LA’s Skyline Stronghold, AND Driving Paul Walker’s Personal R34 GT-R

I think I'm in heaven today. This is crazy. Oh my God. Lots of GTRs. What do you think, Tyler? Heaven. Heavenly. And then we have a very, very special GTR here. I heard it might be Paul Walker's. Damn. What's up, guys? Larry Chen here. Welcome to another episode of Hoonigan Autofocus. Today we're featuring, you know what? Every car that I feature is special, but this is so special. This used to be Paul Walker's car. My buddy, Brian, from top rank. Importavehicle.com with his stunner shades on. What up? He's gonna walk us a little bit through this car, but also I kinda wanted to get a little bit of a update on your inventory. So I actually bought my AH3 R32 GTR from you guys. The lovely YouTuber comments basically say that you guys supply all of the YouTube influencers. Do you or do you not? I think we do, but I think we supply cars to people that want quality cars. And if a lot of them are YouTube influencers, then that's just kinda how it works. And we're here in SoCal, so that's kinda where everybody is, right? The best of the best are already here. Well, no, you guys sell all over the US and all over the world too. Yep, so we ship cars domestically all over the United States all the time, but we also export from our Japan side to countries all over the world. Everything from 32s to 34s to S13s to S15s. You know, not here to the States specifically, but we send cars all over the place. I'll tell you what. This car is super special and there's a lot of history with this. We'll definitely dig into this, but can we just take a quick walk around around the grounds? Yeah. Just right off the bat right now, I'm seeing 33s. When I bought my car, the 33s weren't legal yet, right? Because they have to be 25 years old to be federally legal to import into the US. This wasn't legal yet, but now they're becoming legal. So they're flying off the shelves, huh? They are, yeah. So this car just turned 25 last month. So it got imported a few weeks ago and it is a super clean example of a Midnight Purple. So the original purple color for Nissan on this car. And then you get into the Midnight Purple 2, which is in the 34s and the Midnight Purple 3. But for now, the Midnight Purple R33 GTRs have been incredibly hard to keep in stock. Everybody wants them. What most people don't realize is that unlike Midnight Purple on the 34s, Midnight Purple on the 33 is actually the most common color. Oh, this actually, it doesn't have the color change. It doesn't have the color change and the flake in it. So just like gunmetal is the most common color on an R32, purple is actually the most common color on an R33. That's a really big misconception. I honestly thought the purple was the most rare too, for 33s. I know that the BLO is the most- Which we have outside, actually. Oh, okay, so I want to check that out. Yeah, so the BL0 cars are 141 total cars for the R32 GTR, which by far makes it the most rare color. The R33 GTR did get a pretty good selection of colors, but purple being the primary color. So what's the most rare color on the 34? Now I'm going off topic. A most rare color on a 34, like active red or lightning yellow. Huh, I didn't even know there was a yellow. I had no idea. I would think it's like that like sage color. Oh yeah, yeah, the Millennium Jade. So Millennium Jade, yeah, is on the M-Spec Nur cars. Now Millennium Jade on the M-Spec Nur car is quite rare because now you're breaking it down into generation and spec and color. It's kind of crazy to me that it's like getting that close. Like this just became legal by the month, and it's already here. It's already on its way to its new owner. I mean, you have a bunch of 33s too. And they're all sold, yeah. So I mean, 33s survive at most a week on our website. It's been a really, really popular car, and they also made substantially less. So the R33 GTR is 42 and some change, 1,000 cars. These you're looking at around 16,000 and some change. So significantly less, and then you cut that number in half again, pretty much with the R34. So yeah, they are rare. Okay, let's do a quick walk around inside, and then we'll go outside, and then we'll come back inside to talk about the Paul Walker car. That one, I've had a chance to shoot that a lot, the 34 that actually competed in World Challenge. Right, yep. So uniquely, we have one of each possible legal way you can have an R34. Factory built race car, Motorex, and Midnight Purple show or display. Those are the only three options you have for having an R34 in the US. Yeah, we have to get to that. That one is basically a brand new car. And we have all three of them here at the shop. So these are the three options you have for a legal car. Interesting. Legal, guys, legal. Emphasis. It's crazy, because normally I wouldn't skip over so many 32s, but you have so many 32s here. I just can't believe how many 32s. Every one is special in its own way. I know this one's super special. Yeah, so this was Hayashi from Garage Saurus' personal R32 GTR. So Garage Saurus is really popular in Japan for building a lot of higher end builds, everything from 32 to 33 and 34. This is an old school setup, but he still builds the cars pretty much the same to this day, obviously, with some upgrades. There's more modern parts available from HKS and stuff, but the cars are pretty much the same. This one is unique in that it has an OS88 sequential gearbox in it. Ooh, this has gotta be a lot of fun to drive, then. It runs on 109 octane, and it will take your breath away, literally. This is just one of those rock on racers. Yeah, this is the fastest R32 I've ever been in, for sure. Really? Yeah. So how much power do you think this makes? You know, Hayashi said 650 would be his guess at where he would have had it. But with a sequential, I mean, oh my God. Now with a sequential and it running on 109, yeah, who knows? Maybe send it to Wakita for a dyno day. That is incredible. I just, look at this scene. The scene is normal to you, and while I'm around these cars all the time, this still gets me. Like, I just can't believe there's just so much thing. And plus, on top of that, you guys pack them in. And we'll address the elephant in the room, or smallest elephant, because I'm sure this will pop up in the comments. This one is really out of place. It's a Lotus Exige S. We took it in on trade. So we take trade in sometimes if the cars are cool. So that's why there's a Lotus here. Like this? Like the 3000 GT? This is a GTO, sir. Mitsubishi GTO. Okay. In Japan, they were twin turbo, all wheel drive with active aero. Wait, so this is not the 3000 GT? Ah, same chassis, same body, but it's called a GTO. So in the US, we had a VR4 edition, right? So that was a twin turbo, all wheel drive. In Japan, it was called the GTO. So this one is sold and heading to its new owner, but has full active aero. Everything works. Really? Which for its time was super, super unique. So you've got a lip that folds up in the back, spoiler that comes down in the front, pop-up headlights, obviously. This has those pop-up. Pop-up headlights and the lip comes down. Wait, can you show that to us? If I can find the keys. Yeah, hold on. I think I need to turn it on to do it. Give me one second. Can I pause this for a second? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Pause, pause, pause, pause. Pause. Fun fact, the Supras have active aero too. No. Yeah. I've never seen that. Uh-huh. I'll show you. Yeah, this one and mine both have a thing where you can hit the. I've never seen that. Is that a U.S., non-U.S. thing? Yeah. So it's Japanese thing only. Right, yeah. So you hit a button on the front and it drops down a thing or when you hit a certain speed, it drops down. No, what? Same thing with this, yeah. Okay, you're about to blow my mind right now here. Okay. Show me this magic. Wait a minute. Hold on. That's what that is? Whoa! Oh my God, it says active aero. Yeah. It's down, you can see it. It actually says it. Yeah. Wait, so bring it up again? Mm-hmm. It like moves one inch. I guess that's all you need. That is crazy. Okay, that's pretty cool. Wait, so the Supra has that too? Uh-huh. It has a button on the inside that specifically says active aero. No way. Yeah. I didn't even realize it. So the U.S. Mark IVs never came with it. So some of the U.S. cars, I think you could order it with it new, but it's factory option or it's like it's a factory like actual thing on the RZ Supras in Japan. What? No way. It says Supra on it, right? Yeah. That's crazy. That actually is crazier than the Mitsubishi one. Yeah, this one is a little bit more exaggerated. So. Active aero. A lot of these are gone because you can't run a front mount with active aero. So a lot of these get thrown out or scrapped. That's actually cool though. I kind of like it. I think that's pretty cool. That's why my debate is do I do a front mount or do I keep my active aero? Oh, man. Can't have them both. Oh, that is so cool. Okay, I like that a lot. Oh, man. Some more 32s. You got a S-Cargo. I love these things. And then this is the other R34, the legal one that you guys have. This one is so clean. It's like a brand new car. Yeah. Is this one of the best 34s you've ever seen? It's up there for sure. I mean, it literally looks brand new inside. Honestly, it's like, it looks like it's off the dealer showroom floor. That's how clean it is. I don't know if this conveys on video, but the seats and everything, even the floor mats, everything is so clean. It probably doesn't have that many kilometers, huh? Nope. Yeah, this one is relatively low miles. And if you look at the engine bay, I mean, it's... Let's look at the engine bay real quick. Completely stock. Wow, that color is so nice. There's not a camera. I mean, a GoPro, that's really gonna do justice on it. But yeah, I mean, it's bone stock as it would have been from the factory. It's kind of amazing that it's this clean. 1999, huh? 99. All right, let's go outside real quick. I know you guys have a lot of cool, crazy cars outside. I love those so much. Cappuccinos? Yeah. Maybe one day I'll get one of those. We just sold a pair of them today. Oh, really? Yeah, I'll send you the link to what they do with them. Oh. But we've got some Silvias, some more GTR. You guys actually have a lot of GTIRs. Pulsars, yeah, they're popular. We've got a couple that just sold. We've got a couple that are waiting to go in to get cleaned up and put on the website. FD, right-hand drive. Yeah, it's a monster too. Single turbo. Car is really fast. So we had it out this weekend. It's so crazy to me because growing up, you know, I watched Best Motoring and just followed Option. And basically this has become what that was in real life. It's like a second wave of like, you got to watch it over there and now you get to actually have it here. Yeah, and I mean, the whole 25 year rule, thanks Mercedes, right? Okay. Yeah, thanks Mercedes. I mean, I guess it's good in a way because now people that are my age, we've grown up and, you know, we've saved up our money and now we can actually buy these things. It's literally hitting at the exact time of people that grew up watching these coming into that point in their life where they can afford to have them. And it's just kind of the perfect offset for people getting the cars they've always wanted. I love it. All right, so you got a Evo II? Evo I. Oh, Evo I. So Evo I here, we have a Evo II back there. So they're slightly different, but not too, too different. They just look so plain Jane. They are, and they drive like really plain. Yeah, it's such a great daily driver car, bone stock. That would be hard to mess with it, but I know people like to modify them extensively. That's the funny thing is people ask me what it's like to drive my R32 and I tell them it drives like a Nissan Sentra. Right? I mean, it's kind of what it is. Yeah. This is the BL0 car. Oh, this is so rare. Yeah, again, the rarest of the rare color wise, 141 cars. Neat. Ute from Australia. You guys have all sorts of crazy things. USDM Prius. This is an Aero Cabin, Toyota Soar Aero Cabin. So quite rare, one of 500 cars. Somebody save it. It's in here. I know, it needs to be saved. It needs to be saved. Somebody save it. What, are we missing anything here? We got a POW over there, right? Nissan POW. We got a Figaro. What's that in the back, a president or something? What is that? Right, so this car looks like it would be old, but it is not old. It is a Toyota Crown. Oh, oh. Okay, so this is the presidential car. Right, yeah, yeah. So this would be something meant to be driven in, and even though it looks like something from way back in the day, this is like a 94. Oh my God, I love the doilies. Yeah, I mean, it's a weird option. Skylines have them. Delicas have them. What the heck? This is a real Sentry. So is this 12-cylinder? So this is like the VIP, like top-of-the-line Toyota executives or executives in general. You'd be driven around in this car. This is the one that there's a hole here in the seat so you could extend your legs. Oh yeah, extend your feet through. Yeah, yeah. Oh, wow. So this is 12-cylinder then. No, the Sentry Limo is the one that came in a 12-cylinder, and that had all the little weird TVs in the trays and all that other kind of stuff. But this is really cool. Like, I would drive this every day. Yeah, this is a weird one. It's different. It totally screams Japanese taxi, though, with this thing. It does, yeah, I mean. That's so cool. I want one of these eventually for one of my cars. Actually, I should just put this on a normal pedestrian car. On your Supra. Yeah. That'd be great. Just put a little feeler in front of my A90 Supra. Pulsar, another GTI-R. Couple CR-Xs chillin'. Couple CR-Xs, right-hand drives. Yep. Couple Spoon motors, or SR20s would pull a premium. Basically. Usually we have so many more cars here, but we've been fortunate in that we've sold a lot of cars lately. Sir, there's already still a lot of cars here. I just cannot. Usually there's more. We got some VIPs right here. The Nissan SEMA. Oh, you know what would be cool is to take a SEMA to the SEMA show. That would be cool. I would like that. That would be- Why hasn't Nissan already thought of that? I don't know, I don't know. Delica, I like those. Evo II. Evo II, FC RX-7, NA, right? Yep. But it's manual. And it's a U.S. spec car, it's Takeshi's. Supra, another hardcore. Other Supra, so. Oh, this one's- This is the one that I had previously, originally, and then now I've bought a second car. Now this is the bastard child. Ew, who brought this? Man, I don't know. God, it's not often we have a BMW parked out front. I'm just kidding. Kidding, kidding. Hey, I love the A90 Supras, personally. I think it's an amazing car. That's my best, that's the best daily driver ever. Man, they're so good just how they are. Another Midnight Purple R33. Jeez, it's just. This is a nice one. This one, we bought these, this one and the other one inside at the same time and imported them at the same time. They both sold while they were on the water. Unbelievable, it's so cool. I do have to say though, the 90s Nissan steering wheel with the airbag, this came on my 1994 Nissan Maxima. Yeah, I believe it. It's a horrible steering wheel. And also the turnstock, everything, same thing too. Still, it's a skyline. It is a skyline. There's so many good aftermarket wheels. Yeah. Got this right here, Cappuccino. Ooh, I like this. K-Car, 660 cc's of fury. This is so cool. Has a little blow off valve on it and everything. I love this thing so much. We have some random Supra parked out here. Yeah, this guy. That is mine. That is so pretty though. Thanks. It looks great. I don't know if it's open, but Wakita was playing around with it. Oh, this one is a Japanese lock. Yeah, right-hand drive. So now on to the Paul Walker car. That's what you guys are here for. That's what you guys clicked on the link for. Oh, look at this view. Oh my God. Tyler, did you get enough of that car yet? No, definitely not. I'll take it tonight. Yeah. Okay, so I don't even really know where to begin with this thing. I mean, this is so, this car has become so historic now. It is a long story. It's a long story. I don't know how much you can get into the story, but I'll tell you my story about Paul Walker. I met him a couple of times when he was actually doing Time Attack, when he was actually actively driving Time Attack. I was photographing for that team. The first time I met him, he's like, hey, I'm Paul. And I'm like- You don't say. I know who you are, sir. You know, you're so nice. And, but I, it was such a pleasure to photograph him and photograph the whole team, the always evolving team. Part of it is that it just really showed how much of a car guy he was. And he cared. He cared about going faster. You know, I had a chance to actually shoot him driving. Also improving in Time Attack. I think he was driving a BMW M3 at the time. You know, it's just like the basics, rear wheel drive, just learning how to drive, learning how to go fast. And it was actually really cool to see him enjoy car culture in that way. And this is kind of part of it. Like this is, who knows? Maybe he had this car when I was photographing him. Yeah, I mean, it's an interesting evolution to see him go from being in a movie that's really portraying something to truly becoming that kind of person. You know, after the first Fast and Furious movie, I think is what really got him more into like, okay, now we need to own one of these cars. I have to have one of these cars. And MotorX was like prime time then, you know? So they were bringing these cars in, bringing them into compliance, doing everything you needed to do in order to properly, you know, own and register one of these cars that previously there was no way being able to do. You know, so this car came in in 2001 and it's a 1999. So it would have been in Japan for a couple of years, came through the MotorX program and was brought into complete compliance. So it could be, you know, owned and registered here in the United States. And I mean, since then has gone through a crazy evolution of multiple owners with insane stories, all the way to ending up here in our shop where we look to kind of push it on to the next crazy story of its life. So it's kind of interesting just looking at it, the hood's already open and looking at it, it was, it's like frozen in time in a way, right? It's modified by Paul and the gang at the time. I mean, you could see like Spectre. I mean, not necessarily what you would do to a car today. Right. But it is so cool. These companies like Spectre is not even around anymore. Right, yeah. And a lot of this stuff is old school. Like look at this right here, garage defend cooling panel, GT. Some crazy stuff on here. And again, like all really, really good parts, maybe not necessarily how someone would do it today. And there's so many new things available now as the RV26 continues to get more and more popular again, you know, in US tuning culture, but there's so much stuff in here. That's like, I mean, a lot of these companies, like you said, aren't even around anymore, but at the time would have been, you know, something as more of a pinnacle, you know, in tuning culture for sure. I mean, even like, I don't understand, like I couldn't even imagine what it would have been like to see this on the street back in 2000, 2001, 2002. Look, I was still in high school. Okay. I remember clearly going to watch Fast and the Furious one in the theaters in 1999, I think. Right. And coming out of the theater and like, wow, cars are so cool. I want to get into cars. I would probably, I don't even know. I would probably, I mean, the ability to own something like this though, in 2001, you know, like, and do all of this to it would have just been something so crazy. And that's what MotorX was. It was just the craziest idea that somebody was like, we're just going to do it and see how it goes. And they got through a lot of cars actually before, not so many R34s, but they did 32s and 33s and some GTS stuff. And then, you know, a handful of GTRs. And that number is variable based on who you ask and how many cars there actually were. But that's the crazy thing is there are cars like this that are surviving and this is one of the few. Do you know how many 34s were actually brought in and legalized by MotorX? Sure. So, I mean, the numbers range from, I've heard 12 completed with one exported, heard 16 to 19. You know, so what happened was they brought these cars in, they crash tested them, you know, to bring them into compliance. They use that crash data to start building cars or reconstructing the safety features for cars as they kind of went, you know, in the process of making more cars. So they did 32s, 33s and 34s. The 34s they brought in and only got through so many of them before the MotorX program got shut down. And how many of them they got through and how many completed versus how many cars actually came into the country are different. Now on this one, you'll see this would be like the proof basically of completion. I've seen this before on a couple of cars, like some 32s. Yep, so that would be an indicator of a true completed MotorX car. Now MotorX brought other cars in that didn't get completed. Those cars still exist here, but, and they came into the country with the intentions of being legal, but, you know, didn't make it through to getting this. So do those, do those get grandfathered in? It's a gray area. Yeah, I mean, it's right, I mean. So, I mean, cause even on this channel, we featured Toshi's old car, the white one, right? Yeah. And that one was also brought in and it was completely legalized. That was actually brought in almost as a brand new car. Yeah, it was. Yeah, Toshi's car was nearly brand new and the lowest possible miles. And he didn't really even drive it that much while he had it. So the car was incredibly low mileage. And I mean, he did just such an amazing job with that car. It's, I mean, that, that's a dream car for sure. You know, when we've had a few other MotorX cars here in the past that we've sold, but again, we're kind of the first call for people getting, you know, they have a MotorX car, they want to sell it. You know, we're kind of the place that deals in this just because we know the history and understand it so well. There's a few people here who have worked at MotorX in the past and are really, really familiar with these cars. Specifically, you know, which ones are which, what are the good ones, which ones, you know, throughout history have, you know, had damage and that kind of stuff. So this is definitely one of the good ones. So in terms of timing, if I have my timing right, this potentially could have been the first one that Paul bought after Fast and the Furious 2. This was the first one. Oh, this was? Yeah, this was his first one. So we actually have some photos of him, you know, taking delivery of the car and picking up his grandpa, you know, has his older brother in the photo. So we've got all that kind of stuff around it too. So this was his first one. So there's a bit of a misconception that Paul's car was a black R32 GTR. That was actually Craig Lieberman's car that he had lent Paul while this car was kind of getting done. There's like a little mini series on YouTube or a little clip, I guess you could say, of him, Paul, explaining MotorX and, you know, how he had to have the car. I'm having MotorX get one for me, that kind of stuff. But he's driving a black one in that. It was just him using, you know, the black car for that. But this was actually his personally owned. The other misconception about this car, because it looks so similar, is that this was in the movie and it wasn't. So this wasn't a movie car. It has the exact same C-West kit, exactly as the movie car would have had, but it is not actually a movie car. Yeah, because the movie car was actually converted to rear wheel drive. Right, so they were mostly GTTs. And then they had a couple of hero cars that were GTRs. But again, this one has the same C-West kit, just not the same car. Right, obviously it doesn't have the same stuff on it. No livery on it. Yeah, no livery. You know, a lot of people ask us, man, the comments that we get, like, if it was Paul Walker's car, then why doesn't it have the blue stripes? Man, that wasn't Paul Walker's car. That was Universal Studios' car. How many, like, for example, how many Supras would they have the guy, like, the Rocket Man on the Supra? Yo, this is Paul Walker's car! Because it has Rocket Man on the side. Right, exactly. Come on, guys. Wow, okay. This is so, this thing is crazy! Yeah, I mean, this is such a time capsule. So tell me, what are you guys actually going to do with this car? You guys are going to sell it? Because we're in the business of selling cars, is, I think, what needs to happen to this car. I mean, we aren't a museum or a collection, you know, so we do have some cars like the race car, you know, that is kind of a forever car here. But for the most part, you know, we retail cars. So this car will get sold to somebody. And how we do that sale, we're still figuring out. You know, there's, you know, obviously Barrett-Jackson, or there's, you know, Bonham World Auction or BH Auctions, and there's, you know, Private Party or Instagram, who knows, you know, but. The thing is, Paul's cars, they have just this aura around them. They, he's touched so many lives. He was kind of like the actor guy, right, like you said before, and then he's actually turned into a real car guy. And he's inspired so many people, like myself. And I'm so lucky to be able to work with him before he passed. This is so special because it's like, aside from the Supra, this is the one. Like this is- I mean, it would be like my grandparents getting to own or drive James Dean's car. You know what I mean? Like, it's definitely something that, you know, is really, you know, iconic for our generation and how we grow up and what influenced us into even wanting to be around these cars in the first place. I'll tell you, when we got this car delivered and I drove it, there was something so crazy to me about sitting in the driver's seat and driving a car that belonged to Paul Walker, the person that I'll say introduced me into this whole kind of scene of cars in the first place when I was in high school. I mean, it was kind of a surreal experience. And like you said, it's just something that, you know, I think that the right person is going to truly appreciate. But even all of that aside, this car is incredible on its own. So even for somebody that isn't, you know, maybe the biggest Paul Walker or Fast and Furious fan, but loves R34 GTRs, I mean, this one is definitely up there as one of the pinnacle R34s, you know, that I would call maybe not modern, but certainly period correct. Well, because if you do, for you guys at least, to maintain the value of this car, in a way you can't change it at all. You can't update it, but you can do things to fix it. Right, you know what I mean? So the car, the suspension on this car is difficult because it's old. So we're upgrading it with some new Ohlins that are shipping from Japan currently. We should have them next week. So that is something that is a necessary upgrade to this car. You know, for everyone else kind of dragging us in the comments about it being a horrible body kit and the wing and everything else is like, my answer is you can buy it and you can certainly change it or, you know, appreciate that this is like, man in 2001, this was cool. Like if you'd have seen this car in 2001, this is how it would have been, you know, just like the veil side stuff. You look at it now and you're like, yeah, not for me, but you know, in its era. I'll tell you what, once you do get the suspension on and it's lowered a little bit and then you have it flush again and then you clean it up and it's going to look good. Honestly, I mean, I would drive it. I mean, even the wheels, right? They're stern wheels. So super 90s, you know, early 2000s, you know, Japanese three-piece wheels. But again, in that period, this would have been like a wheel you wanted. Yeah, you guys are car salesmen. What do you actually think something like this is worth? Have you guys ever had a car like this with this much history? History? Well, I mean, you have the Apache Toshi's car. I mean, obviously I consider that historical just because of who he is and, you know, but your motor X cars in general, you know, we have sold for pretty much right around the $400,000 mark. This one is a bit more unique. So I would expect at least that or more for sure on this car. Well, I don't even know. I mean, how much was his E30? Do you even know how much his E30 sold for? You know, those cars sold for a lot. I mean, but I think some of them sold as a package deal and some of them were not for sale and some of them were, you know, removing the Paul Walker aspect of the car. Historically, the motor X cars have sold for that kind of price point in general. So I think that the Paul Walker thing definitely adds a bonus, you know, to the right buyer, but to any other buyer, you know, it might just be like, I don't really care who the previous car owner was. It's still a motor X car, but that being said, we don't intend to market it, you know, solely or price it solely based on the prominence of Paul Walker having owned the car. You know, we very much want to retail the car for what it is and what the motor X R34 GTR is, you know, trend and sell for, but the Paul Walker thing is a really, really nice, you know, cherry on top for whoever purchases this car, just because like I said, the lineage and ownership history and story behind this car is remarkable. And the fact that it is here is mind bending to me, even still, I see it every day. And it's so crazy that the car is here, but somebody is going to really love this car. And when you drive it, you will see exactly why. Let's just say it's a half a million dollar car. And yeah, I mean, I think that's how much it was worth. Granted, I don't know anything about auctions or anything about really high dollar cars, but from what you've said in terms of cars that have sold, this is one of very, very few, maybe like you said, 14 to 16 cars that are legal in the U.S. to drive with no mileage restriction or anything. And on top of that, it used to be Paul Walker's and it was his first GTR. And to a collector or car guy that may have everything, someone else isn't going to be able to just go out and get one of these right now. You know, I mean, it's, you know, if you want a super car, most of them are pretty attainable. You just go get one. It's like that for a lot of cars, but this car falls into, I think, a special class of car that, you know, for a collector or somebody that wants something, you know, with history and it's truly unique right now, this is something that you're going to buy. And then anyone else behind you is not going to get. Well, can we do a quick walk around in terms of like mods? Like what, this is so, this really is late nineties. This is as late nineties as it gets. God, it moves. It does move. Yeah. And you see it move when you drive. So yeah, it's. What, so who makes this? That is a C West. Yeah. So this is actual Japanese C West. Wings for the, but it's universal, obviously. Right. Yeah. And the whole kit is actually C West all the way around. So we've got a HKS, old school HKS super dragger exhaust, 10 coilovers for right now until the Olean's going, the obviously Brembo R34 GTR brakes, which was factory. It has the stern wheels. It has a mixture of really good Nismo parts like Nismo arms, lots of good Tomei stuff, Tomei turbos, HKS hard piping kit, HKS intakes, HKS fuel rail. So lots of good stuff all around the car. Just all bolt-ons pretty much. Right. At the time this was maximum bolt-on. Yeah. Yeah. This was, this was what you got. You know, it's actually a Nismo intercooler, I believe. But so on the backside, if you look behind the cooling plate, you'll see it says Nismo, but it's, he flipped it around and put HKS, I think. So, or somebody did. Okay. Huh. And then what about the interior? Pretty much stock except for. Yeah, there's like a little Pioneer Kenwood, you know, deck in there. Otherwise you have the iconic MFD system in there. So, you know, what's crazy is this wasn't changed to miles per hour. Like I've seen, I think it wasn't Toshi's car changed to miles per hour. Yeah. But this is kilometers an hour. The cluster actually reflects mileage, but somebody would have probably swapped in these Nismo ones back to kilometers. Cause at the time of motor exit would have been miles. Yeah. Interesting. Okay. Oh, look at that screen. Yeah. So that one, we're actually sending out to get repaired. So it'll have a brand new MFD in it. That's, that's the part that really dates the car really. Yeah. Yep. I guess we're going to go drive it. Yeah, let's do it. Am I allowed to drive this certain car? You are. This very historic? Yes. Oh my God. You can't even hear it if you hear that. It's good. I like it. Oh my God. This is so bad. It's so bad that I'm driving this. Is it bad or is it good? I mean, it's, yeah, it's really good. Cause that means you might want to do something more to yours. Oh, nope, nope. Mine's staying stock. Stock forever. I said, so the car has twin HKS super sequential blow off valves right here, or dual. What? Just because, just to be obnoxious. Yeah. All of the sound. Most people would be like none. Some people say one. This one is two. Wow. Two. Twinsies. Dry carbon. Oh, so this is actually a real dry carbon hood. Lift it one. There you go. One finger. It's a pretty light hood. So this is actually made in Japan. Electra CPS. I don't even know. Still cool. I mean, it doesn't sound that crazy. How much power do you think it's making? That's a tough call. I wouldn't even begin to know where to guess, honestly. It feels in the fives. Five? That much? It feels it. Probably more like four and some change, but. I'll tell you. I have a pretty, I have a pretty good butt dyno. I drive a lot of cars. So I'll let you know. 1,000 horsepower. Here we go. So I've driven a couple R34s, but this none as special as this. This is crazy. I can't believe it. Surprisingly, I haven't driven one in the US yet. I've driven one in Japan and I've driven one in the UK. This is not even like a JDM fanboy moment. This is just like a fanboy moment. Yeah, four paw. Let's do it. I see what you mean about the valves, valves. Little sound effects. So it's pretty laggy. Is it stock turbos then? Tomei turbos. Okay, all right. But it's still twin turbo. Still twin, yep. Oh, okay. But it's running 91. Right. Yeah, I could just see it's one of those things where there's just certain things that you can button up to make this whole again. Yeah, I mean, it needs a paint correction and a little bit of this and that. And some of the, you know. That sound. Touch points in the car need some improvement. Yeah. So, cause right now the way it is, it's pretty much the way you got it. Yeah, yeah. This is actually a little bit better than the way we got it. Oh, okay. You've already started digging into it. Right, yep. Okay. A little flame there. Just a little. Pop one light over. You know, the crazy thing is, I already get a lot of looks and a lot of people kind of go crazy when they see my 32 on the road. Unfortunately, I think it's kind of common. You know, there's so many 32s and I know a lot of people with 32s and it's not uncommon to go to a meet or go on a drive and there's a couple of 32s, right? But a 34. Yeah. If I see one on the street right now, it just blows my mind. Yeah, it is, especially since it's four years prior to general import. But I think even as general import happens when the car is turned 25, I mean, you're still going to be such an uncommon car. Right. That sound is crazy. Yeah, it's an exaggerated blow off valve. It's very, very, it's like, it's more like a whistle than anything else. Yeah, HKS. That's interesting. Yeah, I couldn't imagine driving this back then. That many years ago. The fact that he had this and I was, you know, 17 years old. Just crazy. Well, I'll tell you what, we missed the guy. Man, it still pulls really good. It does, yeah, it does. The thing is, I didn't realize how long second gear is in this car. It's really, really long. Yeah, I mean, it really is a good car. It's just, you know, like I said, somebody will, you know, make the improvements they want to make over time. You know, we'll do the necessary things and try to preserve it, you know, while upgrading things like the suspension, as you can feel right now. It's, it really is preserving car history. So most people will just see that's an old Nissan. They'll think it's a Nissan Maxima, you know, or Ultima. When they see the Nissan badge, it's like, whatever. But when it's somebody that actually knows, it's a showstopper. Yeah, it's been interesting to see, even with the 32s, a lot of, you know, car people, you know, kind of turn their nose up at the GTRs because it's a Nissan and what's so special about it. And now, you know, they've appreciated in value so quickly that, you know, people are scurrying to hop on that train, you know, owning a car before, you know, it reaches a price of, you know, more unattainable than they somewhat are right now. But aside from the value aspect, I mean, the car is, the 32, 33 and 34 is super fun to drive. I mean, it's something, the twin turbo all wheel drive is, you know, an experience of itself. It's still a driver car. My car is not fast by all means. It's actually pretty slow compared to, for modern standards. But there's just that nostalgic aspect of it. And I actually, I love it because I love the way it looks. I love the way it looks. I love the way I feel when I'm driving it. You just know it's something special. You feel like a million bucks driving this thing. That's just so weird. It's, yeah. It's just crazy. Neck is getting broken right now in this WRX. Oh my God, R34, bro! Oops. Sounds good, huh? Sounds good. That's weird. Why is it that the red line starts at nine, even though the red line is at eight? It's an Nismo question, I guess. I'm not sure why they decided to do that. Like eight is like caution, maybe? That sounds incredible. Really. There's just something so right about the inline six. Yeah, actually. I mean, RB or 2J, really. More than you can afford, pal. Ferrari. About to shift 15 gears right now. I do have to say, everything still feels pretty tight. I mean, this really is a modern car compared to my car, which was designed in the 80s. Right, yeah. This car is modern. It feels so tight. The shifting feels nice. The steering wheel, everything feels really good. I mean, I'm sure a lot of bushings are worn out, but honestly, this doesn't even have that many miles, right? No. Yeah, so. It's so loud. It's like so sharp. Yeah, it is. It's like a piercing noise, yeah. Times two, really. You've driven this around? A lot, yeah. Test drives. Right, yeah. So I'm more of the person that goes to a lot of the car shows and events and does like that kind of stuff. So I've brought this to quite a few things so far. Sean has brought it to a handful of stuff also. Kind of just letting people know we have it, and the car spent so many years tucked away that it's cool to get it out, share it with some people. Paul had it, and then it was gone for a long time. It was out of the public eye, and then now that you guys have it, you guys actually want to kind of show it off a little bit, bring it back, and now more than ever, you know, it's cool to see some of Paul's old cars. Right. It makes me wonder how many are gonna be left at this point that are still, that are either within the family collection or just haven't been sold. Yeah, it'll also be interesting to see how many people bring them out into public again. You know, like, I always think it's so unfortunate when a super cool car gets sold into a private collection, and it'll never be seen again. You know, people shrink wrap it. You know, that's what's happening with some of the R34s that we're selling, the show or display cars, is that nobody will ever see that car again, except for the owner, really, until years and years and years from now when it's sold at auction again. Well, you don't have to worry about that. With your car. Your car's all over the place, man. Oh yeah, I drive the heck out of my car. You drive that thing everywhere. Yeah, I love that thing, and it's brought me a lot of joy. Honestly, my favorite part about my R32 is, you know I went out of my way to restore stock wheels, right, and I got brand new centers and all of that. I've gone to shows before where people are like, oh, I've never seen those wheels before. What kind of wheels are those? We get that a lot, right? And they're stock! It's so funny, and on top of that, my favorite thing to do when I pull up to a show is I pop the hood and people are like, wait, it doesn't come with mushrooms? Right, yeah. Like, what is this thing? It's like, the airbox doesn't look like two giant filters? So people are so used to it being modified. But yeah, these cars have become so modified over the years, and what's crazy is that stock wheels for R32s have gotten so expensive. Because you can't find them anywhere, and people that want to put their cars back to stock, which is what a lot of people are trending towards doing now, is it's made them incredibly hard to find. Same thing with the stock steering wheel, same thing with stock seats. Yeah, and I mean, for a while, I'm sure people were just throwing them out. Yeah, exactly. Like, someone buys a car, they're like, oh, throw out the stock wheels, rip out the stock seats, rip out the stock steering wheel, shift knob, throw all that stuff out, and put these wheels on it, these seats in it. Stock airboxes, we pay a premium for because we need them to do California compliance, and there's not that many left in existence because everyone threw them out. So this doesn't actually need to go through any California compliance or anything. This is fully legal in the US, all 50 states already. No. No? No. So it is legal, all 50 states, yes, but California still would require this car to go through emissions. Got it, got it, okay. So it's federally legal, but state, for California, illegal still. Well, legal. Or not yet, or you would have to legalize it. So the car is legal to own, just can't be driven on the road. Until it's legalized. Right, registered in California, yeah. So emissions compliance. Yeah, I know all about that. Still a thing here for this car, but anywhere else, no problem. Yeah, and you know, on the weekly, I wouldn't say daily, on the weekly, I get questions about that, about my car, and they ask, hey, why is it that you went through the hassle to legalize your car, your R32 GTR? And honestly, it's such a simple answer. I gotta play by the rules. I gotta follow the rules. I wanna keep my car forever. That's my life for car. I don't want it to get seized for any reason. I don't want to cheat any system. You know, I wanna drive it, and I don't wanna have to worry about the police. I wanna be able to smog it like a normal car. And it's so nice, so nice for me to be able to just not worry about it. Yeah, worry-free. I could take it to whatever events. I could take it to track days. I've put so many miles on it, and that's kind of the fun thing. I love it because the AC blows ice cold. It still has R12 in it, right? From Japan, not modified. Still blows ice cold. Still just the perfect, perfect daily driver. They, you know, and they can be daily driven if you take care of the cars. You know, I get that question all the time. Like, you know, could I daily drive this car? I'll drive this car every day. Yeah, absolutely. You could daily drive a car. You could daily drive any car, you know, if you're committed to taking care of it, you know? And I mean, the R32 was meant to be daily driven. And it was a production car. And it has a huge trunk. Yeah, and it gets decent mileage still. It's got air conditioning. Seats are pretty comfortable. So this doesn't have cruise control? None of the GT-Rs have cruise control. Oh, I didn't know that. Sport mode all the time. You learn something new every day. Okay, I'm getting better at this thing. Takes a while to get used to the six-speed. Those blow-off valves are just so wild, aren't they? So wild. It's crazy. Hmm. I don't even know what to say. That was pretty cool. This is one of the good days, you know? I have some tough days, but this is one of the good days. It's really, really cool to be able to drive this historic car. I mean, he's owned a lot of cool cars. Right, yeah. He's owned, whatever, the E36 Lightweight. I think they sold his E30 M3 recently. I don't even know how many cars he's had. Yeah, I mean, he's had a lot of cars. But this one, I think, is the top. This one's the one to have. Or has he had another? He does, he has a white one. Yep, so had this car first, and then eventually wanted the white one. So sold this car and bought the white car. So, and I believe that car is with Always Evolving? Has that car? Okay, okay, all right. As it should. Maybe it should stay there forever. Yeah, I hope it does. I hope it does, and I hope, you know, they continue the legacy, and I hope whoever buys this continues Paul's legacy, because on the reel, he inspired a lot of us. He inspired me. It was such an honor to be able to shoot him before he passed. And, you know, it's just cool to see that he kind of left something like this behind. But thank you guys so much. Again, if you guys want to buy a cool JDM car and live your JDM fanboy dreams, definitely contact Top Rank. They're here in Southern California, but they'll ship worldwide, and they'll ship pretty much anywhere in the US. True. Yeah. I think that's a wrap. That's a wrap.