So, apparently there's a secret Nissan musuem...

And they let this guy in with a camera. Lots of crazy stuff from the company's whole history, including test mules, one-offs that never made it to production, and a lot of race cars and stuff.

Hot linked box flare awesomeness from the gallery:

Thanks for turning my daily production to crap...

Thanks...

I really enjoyed seeing the pictures of the small classic cars and the rally cars. The 390 and Calsonic cars are pretty cool too.

Nissan Mid4:

...Sweet.

that Mid4 would have been a sweet NSX fighter

Yeah the Nissan Museum isn't too much of a secret anymore. I've seen lots of pictures from it.

I hate those guys at Nissan.........

SyntheticBlinkerFluid wrote: Yeah the Nissan Museum isn't too much of a secret anymore. I've seen lots of pictures from it.

Particularly since the linked post is from 2007...

But yeah, no secret. Even SCC did an article on it I believe.

Great pics nonetheless... I especially like that they took their classic crashed race cars and stuck them in there... Rust and all!

Awesome.

Well where is it?

Hey!

I drove that very car to an easy victory over the TS020 race car in the Monaco... I mean, Cote d'Azur Enduro in GT3.

I'm 99% sure that the R390 GT1 has 3rd-gen Rx7 mirrors.

byron12 wrote: Well where is it?

It's the Nissan Heritage Collection in Zama (Yokohama). A list of the cars is here. There's video here. I relied pretty heavily on photos of their 1933 while planning my replica of the 1932 Type 11. (Since then I've been sent some pictures and a gorgeous large model of the 1932)

Import Tuner was there, too.
http://www.importtuner.com/features/impp_1006_nissan_heritage_car_collection_part_1/photo_04.html

RossD wrote: Nissan Mid4: ...Sweet.

Why you no put in production?!

Mid4 = Why not? Heck, you could put it into production now and sell a bunch.

Except with wider wheels.

Something about the rear roof pillars look like a mid 90's mustang to me. Like maybe this is what happens when a 94 mustang and a 2nd gen MR2 get lonely at the same time.

Not that I wouldn't rock it all day long.....

How did Nissan get all those cars? If they are all "factory" race cars, they support a lot of racing!

I want my garage to look like that.

More pics here from my visit a few months ago.

https://picasaweb.google.com/claymac75/JapanCars2011

They are cars of historical significance to Nissan. Many are factory race cars - and yes, they do a lot of that - but some are thing like "the first X off the assembly line"

I have a 2004 article about the restoration of the Heritage Collection's 1933 Type 12, but It is in Japanese....I would LOVE to get it translated. Does anybody here know someone who can do that? Clay, do you have any connections?

JoeyM wrote: They are cars of historical significance to Nissan. Many are factory race cars - and yes, they do a lot of that - but some are thing like "the first X off the assembly line" I have a 2004 article about the restoration of the Heritage Collection's 1933 Type 12, but It is in Japanese....I would LOVE to get it translated. Does anybody here know someone who can do that? Clay, do you have any connections?

You may be able to scan it into a computer converted to text and have it translated through a web translator.... but we all know how accurate those are...

Clay wrote: More pics here from my visit a few months ago. https://picasaweb.google.com/claymac75/JapanCars2011

Thank you for posting these. I really liked this photo

There's a green car I can't ID there between the light blue-grey 1936 Type 15 phaeton and the blue 1937 Type 16 Sedan. Any idea what it is? It is not in their collection list.

I'm guessing that it is another 1936 Type 15, but I'd love to have that confirmed.

I'll see if I have a closer picture at home. The gallery is just a few of my favorites. I took a lot more.

I work with lots of Japanese people who can translate. Just depends on how long the article is. I'd hate to take up too much of their time. I'd say the scan it, convert it text, and cut and paste into Google translate would be a good option as well. I use Google translate all the time here. Very helpful.

I showed the wife these pics. She mentioned me and the two words "a chub" in the same sentence.

Sorry about the blue humor. Nothing you haven't heard on a prime time sit-com.

MadScientistMatt wrote: And they let this guy in with a camera. Lots of crazy stuff from the company's whole history, including test mules, one-offs that never made it to production, and a lot of race cars and stuff. Hot linked box flare awesomeness from the gallery:

WHERE BOSO STARTED!!!!!

Interestingly enough... i had just posted that very same car in a previous thread.

http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/grm/scariest-most-awesome-race-series-of-old/44226/page1/