Saw this today. One for the old school jap lovers!

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And did you know what one was, say, 5 years ago?

yeah..
I'd been drooling over gtrs since I saw them introduced in to ATCC.
and when the intrawebs became easy access I looked up shit on anything gtr.

having said that, I didn't know them as HAKOSUKA or it KPxxxx name, but more just "old gtr"

I thought the GTR badge on the front of the car would have given it away anyway
and if not, surely a member since 2009 would have stumbled in to BABS thread on here which is like a WIKI on it's own.

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Yeah, it's horn! Very horn...

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I thought the GTR badge on the front of the car would have given it away anyway

Well it's actually hard to say.

In Japan, in the classic circles, it's actually perfectly ok to put GT-R badges on a non-GT-R Skyline. It's kinda encouraged actually, so that your replica has the proper "flavour", so the GT-R grille badges etc are all available as reproductions. It's actually a little unusual to find a clone in Japan that hasn't got the GT-R badge.

With that particular car that the OP posted up, I'd wager that it isn't the real-deal, it's a clone like mine. Generally speaking, the guys who own the real 2000GT-R don't do the silly look-at-me mods like the cannon and the external oil cooler. The 2000GT-Rs are $90k-150k over in Japan, so they are usually owned by older guys.

But you'd really have to have a close look a little details to know for sure. For example, on a real 2000GT-R the rain gutter looks like this:


On a regular Skyline, the rain gutter becomes thinner where it bends to accommodate the chrome trim. The GT-R doesn't have chrome gutter rail trims, so the gutter is a constant thickness all the way through the bend. So basically once you cut the body to do the flares, it becomes very hard to tell from a glance if a car is the real-deal or not....and all the badges and stuff are available to do a pretty convincing replica.