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Tag: skyline rs-turbo

Family Album Treasures: Turbo Skylining

This guy must have been passing by this beautiful skyline of a lake next to the touge and thought it would be nice to stand between the two skylines! 😉
Skyline RS Turbo R30
This scene also reminds me a bit of the end scene of the first Shuto Kousoku Trial, but I guess that must be the Skyline plus the typical 80s fashion.

Found at Minkara

Skyline R30 pre production models

I was watching some old Skyline documentaries and stumbled upon this little piece of footage where Shinichiro Sakurai sits inside a wooden pre production model of the Skyline R30:

You can see the lines of the coupe emerging into the real prototypes and from the prototypes to the Skyline RS Formula Silhouette. Nice!

The question is: what is that BMW 7 series doing on the test track??

Direct link to video: スカイラインの父 櫻井眞一郎

Seibu Keisatsu Machine RS34

Suppose you are a big Seibu Keisatsu fan and want a comfortable daily ride, what would you choose?

Seibu Keisatsu Machine RS34
Seibu Keisatsu Machine RS34

Minkara user Ken chose to drive his ER34 as a daily driver and turn the car into a Seibu Keisatsu Machine RS DR30 lookalike!

4Valve DOHC GT-Turbo intercooler
4Valve DOHC GT-Turbo intercooler

Even the writing on the side is done in retro styling of the Skyline RS-Turbo: his ER34 reads 4valve DOHC GT-Turbo intercooler on the place where normally the RS-Turbo writing is!

Seibu Keisatsu Machine RS34
Seibu Keisatsu Machine RS34

And the whole car is painted in the red and black panda scheme of the Tomica Skyline that was copied over to the RS lineup.

Seibu Keisatsu sunglasses of Chief Daimon
Seibu Keisatsu sunglasses of Chief Daimon

So, to complete his Machine RS34 he also has a set of sunglasses which looks like the ones Chief Daimon had in the Seibu Keisatsu series. (???)

Seibu Keisatsu suit of Chief Daimon
Seibu Keisatsu suit of Chief Daimon

Seibu Keisatsu suit of Chief Daimon
Seibu Keisatsu suit of Chief Daimon

And don’t worry: for true fans they even sell immitation suits of Chief Daimon! ?(????)

Seibu Keisatsu Machine RS34
Seibu Keisatsu Machine RS34

So he couldn’t resist (while wearing the sunglasses and suit) to have his picture taken next to his Machine RS34! ?(´?`)/

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