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FACTORY VISION

What possessed me to tackle a GTS-R ute tribute? Maybe I was high at the time… Jokes aside, it’s been a few years since I’ve done a build, and I wanted to do something. My previous one was a full body-off resto of an HQ. I was about to build a Blue Meanie or similar, till I went to a car show and there are nine of them there and the only difference was white, silver or blue, auto or manual and what size Aeros they had.

As much as I love the cars, I didn’t want to do something that’s been done to death and the reality was you could probably buy one for less than it would cost to build it, and

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