OK, you got me!! Who was the wise ass who carded me at Glenfield Mall last nite? (Thu 9th March) :lol:

hahaha!!!! :lol:

Love it!

and it wasn't me!!

wasn't me either...but I could do with a pack of cards in my car... I see SOOOOO many Altezza over in the Botany area....

Dang! They're sitting right here beside my imac, where you were looking the other night!

Mine would be one of them :- P!

I've handed out a few recently - one in Chch, one in the carpark of the 'Museum Hotel' in Wgton and another in a carpark in Wgton!

In the words of a wise, wise man ....

"Doh!"

Just went for a walk along K'Road in Auckland....

Corner of K'Road and Queen Street ...

Lexus IS200 (going from Upper to lower Queen)
- DRIFTX sign written, with blue side graphics, Veilside kit and C2 (?) Carbon Fibre wing.
- silver car, lowered, new rims, personalised plate ...

Lexus IS 200 (going from K'Road to Lower Queen)
- black, new rims, lowered, plate: 02 11 20 (I think ... or something like that)

"Team Altezza" stickers on the back??

They are Asian kids who are very keen and have some great machinery! Half a dozen of them turned up to our Queen St cruise last year.

LOL atleast i managed to card a NEW member who just recently joined up :P

http://forum.altezzaclub.org.au/index.php?...view=getnewpost

lol. also met and caught up with another new member i introduced to the club, Eric, thats his car in the grey and mine in the blue :P:P

Saw "kevin" at Botany today
Damn there are a lot of Altezzas in that area!

Who lives around the Botany area?

shit i thoght that was you, think i passed you at the intersection where you stopped at the lights on tirakau, i generally see about 3 to5 tezzas when i drive around that area

I think now days you can at least 5-6 altezza everytime, any where you drive....

I remember sometime last year, I saw 38 altezza in just 3 hours :blink:
(I drive from Howick-East Tamaki-Mt Roskill-Henderson and back to East Tamaki)

:o thats a whole lot of Altezzas I must say.
you must have seen one every 5 mins.

Personally see at least 6 each day. (have another one in work carpark and 2 across the road plus others.

Must say the numbers have increased far too quickly!

XJX

As far as those of us who paid over $40 grand for our Tezzas 4 years ago are concerned, we couldn't agree more!!!!!!!!!! <_<

I see more Altezzas nowadays then my mum's 97 Honda Accord!!

To make myself feel better, I say to myself, "The altezza is a great car, thats why everyone's got one.."

Maybe I should trade it in for something else...? :(

arghh

sorry for abit off topic
my mate brought his one 7 years ago.. for $54000 he's one of the first guy to own it in Howick...
and i've brought mine for $30000 around 3 and a half years ago...
and look at trade me now... some 99 6spd RS only cost around$14000..... :(

yeah it is aye...

But i wonder why there are only few of us in this forum??

We paid $38,000 for ours with 36ks on the clock.. That was back in 2001 or 2002..

I remember agessssss ago, there was a white IS200 around the Howick area, must have been 99 or so. Lowered with Momo mags. Was that your mate?

I bought mine last year for $19 000 ...

I drive Bucklands Beach - Pkaurnga - Motorway - Khyber Pass - Newton (I park under the 2 billboards by the overpass on Newton Rd - toot if you see me) and back each day. I've never counted by I'd guess I'd easily see 5+ a day ... some days it does feel like every second car is one!!

bought mine back in the middle of 2004 for $22800 and the average price around then was still about $25-26K
spent a shit load in a yr and sold it for $21500

had pretty high km's tho but ran well
had 92000km when i bought it
sold it with 107000 a yr later

i thought if i had kept it any longer id loose shit load more money and look at the drop in price now

yeah That's him..actually its his brother that brought the car...
his car was one of those rare edition with lexus style speedo and half leather interior


it is only those days that altezza actually looked "UNIQUE" :lol:

lucky you sell your car fast aye...

its hard to sell an altezza now, even if you have some basic mods like coil overs and exhaust and stuff..

but i guess the price drop should stop by now other wise the price of our car will catch up the BZ-R Levin... i guess the car dealers won't be stupid enough to let this happen

hmmm still took me 3 mths to sell
out of all my cars this one took the longest and i didnt sell till i put it into the autotrader

very hard cars to sell

Saw this today at NorthRidge Plaza in Albany.
Intercooler and bodykit fully got my attention, anyone know who this might be? Or is he/she in the club? And yes it is a turbo/supercharged RS200.
(picture taken from my phone again, bad quality sorry)

looks like one that was sold from fast fours in auckland

ugly front on it tho

Yup was sold from Fast Fours and Turbos.

EZAGZA's seriously Sarded 'Tez spotted in Albany Mega Centre this afternoon :P

I saw him turning down Target Road in Glenfield last weekend, he didn't spot me stopped at the lights on the other side though! :rolleyes:

!!!BUSTED!!!

Was Soooooo gonna toot, too!

:lol: Sure you were!

EZAGZA, spotted you in greenhithe the other day!!! was just driving through... The car looks nice man!!

Glen is going to start thinking we're stalking him!

:lol:

xnickx spotted yesterday arvo down at long bay.

Hahaha you there often? The Mrs lives like pretty much opposite the entrance to the beach so I/we often head down there every now and then. Lol

(Car was messy as wasnt it lol, should have called out mate)

Ah ha, Yeah you were parked up on the road at the entrance. It was the xrated back window I noticed as i went past. ;)
we live around the corner so its always good to get down there. B)

Well next time you see me or who ever be sure to yell out, I'll be more then glad to stop for a chat.

Yes it's true. at roughly 2pm yesterday outside the civic car park i saw Nick driving like a nanna!

Actually i think he was doing his hair in the mirror! :D

Hahaha, snapped!!! Caught red handed, I admit it, was driving nice and nanna like... :ph43r: Was I driving and doing the hair at the same time? :P

See Keith, I'm no hoon am I haha

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