HAILING FROM SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, ‘JUN II’ IS THE QUICKEST STREET-LEGAL SKYLINE GT-R IN THE WORLD
“No, I’m afraid not.”
Not, ‘Well, we’ll have a think about it.’ Not, ‘If you’ve got all the gear and promise not to be stupid, go right ahead.’ No, this is a straight up and down, flat rejection.
Delivering this answer is the management of Sydney Dragway, refusing our request to ride shotgun alongside Rob Marjan in his Nissan Skyline R32 GT-R, known the world over as JUN II. Okay, to be fair, it’s not just any old R32 GT-R. It is the world’s fastest street-registered Skyline, and packs a deeply serious punch.
How serious? How does 6.86 seconds down a quarter-mile grab you? At more than 320km/h! Sure, you say, that’s pretty handy, but that’s a proper racing car and… Let me stop you right there. Just in case you missed it, let me say it again: JUN II is street-registered. And street-drivable. Legally. Just ponder that for a moment.
“When we ran the six, we drove back from the track to the workshop,” grins owner/driver Marjan. “That got a lot of views on YouTube.”
Anyway, without a permit and an ambulance (and probably not even then) the plan of rearranging my insides today with 2.4G of lateral acceleration is put on ice. Disappointment – and a teeny, tiny bit of relief, if I’m honest – is etched on my face as we trudge back downstairs to the sight of this surprisingly petite drag racing superstar sitting silently on the start line, awaiting a staging sequence that would not come this day.
“I suppose we could try and do a run after next weekend’s GT-R Festival,” muses Rob. What? The dream is still alive?
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