Nissan And Japans Postal Service Celebrates 50 Years Of Nissan GT-R With A Stamp Set

If you go by the numbers, the 50th anniversary of the Nissan GT-R actually took place last year. But that didn't stop Nissan and Japanese Postal Service from celebrating the occasion with a rather special set of stamps. Yes, the stamp set of all generations of GT-R itself is sensory overload but you're absolutely wrong if you think that it is just the stamps. The Japanese, being the kings of cool, you also get a scale model of the Hakosuka and portraits of the legendary RB26 and the S20 Oh boy, what I would trade to have been born in some part of Japan

To be more geeky, the exact contents inside the box that you see here are:

• A stamp sheet of ten andyen;63 stamps of each generation of the 'zilla.

• A Kyosho 1:64 scale scale model of the first-generation Skyline 2000 GT-R Hakosuka in silver.

• A special glass box case.

• Portraits of the S20 and RB26 engine.

Now, all of this comes in a rather fancy box which depicts the. It all started in the 1970s with the KPGC10 Skyline 2000 GT-R Hakosuka with 2.0-litre inline-six S20 mill with a stratospheric 7000rpm (for that time) redline. Following the footsteps was the ultra rare Kenmeri KPGC110 in 1973. The GT-R badge was then put to rest for the years to follow until 1989 with the R32 GT-R which earned it the Godzilla nickname.

The R33 and R34 further cemented its cult status by obliterating the competition and giving nightmares to all the supercars out there. After a brief hiatus, Nissan came out with the R35 GT-R in 2007, which makes it exactly versions can still be found sticking on to the tail of some rather expensive and entrenched supercars.

Let's say you are a GT-R fanatic and you want one of these stamp boxes. All it takes is a ticket to Japan. We hate to break it, but in order to grab one, you have to go to a post office in Kanagawa and Yamanashi prefecture (950 post offices) or other post offices across Japan. Provided you are a nutcase and you reach there, get ready to shell out andyen;4,600 (approx Rs 3000). And act fast because it is limited to 5,000 units.

PS: Anyone up for this, please do get one box for me as well.

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