Tag: nissan skyline r30 (Page 3 of 5)

WTF: Thoroughbred Skyline 2000GT Turbo

June 18, 2011 / banpei / 0 Comments

When I think of a high performance Skyline R30 I alway picture either the louvre grille DR30 or the tekkamen (Iron Mask) DR30, but not this thoroughbred 2000GT Turbo:

Thoroughbred Skyline 2000GT Turbo

Thoroughbred in Skyline terms means it is at least having a L20 engine under its hood:

Thoroughbred Skyline 2000GT Turbo
And normally a thoroughbred L20ET should have a bit more oomph than its predecessor but in this case Nissan kept the entire L20ET the same as in the C211. Perhaps they thought it meant that the shell was thoroughbred and its engine were the strong genes remaining from its predecessor?

Count the Skylines! (part 2)

June 8, 2011 / banpei / 0 Comments

After the AE86 Matsuri the Skyline Owners Battle started. To actually get on to Tsukuba Circuit the Skylines had to wait a bit and made a long line of cars. Can you count the Skyline R30s lined up here?

Count the Skyline R30s!

Found at [Com etc.]

Japanese rustoseums (part twentynine)

June 3, 2011 / banpei / 3 Comments

Imagine getting a tip to collect two unused 80s Nissan Skylines and when arriving at the spot you find this to be parked between the bushes:

Nissan Skyline R30 drag racer rustoseum
An 90s drag race monster based upon a Skyline DR30!

The hood is a lightweight FRP bonnet by Rebic, headlights have been replaced for dummy items and the front wheels are a set of lightweight Wats.

Nissan Skyline R30 drag racer rustoseum
At the rear two big ass wheels plus tires, a wide (center) exhaust that would make my drainpipe die of envy. ;)

And what about the other Skyline?

Nissan Skyline DR30 widebody
Oh, nothing special: just a widebody Ironmask… w(°0°)w

Found at [Diary of a sign maker]

Car chases: Afterburning Skyline DR30 machine RS-1

March 8, 2011 / banpei / 0 Comments

The Skyline DR30 is one of the most iconic skylines ever and Seibu Keisatsu helped a great deal with that.

Now if only that afterburner option would have been available on the real Skyline RS-Turbo it would have been even more awesome!

Found at [kensaitou @ Youtube]

Video: old school drifting in Funabashi (Chiba)

January 13, 2011 / banpei / 3 Comments

TwinTurboRS posted his 100th video and it is a very very very long street drift video (47 minutes!) from a long long long time ago on Youtube in the Funabashi near the pear area (Chiba prefecture) featuring many AE86s, RX7 FCs, Skyline R30s and even a Carina TA63 @8:45:

Unfortunately embedding is disabled, so you will have to click on the picture to watch the video!

Even in the intro you can even see a 8 spoke RS Watanabe in a pile of discarded wheels! Madness! Enjoy 47 minutes of madness!

Found at [TwinTurboRS]

Enjoy the tropical Skyline!

October 5, 2010 / banpei / 0 Comments

Well actually it looks like that, but IRL this Skyline DR30 lineup is not in Dubai or any other tropical place. They are parked next to an exclusive resort (??????) near Minamichita town in the Aichi Prefecture.

Tropical Skylines
Found here