My 1988 R31 Nissan Skyline

Back in July of 2006 we owned a *cough*VB Commodore*cough* that was trying to break down deaths door. Well, it succeded a few days after our son Cody was born.

As we had complications with Cody we were back and forth to and from the hospital. We really needed a reliable car that was cheap to run and had room for the four of us so I went car hunting and found this...

      

It came with the wrong size tyres, a missing stereo and surround but it was a bargain and ran on gas so we were happy. Wasnt long before i found the r31 skyline club forums and with that the parts I needed to fix the inside of the car and install our new stereo. Yay, beats in the car.

Wasnt long before I started thinking about what else I could do to make it look a bit better. I eventually bought a new tail light to replace the old faded one, got some clear front indicator lenses, found a non dented bumper and also some silo rims...

Seeing as i had a bumper that was not dented i decided to cut my old one in half and make a front lip. Yeah, it was way to big and scraped on everything but I liked it... For a while at least.

Wasnt long before our oil pump packed it in and it was off the road for a few months. We drove around in my RA65 Celica for a while which was cool, the Celica is a damn good car, but folding the seats over to get the kids in and out wasnt much chop.

A few months after we finally got the 31 back on the road I decided to get some new rims, oh and of course some penguin stickers for the rear quarter panels...

I was starting to really like the look of the 31 again. Decided to trim the lip down to a practical length and put it back on. Somewhere along the line I also decided to get some personalised plates seeing as they were only going to cost $170 once off. My plan was to make it my car, but yeah fat chance, my partner Emma still gets to drive it a lot, maybe even more than I do lol...

So after a while I decided to paint the front bumper black and while picking up the eldest boy from school dropped down to our local boat ramp to get a decent looking pic...

I picked up a bodykit as a xmas present for her. Lol, who buys their car xmas gifts?

Painted the kit up to match the car...

Got her some new kicks...

Mmmmmmmmm, Ti bonnet and grill...

New MFX style front lip...

Projectors...