The first thing that came into my mind when I saw the photo of the cassette below was: did Paul Newman sing a Nissan Langley song?. Fortunately not! This B-side of a Paul Newman cassette called Skyline Image Song Graffiti is called Hey! Paula and was a great hit by Paul and Paula. Nissan used…
One of my favorite tools to find new things is Google Images. I was searching for photos of a Paul Newman Skyline but bumped into a set of photos of Paul Newman with a red Nissan Skyline GT-ES Turbo at the Floria Memory site taken in May 1982 around the Fort Gates Ferry in Floria….
I just happened to stumble accross this 1980 or 1981 Nissan Skyline advertisement: It includes Paul Newman who was involved heavily with the New Skyline advertisements by Nissan. What puzzles me is why they put this fake Super Silhouette R30 in the picture while the Hasemi Skyline KDR30 was actually more impressive than this rendering……
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:…
Half of me said WTF?! while the other half of me said Brilliant! Paul Newman sticker Yes, the Skyline R30 is terrific! I found the sticker here at zeki’s blog @ minkara. Another four stickers can be found there as well!
I read the news yesterday and Japanese Nostalgic Car blogged about this as well: Paul Newman passed away. Apart from many good movies he made he was also quite close to Nissan: he raced several Datsuns during the 60s and 70s and in the early 80s he even got a special edition Nissan Skyline R30…