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So I bought my Century last year as a Christmas present to myself... Have always been into Jap Barges, owned plenty of Crowns, and two Nissan Presidents over the years. I live in Australia but it resides here in NZ for when I visit home. I had intentions of doing up a 1984 Crown wagon GS126 that I had bought earlier but realised that being back only a few times a year, makes this very very difficult, so sold it to Bogangeof ...this allows me to drag out the Century and give it some attention. The Century is immaculate with 46,000km , even the interior smells new, one is the more desirable VG45 (long wheel base model) I bought it sight unseen and flew back at Christmas to pick it up, drove it down from Auckland to the Naki, Old school 4.0 pushrod V8 means this isn't a fast car but a great cruiser and will accumulate speed without you realising, just sails along. It also generates a massive amount of interest, if you are going chuck in petrol allow for an extra 15mins to talk to strangers who will try to guess what it is, and where it's from. What I have done so far is remove the massive CRT TV and VCR, retro cool but was bulky and uncomfortable to drive with it, and left no where to put your left arm. By the way in the VCR player was a video of The Godfather...dubbed in Japanese (no lie). I also found some paperwork in the door map pouch that is in Japanese with some English, suggests that the car was used as a Municipality car In Tokyo and as recently as 2011. The leather is totally unmarked and softer and more comfortable than the leather in my Lexus '06 LS430. I also imported a 15" factory alloys set from Japan earlier this year (Alloys were fitted instead of the Hubcaps after late '91). Bought some Michelins Tyres and I reckon makes the car look much much better, and certainly handles better. I want to keep the car 100% stock, so this and tinting the windows are as much as it gets. The struts that hold up the heavy as hell bonnet and boot lid I had regassed, nothing more annoying than being hit on the head. The Air con blows cold both front and back, but it does have small issues i'm going to fix: really would like to get my hands on a wiring diagram and drop it into the Auto Electricians... There seems to be some fuse or short as: The electric quarter windows work fine only two of the actual door windows do. The dealers tried to fix the windows themselves, and butchered the left rear window motor (I'll have to get on Yahoo Japan and order some more). The interior lights don't work The digital dash trip meter don't hold memory, so everytime the car is turned off they reset The digital clock and the stereo are also out, apparently these were working fine just before the car was sent over here from Japan, so need to do some trouble shooting. The TEMS doesn't work either - no lights on the dash and it is failing to soak up corrugations resulting in a thunk everytime you hit a pothole, anyone a TEMS expert?? i'm not sure whether to bother to fix the TEMS, or just replace to normal struts (apparently not too difficult with these things) but the most important thing from my point of view is that the ride is soft and dreamy as you would expect from this luxo barge behemoth. I am also keen to buy a GZG50 V12 century, I drove one when in Japan last and they are beasts, let me know if you come across one for sale here in NZ otherwise i'm going to import one (It can sit in the garage next to the VG45 as I wait for it to be old enough to get compliance)...