But getting our hands on a good one for this particular project? Well, that's a different story.

S15s aren't exactly hard to find, even now 20-years after they were last in production.

The search for a base car was as long and arduous as ever. We've a few mad cars sitting at the Detailing Academy of course, but nothing quite as extreme as this one. Like we said, this was to scratch the itch, perhaps even the physical need, for something completely insane. In fact, he'd been keeping an eye out for the perfect S15 base car, pretty much since the Skyline was completed last year. James, we've been told, has had this build in mind for a good while now. This is a story of evolution, taking a legendary car that hadn't been seen for a good few years, reinventing it, and thrusting it back into the limelight… There are many cars out there with this sort of heritage that have fallen by the wayside, sat covered in dust, rusting away, unused. Those who know their Japanese metal just know that this car is legit - and what's more it's built to be used and abused going forward. In the end we went all-in to achieve not just an epic build, but one that brings together many of the big names and legends in the Japanese tuning industry. We have other Japanese icons on the AF fleet of course, but what with the Yaris GR and R32 Skyline GT-R having the best of the best in terms of modifications, but ultimately remaining reasonably, not to mention deliberately, subtle (for now anyway) the S15 was put together as something else entirely. For Japanese cars, bonkers really is in the blood, and what James - the boss of all things Auto Finesse - had in mind from the start was THE car to bring a slice of utter madness to the project collection. The Japanese car stable has been famous for throwing up some of the wildest creations on the car scene for decades now, what they do is a style, or indeed mixture of styles, that's completely different from the home-grown cars you'll find in Europe or the US.

But what actually is it? A dragster? A show car? A track weapon, hill-climber or heritage piece? The truth is that it's all of those and much more.įirst and foremost, and perhaps most important of all, what is build does is scratch a long-time itch for AF. All the usual whys? Whats? And hows? There's also been more than a couple of comments and opinions on both sides of the fence. Naturally there's been a ton of questions from followers of the project.

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