Motor Fan has featured a BNR32 Skyline GT-R styled to answer an irresistible what-if: apply the visual language of a 1970s Hakosuka works racer to the R32-generation GT-R, and see what comes out.
The Hakosuka — the C10-generation Skyline — established the GT-R name in Japanese touring car racing in the early 1970s, and the look of those works cars is burned into JDM culture: riveted-on overfenders, deep-dish wheels, a body widened by necessity rather than fashion. This build transplants that language onto the R32, and the numbers involved are not subtle.
100mm-wider fenders define the build
Motor Fan reports the overfenders extend the body by roughly 100 mm on each side. What keeps the car recognizably an R32 rather than a caricature is the restraint around them: the factory bumpers stay, with added lips that visually connect them to the flares, and side steps carry the widened line between the arches. At the back it wears two wings at once — a ducktail and a modern GT wing above it — which is period-incorrect in the most deliberate way possible.
Filling the arches are Work Meister M1s, 18 inches in diameter and 10.5J wide at both ends, with offsets of -21 up front and -66 at the rear. That rear figure simply reflects how much width the bodywork creates. Tires are Nitto NT555s, 285/35-18 at all four corners.
One big turbo instead of two
Under the hood, the RB26DETT has traded its twin turbochargers for a single large T78-33D, and the car is said to produce around 600 PS. Motor Fan's feature provides no dyno sheet or driving impressions, so treat the figure as the build's claim rather than a verified measurement. Motor Fan does not identify the owner or the shop responsible for the build.
Two generations of the same lineage
What makes this build worth a look from outside Japan is that it is not retro cosplay in either direction. The C10 works cars built the Skyline GT-R's touring-car reputation; two decades later, R32 GT-Rs revived that lineage emphatically, winning all 29 rounds of the 1990–1993 All-Japan Touring Car Championship. Stacking the older car's visual identity on the younger car's engineering reads less like a costume than a family portrait — the same idea, photographed twice, twenty years apart.
Every R32 GT-R is now old enough to qualify for the US federal 25-year import exemption, though emissions and registration requirements still vary by state — and a heavily modified example adds its own paperwork. Whether anyone should copy that -66 rear offset is a question best answered by their body shop.