ShobThaBob
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A few months ago I came across an R33 GTR in FL that looked very promising. It was a state titled car, but I got insurance quotes in TX, figured out the registration issues, and nearly convinced myself to do it. In the end, better sense won out, thankfully. BUT, the car buying bug is there. It doesn't die easily.
Now, there is a fairly well known shop in the Houston area wanting to sell their shop car. It's a low mileage chassis 2005 STi. The other thread kinda spurred me to throw this out there. They bought the car in 2010 from a customer that couldn't pay for repairs that needed to be done. They started collecting parts for it and just leaving them all over the place. It was being built as a full show car with a built motor. There are loads of dressup items, tasteful paint, and lots of colormatched and powdercoated braces, washers, bolts, and covers.
There's nothing outrageous done it to it bodywise. It's all stock STi stuff with different rims. Interior is kinda the same way. Large touchscreen head unit, new speakers/components/1 sub. New steering wheel. Everything else is stock.
The motor is fully built and can supposedly handle up to 850-900hp. They'd be delivering it with 700-750. The kicker for all this - it hasn't been built yet. None of this stuff has mileage on it. I looked up a bunch of the items online and compiled a cost to get a lot of it. I left out any color matching or painting and the audio stuff. It came out to a little over 20k in parts. Then you can add in labor for the many hours it will take to install it and tune it.
So, heavily modded and never driven. Aside from the tuning, I'd be the only person to have driven that car in its current state. They'd also offer a warranty on all the work they do. Only 1 year or 12k miles assuming I get any work done on it done there. But that seems pretty reasonable to me - never driven 700hp STi with a warranty. They're asking 28k and I'm going to offer 26. They also offered to go with a smaller gt350r turbo and they'd warranty it for a lot longer. Sounds like a hell of a deal...yes?
Now, there is a fairly well known shop in the Houston area wanting to sell their shop car. It's a low mileage chassis 2005 STi. The other thread kinda spurred me to throw this out there. They bought the car in 2010 from a customer that couldn't pay for repairs that needed to be done. They started collecting parts for it and just leaving them all over the place. It was being built as a full show car with a built motor. There are loads of dressup items, tasteful paint, and lots of colormatched and powdercoated braces, washers, bolts, and covers.
There's nothing outrageous done it to it bodywise. It's all stock STi stuff with different rims. Interior is kinda the same way. Large touchscreen head unit, new speakers/components/1 sub. New steering wheel. Everything else is stock.
The motor is fully built and can supposedly handle up to 850-900hp. They'd be delivering it with 700-750. The kicker for all this - it hasn't been built yet. None of this stuff has mileage on it. I looked up a bunch of the items online and compiled a cost to get a lot of it. I left out any color matching or painting and the audio stuff. It came out to a little over 20k in parts. Then you can add in labor for the many hours it will take to install it and tune it.
So, heavily modded and never driven. Aside from the tuning, I'd be the only person to have driven that car in its current state. They'd also offer a warranty on all the work they do. Only 1 year or 12k miles assuming I get any work done on it done there. But that seems pretty reasonable to me - never driven 700hp STi with a warranty. They're asking 28k and I'm going to offer 26. They also offered to go with a smaller gt350r turbo and they'd warranty it for a lot longer. Sounds like a hell of a deal...yes?
