Our new GT-R Project Car and its Crazy Back Story - Project No Secrets Pt 1
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Its time we started a new GT-R Project car, so here it is and its incredible, long and colourful back story. Plenty of GT-R actions from the early 2000s to wathc.
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A story I hear a lot of in Japan. When someone is outcast from the inner circle of shop owners like this they are completely exiled. Anything to do with them & anything in the past no longer exists. It sucks you've been caught up in some dark Japanese culture but it's great to see you focus on the new story you're starting with the car! Excited to see where it goes!
SAMMIT thank go you chimed I’m on this makes the most sense
Omg it sammit
Should do a vlog on this subject
Ehh bro!
Im sure I have seen this SAMMIT lad somewhere before 👍👍👍✌✌
"NO SECRETS" is both the greatest tip of the hat to this cars heritage and a magnificent cheeky little middle finger to the plans that fell apart. Forgetting the name it will be great to see this icon restored to it's former glory.
This is true.
This story broke my heart more than Andrews
hit me right in the feels too
Massive sooks the lot of ya.
Grow up
I doubt it.
It really didn't, you've got nothing invested in this.
I thought that T88 coming on to boost would be the most savage thing in this video.
Then 22:15 happened 🤣
LOL. nice one
What a cool but sad story.
Man he sure wants nothing to do with that. Car. Knowing you travelled a long way just to talk to him, well kinda poor form regardless of the situation
Hold up, R32 is getting the 3.2L treatment? Also props to you for sticking to the car despite all the grief it caused ya.
TS is another story of never meet your heroes, I had a very poor experience with them as well after travelling for 3 hours and emailing them before hand about my visit.
GTRiggy we’ve actually heard a lot of negative stories but no point sharing them and upsetting other fans
So I should never meet Andrew. He might be a see you next Tuesday in person 😟
@A 20089 I recommend meeting Andrew, nicest bloke in person. I asked him to sign a shirt at Sydney motorex 2015 and without an issue he did it and was just a genuinely nice guy. Still have that shirt too
Yep andrew is a good dude. I used to drift at his adgp events. We talked sr,s and td06l2 and t67s for a long time one day. Good times.
@Taichiro Asaga *Fan
Have you ever thought of finding the actual guy who drove the car in that magazine and getting his story or support for a build? If thats even possible.
Probably the guy that died, reason Smokey doesn’t want to talk about it
Zake Anderson maybe but when you have bad memories like that you don’t say “no” if this brings bad memories or smokey is sociopath
Especially the way DK and Orido and all this people trying to talk about street racing theres mystery but no deny, you can see the emotions and the memories when they talk or within the old DK movies (don t remember the name)
So presumably if someone die in this car he would respond “no sorry i can’t” or something...
specially when you see a non japanese fan i mean if your not japanese it s hard to guess what they are really thinking
Maybe smokey got his reasons but clearly he is an asshole at this time you can’t just say “no” 😞
apashe974 I wouldn’t really call him an Asshole, obviously there would be a reason why he wouldn’t admit it or talk about the car. Everyone has there side of the story his just isn’t ready to be told yet....
@@zakeanderson6663 Yep... Lol at some people out here expecting a speech out of Smokey 22 years later
@@apashe974 I'd take the story with a grain of salt. It happened over a year ago and there was a translator who could have been massively editing down what smokey said to him during what must have been a very bust trade show.
Thanks for being so real Andrew! I could see your emotion. Can’t wait to watch the journey
Gotta say that ending was pretty slick. Cool story.
I don't know, something smells fishy about Smokey denying that he had anything to do with that car. It sounds more like he may have gotten confused and thought it was the more well known 33. For that car to have so many Top Secret components, even down to the steering wheel (if I remember correctly, those wheels weren't exactly common right?), it's either someone who was obsessively fanatic about Top Secret, or they actually did build it and he just doesn't want to admit it due to bad memories. That's fine if that's the case, it'd just be cool to know for sure.
Kale Platzer that’s just the mystery I guess
Probably just embarrassed about the standard that the car was built to back in the day and bad memories of business deals that didn't work out. If you've seen all the ex-demo cars rotting away out the back of all the Japanese workshops you'd know that they don't place much sentimental value on most of them.
Of course he denies when this car is clearly not their demo car. That car is in Nagano prefecture now.
They mentioned money maybe he did the car for the guy but the guy bounced a check on them or didn't pay them
@@剛田剛彦 No. The actual demo car they built is now in England. Has been for a while now.
That white R32 powerskidding at powercruise was pretty epic.
22:15 that is just straight up Gangsta...
This is my favourite video you have done, love the story.. that tunnel run blew my mind as a kid as well.. my first turbo car was a r33 gtst and I always wished it was a GTR!
Oh man, the Japan part of the story is heart breaking.
Hope Smokey see this and gives you his blessing. (despite the new direction)
Why would he bless a replica (kinda) of one of his cars? Comments in here are a bit off in my opinion.
The famous Gold R33 Drag R II is not this car! The famous one is still in near perfect condition and unmistakable.
This car admittedly looks a little like it, but at no point did it look the same. 2 different cars entirely
Wow what a story! Sorry to hear that your dream was kinda smashed but it's the losses that make you stronger. This car is gonna come back bigger and better than it's ever been, especially in the hands of Andrew. Can't wait to see the next video on this!!! Keep doing the awesome stuff you guys do! Cheers! 🤙
I remember buying a DVD from autobarn in like 2007 and being captivated by the Top Secret cars. The V12 Supra, The RB26 Supra, The Gold R33, That G35 Skyline Germany Run. Damn. I have driven the stretch of highway in New Zealand where he did a top speed run and it's crazy to think what he would attempt back in the day. Australia has some of the most die hard import car enthusiasts and meticulous builders because of what guys like Smokey started. I'm glad you are saving this GTR in whatever capacity because too many jdm icons have been sent to the scrap heap here in Aus.
I remember reading and buying that issue of MaxPower magazine just for that gorgeous R33.
Make it Drop Dead Gorgeous again!
This is a crazy car. I cant wait to see you bring it back and better than ever. I know you will take your time, do it right, and make it awesome.
Enjoyed the throwback story man, I loved this car in the autosalon days as a teenager. It sounds like the car meant heaps more here to people than it ever did in japan anyway. Good luck with it.
Very good way to put it
Great story guys, looking forward to catching up on this series. 👍
Made my dad take me to the Birmingham motor show when I was 12 years old to see both top secrets 1000hp skyline and supra on the max power display. Think it was 1997... good times!
I was there I was 13
That mic drop at the end haha. Great name!
Damn how good is that old footage. Those were the freakin days!
Now you'll get defected for 1" bigger wheels and 33% tints =D
I've had a huge love for that car from the first time I seen it. Love that it's found a solid home and will be back prowling the streets looking for another victim. Can't wait to see more.
So sad to see a stunning street car ruined & almost scrapped. This car needed a passionate enthusiast like Mr Hawkins & his motive team👍.
I came here as just finished watching R33 in TRC yesterday.
Wow. SECRT returns!! 😲😮 Holy crap!! What a score Hawkins. All I can do is applaud. 👏👏 Just insane that it's still alive. Then seeing TOF-55T, nostalgia overload. I remember the first pass Dominic made in that in 2001. 10.5@130, instantly kicked out. 😂
Kind of a bit shocked to see this from Smoky, but this car is now in good hands and may catch his eye again when you make this a dedicated track weapon. Best of luck.
Probably the best video you’ve done. Not just because of the content, just seeing the emotional attachment you have to the car. Really seen a different side of you mate .On a a different note, Barras are better the RS Audi 🤣 👍🏽 can’t wait for GTR challenge.
There are many "kids" out there that never knew Top Secret, but they know Motive. Let them idolise and possibly later in life ressurect the "Motive GTR".....
The vr38 swap r34 new owner paid other shop for a complete rebuilt and you might wanna see what they (the shop who did the rebuild) said about the state of the car they received in the first place 😶
@@zl_390 where does one find said things?
Omg!!! Andrew!!! What a story !!!!!
Part of me wants you to restore it back to original top secret spec.
What a great story! I had a similar scenario with my R33 LM. I'm also happy you're setting it up for circuit despite being called a boat by alot of people. I want to see this car turn some fast laps! This is a good time for project R33 considering the car just became legal in the US. So expect alot views and questions about this car and the evolution of this build from your US subscribers. I'm looking forward to this journey!
+Motive Video @Andrew, Put the name "No Secrets" in Japanese too, just so "Smokey" can become a fan one day 秘密はない
Himitsu wanai. Looking forward to this R33 build more than any other build. Can't wait to see what type of chassis bracing you will be using and which ones you won't and the reasons for each.
To me bro you guys are my Top Secret im sure u understand what im saying and you guys build dream breakers cant wait to see what you have in store. Much love brothers
Hello Andrew, keep up the good work. Loving the backstory, really gets to me. No secrets it is! Looking forward to the continuation of the story including setbacks. Keeps us lurkers on the reality side instead of fairytales. Be good, stay humble, all the best! Greetings from a dutch R33 4door. GTS4 owner with an RB25DET making 300+KW. Cheers, Kevin
No secret is gonna be a weapon mate, just like the other built cars in your garage. Awesome you didn’t give up. Can’t wait to see the build. 👌🏽👊🏾
Hey Andrew, i visited top secret in japan to check out their shop and hopefully get a signature of their v12 supra on a magazine, had a spare copy for them to keep and got told no also. I know how it feels.
Best wishes with the car, make it your own.
Can see and understand your disappointment but glad you’ve decided to build your dream car regardless. Looking forward to following the build 👌🏼
Never been the biggest fan of the 33’s but can’t wait to see the progress this one
Thanks for sharing the real deal, the history makes the resurrection all the more sweet.
Good on you mate I remember that car from max power wish you all the best that’s what got me in to cars I think that car was amazing
That shutdown from Smokey... :(
But seeing your face when you announced it;s name, hahahaha this is gonna be awesome!!!
Bit of a bummer what happened with smokey, but it sounds like he might've really been hurt by someone associated with that car. Hard to blame him for not wanting to do it without knowing the full story
Really excited to see how this develops and I really like the idea of keeping the gold and making this car it's own thing and not a tribute. Just do one thing, sort out that rattly cut up side exit exhaust.
Japlink owned this car for years when i bought my legnum about 7 years ago from them it was always in there workshop and it was still in pretty good condition until they made it into a world time attack car. I was wondering what happened to this car after it wasn't in there shop anymore.
Gosh I remember we'd get all those Aussie mags growing up in Hong Kong in the early 00s. So awesome to see old videos from those days.
Andrew- your 33's stardom and story has always been in Australia and to me that is the best part of this story - its already a legend in it's own right (Bigger than any TS car).
Really looking forward to this series of handling videos, I finally got my 33 GTR and have always been about track days.
Best of luck with the build!
Thanks for sharing the story!
Awesome backstory with 90''s GTR street footage big thumbs up !!!!!!! we need some more of that old 90's street clips !!!!!
Some wild specs ive never seen before👀
Same page, Idolised this and Jun Hyper Lemon R33 when I was in school. And I can't fucking wait to see this build. 👍
Glad you shared story. Very intriguing to learn about it and your passion behind it. I hope your idea kicks off and will be nice to see it transform into something cool again. A bit gutted with Smokey nagata's attitude but I'm sure he has his personal reasons.
If it were me I would still rebuild it as a tribute car and import it to Japan. Take it to Top Secret fully rebuilt. I think if Smokey sees it again and sees that you took the time, effort, and money to rebuild it he will respect it again.
love back story of the car. great vid and keep up the awesome work
I dont understand why people take tidy road cars & turn them in to track cars. Just find a rough one to start with?
Zac Youngson start with a solid foundation or your house falls down
@@patrickbanning6324 these guys started with a solid foundation & the house fell down anyway 😂🤣
I don’t get what your saying? You can buy a Porsche GT3 RS, GTR NISMO, CORVETTE ZR1 ect.. all expensive cars built for the track. So what do u mean buying a rough car for a track?
@@Sam-mw5hx i think they mean it was a very clean car, very good condition interior and exterior and very customised. If they wanted to make a race car out of a r33 by stripping everything out of it and hacking up the bodywork, it would've been better to use a r33 with crap interior and exterior so that they wouldn't be wrecking something beautiful.
Best part is, you are going to do right by this car and what it deserves... Takes me back to my late teens, personally seeing this car at Auto Salon...
Props to you mate! You’re right it’s a new chapter for the car,
It's amazing the places that cars take us!
Still iconic and still a badass car whether the story matches up or not.
Looking forward to the build lads 👍👍
Love stories like this!! Bit of history on a cool era of car...
Good on ya motive legends keeping legends alive . Great work.
I remember seeing this car when it came to the UK. Great to here the back story, looking forward to the resurrection.
Pretty sure this has never been in the uk
@@jamiew5211 did you even watch the video? lmao
The one in England is the real one😂 these muppets here just hope this is it.. little do they know eh.
The real one still looks the same as it did before, different wheels though
I think the moment you handed over the Max Power magazine was the turning point - perhaps they thought you had an association with the English owner of the official ex demo car? The Japanese man Soichi who used to own ST Hitec in Auckland is a very close friend of Smokey's and he did everything he was ever asked to do in the NZ scene. Their gold 34 came to NZ in 2002 for a demo race VS Croydon (NZ's) R32 and Smokey arranged for the D1GP cars to come to NZ and many others. Very strange he reacted the way he did; I wouldn't take it personally. Stoked to see the aussie R33 in your hands. From what I can see it didnt have the "mid mounted" T88 kit to begin with (the TS kit had the turbo mounted lower than the T88 Greddy kit on a large runner manifold,- used a Sard wastegate and a 45 degree downpipe off the turbo instead of a 90 degree like the Greddy kit. Your R33 was perhaps a tribute car built by a fan of TS in Japan.
I dont think this car Is built by top secret thats all I'm gonna say and dont think smokey was lying
Smoky is smooth lier
Really disappointed story, just a huge lie for all JDM enthusiasts
Go Andrew,
Thank you for no secrets, I hope you will never put money and self profit to the first place
Stay honest and opened to community please, let’s make this GTR great again!
There will be plenty of GTR "secrets" not revealed
Smoky does not need to answer anything about a car that possibly COULD have been built by his business, FOR business purposes ... 22 years ago ... And its not like he bought the car off him ..
Scroll down in comments, and you will see Motive DVD are not discussing some parts of the story anyway
I think the fact Smokey was so dismissive about it speaks verses. He most likely did have a hand in building it, but wants to keep it top secret ;)
Great project brother. I remember this car growing up, I loved it just as much as you did. I'll be keen to see this project come along. All the best with it dude.
Remember seeing FlyBye (wasn’t the number plates at the time coz they were yellow and black) on the dyno up at TMauto on the central coast and fuck me that thing fukn ripped.. proper rocket 🚀 never seen or heard anything like it at the time⚡️⚡️
Wow what a story. I've got a somewhat similar story of me trying to meet one of my favorite (back then) drift drivers and he shut me down like that to where I was so disappointed.
Awww, dude! What a bummer.
Now I have more of a reason to watch your channel looks to be another great project I canr wait
great story. cant wait for the follow up videos
Too bad because you have nothing to do with that cars history. Anyway its yours and you decide what to do with it. Good luck and i will follow because i love R33 GTR!
That red Z31 at 2:25 though
I saw it and my jaw dropped 😲 , I’m a Z31 Fan😊 😊
Awesome Andrew and crew keep up the good work!
build is gona be awsome
Imho Smokey’s Top Secret shop had absolutely a shit tonne to do with it but obviously fell out with the business partner that part owned it or owned the car or whatever that story is who then took the car and did what he wanted with it. Obviously the shop being what it was, wanted tight control over its products and this guy obviously didn’t adhere to that and showed it to the world. It’s imho 100% a top secret car, it’s a shame Smokey can’t get over the past and has to lie about it even not being a gentleman just straight rude to someone who travelled half way around the world.
Your honesty is refreshing, keep up the good work and can't wait to see the end product #NOs3cr3ts
This kind of reminds me of the "Devil Z" 240z from Wangan Midnight, Mysterious car with lots of backstories just dumped, waiting to get scraped. SAMMIT's response is what I think happened. Top Secret shouldn't care about it the car, hopefully, you transform it into something great! The car's real history starts now, with you as the new owner.
Great story Andrew, Wish you all the best and keen to follow this :)
I loled so hard when you told your now “ex wife” about buying another car. I think as car enthusiast we all have felt that pain lol
Great Story Andrew - Need more of these on the channel :)
You guys remember the white veilside Gtr that came to NZ to do the top speed run?Where did that go?There was a rad RX7 and i do believe a Top Secret supra.would have been late 90's perhaps early 2000's.Subbed great channel!
While unlikely. I'd love to see this built with an full O.G: Trust/Greddy T88H kit with all the goodies. Use a Motec with e-throttle and torque based throttle map to control the show (you know so it's actually driveable.)
Even more points use a Greddy ITB plenum to keep the 6-ITB's and use a Jenvey e-throttle actuator.
Looking forward to the series
You know what they say about meeting your heroes.... Glad you are turning this disappointment into a positive. Best of luck!!!
Damn mate i felt for ya when you said smokey wanted nothing to do with the tribute
Love this ❤️❤️❤️😎😎😎. Certainly touching 😭😭😭😭
never meet your heros, cant wait to see how you make it your own now
Yoo shout out to Dom for rocking the shirt from Greece!!
FEG Lubricants / GTR Racing tuning / ZOD Development The builders/tuners for the fastest/quickest GTR R35 in Europe !
Mechanical stig bloody gets around 😂😂 #MCM
The cold shoulder from Smoky, Smokey's loss. If I were Andrew I would have walked up to Smoky and said, Peeew! U bastard!!!
What an underated channel.. I suscribed at the best moment.. Well man, that sucked.. I know how it feels but you should continue what you are thinking of.. Im glad i found ya
Cool project
Dude that car may have been your hero car, but your black r32 has become a hero car for the new generation.
And we thank you for it mate!!
Go F$£K up some hyper cars!!
Bradley Finch the black car is now going next level. Well have an update on that soon
Damn cool car, also I nearly cried in that story! Poor fella
Bro.. Would give both nuts to just own a couple of dust particals that laid on that car. Build it. Make it to damn fuckan quick!
It has a longer and better story in Australia then in Japan, build it how you want it to be!
Dude, first off, please rescue this car, make it right, and get an interior back in there once it's all straightened out! Next up, that sucks about Smokey man. Japanese can be pretty intense sometimes but don't let it get ya down, looking forward to see what you do with this!
Still waiting for the day GTR700 makes a comeback, Last I heard it was sitting in the back at Croydon.
*Got way deeper than I thought it would at the end, but really awesome story. I would have had my feelings hurt really bad if that happened to me. I bought a 300 dollar rear fog light from Top Secret, just so I can say it has a Top Secret Part lol.
Top secret mystery would also be a good name, I now want to find out what the link really is between top secret and this car, hopefully once it's done the recent story of the car will get back to Smokey and he will come to the party
Heartbreaking.
But with every story, there is always another chapter.
Looking forward to Project No-Secrets!
Damn I was hoping you were going to sneak the Mazda MX-6 GT on to us.