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[Editor's Note: This article originally ran in the May 2007 issue of Classic Motorsports.]
The saga of the Silvia seems to have been launched more as a design exercise than by Nissan’s desire to sell the car. It’s been called the first luxury two-seater coupe to come from Japan, an…