Tag: nissan skyline (Page 19 of 27)

Dorikin test driving Nomukens Skyline ER34

October 23, 2010 / banpei / 1 Comment

Yesterday I posted an old video I downloaded once. Can you still remember the days before internet video sites like Youtube? Basically everybody downloaded and swapped movies online. I still remember having an FTP login on a server in Japan where grassroots videos were uploaded now and then…

Anyway, another one from the old shoebox: Keiichi Tsuchiya driving Ken Nomuras Nissan Skyline ER34. Video should be from somewhere 2001 or 2002: Ken Nomura started driving the ER34 in 2001 and I downloaded this video in 2002.

Judging from the old-man style driving the Dorikin did not really think it was that exciting to drive…

WTF: Toyota Sky-Levin BLRA-3

October 21, 2010 / banpei / 3 Comments

Now this was a big WTF for me: a Toyota Levin AE101 based Nissan Skyline BLRA-3 lookalike!

Toyota Sky-Levin BLRAE101
I can understand a replica car, or even a front end swap (hey, I like those things!) but a lookalike car of a 60s Michelotti design on a 90s car from even a different brand and call it a Sky-Levin? No sir, can’t make any sense out of that!

Three generations of Nissan Skyline music

October 16, 2010 / banpei / 0 Comments

Music from commercials always have been successful if the product caught on. This was especially the case for the Nissan Skyline in Japan: apparently there were many vinyl records, cassette tapes and CDs sold with the music of the Skyline commercials.

Kayou is a collector of these items and put pictures of them on Minkara:

Nissan Skyline Turbo vinyl record
Click here if you are curious how the Nissan Skyline Turbo sounds,

And what would a collection be without the full Paul Newman cassette collection?

Nissan Skyline Paul Newman cassettes
See here for some of the different Paul Newman commercials.

And let’s not forget the most important one:

Nissan Skyline Ken & Mary CD
Ken and Mary! You can find their commercials here.

I really envy Kayou: gems like this swap hands for loads of money on Auctions Yahoo nowadays…

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

Commerical time: Hakosuka commuter

September 30, 2010 / banpei / 1 Comment

Fourty two years ago there was a businessman returning home from his work in his new shiney Nissan Skyline GC10. Judging from the short nose it is almost certainly powered by the G-15:

It is also funny to see the comparison with the Japanese Grand Prix winning Nissan R381 #20. That would certainly be a good reason to wear those leather gloves during daily commute. ;)

Plumber drives Nissan Skyline GT-R replica

Amazing: your plumber drives a Kenmeri Skyline GT-R!

September 27, 2010 / banpei / 0 Comments

A plumber driving a Kenmeri Skyline GT-R? Well, not entirely true: Huminori Watanabe is a plumber and he drives a Nissan Skyline KGC110 GT-R imitation.

Plumber drives Nissan Skyline GT-R replica

Okay the title may be a bit click-baity and this plumber doesn’t come to your house in his Kenmeri Skyline. But the fact remains that this plumber actually owns a Nissan Skyline GT-R C110 replica! It looks and feels the same, but if you listen well you will notice the engine sound isn’t exactly the same…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PDfTcHgW9Q

And if you look careful enough you will notice this Kenmeri Skyline GT-R has a SOHC L20A or L24 inline six and not the DOHC S20 that featured in the GT-R. In other words: it’s a KGC110 and not a KPGC110. Still a very cool car to do your plumbing in! :D :D

Link to video: 御意見無用の情熱ジン