BNR32
Nissan Skyline GT-R, R32
RB26DETT, 2.6 twin-turbo, all-wheel drive
The car that opened this market. Roughly 44,000 were built, so supply in Japan is still real, and so is the spread between a clean one and a tidy-looking one.
By 2026 the good BNR32s have been picked over twice. What remains at auction is often a car that has been drifted, modified, repainted, or all three, and the sheet is where that shows up before the photographs do.
Rust at the rear strut towers and the boot floor
An S or C mark near the back of the diagram, or a handwritten 下廻りサビ, matters more on a BNR32 than on almost anything else. The rear subframe mounting area is where these rot.
Grade 1 does not mean rough
A modified BNR32 is often graded 1 for its modifications rather than its condition. Read the diagram and the notes, not the number, on any GT-R graded 1.
W and XX at the front corners
Track use and drift damage lands at the front wings and bumper. Repaired panels there are common and usually honest, but check for a B mark behind the bumper.
Numbers on the sheet against the plate
The chassis number on the sheet begins BNR32. Anything else, on a car sold as a GT-R, is a different car with GT-R parts on it.
Every mark named above is defined in the codes library, with what it costs to put right at US rates.
Night Line
Be told when a BNR32 matters
We write when the BNR32 clears another month of the 25-year rule, when the yen moves more than 3% your way, and once when the free Decode opens. Nothing else.