The Car Lovers Guide to Japan, The Nissan Heritage Museum

Another Hakosuka GT-R prepped for racing.  I wonder why there were no racing coupes at the museum?  Look at the tiny, tiny roll bar.  Safety has come a long way since the 60’s!

Here is the inspiration for Colemans Rally Beater.  The original African Safari Rally Beater!  I bet Dave would love to see the original in person.

I was surprised to see a run of the mill CBA R35 GT-R in the museum. These are sort of a common car here.

Here is a Bolt GT-R which was done as a collaboration with Usain Bolt, the world’s fastest man and Gold Medal Winner. It is basically a regular GT-R with special paint and interior colors.  Supposedly two were made, one owned by Usain Bolt, the other owned by a guy in Australia but here is one in the Nissan museum. Did Nissan buy one back?   Was a third car made? I dunno.

Here is a Group 5 S110 race car. Group 5 was a Silhouette class where some parts of the body had to remain stock but the rest of the aero was pretty open. These cars were the inspiration of today’s Boso cars.

2 comments

  1. The first couple of cars are actually based on Austin 7. It’s an evolution of that model. As for the BTCC Nissan Primera: That brigs back memories. I used to work on that one. There are actually parts bearing my anagram.

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