Prince was soon swallowed up by Nissan in the mid-1960s, but the latter would keep the Skyline name in production as it was so popular. The crowd roared their approval – the legend was about to hatch. Imagine the scene at the second-ever Japanese Grand Prix when the homely, boxy, humble little Skyline sedan managed to pass a sleek Porsche 904GTS to lead a lap. This more than doubled the output of this early Skyline racer, giving it enough steam that perhaps a little racing was in order. Prince also had a large luxury sedan called the Gloria, so they plucked the 2.0L straight-six out of it and stuffed it under the hood of the Prince. What happened next is the same story that's been repeated over and over again throughout the history of the automobile.
A small company with modest output, Prince was relatively sporting for a Japanese automaker, and in their Skyline – a small sedan named after Japan's winding mountain roads – they had a lively if slightly underpowered machine. We begin our story in the 1950s with a rather unassuming blue sedan, the Prince Skyline 2000-GT. They called the monster Godzilla, but it had another name too: the Nissan GT-R. Its flashing eyes, its bulky form, its rasping cry – all these things would pass into legend. Only the foolish resisted, those who would rather survive did the sensible thing and let it pass by. It came from the East, so they say, a huge and mighty beast that breathed fire and destroyed all in front of it.
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