Friday 9th December 2011

Time for tea? Screaming old-school Skyline

Not sold on the whole retro Nissan thing? Turn this up loud...

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So Jonny Smith had a good time at the NISMO festival. And it got us digging around for retro Skyline stuff. And then we found this.

This is a lap round Fuji, the track that hosted the NISMO festival, aboard a late 60s 2000 GT-R and it proves, if you needed reminding, that the whole GT-R/Skyline thing goes back a lot further than R34s, Gran Turismo and Porsche-baiting Nurburgring laps.

We'll not say any more, other than that you need to turn this up loud. Very loud. Yes, it'll annoy anyone else in the room/building. But just do it.

[Wadeski]

but but but surely it has no pedigree because its Japanese.

[pSyCoSiS]

That has a nice stance in the photo. Reminds me a bit of the BMW 2002 Turbo outline.

[M666 EVO]

Quick glance, looks like an old Mexico

I like it..

[epom]

MK1 Jetta with big arches

[Mastodon2]

What an incredible car, the exhaust note is absolutely heavenly. I wonder what they did to get it to sound like that, must be a product of a tuned manifold I'd assume.

I want one!

[NismoGT]

Wadeski said:

but but but surely it has no pedigree because its Japanese.

Only an idiot would think that.

Love the car.

[DanDC5]

This car is the pedigree for every GTR. A true underrated, and relatively unknown classic. I need one in my life yesterday.

[dave stew]

Yep, some classic Jap metal from this era. Loved the triple DCOE carbs on the video!

[garypotter]

Awesome!!

Must have been fantastic at the circuits back in the day with several of these cars racing round

[Trommel]

There's a real one of these in the UK. Awesome noise.

[J4CKO]

Nice, the Japanese car now officially has a nostalgia about it, who would have imagined back in the seventies or early eighties getting misty eyed over Datsuns !

Look of Pug 305 from the front I thought.

[Speedracer329]

Brilliant, spine tingling exhaust note!

[caduceus]

What a wonderfull noise! What engine was it?

[Trommel]

S20

[LordGrover]

Loved the video.
The driver was clearly having great fun - driving. I get the impression while epically fast, modern cars have steerers rather than drivers.

[stephen300o]

LordGrover said:

Loved the video.
The driver was clearly having great fun - driving. I get the impression while epically fast, modern cars have steerers rather than drivers.

Gan san is an older driver, but still damn good, he has driven all sorts and made regular appearances on BestMotoring (before it was axed.. )

[dbdb]

J4CKO said:

Nice, the Japanese car now officially has a nostalgia about it, who would have imagined back in the seventies or early eighties getting misty eyed over Datsuns !

Look of Pug 305 from the front I thought.

I thought it looked a bit 504!

The Japanese car thing is really big, isn't it. It seems every other car on retro rides is Japanese or VAG. Japan built some exciting cars then and this is one of them, but for the most part their appeal is lost on me.

Watching this reinforces how sanitised cars built after 1990 are though. I think this is why modern racing does not interest me - I'd happily watch this Datsun go round the track.

[nismo48]

Absolutely awesome..!!
Old school and some..:-)

[Johnboy Mac]

pSyCoSiS said:

That has a nice stance in the photo. Reminds me a bit of the BMW 2002 Turbo outline.

Yeah, the first thing that came to my mind was an '02 too.

Anyway, a cracking & very cool looking machine.

[Rhythmeister]

Absolutely SCREAMING, a dream weapon right there..