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Postby BZG Wagon » Mon Apr 23, 2007 10:04 pm

I'm having such a hard time finding a decent Manual GTT (for a reasonable price). Its getting soooo frustrating.

I find most of the ones at yards are quite rough body-wise - and I reckon i've been to nearly every yard in Manukau, New Lynn and Grey Lynn.

What's eveyones secret to finding mint cars? Im regularly browsing Trademe, Trade & Exchange, AutoTrader and Car Yards, but that 'right one' hasn't come up yet.

Glad I havent sold my car yet :oops:.
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Postby snwtoy » Mon Apr 23, 2007 10:06 pm

BZG Wagon wrote:I'm having such a hard time finding a decent Manual GTT (for a reasonable price). Its getting soooo frustrating.

I find most of the ones at yards are quite rough body-wise - and I reckon i've been to nearly every yard in Manukau, New Lynn and Grey Lynn.

What's eveyones secret to finding mint cars? Im regularly browsing Trademe, Trade & Exchange, AutoTrader and Car Yards, but that 'right one' hasn't come up yet.

Glad I havent sold my car yet :oops:.


I got lucky... mine's from buyright in manukau. But that was a couple of years ago. I paid a premium for manula + non white though.
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Postby AJz » Tue Apr 24, 2007 2:31 am

BZG Wagon wrote:I'm having such a hard time finding a decent Manual GTT (for a reasonable price). Its getting soooo frustrating.

I find most of the ones at yards are quite rough body-wise - and I reckon i've been to nearly every yard in Manukau, New Lynn and Grey Lynn.

What's eveyones secret to finding mint cars? Im regularly browsing Trademe, Trade & Exchange, AutoTrader and Car Yards, but that 'right one' hasn't come up yet.

Glad I havent sold my car yet :oops:.


i found i wasnt really looking that hard, just happened to read the paper over my lunch break at work, saw the ad at a local car yard. Told a mate to drive it, he loved it said i should come look, a day later, i had bought it. Must say i wasnt really looking out for one, just it came up and i couldnt refuse :P

SNWTOY, can i ask how much u paid ???
I had vtax :(
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Postby gttNICK » Tue Apr 24, 2007 11:35 am

It took me forever to find my one too. I bought mine in Auckland also, everyone seems to be charging a massive premium for anything under 90,000kms in manual. I drove a mint one off trademe with 60,000kms on it (all standard) and the guy wouldn't consider anything under $14k! In terms of dealers, GMC in Grey Lynn had about 4 on their yard last time I was up. A few were a little rough like you say but they told me they would have any imperfections repaired before a sale. I also found them to be the most reasonably priced, think they were all $11990 for manuals around 80,000kms. Will probably incur on road charges though, 1st time rego etc.
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Postby Heapho » Tue Apr 24, 2007 9:58 pm

BZG wagon - How much are you wanting to spend on a GT-T I have a 98 Silver manual done 62 XXXKm mint conditon Grade 4 car 17" alloys and for the right price I might be consider/ be interested in selling it ?????
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Postby snwtoy » Tue Apr 24, 2007 9:59 pm

AJz wrote:SNWTOY, can i ask how much u paid ???


17.5 from memory, September 2004..?...
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Postby gttNICK » Tue Apr 24, 2007 11:05 pm

Heapho wrote:BZG wagon - How much are you wanting to spend on a GT-T I have a 98 Silver manual done 62 XXXKm mint conditon Grade 4 car 17" alloys and for the right price I might be consider/ be interested in selling it ?????


Didn't you just buy it? Unhappy already?
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Postby AJz » Wed Apr 25, 2007 2:02 am

snwtoy wrote:
AJz wrote:SNWTOY, can i ask how much u paid ???


17.5 from memory, September 2004..?...


thats fair for back that long :)
I had vtax :(
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Postby Heapho » Wed Apr 25, 2007 10:24 am

Yea just got it bout 3 weeks ago nah not unhappy Just would sell it for the right price as I can just import another one if I wanted to ! Its a nice wagon and goes good but I think I want something else I only brought It because there Isn't heaps of them around hamilton
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Postby BZG Wagon » Wed Apr 25, 2007 11:05 am

Heapho wrote:BZG wagon - How much are you wanting to spend on a GT-T I have a 98 Silver manual done 62 XXXKm mint conditon Grade 4 car 17" alloys and for the right price I might be consider/ be interested in selling it ?????


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Postby sleepy » Sat Apr 28, 2007 2:32 pm

BZG Wagon: I am in the same boat as you. Last weekend I went and had a look at a few gt-t's at the yards (ACE motors, Buy Right botny and manukau). I think the black one at manukau has the manifold problem, it sounded like a tractor as soon as you start it, and when you gave it some gas it got worse. Wasnt impressed at all. So hard to try and find a decent manual. I been looking at trademe a lot, and some prices are just a joke, some dealers in hamilton want $19900. Ted Tracey have a lot of black gt-t's in manual but I havent gone and had a look in person. Whats wrong with ted tracey? In your first post you said you wouldnt go near them. Goodluck in finding your gt-t.
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Postby Inane » Sat Apr 28, 2007 7:16 pm

My GTT is for sale if anyones keen

$8k (offers considered)

170k on the clock.
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Postby BZG Wagon » Sat Apr 28, 2007 11:38 pm

sleepy wrote:BZG Wagon: I am in the same boat as you. Last weekend I went and had a look at a few gt-t's at the yards (ACE motors, Buy Right botny and manukau). I think the black one at manukau has the manifold problem, it sounded like a tractor as soon as you start it, and when you gave it some gas it got worse. Wasnt impressed at all. So hard to try and find a decent manual. I been looking at trademe a lot, and some prices are just a joke, some dealers in hamilton want $19900. Ted Tracey have a lot of black gt-t's in manual but I havent gone and had a look in person. Whats wrong with ted tracey? In your first post you said you wouldnt go near them. Goodluck in finding your gt-t.


I had a friend who bought a car from Ted Tracy's, and everything went wrong. They promised to repair a few small items before he took delivery and it never happened, and they flat out refused. Long story short, the car was a dud & on its second engine (some reasonthe 3 year warranty didnt cover engine failure?!?) and I have heard similar stories from others.

Drove the black one from Buy Right and thought the same thing. The silver one at GMC Grey Lynn looks like its been in a rear accident (look underneath & the boot leaks). Looked at one today which I have a feeling the whole exterior has been resprayed.

There are not many selling privately?!? And you're right about some of the asking prices. On my travels I have seen a few mint auto's - so im just holding out hope there will be a mint manual somewhere!
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Postby BZG Wagon » Sat Apr 28, 2007 11:41 pm

Inane wrote:My GTT is for sale if anyones keen

$8k (offers considered)

170k on the clock.


...mate if you want to sell it i'd look at removing photo's of it on the beach...
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Postby Inane » Sun Apr 29, 2007 11:48 am

BZG Wagon wrote:
Inane wrote:My GTT is for sale if anyones keen

$8k (offers considered)

170k on the clock.


...mate if you want to sell it i'd look at removing photo's of it on the beach...


not really that much need, I'm not that worried about it, yes it once went down ninety mile beach, i'm not about to deny this,

it had a full immersive underbody wash, steam clean and detail immediately afterwards, and that was over a year and a half ago and there is no corrosion or rust anywhere on the car.
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Postby sleepy » Sun Apr 29, 2007 4:43 pm

BZG Wagon wrote:I had a friend who bought a car from Ted Tracy's, and everything went wrong. They promised to repair a few small items before he took delivery and it never happened, and they flat out refused. Long story short, the car was a dud & on its second engine (some reasonthe 3 year warranty didnt cover engine failure?!?) and I have heard similar stories from others.

Drove the black one from Buy Right and thought the same thing. The silver one at GMC Grey Lynn looks like its been in a rear accident (look underneath & the boot leaks). Looked at one today which I have a feeling the whole exterior has been resprayed.

There are not many selling privately?!? And you're right about some of the asking prices. On my travels I have seen a few mint auto's - so im just holding out hope there will be a mint manual somewhere!


Yea same here, saw quiet a few mint auto's, and are readily avialble in black, finding a good manual at low km's is like finding a needle in a haystack. Hopefully the person who I got my oldmans gt-t can import me one in manual. To date, he couldnt find any good black or blue manual gt-t's. It has been months, so now I have told him that even white would do, hopefully in about a months time I will have a gt-t. :)
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Postby KiwiMR2 » Sun Apr 29, 2007 11:29 pm

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Postby Dell'Orto » Sun Apr 29, 2007 11:32 pm

Import me an FD Andy ;)
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Postby KiwiMR2 » Sun Apr 29, 2007 11:37 pm

Mmm, Boost wrote:Import me an FD Andy ;)


How much you wanna spend :twisted:

Actually my mate just sold his 92 for around $10,500.....stock as a rock ready to be modified.

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Postby BZG Wagon » Mon Apr 30, 2007 9:03 am

KiwiMR2 wrote:Kiwi Cars have one that looks ok.....might be worth a trip to see?

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$10,500
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Thanks - already looked at it. We found it to be quite a rough car in the end.
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