apparently the dentist my mom's friend works for takes his road salt with a side of GT-R. the exhaust tips were even rusty from it.
apparently the dentist my mom's friend works for takes his road salt with a side of GT-R. the exhaust tips were even rusty from it.
To some, it's just another $70K car... he'll buy another one.
Looks like a killer engine donor in a few years.
In reply to Ian F:
Yeah, I realized when I bought a 350Z that most sports car buyers are not like us. They are looking for status and image, not a car for track days and autoX. When a new sports car gets sufficiently old to have depreciated noticeably it is not longer a useful status symbol.
It's a symbiotic relationship, we need these guys to take the brunt of depreciation so we can afford fun toys, and they need us to buy the cars when they're no longer effective status symbols.
In reply to ShadowSix:
Hey, I like rich guys cast-offs. Really helps me save a ton of money (even on my car insurance).
Um yeah a girl I know who isn't even into cars got to drive her bosses GT-R because he needed someone to go get donuts and coffee.
She kindly left a picture on facebook and I thought I felt a capillary rupture behind my eye.
This is my beloved 99 Civic Si when it was still on daily driver duty about 5 years ago:
I think that's the worst it ever got. Now it barely sees rain (I barely drive it these days--spends most of its time in storage).
Winter setup was Rota Slipstreams w/ 195-55-15 Pilot Alpins--plowed through the snow quite nicely, thank you very much.
As I was driving home in the sleet and snow yesterday, I passed an E39 M5... just another old car...
And to think my E30 lowly E30 lives a pampered life similar to gamby's Civic.
My neurologist drives a newer M coupe. He drives it all year around also. But then again he buys a new car every two years.
patgizz wrote: apparently the dentist my mom's friend works for takes his road salt with a side of GT-R. the exhaust tips were even rusty from it.
Maybe he's trying to rust it down to the size of a normal car.
If I had one, and it was a great car to drive in the winter, I would too. Maybe even install some high performance snow tires.
Given the choice of driving a car that I like a whole lot vs. parking it and driving a beater, I would drive the nicer car. Especially if it was made in the last 15 years. Well- only.
My red miata resembles a Mary Kay car at times in winter. But I have the pleasure of driving it every day.
Jay wrote:patgizz wrote: apparently the dentist my mom's friend works for takes his road salt with a side of GT-R. the exhaust tips were even rusty from it.Maybe he's trying to rust it down to the size of a normal car.
Awesome!
The world would be a better place if more people did this. (and more cheap cool cars for us)
$12.99 a month for unlimited washes at the local car wash chain FTW. And damn, unless that X3 is parked up to the curb the GT-R is a huge car for a "sports car". But I agree with others - better to drive it than polish it, and a little surface rust on an exhaust tip will be a great bargaining chip for the next buyer of that car!
pigeon wrote: $12.99 a month for unlimited washes at the local car wash chain FTW. And damn, unless that X3 is parked up to the curb the GT-R is a huge car for a "sports car". But I agree with others - better to drive it than polish it, and a little surface rust on an exhaust tip will be a great bargaining chip for the next buyer of that car!
...and then I make money polishing out the EPIC swirl marks that those car washes engrave into your paint. 
Brushless is the only way to go.
Let it get nice and rusty then sue Nissan when/if some part fails. If the car has a warrantee or is a leased beast let it get nice and rusty then let nissan figure out what to do with it.
In reply to gamby:
It's a brushless wash so in theory it shouldn't swirl it too badly but in practice my 98k mile paint needs a good polish anyway. Easier to fix swirls than rust.
patgizz wrote: apparently the dentist my mom's friend works for takes his road salt with a side of GT-R. the exhaust tips were even rusty from it.
Good man I say, it's an appliance for speed, might as well enjoy it all year long.
Guy in my town drives a late model Maserati year round.
Hey, I enjoy my Mazdaspeed3 all year round, and my buddies think I'm nuts for it.
We have a guy here who was driving his Audi R8 in the salty snow here 3-4 weeks ago.
Where did you see that? I know a guy in Green Bay that has one. He's 75 or so and says he drives it in the winter because his Talon tsi can't hook up in the snow with 500hp and the only other car he really drove was his RS6 that he sold to buy the GT-R. Sucks to have money i guess.
In reply to RexSeven:
don't see why not, they're damn near unstoppable with snow tires and the stock LSD
toad9977 wrote: Where did you see that? A fur piece from Greenbay, Eastern NC
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