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Perfect Imperfections: A Drift Style R32 Four Door Skyline

You’ve probably arrived here after watching the recent Juicebox video. Eamons car is another local machine, long overdue some attention both on here and on Youtube. The problem is when your friends have these remarkable cars, You always leave them on the back burner. There’s no sense of urgency to do photoshoots as you think they will be around forever.

This car was always screaming for a feature. It’s everything I love about Japanese car styling in a world which is slowly getting consumed by original parts and OEM. The four-door R32 sedan is quite dull in stock form. Although cool to look at, the sedan doesn’t share rear lights and aggressive lines of the GTR or even the GTS-T.

When the A-Bo moon guys in Japan started popping up everywhere on western blogs back in the day, with BN kits, super low style and perfect “drift” form, suddenly we all took a second look at this primarily unloved chassis. Don’t get me wrong, I love an excellent four-door, and I’ve always appreciated these cars, but they do look their best with some cosmetic changes.

This one is the perfect embodiment of that drift style, this car wears battle scars and imperfections with honour, they add to the overall character of the Skyline sedan. Damaged bumpers from being too low, stone chips, broken rear lights, dents, and rolled arches, none of this on paper sounds good, but one look at this thing machine in real life and that list makes sense.

The BN kit is the perfect match for this car. The Gen 1 P1’s with their incredibly distinguishable flat face, modelled after the 34 GTR wheels are the only choice, the N1 headlights, this car has it all. It’s all the best bits put blended together perfectly.

The car came from Scotland, built by a guy called John Fallon, worked its way into Ireland, and Eamon has owned it for quite a few years now. Retaining the original look John created, he’s slowly cleaned up the mechanics, removing the Hicas rear steering, cleaning up the wiring, ironing out any imperfections like a bent steering rack and other less exciting stuff. Eamon has carried out this work over the last few years, all whilst driving this thing at any track day he gets the chance to attend, blowing aero off at least once per session.

Eamon is not too concerned with being the fastest or having the best setup. Much like the A-Bo Moon guys in Japan, it’s about having fun and having a drift machine that looks cool going sideways. This Skyline is well sorted, with a spec list of Greddy and Apexi parts from Japan, mated to an RB25 engine and box, GTR brakes and plenty of adjustable arms.

This car looks straight out of a millennium Battle magazine. At this ride height, it seems alien driving around the streets of our city, a place riddled with speed bumps, potholes and battered road surfaces. The Skyline is a perfect snapshot of a time when these cars were tools for getting sideways and the style of the time naturally followed drift form. It’s probably one of my favourite cars ever. I’ve been looking at it in the shed for years, and it never gets old. Its little imperfections are perfect.