One to Buy: 850km from new 1991 Nissan R32 Skyline GT-R Nismo N1
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With its immensely tuneable twin turbocharged inline six cylinder engine and a four-wheel drive chassis riddled with state-of-art technology, Nissan’s R32 Skyline GT-R blew the competition into the weeds during its inaugural 1990 racing season.
Most notably, the GT-R won all six rounds of the 1990 Japanese Touring Car Championship, a feat repeated in 1991, ‘92 and ‘93, after which a rule change excluded the car from competing in the series any longer.
Undeterred, Nissan took the GT-R into the new-for-1994 Japanese GT Championship where it won the premier GT1 class for two seasons until the McLaren F1 GTR arrived in 1996.
For the 1991 season, Nissan added an N1 variant to its GT-R range in order for customers to have a fully optimised race car platform straight from the factory.
These N1 machines came with much of the equipment from the Nismo-prepared RA version plus a specially prepared reinforced engine with larger turbos. The Nismo version’s cross-drilled and vented discs were switched to purely ventilated units for improved long distance reliability with cooling improved thanks to air deflectors mounted on the suspension rods.
As a consequence of its even more basic specification, a further 20kg was cut from the Nismo RA and the N1 weighed in at just 1380kg.
Only 245 examples of the N1 were produced between 1991 and 1994, all of which were finished in Crystal White.
Of these, probably the finest example extant is currently on offer with Bingo Sports in Tokyo.
Having covered just 850km from new, chassis ‘213004’ is presented in as-new condition.
