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If you're a bit long in the tooth, you may remember that the first Nissan Skyline GT-R ever to come to Australia also did a pretty handy job of making mincemeat of its racing competition in local touring car racing.
Fast forward 25 years, and the Supercars series is going through a bit of a mid-life crisis. Its reason for being - a home town stoush between Holden and Ford - really no longer exists, while brands like Volvo and Mercedes-Benz have come and gone.
Nissan currently competes with its Altima sedan that's powered by a tricked up Nissan Patrol V8 engine, but the Aussie arm has recently pulled the plug on the slow selling four-door.
Easy, you say. Just use the GT-R! Not so simple, sadly; as the regs stand, the GT-R body simply doesn't fit on top of the Supercars control chassis, and all-wheel-drive is no longer permitted.
However, we hear that modifications to the rules are in discussion... which incidentally will also allow Ford to replace the Falcon with the Mustang.
And while Nissan Australia is not convinced that the GT-R is a good fit for the series as it stands (and plans to run the Altima into 2018), the company's international racing arm, NISMO, reckons that its cars should race in relevant series, no matter what the regulations.
These pics come from the fertile minds of the team at ssMEDIA, who have also knocked up renders of the Kia Stinger for Supercars officials. Check them out here.
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What do you reckon? Should Supercars fast-track the return of Godzilla to Aussie race tracks?
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