AUTO MESSE WEB has published a feature on an R33 Nissan Skyline GT-R finished in the white-and-pink Clarion livery of the NISMO GT-R LM — built, according to the feature, with purported race-car bodywork bought through an online auction. Exactly which panels are period race parts, and whether any of them were used at Le Mans, is not documented.
The car being honored is the No. 23 NISMO GT-R LM that ran the 1996 Le Mans 24 Hours. The report says the No. 23 car finished 15th overall and 10th in class. Its white-and-pink Clarion scheme remains one of the most distinctive liveries associated with Nissan's R33-era Le Mans effort.
Race parts bought at auction, per the report
What the feature presents as separating this build from the many liveried replicas at Japanese events is the source of the panels: the owner is said to have acquired race-spec body parts through an online auction and incorporated them into the car. The feature describes the front of the car, from the bumper through the hood, as being made up of race-specification parts.
It does not set out how the parts' provenance was established, and we have not independently verified it.
A Clarion livery inspired by the owner's father
The inspiration was personal rather than competition-driven. Per the feature, the owner's father used to run a radio-controlled model of the Le Mans car in the same Clarion white and pink. Decades later, that connection led to the full-size tribute.
The feature does not detail engine, suspension or interior modifications, so what is documented here is a bodywork and livery project — assembled, according to the original report, with period race-spec bodywork whose provenance is otherwise undocumented.