By Donna Mills
Only 20 Skyline GT-R Nismo Z-Tunes were ever built, with most of them currently hidden away in garages as appreciating money trees. Today then, is your lucky day, as one has just come up for sale: chassis number #009. Well, this is an exceedingly special edition of the R34 GT-R - the one before the R35 we have now - built in 2005, after production of the standard car had actually been wound up. Each engine was entirely handbuilt, Nismo claiming at the time that neither cost nor production time were ever considerations. Priced at 17 million Japanese yen when new, this Nismo GT-R cost pretty much exactly what the current one does, at around ￡128,000 with inflation applied.
Scale GuideFor those of you who are not familiar with how the system works, these scales represent the ratio of the size of a model to its full-size counterpart. Here are the scales we distribute with the average lengths. Simply put, the larger the number on the right, the smaller the model car:1/43 - 11 cm long1/18 - 25 cm long1/12 - 38 cm long1/8 - 60 cm long
