R34 Nissan Skyline Driven By Paul Walker Fetches Record Sum At Auction

The R34 Nissan Skyline GT-R is 1 of the astir iconic JDM cars successful history, acknowledgment to the Fast and the Furious movies, and the fewer that person made their mode present implicit the years person sold for large bucks. Recently, a bluish GT-R driven by Paul Walker successful Fast & Furious 4 deed the auction block, and the effect is surprising, adjacent for an R34.

The last bid landed astatine $1,357,000, a staggering fig for immoderate car, fto unsocial a Nissan, and much than treble the erstwhile auction record. Though galore cars successful the movie franchise look to person conscionable rolled done the sticker factory, Walker didn’t privation to thrust a “sticker bomber,” truthful the Nissan’s stunning bluish overgarment shines through. The car’s interior features customized racing seats inactive acceptable successful Walker’s desired position.

While this car’s terms reached the stratosphere, it’s present imaginable and ineligible to import a non-famous GT-R. That said, adjacent mundane R34s transportation a hefty premium due to the fact that of their just-now-available import presumption for Americans. Most are listed northbound of $100,000, and portion that fig volition apt autumn a spot arsenic much cars go available, looking astatine Toyota Supra values implicit the twelvemonth indicates that the R34 could conscionable beryllium 1 of those cars that ne'er truly returns to reality. 

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