It feels like every half-decent car from three decades ago is once again having its day in the sun, courtesy of a pricey restomod upgrade. This R34-era Nissan GT-R is the latest case in point. To the uninitiated, the R34 has too much in common with its base car – the tenth-generation Nissan Skyline – to be given a second look, but it’s actually a performance giant.
Ever since 1969, Nissan has used its Skyline model series as the basis of its most competent and high-tech performance variant, the GT-R, a tradition that continued until 2002. Today’s GT-R, the R35 variant, is a standalone model that debuted in 2007 and was already considered quite long in the tooth when I drove it way back in 2012; remarkably, production only ended last month.
