A brand new document has been set for the worth paid at public sale for a Nissan GT-R.

An R34 Nissan Skyline GT-R pushed by Paul Walker in 2009’s “Quick & Livid,” the fourth installment of the franchise, went below the hammer final week at a Bonhams public sale in Brussels, Belgium, and the ultimate sale value together with the customer’s premium was a staggering $1.357 million.

Though costs of basic GT-Rs have soared in recent times, significantly within the case of the R34 era, the worth paid for this GT-R is on one other stage. The worth is sort of 10 occasions what R34 Skyline GT-Rs presently begin at in markets the place the automobile is offered.

R34 Skyline GT-Rs have been constructed from 1999 to 2022, and this one is a 2000 mannequin initially introduced into the U.S. in 2008 for filming by the previous firm Kaizo Industries, which acquired round import restrictions by classifying the automobile as a equipment automobile and attaching its personal VIN. It wanted to be imported with out an engine for this explicit import loophole, so the turbocharged 2.6-liter inline-6 right here is not a numbers-matching engine.

A number of R34 Nissan Skylines have been used for filming, although this automobile was the one real GT-R. The others have been lesser GT and GT-T fashions modified to resemble the hero automobile. A type of vehicles had its physique grafted onto an off-road dune buggy to make use of when filming leap scenes.

In line with the itemizing, this GT-R was customised by Kaizo Industries’ Daryl Alison to fulfill Walker’s private specification, which is the state the automobile stays in. Key modifications embrace a customized roll cage, OMP racing buckets (allegedly nonetheless in Walker’s seating place), 19-inch Volk Racing RE30 wheels, a Turbonetics intercooler, a Nismo NE-1 exhaust, and a Home windows PC linked to an MFD Xenarc show, used to generate the digital gauge readouts seen within the movie. The automobile can also be completed within the R34’s Bayside Blue hero shade.