there's a GTR
But there's a lot of sub models below that that you knowYou don't really see that much because all you're seeing is you knowThe importers are bringing in the GTS 25 T's or the GTS 4's or whatever it might be right but there's a lot thatThere's a lot of models under that that you can get forYou know 10 to 15 maybe 18 for a really nice example. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean right the straight-up GTS you can get for 10
Yeah, so I mean that's like granted like you knowYou got to have a purpose right what what's your plan because you know you get a what's called an HR 33 the GTS andYou're you got a lot of work to do depending on what your plans are rightI mean if you just want to get a car if you just want the right-hand drive and you just want to cruise the blockYeah daily or something dude GTS all the way. Yeah, they come with a bulletproof RB 20 like E
Yeah, which is a single cam. I don't know a lot of people call them boat anchors, but whatever you're never gonna break that thing
It's like a D series in a Honda. Yeah, yeah exactly so
Trident rude, you know, you're not gonna break it especially if you're just gonna be daling this thing soI think that's a good example like if you want to just cruise the block bam. You got it
You got a skyline for right for under 20 grand. Yeah, you know what I mean? That's dope. Yes. It's for lug
Yes, it has small breaks. Yes, it's non-turbo, but dude. It's a skyline. Yeah, and so a quick little story about that
You know a guy that I went to high school withHe was kind of the odd guy out a lot of timesBut he always like meant well super nice personality whateverAnd so he always had said like you know as back as far as high school like I'm gonna have a skyline one dayI'm gonna have a skyline one day and everybody's like all right pat whatever you say man, you know andHere we are, you know in our 30s and what do you know but pat has a skyline?
No, she loves it and he's he's put his intake on he's put his wheels on itI put his speakers in it and it's just a GTS, but he has a skyline. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah into him like
There's no difference between the car the GTR behind us and his GTS are both skylines. Yeah, yeah
So I agree 100% like if you're looking that dude loves it. Yes, he loved he absolutely
I bet he'll cruise that thing around everywhere and everything world. Yes exactly and and so that's kind of the thing here
You know when we say our 33 or even our 34 or 32 or not just talking about GTRs hereRight there is so many sub models below that yeahLike yeah, there's even a few that you know, I didn't really even I've had really heard of much or even seen of much like theThe urban rubber urban runner urban runner the urban runnerAs I'm not even sure but it sounds dope right? Yeah, I mean urban runner. Yeah, it sounds like it'd be something like
Morcaiter to the streets. Yeah, so to speak you know city driving
I'm sure it has like options like and that was the ER 33 right right that oneNo, actually they had it in the HR - so the ER and the HR had the urban runner, but the HR had a 40th anniversaryType X. Yeah, which I'd assume is all gussied up
Right, right. So the type X was like the nice in a yeah, you know the nice base model
I guess you was the top of the line of the base and then they also had a type S that was kind ofmiddle of the road andThen they had the type G which was likeBase model and they took more stuff off and then there's just a straight GTS. Yeah, like that's the very base model probably crank windows, right?
I'd do honestly. I don't even think I've ever seen just a base GTS
Yeah, I don't know either, but like I said, I mean, I mean because they made so manyLike different variants throughout every sub model that like you sometimes maybe don't even know what you're looking atRight, right and you got to think about like the owners of these cars in JapanYou know what I mean like think about like for instance G 35s in America who was buying those brand new?
You know, it's older people looking to get there whatever especially theYeah, yeah, the luxury sports sedan or whatever it might beSame thing in Japan in the 90s dude old people were buying these cars, you knowThey were putting the doilies on the seats and all thatYeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know what I mean so like I thinkThese like base models are kind of slept on and you can find really nice examples of like really well-maintained carsFor a good price you just got to put in the work and do your turbo and all that if that's what you want to do with it
Yeah, for sure now I agree and maybe some of the importers slash exporters are focused on the GTRs because that's what's hot and that's what'sCommanding the big like turnover butas these as the GTRs kind of start to get taken up, you knowThese submodels start to be more of the priority because they're still profit for the importerExporter in there and there's still a buyer just like Pat, you knowThere's guys just like Pat that don't really care to spend the money on the GTR, but they just want a skyline. Yeah, so
Yeah, they're they're definitelyThere definitely is a lot of submodels and you know, I reallyI personallyBeyond the engine I don't understand I mean that must be it the difference betweenBCR 33 ENR 33ER 33 HR 33 yeah, like I mean I knowThat obviously the GTR that BC and R 33 I get that yeah, and I can see that the ECR 33 runs the 25 BET
Yes, yeah, and that's probably that's gonna be your IDon't know I think they're more sought after than the 33 GTRs, right theECR 33 the GT S 25 T's yeah, I think those are probably the most sought after they come withThe RB 25 DT yeah, they come with a five lug the bigger brakesIt's pretty much the model right below the GTRYeah, and they come in both two and four door right right correct and all the I mean all these models come in both two and four door
They all come in automatic and manual transmissions with exception to the GTRBut some of these models areOur heavy four door or heavy two door it seems like right like the ENR 33 has only one coupe versionBut four sub models that are sedans right right right like you know like thereIt just seems to be that each of these models has its own specialty like the ER 33 is the 25 non turboRight and then the HR is the 20
Non turbo right so like yeah, I mean it seems like it's kind of crazy how many they had like holy moly dude like like it would likeThere's a lot here, you know like just the sub models rightAnd yeah, so like I know you keep saying the ENR 33 usually on the chassis codesI believe it's the in theDigestifies the all-wheel drive so if it's an in if it's got an in in that chassis code that usually mean thisAll drive so that's gonna be the GTS for which I
Don't think they had theRB 25 turbo they just had the in a RB 25. Yeah, that is what it was so and you know that's that's one of those things were
I don't know I feel like with 32sYou see a lot of people do likeconversion GTRs where they'll get the four door or that sorry not the four door. I'm stuck on four doors
Yeah, but they'll get the four-wheel drive and they'll do a GTR conversion on it and it'll be like you knowFat GTR I guess you could say, but I don't really see them doing that much for the 33Yeah, like it's not it's not as much of a thing. It's kind of wild how how different like
The just the 32 33 and 34 the communities around them how different they actually are. It's kind of wild
YeahSo you know when we talk about like well how manyHow many like are 33s period are there?
Period like how many did they produce yeah, I meanAlmost a quarter million. Yeah, it was like 180,000 of GTRs. No, or our 33s period. Oh of our 33s period. I thought it was over 200
I think it's120 plus 30 so yeah, it was like close to 180. Yeah, but even so
Oh, it's1000 it's 166,000. Yeah, I mean that's like kind of a lot when you think about it. Yeah period
I mean, yeah, that's a lot of cars. I mean probably the majority you know is pretty much right
It's the ECR 33 was 64,000 HR 33 was 63,000Right, which I mean you can you can imagine like most of those have been junked by this. Oh, yeah, yeah
Just like those were the base here, you know, just like the basic cars that you used to see all the time on the roads and now they're they're kind of goneYeah, I meanIt's kind of crazy because they really only built of the like we talked about the all would drive he and our33s, they only built 7500 right you don't see many of those no and that's probably why right? I mean 7500's not a lot
Yeah, and you could imagine that those would probably be probably on the north side of Japan too, you know where the weather is not asRight, not as nice, you know a bunch of snowfall and all that so a lot of those probably ended up rotting out, you know, that's probably why you don't see themSo what's your favorite color that they were produced in man? Honestly?
It's that blue and silver two tone that came on the sedansThat I'm I think that's a picture one right there you got this on a coupe but they had that same color variant on the BNo, the dark green blue. Yeah, I
Like two tones for whatever reason and NissanReally killed the two-tone game in the 90s. They had some they had some cool combos like with the S13
They had a few different two-tone options and as well as the 33 and I I just think the two-tone looks just way cool becauseI don't know it's like one of those things is like an extra step in the process that makes itRight. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's just it differentiates it for sure
What about you? What's your what's your go-to non-GTR like if you were to build if you were to build a driver an
R33 driver that you were just gonnacruise aroundYou know take trips and whatever it might be go to the grocery store pick up the dog food. What would you get?
I really like this silky snow pearl WK one. Oh, yeah, just like that pearl. Yeah, yeah, white like kind of like the
S14 right here like just that likeKind of creamy white. I mean of course the LP two midnight purple is like cool even though
That this is this is the chassis where the midnight purple was introduced as well. Yeah, so
Which is funny because since it was right? I mean in
They didn't limit it to the GTRs. They had it on the 40th anniversary type M's that GTS T the GTS 25T
But it's interesting that the R33 was the first one with a midnight purpleBut it's not even the most popular like the R34 still gets all the cloud for the midnight purpleEven though it was just being continued from here. Yeah, well, this is the new variant. Well, this is midnight purple one right and then they had
Midnight purple two. Yeah, and then midnight purple three. Yeah, but that's a that's a whole different other conversation
Yeah, it isSo yeah, I mean they came out with quite a few colors. I think there was
16 here. Yeah, which is kind of wild pretty decent. Yeah, for sure
So right these are all the base ones and then the GTR right? Yeah, and then the GTR
It has its own sub models and ohYeah, and that's right. Yeah, it absolutely does you know between the GTR the V spec
V spec which is what we have here behind us is the V spec the V spec and one which is pretty much like your highest likeKind of production model, right? I'd imagine it was you know for the homologation for the
Whatever super tyco or whatever it was over there at the time the LM limited which is another what you're talking aboutSame with the V spec LM limited. Yeah, and then you have
like again, I wouldn't say the red headed step child, but the the one that some people just don't get yeah theAutec version I don't want it. Yeah, oh, I know I was there
Again, I know we've told this story, but we're on the highway in Japan andWe see thisAutecVersion R33 and this guy just starts wet in his pants dude seriously. It was just so crazy
Yeah, it was it was it was a cool experience especially being in Japan and like that's like the first likeSuper desirable on our list car that we see right yeah, so yeah, and it was just old manJust driving this car like didn't even care what it was to be honest, but like that that was yeah the the Autec33 yes sick, no, I like it too, and you know at first for me the Autec was kind of like, you know, whatever right now
I still don't like the tail lights. Yeah, if you listen to like episode two or three that's like was my big complaint
I still don't like the tail lights however I do really like theFord door like thing becauseThis is the only four door GTR. Yeah, that's it. Right. Like I do really like that because it not only is it unique
It's a family GTR which is like not what you're normally getting so yeah, and they're sick like they are sickWhat what are a few of the things that make it a little different thanThe just regular GTR beyond the fordor I mean well, it's got well, yes the fordor, but it has all the GTR stuff like the wide bodyThat goes into the doors and all that the rear doors. It's got the front bumper pretty much all the arrow and even the wing
Which is yeah specific to the Autec so I'm sure those wings are super rareI think the interior is a little bit different of course. Yeah, so I mean it's a it's a it's literally just a Ford or GTR
So yeah, yeah, and it's sick that is cooland so whenWhen we talk about like you know, of course, there's productionvehicles, you know andThe Autec was what like not many right? No, I think it was between 400 420 something like that
Yeah, that's like pretty wild and they only made it you know in a few colors. They only made it in
The silver for sure midnight purple the silver the white and the blackHow many they only made one black? Yeah, how many of the midnight purple they make 43
So there's 416 total four six. Yeah, that's not many no and like it's one of the rarest but like you kind of see a decent
amount of them for sale like it's not like a you know, some of these other vehicles were likeYou know the V spec and one only 11 made right yeah, yeah, I mean like while we were in Japan for instance we saw thematWhat's the place called why I might draw global auto? Oh, yeah, there were a few at global auto
there were aFew at another one of the stores we went toCar shops that we went to yeah, I mean we saw it like they weren't we saw that one out in the wild I meanYeah, the one out in the wild then I mean just recently Trevor fromK.Z.O posted one up he has yeah, and it's it looks sick. It's on the one GT4s. Yeah, it's it's nice and they're not asking a crazy price for it. Yeah
It's super cool. So the
LM limited yesSo the LM six of those86 of the non V spec the non V spec. Yeah, so the LM limited LM standing for Le Mans was a tribute to
You know the Le Mans car. Yeah, yeah, it was tripped to their go at it right yeah and
It came in a very specific color only one color andI don't think anything else is painted that color and it's I think a championship blue is the name of yes is BT2Yeah, championship blue and likeWhen you see that color you know that's what it is andYeah, it is only available in the LM limited and the LM limited these right so that's pretty legit and we actually got the opportunityTo meet a guy in Japan with like an
Extremely well put together and clean. Yes LM like it was
You could not see that car right I feel like you there could be a C of carsYeah, and you would pick that car out immediately100% dude it is so sick and the way that it's modded you were like no way is that no way that's an LM right?
You're like yeah, he painted it like right right? There's no way that this is like you know limited under 100 this dude's
JustBlowing it out in a good way. Yes, and it's so sick. Yeah, give him a shout out. Yeah, dude. It's the
Shinny Shiro song. Uh is name on Instagram is
BC and R33 underscore LM underscore stance. Yeah
and likeDude you go to his Instagram and it's all his car and I could look at those pictures for days and like yeahThey might all look the same. Yeah, and you know, they're all from the same show or whatever, you know as you scroll down through
But dude that car is so sick. Yeah, where are you home?
Because your mind's gonna be blown. Yeah, seriously 100% like
the so one of the sickest R33s I'veever seen yeah, and so we saw another one at global auto which was all stockWhich was cool to see kind of the difference? Yeah, you know like obviously we knew what was modded on
Shahiro songs, but likeThere it was totally stock so we had already seen his in the days prior right right so then seeing that one at a noThat was at garage defend garage defend. Yeah, yeah, it's seeing that was like really cool
Yeah, and the elements are cool because I got that little sticker on the C pillar. Yeah, yeah that you that's there's no
Flags and it's just like what yeah, you're like is that where do you get that online from a croma orBut I mean and that's what's really cool and and that's really IYou know not to speak for us both, but I feel like these little touches, you know like on some of these carsThat's what really helps make them special even though it's just a stickerYeah, yeah, just a paint color right where it's just you know, it's like this to the extreme enthusiasts likeI'm sure some of you that are listening like these are the tiny little touches that make that car worth whatever
It's commanding yeah on the market. Yeah, you know 100% and also on the
Topic of the LMs there'sThat has to be one of the rarest right one of the versions of thatThe 400 are LM limited. Yeah, that's like yeah
That's literally LM limited literally 101. Yeah, it's that's like ridiculous
You're you're not getting that yeah, and what IWas that garage defend when we were there right yeah because they had just either acquired it or we're about to sell itI think they sold itAnd taking delivery on it yetYeah, likeWhich is pretty wild, you know when you think about these different things and soBut it really doesn't stop there right you know after that you have the NismoAmore factory cars yeah, which really like
Yeah, there's you know the 400 are which is one of those Amore built cars like44 BillYeah, like what like 44 humans right get toAnd really less than that now right but 44 humans get to ownThe cream of the crop. Yeah, you know insane when you think about it like that's not many cars at all
It's not and like like how can you even create a market on that when like something's not even being sold orTransferring hands on something that rare, you know when there's less than 50 cars less than 50 carsHow do you even put a price tag on some of these things? They're literally priceless in a sense
Because they never come up for sale and never swap hands and when they do it's just likeAstronomical insane prices like you're like holy moly like I just traded my house for a 400 areYour houses. Yeah, and so you know 44 being built in and
You know that's at least obtainable what's unobtainable. Yeah is the GTR LM right which again
Yeah, and as you pointed out the homologation. Yep, they had to make one road car. Yep. They built six total
They built one road car. Yep, and that is on display right? Yeah, which which Nissan still owns yeah, so like
You didn't have to sell the car. You just had to make yeah, manufacture it right and so
You know, I meanThat's pretty wild if you think about it andIt really you knowThe road car wasn't anything crazy, right? You know, like they had to come in the engine that you know fit the class
Yes, all that right which was still just an RB 26, right? You know the it was like nothing crazy
Beyond the body. Yeah, that's the big difference and that dude huge like you thought that this thing was about
Yeah, you do that thing is likeLike you can see like the the corners of the headlights like there's so much space on the outsideYou know after the where the fender comes in like yeah, it all looks like literally it has to be a few inches widerYeah, it really is it is crazy and this was in95 and 96 they use the GTR LM as the as you said the Le Mans car right andThe actual race car though like that was pretty legit it had a sequential six speed. Yeah, it had it had over
200 horsepower more than the road car. Yeah, like the thing with these things were like beast did the race cars end up having the RB 28
The RB 20 they have 26 or 28 X so both of them had the 26 okaycranking out700 horsepower in that six-speed sequentialBut like interesting enough right like you know this is 95 butThey only had four pot breaks yeah on this like on this like crazy carYeah, they got like little small little brakes on it. Well guys. Yeah, but like so GTR LM
Definitely like one of those like if you ever got the chance to even sit in it. Yeah, you better fart in those seats
Because like you're never sitting in that thing again, dudeYeah, yeah, I mean dude if you're even close enough to breathe on it. Yeah, like that's legit and right
You know it's at Nissan it's Nissan at Nissan crossing yeah right now in Japan on display just in a window boxJust chilling, you knowThat's crazy. That's how that car lives this life now is just being carted around because I remember showed off a few years ago
It was at some show and they had it on a four-post lift and you could actually walk under it and like check it outThat's legit there were a few youtubersThey were kind of bashing on it because like some of the one-off parts that you know you have to do to make theseThis crazy thing they're like all these welds are nasty. This isn't cut like this is kind of hacked and like
Yeah kind of a half-dumped it one of one bro. Yeah
Yeah, it's literally I mean, dude, right like we're not talking about mass production of parts here becauseSure the GTR behind us maybe the LM shares certain parts right and knows it that's easyYeah, but the parts that make it an LM right correct like there's only made six period in the five race car versionsWe're still different had to be supported different had to be you knowSo the road car was just to skimp through that homologation. Yeah, you know for sure so
Beyond the 400 are in the GTR LMThe Amaro a morgue factory does offer two different levels ofRestoration for these cars better pull like your purse. Yeah, yeah
Definitely yeah, because it better be full because you knowThe the CRS the clubman race back in saying yeah, and I mean probably some of you guys you guys already know about thisBut if you haven't look it up the clubman race back. Yeah, these cars are sick. Yeah, when did they start doing that for 2019?
2019 so that must have came on like around the heritageYes, and that is that is like part of the other stuff that Nismo still offersFor the R33 and that's what some people maybe don't even know because a lot of this is out of like you know basicBasic guys like you mean this is out of our price range right in the sense of the CRS or even the Nismo restored carYeah, these are two different programs the CRS and the restore the restorationCar is two different things. So imagine the clubman race back that's what you want if you're
Trying to go to the track if you're trying to go to Fuji. Yeah, yeah, and and and like the clubman race back is also
Built to their spec right like it's refurb to their spec as opposed to a Nismo restored car isRefurb to your spec and budgetSo so like for example you can it's like a la carte with the Nismo restore car and the clubman race back is how they that isWhat you're getting you're getting it in that gray?
You're getting the brakes they put on it. You're getting the interior they put in it so
You knowThat I would say that the clubman race back is kind of like the built by legends program where they're completelyStripping the car. They're giving you a brand new R33 right, you know in that sense whereas the rest
The Nismo restored car if you just want the underbody taking care of her if you just want the engine refreshThat's wild, you know, so which is cool right like all of us like dudes over here. We don't get that no
You know like we close as we got us Tommy F. Yeah, yeah, and
Right exactly and so that's kind of the the thing isThen they offer the Nismo Heritage Parts right and that helps youpretty muchReplace pieces thatOtherwise would have been discontinued right right whether it's the N1 block or whatever it might beYou can get these parts and still whatever replaced the window trim. Yeah, you know these different things that
When it comes to restoring these cars you would have been just shit out of luck right right right that's good right because other manufacturers aren't doing thisYou know they're not creating these parts, you knowThink if you could get some of these other models non Nissan if you could get their parts, you know how much better it would beYeah 100% because nothing beats OEM qualityright and and thenRight and in that sense you're still able to call it like OEM as you're saying right like instead of all I got all these aftermarket parts
Well, no, it's just clean OEM right and sotheYou know looking at thisthe R33 GTR was only delivered to Japan. Yeah beyond
94 that were exported toYou know England or great Britain. Yeah, you know, so that's pretty wild - 94 only 94
I wonder why they did that I wonder if that had something to do with the homologation or something like that so they could race over thereYeah, yeah, that's weird. It is weird. It's pretty cool though. Just you know how I
Don't know how likePretty muchUnique it was to Japan right like whereas like you know other models of their cars were just getting shipped everywhereRight right right but like these cars were like yes, sounique to Japan andMaybe now they kind of regret that because everybody's coming over and yeah, you know, I'm sure they're like manWe really should have shipped them back back then yeah, yeah, we would have made way more off theseand so you knowThis is all the info on the
Kind of factory stuff, but then they're the guys who take you know any given model that we're talking about andThen they modified it their specs, right? Just like just like me or just like you know a lot of the guys
But there are some that that were famous you know that late kind of put the R33 on the map. You could say yeah, and I think
Yeah, I 100% think so too and you knowone of the carsThat probably the first R33 I saw that I didn't even know it was in R33 probably the same with you probably the same with a lot of the people but likeWatching fast and furious, right?
Find another way home pizza boy, right?
Exactly that was the one right that was that was probably a lot of people's first time they ever saw in R33What about you? Yeah, no for sure
That's the first time I saw in R33. I didn't know it was in R33
I thought it was a maxima or something a 240. I didn't really know because
That's what was pulling up next to it, right? They had the maxima. They had the 240
Yeah, and then there's this thing and you're like what is this banana looking?
But you know in reality it was actually in 95R33 yeah, andHe's making a pretty sure yeah driven by Leon. Yep, and so the thing about this car was
And I don't know if anybody listens to Craig LiebermanCraig Lieberman or notBut the car was actually like it was red or something it was like a think of silver silverYes, it was a different different color and they painted itYellow to get more attention in the movie. They called it Big Bird
Yeah, and it the paint job was actually like kind of crappy like I saw some like up close pictures and stuffObviously has very limited exposure in the movie modern image graphics. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely, you know
Like it was a movie car. Yeah, I mean it had a few small
modifications like hks fuel rail air filters the basic bolt-ons are back in the day had work wheelsYeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure, which is back then pretty coolYou know like in that sense and it was a V-Spec because it had the stock brambos. Yeah
But yeah, I mean it was kind of aWow, it it was aParticipated in Pike speak in 1999. That's pretty cool. That's pretty wild because yeah
I mean the owner of that car is actually or you know back then in that time was Sean Morris from top rank soDad dude's been in the game a long time. Oh, yeah, he has that's like
Why he has like his the credentials that he does right is just not because of this car in this movieBut because he has been in the game that long. Yeah that like his car is in fast and furious
That was like, you know, one of the first probably in the states. Yeah, and you know
sat into it because you know afterHe had sold the car to someone else. Yeah, and then you know the whole motor X thing went down which
Whatever whatever happened there happened, right? Yeah, I wonder how involved in that he was not sure
But you know back then, you know, you were hearing of these cars getting crushed all the time and yeahJust all this crazy stuff and that's actually what into that happening. I think a guy in Wisconsin
put it up for sale and a guy had came to buy it andHe asked about titling it or something because the guy said he was from FloridaHe was like, yeah, you shouldn't have a problem at all registering this in Florida or titling it whateverthat buyer happened to be an undercover agent andPretty much sees the car right then and there for the guy or you know ended up season the car andCrushing it sad. Hey, yeah, that is that is the truth, too
You know, he even pleaded, you know, he was like, hey, like let me ship this out of the country like let me do something likedon't just take thisI don't know if there are six figures back then, but I could imagine it'd be somewhere around thatDon't take this and just crush it like let me do something with itI mean like which is crazy because now now they're letting people they're auctioning off the R34s thatLegal and letting people take them out of the country back then here. This guy gets to just in Bino gets to crushed
Yeah, and with no option you won't need to pay a fine and we won't keepComing after you if you just let us crush the cars right like like dude if they if they would if they would have knownHow much money they were just crushing literally likeI don't know that just seems wild, but if you like they didn't care likeLiterally burning money, soJust like a you know, Sean Moore school guy just another littleInfo about him. He does own top rank, but he provided
The Bentley Continental GT yeah, then 92 Mercedes S class and he built the Ford MustangWith the RB 26 in it. Yeah, dude. What a friggin ledge in dude. Yeah, like I didn't even realize this like I'm friends with him on Facebook
And I like had no clue that I'm like friends with the dude doing all this. Yeah, which is like you know
Whatever, but it's just cool because he has contributed to ourCommunity of car people like quite a bitSo yeah, everybody knows this car right mostly yeah, but there's a there's another one right that another you know quite famousR33 yeah the HKS yeah the HKS the T double-O2 I guess double-O2Yeah, it was the black one with the I believe it's blue kind of pink you knowYeah 90s graphics on the side says HKS power real real huge, you know, yeah when you see it you you know what I'm talking about but
Yeah, that one that one's definitely a favorite and it held you know, I'm pretty sure it helped records as Sakuva and all thatAnd it came up for sale I believe it was in 2020 yeah, and a guy from Texas that has a YouTube channel calledTRC that racing channel. Yeah ended up
winning the auction and when he did HKS contacted him and was likeYou think we can do a refresh on this or would you like for us to do a refresh on this or restore or whatever it might be?
Yeah, that would be dope if they called dude. Yeah, yeah, how could you say no right? Right?
Like no matter what the price that this badass, please don't no matter what the price tag you have to say yes, right?
Because that is something that does not happen. Yeah, plus one buying an HKS car does not happen. Yeah to having them do a factory
Like HKS factory like restore on it like yeah, I mean you're good shape because at that point you're now making historyYeah, dude making the value just yeah, for sureIt's gonna be one of those cars you can't put a price tag on that you keep in the garage on the top of a four-post liftYeah, yeah, yeah, so yeah, I mean he had him do the HKS refresh and then HKS actually took it back to the track andYou know set it up for them and you knowCar was still yeah car was still sick, you know
And then they shipped it over he got it now it resides in Texas, which is kind of wild that is a wildThere's a lot more to that story there is but we don't we were little limited on timeWe wanted to make sure we got everything in hereR33 being you know definitely one of my favorite Nissan'sObviously, that's why I got oneAnd so we just felt being a 33 33rd episode that you know making it all about the 33 just totally made had to do it
Yeah, absolutelyIf only we could do it for 33 minutes. Yeah, I know yeah, but shout out to Nissan for making these amazing amazing cars and giving us
You know these objects that really motivate us to continue being a part of this industry and you know doing our thingBut for now make sure you follow us at our HD G UIS andAm Bobby this is Aaron. See ya. Peace
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