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COLLECTABILITY: R35 GT-R mousepad and Sileighty brochure

Here’s a couple of interesting little bits of memorabilia I’ve picked up so far in Japan.

This mousepad was made by Nissan to celebrate the original 7’38″54 GT-R time around the Nürburgring, which has of course since been bettered. It was only given out to the “Technology member” employes, who directly worked on the GT-R’s design and construction. I received this from a friend who worked at the Nissan Tochigi factory, where they make the GT-R. He gave it to me saying “I don’t use a mouse on my home computer. You like this sort of stuff, right?”

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