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Old Oct 15, 2005 | 02:33 PM
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extremely low mile FD

just wanted to bring this to everyone's attention, i didn't know what terms to search for, so hopefully it's not a repost

http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/vdp.js...st=1339#vdptop
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Old Oct 15, 2005 | 02:48 PM
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May be a repost but I've never seen it before. That is extremely low mileage, 365 miles!
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Old Oct 15, 2005 | 03:01 PM
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I'm finding all these low mile 20k>* and especially these "been locked away in a nuclear bomb shelter for 12 years" EXTREMELY hard to believe.
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Old Oct 15, 2005 | 03:06 PM
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Originally Posted by SiKoPaThX
I'm finding all these low mile 20k>* and especially these "been locked away in a nuclear bomb shelter for 12 years" EXTREMELY hard to believe.
yeah, i dont see why someone would buy a car and lock it away brand spanking new and all of a sudden want to sell it.
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Old Oct 15, 2005 | 03:23 PM
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just posting what i saw




and it's possible, there was a 1990 MKIII Supra Turbo that had 5K miles that the guy bought as a dream car brand new and never drove it, it was CLEAN AS HELL inside. It's on SF somewhere
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Old Oct 15, 2005 | 03:28 PM
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I came across a GSL-SE with 20k miles the other day.
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Old Oct 15, 2005 | 03:39 PM
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there's a mb (not sure what year) at the mazda dealer down here, never been driven, for like 50k (window sticker says 42k). automatic though. but that's at the dealer.
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Old Oct 15, 2005 | 04:12 PM
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awhile back there was a blue one on auto trader, 49 miles, for $50,000
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Old Oct 15, 2005 | 04:17 PM
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damn $50k, thats too much, i'd rather buy an M3 or an old NSX or i could get an FD shell and put a 20B in it
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Old Oct 15, 2005 | 04:22 PM
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I know which one you're talking about Mazdagirl. There's also that 91 Vert that is like new that that woman brought to the Key Biscayne meet a few months back. I know they exist but to believe there's something like 10-20 of them out there is outlandish.
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Old Oct 15, 2005 | 04:48 PM
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Really guys it isn't that rare to find an old vehicle with low mileage.

Look around on Ebay or go to some car shows, you'll find them. I saw a '70 Boss 302 at a car show with extremly low mileage, the car was all original. The 1st owner was a 19yr old kid, he drove it for a couple of months and went to Vietnam, was killed and his parents kept the car w/o driving it. Then it circulated from collector to collector.

My Grandma had a 84 CRX she bought new with 17K miles on it, she had 3 cars and didn't drive much.
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Old Oct 15, 2005 | 05:22 PM
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Ha, I wonder if the sequential system works...
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Old Oct 15, 2005 | 06:00 PM
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an FD with 365 original miles in my city and I had no idea of its exsistence...that is one nice find!
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Old Oct 15, 2005 | 06:09 PM
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damn thats crazy. but low mileage FDs dont relly suprise me that much. cause i have a 93 Mazda MPV with only 57k original miles lol.
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Old Oct 15, 2005 | 07:59 PM
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wanna see an EVEN LOWER mileage FD? check this out!!!! (this might be a repost also) But apparently somebody imported one for 50k....











like i said, this might be a repost, but i think that's even less than 1 mile!!!!
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Old Oct 15, 2005 | 10:14 PM
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oh...$HIT!...if that was mine i would keep it in a climate controled nuclear bombs shelter forever!
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Old Oct 15, 2005 | 10:25 PM
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^^^ HOLY ****.. now that is insane...
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Old Oct 15, 2005 | 10:26 PM
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Every now and then, you find a extreme low mileage vehicle. My uncle bought a car off a distance relative, an old lady retiree that lived in a retirement community and almost never ventured out. 5-6 year old car with less then 1500 miles on it. He put more miles on it just driving it back from Washington state to Jersey. Too bad it was a Ford Taurus.
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Old Oct 15, 2005 | 10:41 PM
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mudahbee - Can we have some more facts on that Spirit R?
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Old Oct 15, 2005 | 11:01 PM
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sorry if i'm going OT here, but if you got a Spirit R would you do a LHD conversion?

i can't imagine myself EVER driving a RHD car, even when i get older (MUCH older)...i'm hoping to have the financial means to import a skyline GT-R (R34...i saw the R35 prototype....ugly as hell) and i'll convert it to LHD

*puts on flame suit*
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Old Oct 16, 2005 | 12:10 AM
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Why on EARTH would someone choose a GREEN FD on TAN interior (the two most undesirable options) and try and make it a collectible? (I have a feeling a few guys will hang me for that comment haha). I mean...c'mon. At least get a '94/'95 Chaste White Base manual, '93 CYM R1, or a '94/'95 R2. At least choose wisely...

Plus, I'm really curious what kind of problems a car that's hardly been driven at all for over a decade may have.

Re: that Spirit R... Holy smokes...that's insane!!

Oh and FYI, the # at the bottom is always smaller than the # at the top of the odometer, because the bottom is the trip odometer, and the top is the total mileage odometer. The TRIP odo only has 2.1 km, which is indeed more than a mile (1.3 miles to be exact). The total mileage on the vehicle is the top number (11 km), which is 6.835 miles

InvisibleMonkey, what's so bad w/ RHD? It's not bad at all. I find it almost natural. Heck, I still go for the turn signal on the right side every now and then when I drive my FD haha.

Oh and when you have the financial means to purchase a Skyline, hit me up. I'm the man you wanna talk to

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Old Oct 16, 2005 | 12:25 AM
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Screw this, Im becoming a MILLIONAIRE...
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Old Oct 16, 2005 | 12:57 AM
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i should relly build a nuclear shelter for a few FDs. ill take them out whens theres only a few hundred left in the world! woot!
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Old Oct 16, 2005 | 01:17 AM
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lets all start day dreaming =D
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Old Oct 16, 2005 | 03:46 AM
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Originally Posted by AzEKnightz
lets all start day dreaming =D
After seeing that Spirit R plate...how can we not?
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