I was flipping thru some GTR magazines tonight and ran into this owner feature....
I have so many questions right now...
@gtrmagazine1994 no. 58 published 2004 September.
Featured owner Imamura san, with his beloved R33 GTR... Vin BCNR-009025, age 51.
It talks about a rotary owner that has owned many rotary vehicles and including many RX7s, but bought a R33 and it changed his perception and fell in love with his GTR. At 80k he took the car to Omori factory and installed the S1 engine menu and how that completely change the car. Some details described such as at the time, the car actually has a Nismo 330F, Advan RA3, Tien RS, Nismo brakes, and Nismo carbon Weldina exhaust... How he might change to xenon's, and he loved keeping the car clean... And he would never sell the car...
Why am I interested in this owner and this car?
Because he was the first owner of my BCNR33. This is my car, featured at the time with her first owner... But he did indeed sell the car.
For the first time, I can dig thru and find bits and pieces of the details of my car, and I can see most the work was done in 2004 and prior. All the paper work lines up. But between them and when
@craftsports_jdm sold me the car a few details were changed. Steering wheel was changed to a OEM option woodgrain momo, it was on stock shocks and Mines springs, and rode on R34 OEM wheels. Certainly not as cool as what the owner has.
Till this day I can see the etched in calsonic decal on the dashboard, I still have the whale tail air scoop with the little details, except for the Nismo badge. Yes, it's Omori factory build 227. Based on the photos I guess it didn't have a build plaque on the timing cover. The crack on the passenger turn signal is broken in the same exact place up until last year when I changed to the Nismo bumper. It still has its Nismo brake pads up until I changed to the Endless setup... when I got the car, my vin came back as a LP2 midnight purple car.... But why is she black?
He would be 72 this year if my math is right... Would be crazy if I could meet him and show him the car now today.
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