With a car that totally defies his otherwise quiet and straightforward
manner, Tesarski maintained while video games such as Gran Turismo
may have inspired him at one time, the practicalities of life
dictated the purchase of this unique Nissan specimen.
"One of the major reasons I bought this was that it
had a backseat," he explained. "I'm still young,
I still want to go out and have a good time."
Perhaps most of all, it is the sense of practicality and
understatement that has set Tesarski apart. While driving
one of the rarer cars in the city, Tesarski hasn't lost focus
of what got him behind the detachable wheel of his imported
prize.
"Everyone tries to keep up with the whole Japanese JDM
thing. That's too expensive for me," he explained. "This
is a daily driver. I work heavy construction, and there's
four years of jack hammering in that car."
While beautiful now, Tesarski admitted the car wasn't always
a machine that would turn heads. If they did turn, it would
have been for the wrong reasons.
"It was in pretty sad shape. The quarter panel was pushed
in pretty good and the side skirts were all broken,"
he said of the poor condition of the car. "It was more
of an adventure fixing it. I didn't know what I was getting
into."
The fact that it is much improved over its original state
speaks volumes about its owner, but Tesarski said perfection
has never been a goal of his. Again, his overwhelming sense
of practicality over style has dictated the car's bottom line.
"It's a 15-year-old car. It's not going to be perfect,
and I'm not big into being a trailer queen," he said.
"Just drive it and enjoy it, that's what I built it for."
Tesarski admitted that the very few imperfections in his
Skyline gives the vehicle a sense of character, even though
beyond that, he can still be found working on the vehicle
quite frequently.
"I'm always doing something to it," he explained,
adding that the Skyline community is one built on the amount
of work that goes into their prizes. "I have to respect
what the other Skyline owners are doing. You always have to
respect the amount of work that they put into their cars."
The fruit of that labour, Tesarski said, can be put very
simply. "This is an attention whore, the best car I've
ever driven."
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