✰✰✰ GTR Garage Portland - Grand Opening Spring 2015 ✰✰✰

[fatduece]

f@ck yeah!!! Im 2 hrs away from portland!!! GTR garage!!! <3333333333333333333333333333333333333

[crzsteveo]

i honestly think a east coast warehouse would be best. there are a few areas that have huge warehouses for super cheap.

[GTR-Garage]

Portland is ideal for us as we have a great rep there along with a big existing customer base. In addition, shipping containers through Tacoma is cheapest for us. It is much more expensive to send containers to the east coast.

[iRONDONkey]

come to atlanta.

i got a quote of under $180 to ship a pallet with an engine on it to the state of AK.

[Dustxking]

Biggest thing i would say is just have lots of suspension parts and wheels for the PNW. Lots of drifting year round so everyone will need spare suspension parts and wheels.

[Ilya]

Any plans for stocking front clips / engines? a few SR20s would be prime before the weekend?

Portland has a great car scene, just stay true to your work, and dont take on more than you can handle, like some of the shops that closed in the Portland area.

[rundown240]

Originally Posted by TheRealSy90

How about AZ? Haha, I can dream... Seems to be a lot of customers of yours in the phoenix area though.

^^^THIS! Phoenix has your back. Get it done sir and I'll be there religiously during track weekends!

[GTR-Garage]

Originally Posted by Ilya

Any plans for stocking front clips / engines? a few SR20s would be prime before the weekend?

Portland has a great car scene, just stay true to your work, and dont take on more than you can handle, like some of the shops that closed in the Portland area.

We are staying away from motors because there is too much potential for trouble. If by taking on more work than can be handled you mean tuning, that won't be an issue for us. We will be doing absolutely no tuning. It is simply a retail shop and warehouse space for us. Portland Speed Industries is right down the road from us so customers can swing over there with any parts they need installed or tuning work done.

[GTR-Garage]

Originally Posted by Dustxking

Biggest thing i would say is just have lots of suspension parts and wheels for the PNW. Lots of drifting year round so everyone will need spare suspension parts and wheels.

Noted. We will have plenty of wheels and we're planning on having a nice assortment of suspension arms. Lots of Ikeya and Kazama rods and arms. We'll have some Kids Heart steering components on hand as well. We're actually holding back some special wheels we have on hand for the grand opening. Should be fun for all those that come out.

We're pinning down the weekend, but the grand opening will be during one of the weekends in March.

[Q--]

Finally a good place for us 240sx guys! Can't wait for this to open and get my Skyline RB front clip.

[fatduece]

How's the parking lot space? It would be cool to have a meet once a month!!!

[dorkidori_s13]

Originally Posted by GTR-Garage

wow, would you look at that... a sunny day in Portland hahahah

[e1_griego]

Doesn't matter what you carry, 97% of the drift-tards here are broke as fuck and won't spend money on decent parts even if they have it.

Excited to come visit, though!

[Scope240sx]

this is awesome!!

[turbronegro]

Ugh I'm always tempted.

[Clutch927]

Are your emails open for requests and what not

[YoungTunerGOD]

You need a warehouse in the North East basicly untapped market for jdm or tuner

[om3ga]

Originally Posted by dudermagee

D-max aero sale would be super awesome....

D-Max USA is back and FRSport carries a lot of their items. Not sure if it would be worthwhile for GTR Garage to do this as well or not.

[NismoPlsr]

Originally Posted by dudermagee

This x100000000000000000000

Times another 100000000000000000000.

It obviously costs more to get a container to the east coast but man, it has to be cheaper than all us paying UPS or FedEx to get aero parts across the country from Portland.

[GTR-Garage]

Originally Posted by om3ga

D-Max USA is back and FRSport carries a lot of their items. Not sure if it would be worthwhile for GTR Garage to do this as well or not.

FR Sports is D-Max USA we believe. They brought in a large container of their parts earlier this year.

We'll have some D-Max parts in stock, but we generally don't bother with their aero kits because there are so many knock-offs out there that are cheaper and of comparable (or superior depending on the run) quality.

Our Portland shop is going to be a bit of a special place with an assortment of hard to find and rare goods and accessories along with new and used tuning parts. It is not hyperbole when we say there will be no place in the US like it.

We've been setting some cool stuff aside specifically for the showroom. In March customers will literally be able to walk into our shop and leave with a zebra Thrash bucket seat, 18x10J Blitz Technospeed Z1s, Ikeya Formula tie rods, any issue of Drift Tengoku (we will literally have all of them), a handful of Kids Heart and Bad Quality stickers, a Keiichi Tsuchiya Nardi wheel, Reinhard titnium exhaust and Car Modify Wonder carbon hood.

[fatduece]

You guys need to work something out with bnsports. Then you'll be #1

[GTR-Garage]

Originally Posted by fatduece

You guys need to work something out with bnsports. Then you'll be #1

We're actually calling them tomorrow to check stock levels ironically enough.

[blackghost13]

sweet finally something awesome in oregon now if you guys need personal

[GTR-Garage]

Spoke with BN Sports and they have no current stock. We have to place an order and then they will make it. Because of the New Years holiday they wouldn't be able to process the order until after the first week of January, which means there is a chance they may not make this container. They would have to go on our next container, which would be in March.

[future]

Originally Posted by GTR-Garage

We can't sell cars in California. We are always going to have Skyline, Cefiros, Laurels, Silvias, etc.. available for purchase at our shop(s) and we can't do that in California.

I thought you sale 50 state legal cars? Who am i going to get my R34 from in the future? ):

[GTR-Garage]

Originally Posted by future

I thought you sale 50 state legal cars? Who am i going to get my R34 from in the future? ):

Unless California changes their laws by then you're going to need to move to another state.

[Dboyizmlg]

Originally Posted by GTR-Garage

Unless California changes their laws by then you're going to need to move to another state.

^^ exactly!

Unfortunately us california people pay more for every thing here.
The only state that is so DAMM strict...

[future]

Fuck it, fuck you Cali. You guys can't do R32 here either?

And there are a couple R32 - R34 I've seen. What about the show car rule? You ever brought in with that intention? From what I read it can be street driven but just very low miles

[GTR-Garage]

Originally Posted by future

Fuck it, fuck you Cali. You guys can't do R32 here either?

And there are a couple R32 - R34 I've seen. What about the show car rule? You ever brought in with that intention? From what I read it can be street driven but just very low miles

To register a direct import in California it has to be at least a 1976 model or older. The Hakosuka and Kenmeri GT-Rs you guys have running around are legal. The 25 year exemptions and show and display rule apply in California. You can legally import and own a 25 year old car, they're just not going to let you register or plate them.

[future]

So the rule let's us import, buy and pay taxes. But let it sit in the garage? Awsome! Lol


Good thing I'm moving to Louisiana, do you have any idea on thier laws for importing? Or smog even? I'm hoping it's not another California. I'd love to run a open exhaust (no cats) and not worry about smog or CARB


Thanks for your help so far! I need a R34 in my future or I'm not going to die complete