NISMO-built-Nissan-Micra
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Dougyledds
Woopa Pandastyle!
Il buy it tomorrow 
il win the euro millions tomorrow lol
il win the euro millions tomorrow lol
It was originally advertised for NZD$13800 which at the time was around £5000. It owed closer to £8000 by the time it got into the country. After Ray Gimbert piled a lot of money into it, it was initially advertised for £13k dropping down to £9995 and ended up selling closer to the original purchase price. At the end of 2010 it was advertised for sale for £7995 but didn't find a buyer. Now it's up for sale by the same guy for the £5995 you see it for now.
Judging by the advert, which contains a lot of the same wording as the previous advert and the fact that it is still on the same Dunlop slick tires it was on when Ray owned it a few years ago, I doubt it has been used much, if at all
Irrespective of any Nismo heritage, (and there is no identification other than the random number stamped into the strut tower), I doubt it will make any difference to the perceived value of the car, it's a K11 at the end of the day and it's been proven time & time again that they are not marketable.
Anyway, the story goes that 4 of these were built for a bunch of rich Japanese businessmen in the mid 90's as a ready to go race package. The engines were, at the time, Nismo N1 spec I guess and came with a lot of spares support, many of which are still with the car. This one has almost enough parts to build up another complete engine and has 13 sets of camshafts to name a few. I was not able to trace anything specific such as heritage though when I was interested in it back in 2007 I think it was......
Allegedly the reason this one originally came up for sale, was due to one of the 4 original owners selling up and since they all used to race together as a group they gradually lost interest and came up for sale over time. This one ended up in NZ but never really got used, then made it's way over here, never really got used and so on....
Being in the process of a serious N/A build, I can tell you that anything needing to be replaced on this car will have to be pretty much bespoke which is going to cause plenty of wallet pain and given that it's not road legal it limits the field to racers only. Given the current market, availability of other cars I doubt this would fit anywhere, so would perhaps be purely down to extravagance.
The above has very little credibility other than being a nice story. As people have said already, I hope it finds a good eccentric owner. It's certainly a car I wouldn't mind doing a little tag-teaming with
squarepants
Ex. Club Member
didnt this run lower than 15's down santa pod. i remember it beeing silly quick for a cg13
You would need to insure it as purely a competition vehicle through someone like reis.co.uk
I'm going to ask Miyoshi san the organizer of March meeting if he knows someting about that
Ahah, I have to say that I quite liked it too
The four 90's golden salary men in their four Nismo K11. DAT legend !
Back once again for the renegade master......
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NISMO-bui...2995547?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item19d386975b
Now with a bit more information and a dyno video to prove the output. 150.7@8118rpm. Nice to know where the bar for power output is set
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NISMO-bui...2995547?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item19d386975b
Now with a bit more information and a dyno video to prove the output. 150.7@8118rpm. Nice to know where the bar for power output is set
