Nautilus Sports Cars 2022 Project/Nautilus R380 (English Narrated Version)※PRINCE R380 Reprica

Nautilus Sports Cars is pleased to announce the sale of the "Nautilus R380" body, frame, and rolling chassis. Nautilus Sports Cars will recreate the "Prince R380," which was developed by Shinichiro Sakurai, the father of the Skyline, at Prince Motor Company, aiming to beat Porsche at the Japanese Grand Prix held in the 1960s. S&S Engineering Co., Ltd. founded in 1998 and headed by Mr. Shinichiro Sakurai, has produced a reissue of the Prince R380. An FRP female mold was made directly from the number 11 R380 that won the 1966 Japanese Grand Prix, defeating the Porsche Carrera 6, and an FRP body was made based on this mold. The steel pipe frame and suspension were made based on the drawings from that time, and the GR8 engine, which was the same as the one stored at that time, was installed for the reissue. However, the aluminum body of 1966 was not used for the reissued car, and it was made of FRP (reinforced plastic). In addition, the steel pipe space frame was joined by "brazing" at that time, but in the reissued car, "arc welding" was used. Mr. Shinichiro Sakurai said that he regretted that he was not able to reproduce the "aluminum body" and "brazed joint of the steel pipe frame" as it was done in those days. Kenichiro Furukawa, the representative of Nautilus Sports Car, took over the creation of the R380, receiving the body mold and other materials from Shinichiro Sakurai and Katsutoshi Shimada of S&S Engineering, along with a "manufacturing license agreement" from the only remaining R380 (number 11) from 2001. We have taken over the recreation of the R380. Thus, Nautilus Sports Cars has resumed the creation of the R380 using the one and only R380 mold, which will never be produced in the future. #くるま #プリンススカイライン #日本グランプリ #プリンス自動車 #櫻井眞一郎 #桜井眞一郎 #プリンスR380