V$ ShadowTuner's HooptytoDiamonds Garage roleplay

ShadowTuner

Don't realy know how to get started at this so i'll start with a little discription on me and my garage

I'm Jo, 29 years old, Belgian and been into cars eversince i could walk. Everyone knows how the carpassion grows the moment you got your licence, so did mine. My daily car is a mitsubishi GTO ( also known as Mitsu GTFO )

After a shitload of little projects i bought a skyline R34 GT-R, a real piece of shit if you ask me. All i got was a damaged shell, severe broken E-bay suspensionkit and 1 stock GT-R rim with a bald tire on it.
I bought this hoopty for 350 euro

My first plan was make it a street legal track car, primered the entire car, bought another set of e-bay shocks and a bit of race parts like carbonfiber hood and trunk.

But on a cold night after a good drink with my friends at the bar that plan drasticaly changed. I crashed MitsuGTFO and was rushed to hospital with severe back injuries.

After 2 years of hard labor on getting back on my legs and getting strong enough to work on the skyline, i did a full remake on the original plan for it. Race car idea was no longer posible since i need comfort for my back so i went back to the drawning board. A full blown GT-R custom kit, bagged for ultra comfort, custom paint, rollcage, custom made porsche GTR3 rims, no money was saved on this car.

Estimated value of the GT-R is around 70K euro.

But like everyone knows, a project car stays a project car so it's up for sale.
So hit me up if you are interested.

As for the near future? Probably rebuild MitsuGTFO 😃

( please! if i can improve this, tell me how cuz im a complete noob in RP )

Ryder

Alcohol and driving don't get along very well :oops:
So, is the GTFO getting repaired ?

ShadowTuner

# Ryder. :
Alcohol and driving don't get along very well :oops:
So, is the GTFO getting repaired ?

I know 🙁

and well it doesnt look so good so idk what to do with it ...

Added 45 minutes later:

Oh yeah i forgot to mention this little thingy ...
my dad's friend brought me his 1971 Ford Mustang Mach 1 to give it a new paintjob and some patching up, costed me around 500 v$ on sanding paper and paint, got 1500 V$ for the job 😃 gotta make money tho

Mikingo

Nice ford !

Ryder

Oh snap, I wasn't expecting to see the GTFO on that level of damage

ShadowTuner

# Ryder. :
Oh snap, I wasn't expecting to see the GTFO on that level of damage

Neither was i ... so unless the GT-R isnt getting sold, the GTFO will have not enough funds to be rebuild 🙁

THWOLF00

How much are you looking to sell the R-34 for?

ShadowTuner

# THWOLF00 :
How much are you looking to sell the R-34 for?

i was thinking of around 70K

Added 26 minutes later:

Bought a workingvan of an old man who left it for sale in 2001.

This shed was sitting in the grass for as long as im owning the "shop" so i stopped by to see what and how..
An old note was laying on the seat with a phonenumber on it so i called and found out it had a chevy smallblock in it, 400 000 miles on it and it was directly imported from America in 1992. When i asked how much he wanted for it he said if i could get it running i could have it for 100V$
After a small checkup i noticed it was running superlean so i adusted the carb and had it running like a kitten.

THWOLF00

Oh, Haha.. WAAAAYYYYYY Too much for My budget! But, Good Luck on selling it to Get the Mitsu back up.

ShadowTuner

# THWOLF00 :
Oh, Haha.. WAAAAYYYYYY Too much for My budget! But, Good Luck on selling it to Get the Mitsu back up.

Man gotta get money to patch the gtfo back on the road tho 😃 thanks anyway!

Got some awsome pics incoming, just need to render them so they look clean and stuff but i can give a little tip: " Mad JDM Martin "

ShadowTuner

So, due a bussy weekend i didn't make it on time to upload the pictures but here's a sneakpeak on my newest Hoopty2DiamondCar.
I saw an old school friend posting a picture of his granddad's ae86 saying " who wants this hoopty? "
Ofc i noticed he didn't had a clue on what he was giving away so i instantly reacted! I drove 2 hours and made the cheapest deal in my life, bought it for only 200V$ :troll:

Now im not sure what im gonna do ... either patch this beauty up and sell it to restore the GTFO or sell the GTFO for scrap and make this my daily car?
Any idea's?

ShadowTuner

I desided to let the gtfo go, metalscrappers payed 150V$ for and i could have the rims and the steeringwheel :thumbsup:

That means im keeping the AE 86 and make it my new daily ^^

Sadly the 86 is a bit sick 🙁 it's puffing white smoke clouds ( allmost as if it's vaping 😃 ) and it has a nasty bent in the rear suspensionarm. On the brightside of life i found out the car was wrapped in black. So list to do:

-Buy suspensionarms allround the car
-Check the engine and in worst case buy a new engine
-Buy dirtcheap rims and restore them
-Buy ebay coilovers
-Repaint

I stripped the damaged bodyparts allready today, only the fenders are a 50/50 of either scrap or reparable.

ShadowTuner

Aight, time to say goodbye to the old shop, local government declared it unstable ( cuz the bastards want to build flats on it ) so i had to look for a new spot. Found this garageblock in the newspaper so i desided to go check it out. It's only 3 km from where the old garage is so everything is quickly transported. The landlord asks 450V$/month water and enviromenttaxes included, the only thing i have to take care of is electricity and the old boiler needs a replacement ( wich i got in the old garage so no money spend )

Contractsigning is tomorrow ^^

ShadowTuner

A good week passed and i moved into the new shop :thumbsup:

ShadowTuner

Well since it turned quite here, i got a small update on the Bae86 for all that's worth of it, bought a used bodykit on ebay, nothing extreme

what you guys think of it? im not realy impressed but it's better than the broken bumpers it used to have

(ps the flares are from a friend, i test fitted them but will not use them cuz idk why not 😃

ShadowTuner

any tips on paint? or should i keep the kit in primer?

Pinter

# ShadowTuner :
any tips on paint? or should i keep the kit in primer?

Hahaha, try to paint match it with the colour of the car, i like it.

ShadowTuner

hmm than i'll have to check if i can find some cans of that colour since it was spraypainted with a couple of cans i still had laying around in the back of the van :lolhitting:

Added 29 minutes later:

but ofc i gotta make money aswell ^^ buddy came over with his ignorant stanced turboed civic to get a detailing job on the side since a granny scraped it with her purce :facepalm:

got 150 V$ for the detailing and paintrepair i did on it

ShadowTuner

time to figure out if i still got some paint left of the car ...

ShadowTuner

Since i changed of cars more than the avarage of guys on here change underpants ... i got a new car 😃 had to opportunity to trade the Bae86 for a RX7 FC3s ( more info underneed the picture)

Its a mind clean car, besides a bit of dents and scratches, only 120 000 km's on the clock. oh well not completely stock cuz 5ZIGEN's, aftermarket mufflers and lowered springs by KW. The previous owner was so generous to give me a brand new rollcage with it.

Spoiler: Basicaly i was looking for JDM parts of the Bae86 on ebay when all of a sudden i noticed an ad of some guy asking for twinturbo's for his RX7driftmissle. I thought ' oh well probably a bucket rx7 wich is ready for scrapping... When i opened his ad i saw how awsome his car was! I instantly contacted him to tell him how awsome it looked and imo it was way to good to become a driftmissle _insert future tears~ After some chatting i discoverd he was interested in buying a AE86 as daily car/drifter so i came up with a trade deal, his rx7 for my AE86. He instantly agreed and we arranged a meet-up ( a 2 hour drive with the van and the 86 on a rental trailer, 2 cups of coffie and alot of stories later i drove home with the RX7 on the trailer. The thing is a beast, eventhough it's stock

Added 51 minutes later:

oh yeah small edit!!!!!

I might have a buyer for the skyline :woot: !! Dude lives in germany on 6 hours from me, he'll be coming over to check on it ( either it's a joke or this dude is realy driving 6 hours just to see if he likes the car ... like what the fuck ) somewhere next week between monday and wednesday. i'll keep you guys updated :bananajump: