The DR30 “Skyline RS” stuck to the specifications of the time…
Nissan’s 6th generation DR30 “Skyline RS”, nicknamed “Tekkamen”, is “Mameshiba RS’s” favorite car. The early DR30 model was named “Newman Skyline” because it featured actor Paul Newman in its commercials, and the late model was named “Tekkamen” because of its distinctive grille-less design and thin headlights.
I have admired it since elementary school
The late-model “Iron Mask” introduced here, the Nissan 6th generation DR30 “Skyline RS”, was also called “Turbo C” because it was equipped with the first 4-cylinder engine in the Skyline series, the FJ20ET type with an intercooler turbo, and its top grade, RS ( The top grade RS (Racing Sports) marked maximum output of 205ps, breaking through the “100-horsepower-liter barrier” for the first time in a Japanese car. This led to a power race among automakers to develop turbocharged engines.
The DR30 Skyline was also a remarkable success in motorsports at the time and was a big success in the Group 5 Fuji Super Silhouette Series. The DR30 Skyline became the most coveted car in the series.
“Mameshiba RS” is 51 years old and was in elementary school when the DR30 Skyline debuted, he became interested in cars because he happened to see the catch copy “The strongest Skyline ever” in a newspaper ad. He says that the car has joined his wish list as a car he would like to own someday.
“Now that I think about it, I must have been a child, so I must have been attracted to the name ‘the strongest’. I was a child who thought that being strong was cool.”
Once he gave up, he found a decaying individual
“Mameshiba RS” started working toward the purchase of the DR30 Skyline that he had longed for as soon as he obtained his driver’s license. Since the Tekkamen had already been replaced by a new generation, he checked the information magazines to see if there were any inexpensive used cars available, but the reality was not so sweet. At the time, tuning was in the midst of a major boom. The DR30 Skyline had become an expensive base car for such tuning, so we gave up and bought another car.
I had forgotten about the DR30 Skyline for a while but happened to find one in my hometown that was about to rot away. It was a car that I had admired in the past, so I bought it at a reasonable price, hoping to enjoy restoring it and driving it. He took the battered and rusted body apart, sorted it into usable and unusable parts, and fully restored it while collecting missing parts. It took about seven years to bring the car to its current state.
translated by DeepL