Continued from; “Skyline History, Part 4.” With Prince’s interest in racing peaking the S50 made the transition from family sedan to GT, the nose was extended 200mm to fit the G7, OHC 2litre Straight 6 as used in the Gloria. This homologation development was done in 1964 and the car was initially known as the [...]
Continued from; “Skyline History, Part 3.” So with the final facelift of the S21 doing it’s single year dash from 1962. 1963 saw the release of a new model and a new generation of Skyline. The new face on the scene was the Prince Skyline S50; A lot of the styling cues were taken from [...]
So let’s just say that you happen to be sitting on a bit of cash (maybe the house market happens to be extremely unappealing at this point in time?) and you feel like buying a “new” car for yourself that isn’t just another bland modern mass of metal. fortunately for those of us that live [...]
Hi there, I’m another contributor here… some of you may know me from www.oldschool.co.nz , you poor people. For those that don’t, I’m Cameron, I’m 23, I live in New Zealand. Without going into a long winded history of what I’m into, what I’ve owned and what I’ve failed at, I’ll just chuck up a [...]
As is likely the case around many places, there’s a lot of rare and/or simply badass cars, hiding behind hedges, in garages, tucked away in sheds. Recently I visited a friend I’d not seen in a little while, he popped open the door of his garage and sitting infront of me were two cars of [...]
Continued from; “Skyline History, Part 2.“ In the early 60′s, the Skyline was to take another path. Autumn of 1960 the Italian designer Giovanni Michelotti was asked by Prince, to design for them a Coupe for the Skyline range. The result was the BLRA-3 Prince Skyline Sport. This car became commercially available to the public [...]
Continued from; “Skyline History, Part 1.” As mentioned, the rest of the 1st Generation of Skyline did not change dramatically from the very first release. Cosmetic and minor mechanical advances were made, the compression of the engine was increased to up the performance on the higher capacity and sportier versions and the car sold enough [...]
Now, those who know me, those who know of me and even some random people who encounter me on the street. All seem to know for one reason or another, that I’m a fan of Skyline automobiles. In-particular, the older ones. The ones from before when the masses seem to think they were even made. [...]
A few years back, whilst taking part in oldschool.co.nz forums, one of the member’s managed to stumble across a UK based forum, at that stage both forums were still in relative infancy, from then they have both grown massive amounts, retro-rides more so, likely due to the larger population base that the UK has to [...]
oh hais! Chief En-gnear kyteler has asked for some voluntary contributory services to his blog-thing, so here I am all ready to roll. for those fortunate enough to not already know of me: I collect junk from the ’80s, and said collection of junk happens to contain a car or two (or three… or four) [...]
