Nissan (R35) GT-R, called 3 Sep 2026.

A 2008 R35 GT-R running on Collecting Cars out of Nunawading, Victoria — originally white and now under a black vinyl wrap with an orange grille, 81,346 kilometres indicated and not warranted, a Japan-delivered import carrying Concessional RAV Entry Approval documents, company registered, VIN 6ZZ80000R35003313, two keys, 145 photographs.

On 18 August 2026 a 2008 Japan-delivered R35 sold at Nunawading for $80,000 - 72,595 kilometres indicated and not warranted, complied July 2026, unregistered, with an aftermarket bodykit and carbon elements, an aftermarket exhaust, 20-inch Rohana wheels and an Alcantara dashboard. This desk called that car at $78,200 six days before the hammer and was 2.3 per cent low. It is the closest comparable in existence to the lot in front of us: same year, same import class, same room, twenty days apart.

That is not a criticism of the model, it is the reason this call is written out in full. The August lot took a raw minus 18.9 per cent clamped to minus 15 against a base of $92,000. Since then fifteen counted Australian results have been fitted and the base has moved to $79,000. The adjustment stack on this car is the same shape - minus 15 again, capped from minus 16.3 - but it is now applied to a base $13,000 lower.

And the only Australian transaction that describes this exact specification is still $80,000.

Start at $80,000. Minus 0.8 per cent for 8,751 more kilometres at this record's 1.8 per cent per 10,000, halved because the reading is not warranted, which is $640. Then minus 8 per cent, JUDGEMENT, for the difference between the two builds, which is $6,400. That lands at $72,960 and the call is $72,000.

The August car had a kit on it. This one has been transformed: a full vinyl wrap over the original white paint, carbon-fibre wheel arch extensions, a vented bonnet with a plexiglass cutout, forged canards, side skirts, a rear diffuser, a redesigned rear bumper, quarter-light louvres, sponsor decals, and a cabin retrimmed in black, orange and white leather and Alcantara with embroidered logos, red stitching and Recaro harnesses. This library prices a wrap and a widebody under one line at minus 8 per cent and says why: the market prices what might be underneath it, sight unseen. On a car whose original colour is white and whose current colour is a film, that warning is the literal case.

A build this specific finds its buyer eventually; a lot with a fixed close needs two of them in the same room on the same evening, and this record's own note on polarising builds says a valuation cannot assume that buyer.

The two dearest R35s in the Australian record are both modified: $115,500 in February 2024 for a Jet Black 2011 car on a Stage 2 intake with upgraded injectors, an exhaust, AP Racing discs and Cup 2 tyres, and $100,000 in June 2024 for a car with a Nismo sports resetting. On this model modification is demonstrably not punished. The distinction this call draws is between performance work on a clean Australian-delivered car and cosmetic transformation of a recent import, and it is a distinction of judgement rather than one the fifteen results can settle.

HKS intakes with blow-off valves, an HKS aluminium expansion tank, blue silicone hoses and an engine cover. There is no tune claimed, no larger turbochargers, and nothing internal. The $6,000 credit this record pays for original turbochargers and a verified standard tune is not claimed by the listing and is not paid, but the modifications that are described stop well short of the ones this library punishes hardest.

It carries no PPSR statement and no NEVDIS result, where both of the other Collecting Cars lots priced by this desk this week carry them - explicable on a freshly imported car with a compliance-issued identifier and no Australian history to check, and worth one question rather than a deduction. And it says the car is now LOCATED in Australia rather than registered in it, which on the August comparable meant unregistered; company registered in the specification block is an ownership type, not a registration status. Neither is priced.

81,346 kilometres against the 100,000 this record expects would be worth plus 3.4 per cent, and it is halved to plus 1.7 because the advertisement itself says the reading is not warranted. The August lot was credited at full rate on an equally unwarranted reading and this record has already written that down as a weakness; this is the first call to apply the correction.

1,159 views and 71 saves. Buyer's premium of six per cent plus GST applies on top, with a minimum of A$2,200 including GST, so a $72,000 hammer is about $76,752 to the buyer. Predicted hammer $65,000 to $80,000, midpoint $72,000.

$76,500 from 13 bids with four days left, already six per cent above the call and still inside the published $66,000 to $84,000 band. Early, and running against the call. It does not move.