Turtle Wax was able to import the only 4-door R34 Skyline Sedan into the U.S., and they handed it over to Neil Tjin and his talented crew for a major overhauling. When Tjin and his crew were finally done with the project, the only thing that remained stock on the Skyline was the roof and the front doors.
“The 4-door Nissan R34 Skyline is a rare car and we knew Neil Tjin was the right guy to make it into a classic,” said Matt Broderick, Vice President of Marketing for Turtle Wax. “We are looking forward to seeing what Neil and his team comes up with. Turtle Wax has a deep heritage and clear vision for the future of car care products, so restoring a classic like this is a perfect match for connecting with car lovers everywhere.”
The completely rebuilt two-tone BASF green Tjin Edition 1998 R34 Skyline sedan is equipped with everything from a RB26DET ‘Godzilla’ motor to a custom fabricated air jack set-up, which is incorporated into a one of a kind unique fabrication roll-cage, normally found in F1 race cars. The custom two-tone light green and dark green paint job was done by the crew over at MOB Works in Orange, CA. The Skyline rolls around on a custom set of massive 20×11.5″ and 20×13.5″ 540 HRE Wheels with astonishing 4″ and 5.5″ polished lips, dark green centers, and gold bolts. The 540 HRE Wheels are matched up to a set of enormous 285/25/20 and 345/25/20 Pirelli tires.
The fully gutted, stripped and painted interior features a customized dash board, aluminum door panels, center console, Status Kevlar racing seats, DEFI gauges, and a Unique Fabrication chromoly 12 point roll cage, which was painted candy gold. The exterior of the Tjin Edition R34 sedan has been modified with a custom 12 piece wide body kit from URAS Japan. This rare piece of machinery will most definitely be turning the heads of many jealous and top tuners during this year’s nationwide Get Waxed Tour.
“The Get Waxed Tour will provide the perfect venues for us to showcase this truly unique and one of a kind R34 Skyline that our team has created,” Tjin said. “Our Turtle Wax products will help keep this beauty looking good at all times.”
The one-of-a-kind 1998 R34 Skyline sedan will be the featured piece in the “Get Waxed Tour” as it travels to all the top automotive and lifestyles events across the U.S. “I’m excited for the tour because we have a car that no one else is going to have,” said Tjin. “When you show up with a Skyline, people are going to take notice.” This year’s tour will hit up a larger targeted audience, as Turtle Wax makes its way to a broader range of shows, including stops at Hot Import Nights, Night Shift, Import Showoff Little Tokyo, D1, Formula D and SEMA.
06/14, 11:07 AM
posted by:
Mike
:drool:
06/14, 11:54 AM
posted by:
animal
Great, another(!) modified Skyline…
1st and foremost, a 4 door – why? Green and gold… tasteful! And a cromo roll cage normally found in an F1 car?! What are these people on? I think they are high on nitrous.
I suppose this is exciting as you cant buy Skylines in the US but there surely must be better options for a decent show car? I thought you lot hated ‘rice’ as you are so fond of calling it?
06/14, 12:20 PM
posted by:
///mach3
06/14, 12:22 PM
posted by:
animal
It would make Nismo weep…
06/14, 12:39 PM
posted by:
Asher
The Skylines a great car but Turtle Wax makes the ****tiest car care products on Earth! Anyone ever tried ‘em? At least 5 classes below Meguiar’s, Mothers, Xymol etc….
06/14, 12:42 PM
posted by:
Mike
this car is not rice. There are some changes I would make, of course (those wheels would have to go…) but with motor, rollcage, etc, this can easily be called import.
Rice is a fart-can muffler and a K&N immitator air intake. 18s 1/4 IS NOT FAST. 17s 1/4 IS NOT FAST.
06/14, 1:02 PM
posted by:
Maverick
Asher, not to burst your bubble but Turtle Wax makes Xymol. Get your facts straight.
06/14, 1:07 PM
posted by:
aj
I imagine it’s got a folgers can on the back, Mike. Rice.
06/14, 2:24 PM
posted by:
think?
#2 Chromo roll cage usually found in an F1 car? ever watched the sport? Anyone ever read a review of the skyline? It’s the corvette of europe, fast, eh thats not special, i’ve seen minivans run 10s, pretty? obviously not, and ****ty quality? Well, it’s no infiniti.. Get over your fast and ferious wet dreams… skylines blow
P.S. straight line competion show’s 20% of a cars performance, and 10% of a drivers skill, it is, and never will be, a benchmark that a competent, intelligent auto enthusiast refers to in describing how great a car is. 1/4mile ricers are the new rednecks… i cant wait for the inline 4 NASCAR series.
06/14, 2:28 PM
posted by:
Leopold Porkstacker
I would like to see how much each of those overkill 20″ wheels + tires weighs. Surely more sensibly-sized wheels (17″ or so) would shave many many pounds off the rotating mass (equalling lower moment of enertia and quicker acceleration).
-he who stacks pork
06/14, 2:43 PM
posted by:
Asher
Wow, Maverick I did not know that and am surprised but not completely as many big companies buy up boutique ones with superior products. I love Xymol and have never ever had any good experience with base “Turtle Wax” branded products…
06/14, 3:02 PM
posted by:
Danny Futuro
wtf?!?!?!?!?? I normally have a soft spot for 34’s, but this is the wankiest one yet.
20″wheels are just ridiculous, especially on a car that will never see a set of slicks or a proper race circuit. And the paint job!!! I’ve seen some OK looking olive green “d-style” cars, but those were S13’s without 5lbs of stickers, and had normal sized wheels. Leave it to the american companies to further bastardize the japanese tuning cars.
06/15, 4:51 AM
posted by:
animal
no. 9
Yes thanks, I watch F1 regularly as I live in Europe where we have real motorsport that consists of slightly more than driving around in circles…
This of course requires brains and skill as the courses have corners, which is why legends like Nigel Mansell can win F1 and Champs car is consecutive seasons, but Champ car drivers last all of one race before being dropped from the team or crashing every single race.
And I worked for McLaren for 18 months. No one has used anything as primitive as chromoly steel for a very long time. Just because NASCAR uses ancient over weight steel roll cages doesnt mean the rest of the world does. And NASCAR is for rednecks, Rice is Jap speed freaks.
Perhaps your poorly informed opinions are best kept to yourself in future, as having seen you other posts you rarely have anything contructive to offer to a discussion in addition the fact that you never know what you are talking about. You might also want to brush up on your geography. The Skyline is Japanese, not European. There are far better cars that can lay claim to the title European Corvette. Perhaps I can encourage to go away and actually ‘think’ for your self, if you have the capacity to actually do so.
p.s. If you’d like to re-write of this post in simple English and in crayon, please let me know. I appreciate large words and complex sentence structure can be a little daunting to some one who spells ‘furious’ wrong.
06/23, 8:54 PM
posted by:
LOS
NO. 12
Very good!! Glad that you put no. 9 in his place but doesn’t someone consist of one word, not ” some one”, since you are such a great speller ??? just curious since furious was mispelled by no. 9??? just wondering?? can we just get along????
07/08, 5:32 AM
posted by:
Ace
I dunno what all you fools are talkin about this looks wicked!
08/26, 2:36 PM
posted by:
sean
say what?
“20″wheels are just ridiculous, especially on a car that will never see a set of slicks or a proper race circuit”
show me a company that makes 20″ race slicks. race slicks are usually for 17″ wheels, give or take an inch.
and show cars are the ones with massive wheels, that are only for looks.
tbh the wheels are the nicest thing amongst that ****ty bodykit. whats wrong with 20″ wheels if its only gunna get street driven (and not very often)? if it was raced, then yeah the wheels would have to downsize a bit maybe but why would a race car have 20″ wheels when it can have tiny wheels with a higher diff ratio to equal same road speed but with less rotating mass?
btw im getting an R31 or R32 4dr sedan soon. the newer ones are too heavy.
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