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I have owned both cars. a 2005 350Z and Numerous 300zx models The 350z was great fun to drive, really nippy and had a better sense of stability in the rain. Being a smaller wheelbase the manoeuvering was also better in my opinion, but for all out power and speed and exhilaration you can't beet a 300zx. Also the cockpit on the 350 is a little to snug for my liking. The 300 gives a certain thrill just sitting behind the wheel even if you are not going anywhere, and if you are then its magic. Just enough controls and switches and real feel of belonging. Just my humble opinion though

I am truly Gutted for Tony but so glad he is OK. Looking at the pics it is a wonder he came out unscathed. Having only got the car from me just over a month ago, I know how much he really liked the colour and the outstanding condition it was in. The main thing is that Tony is OK. The car although hard to replace, can be replaced. Lets hope the insurance company play ball.

Ok James, Enjoy the car

Hi James, This is the low mileage car that I imported and sold to Dave. You have a really clean and lovely car there. Did Dave give you the import docs and the Japanese export certificate? If not I can get you a copy if you want them, Garry

Absolutely Brilliant Lee, Congratulations

You have all read the issues surrounding the importation of the white 300ZX for Steve Li (KnightRacer). I can now report that we have finally reached an agreement in private. Steve and I now wish to put this situation behind us and move on. - - - Updated - - - Admin can you please close this thread.

This has recently arrived in from Japan. Took some pictures and realised afterwards I had the camera set to where the picture comes out black and white with one selected colour depicted. I must have had yellow as the colour. The rain has prevented me from retaking the pictures, but these have come out superbly i would say. The car Is silver so not too bad. Looks great in Black and White, what do you think? I will get some colour pics up when the weather allows. No Rust, Low Mileage 45k, and with great recent service history over the last 10 years

Hi all I am looking for a wing Mirror that has the motor inside. The connector has five wires so is not heated. Doesn't matter what colour or condition of the shell as I won't be using the case. The pictures are of the inside of my broken one (snapped when something in my garage fell on it) but it shows what I need Anyone have one please PM me Thanks

Gary, thank you for saying that, and you can rest assured that under no circumstances will I ever offer to obtain a car for someone else again. I am trying to work something out with Steve, but thats between me and him, and not for this forum Probably best to close this thread now I think

Quite simply Simon the answer to your question is that neither Steve nor I saw what you saw. Do you seriously think that I would allow Steve to go ahead with a car that neither of us was happy with? Steve understood about the interior ans as I had previously stated was ok with it because he had new seats he was going to put into the car, and was going to get someone to redo the steering wheel I believe. The black paint was discussed and again I have said previously that I was going to have it painted white for him.

Joel I understand what you are saying completely, but to me its not the same at all. Situation one is I select a car that I would like to bid on. I bid , I win and have the car shipped. I pay for everything to be done in order to have the car ready for sale. In short everything is my decision from start to finish Situation 2 . someone comes to me and says can you help me get a car. I say yes and show them what is available based on what they are looking for. I get them all of the information that they need in order to be able to make a decision. They make the decision, based on what they see and read. They are choosing the car and therefore I am not going to make a profit off them because I am just helping show them whats available, and I am doing that because I want the person to get the car as cheaply as possible. Now if I had said yes I will buy the car, I will have it all done ready for sale but it will cost you more because I will add a profit onto it for the outlay and the time taken before I see my money back, that would be the same as situation one, and you would be absolutely correct, but this is different. There was nothing wrong with the process of this transaction whatsoever. Everything done exactly as I said it would be done, and everything had gone smoothly up to the point when we both saw the car. I feel terrible for Steve, he is a good guy and did not deserve to have this happen to him, and I have been thinking of something I can do to help him out, and I have today emailed him with an idea, but this has nothing to do with anyone else on this forum, just he and I I also want to point out that I am not hiding away from this issue like a certain trader who refused to participate when he was being accused of things. I stand up and I am here and if everyone wants to take pot shots at me then fine!! Joel you are a great ambassador for this club and I respect you , but I wish you would try to see both sides. Sorry for rambling

The only reason I am listed as a trader here on the forum is because when I first got a couple of these over in 2015 I was told that if I wanted to use the forum as a vehicle of the cars then I should become a trader on the forum as it wouldn't be fair to other traders. I was told this by a couple of members of the committee. I was not too keen to do it, as I hadn't actually sold any at that point, but was allowed to list two cars and then re-evaluate the situation at a later stage. Two members, one on the committee also mentioned the use of the word Official Importer for the club, so in the end I decided to do it so that I didn't break the rules and it sounded good to be able to say that. I have had 15 of them over 3 years so that average out at 5 per year, hardly what a dealer would need in order to make a successful business venture . Actually 3 of them are here and not sold as yet so thats only 12 sold in 3 years and two of them were requests that have gone badly. So the actual number of sales in 3 years where I have personally bought cars number just 10

Joel, you would have to let Steven answer that. All I can say is that we both had the same information about the car. The description and the pictures. For example when the car arrived and the MOT was being done, the coolant leak was found. This was not on the auction sheet at all, so neither of us knew about it, but it still had to be done and Steven was prepared to pay for it to be fixed, so is that understanding there is risk involved?

Steven contacted me and told me to tell them to immediately stop work on what they were doing, which I did. I don't know how far they had got with anything, and he arranged for the collection of the car the next day

I agree that the condition was underdescribed or certainly not explicit enough, and therein lies the entire problem. Buying any car from an auction is a risk, and generally the cars come through as described and in excellent condition. Even the cars that I have bought have had issues that had to be fixed. One of them for example cost me £2000 to correct and I made a loss on it when it was sold. As for the garage I use I will make a statement about that later. Thanks for your input

The Fee was for all of the admin, the many hours spent on the purchase, and emails etc, going to the docks, collecting the car, and delivering it to wherever the purchaser wanted it. I offered to have the car MOT'd and have the fog light fitted and that was made clear that was an extra charge that the buyer would pay directly to the garage. I would also arrange for all of the registration docs to be completed and sent to the DVLA, again the fees payable by the purchaser.

Richie,The Grading is subjective and it is quite possible that two different auction houses would grade the car differently. it's the description that is supposed to be the thing you would go on. I have been told by the export company that a grade 3 would usually have things like Noisy or oily engine, or smoky exhaust etc, and grade 2 would have that plus corrosion

Certainly Joel. Usually I pick the cars myself, and in effect the car is for me. So I pay everything the export company, the shipping, VAT and Tax, MOT and Fog and anything else that needs doing. It is a safe process because the risk is all mine. My money is tied up for 6 months. So naturally I try to make a profit when I sell the car, that in turn helps pave the way for the next car and so on. On two occasions I have offered to get a car on behalf of someone where they pay everything up front, but of course because the car is not mine, I don't make a profit so in theory the buyer saves money by just having me do the admin and donkey work. They pay up front, and I just take a fee for the work, nowhere near what I would look to make if the car was mine. Hope that makes sense. I will say though that I will never offer this to anyone again

Sorry I didn't make myself clear. Steven wanted the bonnet and roof painted white, as they were currently black. The £300 was to pain those two items

I want to make a statement about Stevens 300zx. I have deliberately not commented on his thread, initially out of respect to him as he fully deserves the sympathy he has received, and I did not want to cloud his thread, and latterly because I was aware this issue was to be discussed at the AGM. I want to point out that I am not a car dealer, just an enthusiast like the rest of you, and someone who had some spare cash and thought it would be a good idea to get some clean cars in from japan to help fellow members and new potential owners get into Z ing. I have in the past 3 years brought over 15 cars and 13 of them have followed my tried and trusted format. Where I buy the car, take all of the risk, and when it arrives pay for everything that needs doing before I place it for sale, and then take any profit or loss after the sale. This involves probably not seeing any return on my money for at least 6 months Just twice have I offered to do things differently to try and help others save some money on costs and twice this has backfired. The difference being that they decide which car to go for, how much to spend, and pay up front once the car is won. I take a fee for doing all of the admin, my time and fuel, collecting the car from the docks and delivering to wherever. Steven contacted me with a specific specification in mind, and initially was looking at a car he had seen on a Japanese Dealers site. He asked me if I could find out more about the car, and get some better pictures. I spent the next few days trying to get what he had asked and eventually got loads of pictures and a better description for him. He wanted me to try to negotiate a better price with the seller. In the meantime one had come up on the auction website and I mentioned this to Steven. Showed him the pictures that were available and got a translation of the auction sheet for him from the export company I use in Japan Interior C, first registered December 1996, 5-speed manual gearbox, AC, power seat, power windows, original alloy wheels, one owner, fully repainted from unknown colour to white, only exterior has been repainted, paintwork uneven, steering wheel worn, driver's seat has 10 centimetre cut et cetera, driver's seat sagging, part of tonneau cover worn and cracked, wheels scratched, scratches and dents, roof and bonnet painted in different colour, paintwork uneven on roof and bonnet, rear wiper missing, other marks as per map Steven discussed the pro’s and cons with me, and told me that he had some new seats and wheels so the issues with the current ones didn’t matter. I told him that I could get a local body shop who I use to paint the bonnet and roof back to white for him for a cash deal of £300. At no time in our correspondence did I say anything like, Go for this one or any other words that would encourage him to spend his money on this particular car, and this was because it was not for me to decide on what and how much he should spend his money on. What was pretty clear from the translation and other info was that this was a late model with no rust and very low mileage a very solid foundation for a great car indeed Steven decided he wanted to go for this one and set his limit that he wanted to spend. I said I would place that amount for him. Prior to the auction Steven contacted me and said he had seen the same car with a different auction sheet and what did I think. I told him that I would have that translated as well, and this is what came back The main difference seems to be that on the car map today there is some Japanese written on the roof and on the bonnet which says "different colour". The previous one shows lots of dots on the left front and right front doors, and this one still shows dots but they are written in more faintly. The other one shows U2 on the side steps which this one does not. This one shows medium cracks on the rear reflector, which the other one does not. When I look at cars in the auction myself, even U2 can be quite hard to see, so it is not too surprising to me that these inspectors have noticed some slightly different issues at that kind of level. What I would do is I would combine the information from both and use that to make a judgement I passed this information on to Steven and asked him what he wanted to do. He said that he still wanted to go ahead with the bid. The auction was around 5am if I remember correctly so I got up to see if Steven had won the car. I received a message from Japan stating that we had the highest bid, but the car had not reached the reserve. I contacted Steven and asked him what he would like to do. He decided that he would make a larger offer and so I presented this to the export company. They came back a while later saying the offer had been refused I told Steven I was surprised by this particularly because of the paint issue and also mentioned that if no one else came up with the reserve the car would probably be back on auction within a week. Steven decided to have one more go at winning the car with a second offer, and asked me what we should do if this was refused. I said that I felt we should walk away and he agreed. As it happens his offer was accepted I want to stress at this point that Steven has seen exactly what I had seen, read exactly what I had read before deciding to place a bid. Nothing was withheld from him, and all of his questions received a timely response from me. Prior to the car being shipped, the export company took around 30 photo’s of the car, and emailed them to me. I forwarded them on to Steven immediately and he was really happy with them and the car. When I collected the car from the docks I didn’t really have time to examine it as I was on a time limit having already collected one earlier, so I loaded it on to the trailer and drove it straight to the garage I use for Fog Light and MOT purposes, unloaded it and took the trailer home, drove back to find that Steven had arrived and was looking over the car. We looked at the white paintwork and it was not good at all. Steven’s descriptions of it are accurate, it looked very poor and looked to have been hand sprayed without much attempt to mask certain areas. The rest you all know about. No one could have predicted the paintwork would have been so bad, nothing either of had seen in pictures showed this . the auction sheet showed ‘uneven paintwork’ without going into any more detail, so it was not obvious to anyone. I am truly distraught for Steven as I know how much he wanted this to be his dream car. I realise he wants someone to blame for this and I clearly am the first choice, but the fact remains that if the translation had said very poor hand painted, instead of uneven paintwork, then I suspect both of us wouldn’t be talking about this as there would have been NO BID

No problem, give me a call when you are ready

Hi, and welcome to the club. Not sure if you are able to see the cars for sale section or the traders section, but I am the importer for the club. I have just got in a 1995 TT auto with full service history and no mods apart from a stainless exhaust. Its also on Ebay https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Nissan-Fairlady-Z32-300ZX-Twin-Turbo-Auto-1995-Metallic-Cobalt-Green-FSH-Fresh/232791418918?hash=item3633732826:g:gOgAAOSwNNVbEpB6 worth a look

Hi I posted this on my trader page, but thought I would add to the selling page. This car has just arrived from Japan. Passed the MOT with ease. I have just received the service book from Japan (They forgot to send it with the car) and it has eighteen entries dating back to 1996 and ending in 2016. all mileage properly logged at each service entry. The car is also listed on Ebay so you can check it out there. I will just put a few pics here, but you can see all of them on my trader post. This is a great car and I am delighted to be able to offer it up for the Z entusiasts

I realise you are all dying g to know what this sold for. Well the auction price was £1100.00. With all the added costs it would have been yours for around 3k