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Infiniti bringing the Japanese racing icon in Amelia Island.
If you're a fan of the Nissan brand, you need to be aware of a portion of its motorsport history, I mean Prince Not dearly departed Purple One, but Prince Motor Company The small Japanese car manufacturer became part Nissan back in the 1960s before it did, he created a racing machine designed to take some of the greatness of Germany.
The car was called the Prince R380, and was designed to put a hurt on the Porsche 904.
At the time, Prince Skyline GT was going a little banged around some Porsche 904 GTS race cars led filibusters Prince needed a solution, and Nissan stepped in to help the answer was Prince R380, which used a brabham BT8 chassis engine and new aerodynamic body the engine is based on 2 0 liter inline 6-cylinder of the horizon, but it has been treated to create more than 200 horses and coupled to a running gear box 5 speeds.
Prince built four R380s in 1965, but there was no Japanese Grand Prix this year, so the car set several world land speed records.
At the Japanese Grand Prix 1966, the Prince took his new R380 on the track and claimed the top two spots of the podium It was ahead of a trio of Porsche 906 cars entered in the race the following year the race didn t go as planned, Porsche returned to triumph over R380 Yet the prince Nissan racing team could take a few seats on the lower level of the podium.
Infiniti has his hands on R380 a prince, and he is bringing to the elegance of Amelia Island Concours Sunday, March 12 will be the first time a R380 made its way to our shores If you're a fan of motorsport Japanese, making Amelia Island a major event.
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