This totally over-the-top NASCAR V8 powered Nissan Skyline GT-R was without doubt the attention stealer of the 2022 Tokyo Auto Salon, Japan’s biggest car customizing show that wrapped a couple of weeks ago at the Makuhari Messe complex just east of Tokyo.
No folks, the GT-R you see here is not an iteration of the latest R35 version of Nissan’s legendary GT-R. What one customizer in Japan did was to take a first generation 1970 Skyline GT-R and squeeze a NASCAR spec V8 into its engine bay.
This classic Skyline might be owned by Osamu Hamanaka, but the seemingly bonkers project was conceived and built by ex-champion D1GP
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