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Daily DRVN #140 / Nismo Crest Check
A black Series II R33 with Nismo LMGT2s / ATTESA means bias over pose / Prelude-GT stacks the wons / Le Mans Ultimate hits Road Atlanta & Long Beach / Hot Wheels × Psycho Bunny / Audrain Newport Motor Week
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September 26, 2026 • Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes
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Don’t freak out but…
A black Series II Skyline GT-R just landed in Denver with genuine Nismo LMGT2 wheels and the kind of ATTESA hardware that made for a chassis that meant business.
RevHard has pulled through once again with I sweet specimen, landing a R33 with period HKS bits and Nismo crest cred on the showroom floor. Then Buster builds a case for rehearsed bias instead of a prioritizing your parking-lot pose.
In the headlines: Honda's Prelude-GT stacked a third Super GT win at SUGO, Le Mans Ultimate drops Road Atlanta and Long Beach, Hot Wheels × Psycho Bunny put Will Buxton on a tee, and Audrain's Newport week is taking over Fort Adams.
Let’s ride.
In This Issue
📰 Dream Car Classified / The Black Series II With a Crest That Meant It
Presented by RevHard Motors
By Josh Juhasz
Most GT-Rs sell the silhouette. This Series II sells a Nismo crest that still knows where the torque goes.
The R33 GT-R was Nissan’s second-generation Godzilla brief: RB26DETT, ATTESA E-TS all-wheel drive, Super HICAS rear steer, Brembo brakes, and a multilink setup built to put power where the pavement asked for it.
Series II cars tightened that homework with the kind of factory and period hardware enthusiasts still chase when they want a rehearsed AWD weapon instead of a showpiece. People hunt these because the badge meant Group A practice on a street car, not a wing glued on for the lot.
This one is a 1996 Nissan Skyline GT-R R33 Series II in black, showing 188,500 km (~117k mi), asking $72,000 as RevHard Denver stock. It flaunts genuine Nismo LMGT2 wheels, period HKS coilovers, a Nismo LSD, a QR steering wheel, and an aftermarket exhaust over factory Brembo.
All paired of course to the Super HICAS, and multilink bones with the RB26DETT five-speed ATTESA drivetrain.
This is a Black Series II with crest hardware meant for the street, not a brochure-stock museum piece, and it is sitting on the RevHard floor.
Market Snapshot
Recent sold R33 GT-Rs on Bring a Trailer land roughly mid-$50ks to low-$70ks: a modified 1996 V-Spec with HKS gear cleared $73,000 at 63k km in April 2026, a 1996 V-Spec LM Limited (#100/102) sold $70,388 at 70k km in May 2025, and a higher-mile 1998 R33 sold $56,033 at 119k km in April 2026.
A live Hypercars and Facebook 1996 R33 asks $55,000 at 84k miles, which puts RevHard’s $72,000 ask near mod V-Spec money even though this Series II shows higher kilometers (~117k mi).
The Nismo LMGT2 pack and period HKS / Nismo hardware is the story that separates it from a bare chassis, and a black Series II with that crest still reads like a prized sigil for the long R33 shelf, not soft flip money.
Sources: BaT Apr 2026 mod V-Spec $73k · BaT May 2025 LM Limited $70,388 · BaT Apr 2026 1998 R33 $56,033 · Hypercars live ask $55k
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🧠 Buster’s Based Metatations / Bias Before Pose
Presented by the $BSTR token
By @Rext_Racer
Posture alone invites chaos. But ATTESA was built for the corners you haven’t practiced yet.
Some cars exist to look ready. Other cars exist because engineers took the time to decide where the torque goes before the pavement asked. This week is about that second job.
Aristotle called it hexis: a settled disposition you earn by repeating the right action until it stops being theater. Not a mood. A practiced readiness that shows up when the road gets ugly.
The Stoics would recognize the same edge as prohairesis: choose the inputs before the chaos chooses you.
Seneca warned that people who only rehearse the applause have no script left when the plot turns.
Car people love the still. We love the crest photo and the stance, but without the balance that ends at the first wet on-ramp. Bias does not care about your intro shot. It cares whether you already decided how to split the work when both ends start slipping.
That is the GT-R lesson, and the car is only the spark. Nissan’s R33 ATTESA E-TS brief was rehearsed all-wheel drive: keep the front involved, keep the rear honest, keep Super HICAS answering when the multilink asks for help.
The Nismo crest that followed on period LMGT2 hardware was stamped so street drivers could remember that the point was practiced distribution of effort.
Purpose first. Pose second.
Most of us run full rear-bias in our week. We wait for the slide, then invent a plan. We call the scramble authenticity. It is unrehearsed chaos pretending it was always meant to look intentional.
So before the slide, remember ATTESA this week. Decide your bias before the corner. Split the hard work early: the unglamorous prep, the boring maintenance, the conversation that needs precise torque.
When something asks for rehearsed readiness instead of a silhouette, choose the split. Crests look better after the chassis has already done its homework.
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