"Galant GTOR73-X"(1972) prototype was equipped with a detuned 'R69B' engine.
I am SLOWLY finding info now... on the R series engines.. Formula Engines. So that Galant has a Formula car motor in it.. wow.
A GP would be even so organised in 1970, under the name of "JAPAN AUTOMOBILE FEDERATION G.P." in Formule libre. In fact It appeared to be F2 with engine-blocks which should not be specially derived from a production-based cars.
There was an article in Sport-Auto December 1976 about the history of motor racing in Japan written by Shigemi Kanda translated by some unknown person on the Internet:
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Jackie Stewart won the race in a Brabham BT30 entered by John Coombs. Kuniomi Nagamatsu finished third in a Mitsubishi Colt F2-D. Mitsubishi had some experience in the single-seaters and the first Colt F3 was seen in demonstration the day of the third Japanese GP in 1966. The engine was a overturned 4 cylinder - 997 cc - which developed 90 HP and the chassis was multi-tubular inspired by Brabham. Mitsubishi developed afterwards his engine R39 1958 cc which was put in the first Colt F2B. In 1971 the capacity of the engine was increased to 1994 cc. The Colt F-2D with the 2-litre engine R39B-type would win the 1971 Japanese GP with Nagamatsu but the foreign competitions were not so strong as the previous year. In 1972 the Europeans came back in force, John Surtees winning the race in his TS10 with a BDA engine.
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