Nissan R35 GT-R, 4.1-litre build, 1735whp, called 24 Sep 2026.
Published on 24 Sep 2026, before the lot closed. It ended without a sale, so there is no hammer to grade it against. It was amended on 28 Sep 2026 and both versions are in the working below.
Amended 28 Sep 2026 from $61,000 to $155,000. The call of record is the original $61,000, because the amendment cannot be shown to have come before the lot closed. Both are in the working below.
A 2007 Nissan R35 GT-R running on Collecting Cars out of Maitland, New South Wales — Gunmetal Grey over black with Recaro CS Sportster seats, 71,100 kilometres supported by Japanese verification, a Japan-delivered car imported here, VIN 6ZZ00000R35000479, carrying a built 4.1-litre engine with GSC billet cams and ported heads, Hypertune fabrication with Turbosmart 6870 turbos, a twelve-injector billet manifold, an Elixir brushless fuel system, a Motec M150, a Dodson billet gearset with Linney carbon clutches, billet DSS axles and 18-inch Billet Specialties fronts on 15-inch beadlock rears with Mickey Thompsons. The seller states 1735 wheel horsepower on E80 and that the build plus a donor today would exceed A$450,000.
Beadlock rear wheels and drag radials are equipment for a surface, not a specification, and the record this call is made against prices a standard Premium with its original turbos. Everything below should be read as pricing a chassis and a build against a market that has never publicly bought one.
Two 2008 Japan imports went to rooms twenty days apart in Melbourne: a kitted car made $80,000 on 18 August and a wrapped widebody ENDED UNSOLD at $76,500 on 12 September. That pair is the first direct local evidence that a transformation on this model costs more than eight per cent rather than less, and it arrived as a failure rather than as a price. Neither car had anything done to its engine.
Plus 10 for 71,100 kilometres against the 119,000 expected of a 2007 car, minus 9 for a build year before the run this record describes, minus 12 for a Japan import, minus 12 for a built engine and driveline, minus 3 for the cabin, minus 3 for beadlocks rather than road wheels, and plus 6 for build invoices, Japanese service history and kilometre verification, which is more paperwork than any modified R35 this desk has seen. Composed, minus 22.7 per cent, and $61,077.
Predicted hammer $47,000 to $77,500, midpoint $61,000.
Four hundred and fifty thousand dollars of parts and labour does not evaporate, the components are the best available rather than catalogue items, and the buyer for a finished 1735 horsepower car is buying three years he does not have to spend. A room with two of those people in it prices this well above the model.
There may be no such person in the room at all. This library's only local reading on a transformed R35 is a lot that did not clear, the donor is a 2007 import at 71,100 kilometres, and a car on beadlocks and drag radials cannot be driven home by most of the people watching it.
It was incoherent, and the way it was wrong is worth more than the call.
Stack minus 12 for an import and minus 12 for a built engine and driveline against a base that describes a standard Australian-delivered Premium and the answer comes out at $61,000. But a 2007 Japan import at 71,100 kilometres with nothing done to it is worth about $79,000 on this record's own evidence. The first call therefore said that four hundred and fifty thousand dollars of Motec, Hypertune, Dodson, Linney, Elixir and GSC parts had a resale value of MINUS eighteen thousand dollars. No arithmetic that produces that should have been published.
Every modification row in this library was measured on cars whose value is the standard car: a bodykit on an R35, a respray on a muscle car, a tune on a Type R. Those rows are discounts because the market is buying the standard car and paying to undo the changes.
Nobody is buying a 2007 import at 71,100 kilometres and undoing a 4.1-litre build to get back to it. The build IS the product and the donor is the consumable, and multiplying discounts against a standard-car base has no meaning in that case.
Donor: the August 2026 import at 72,595 kilometres normalises to $75,518 at the 100,000 this record expects, carried to 71,100 kilometres is $80,300, less 5 for a 2007 against a 2008 and plus 4 for registered against unregistered, which is $79,337. Build: the seller states the build plus a donor would exceed $450,000 today, so the build component is about $370,000, and that figure is his and is taken as stated. A professional build with invoices, Japanese auction paperwork, kilometre verification and service history recovers roughly a fifth to a third of its spend at resale.
And the reason is the beadlocks. A car on 15-inch rear beadlocks and Mickey Thompsons is equipment for a surface rather than a road, which means the room is drag racers rather than fast-road buyers, and drag racers are the people most able to build one themselves.
And that is deliberate. The minus 23 and plus 27 this desk publishes was fitted on 455 ordinary Australian sales, and the sixteen behind this record are standard Premiums between $68,000 and $115,500. None of them is a car like this one, so the interval measured on them understates what is not known here. Predicted hammer $100,500 to $225,000, midpoint $155,000.
The call is a prediction of one hammer. The record behind it is the Australian evidence for the model as a whole, and it carries its own grade for how much of that evidence exists.
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