Remembering Japanese cars from the past
You’ve probably seen two or more photos used in this video before. The Fairlady Z S130 owner mixed his family album together with Hamada Syougo’s song Still 19 from his 1999 album J.Boy.
I also found a video clip of the song featuring J-drama queen Ishihara Satomi starring in Be-Bop High School:
I think I definitely need to find that J-drama now. ;)
Found at [Moss]
I found this video of a Bisimoto tuned 3T-GTE engined Carina TA14 on a set of SSR Longchamp xr4s.
That sound is like music to my ears!
This Carina GT-R AA63 Cluster has already been lying in my shed for two years now.
Carina GT-R AA63 cluster cleanup: opened up
Why? Well, there are three modifications I need to make:
1. Speedo cable on the wrong side, so I need to modify the cable-bracket to be mounted on the other side
2. An additional hole for the odometer reset button on the dash
3. Rewire the connector to match the AA63 pin layout
1 and 2 are not really problematic, but can only be solved when I’m mounting the new cluster. 3 is a bit more difficult since these clusters are not documented outside Japan. So I started following all wiring paths and documented where they went and what their use should be.
This is the table of changes (I found so far) to make:
AA63 Cluster pin layout
As you can see it is far from complete: there are still seven questionmarks. So, next time I’ll try to figure these out as well.
In case you are wondering where the numbers are located on the clusters:
AA63 Cluster layout
I did find a CD with all Japanese workshop manuals for the A40 and A60 series at Auctions Yahoo, but a steep buy-me-now price of 48 euro (68 US dollar) refrained me from buying it. I’ve trieed to contact the seller by email and asked if they can sell it directly to me, but no answer so far… So if anyone has the AA63 cluster pin layout, please contact me! :)
It is always easy money for a celebrity to borrow his/her face for a TV commercial while on the other hand the car manufacturer boosts up the car sales on its fanbase. This won’t always work of course, but in the case of actor Yamasaki Tsutomu his role was chosen perfectly!
He is just as classy as his Cresta and his Cresta just as classy as he is!
These two video are actually a promotional video for the Cresta where all features of the Super Lucent Twincam 24 are compared next to each other:
Those 80s airu spoiler option settu and airu purifieru sounds really attractive to me!
And in the third video the engine, suspension and all models are compared to each other:
Even though Super Deluxe may sound attractive, it is actually under the Super Lucent. Also the Super Custom almost sounds like the ideal VIP car, it actually is an old fashioned diesel.
Found at [zumit2736 @ Youtube]
One day you write about a Daihatsu Charade Detomasso and the next day you will pass a Charade that wants to be a Detomasso badly!
Daihatsu Charade G11 wants to be a Detomasso badly
This Charade TS Daimatic (Daihatsu and Automatic together? Just like Hondamatic?) may not be en-par with the Detomasso but it certainly wished to look like one with its chicken-fence grille and aftermarket exhaust!
I found this great video about the Prince R380 on AUTOnGRAPHIC. It features an interview with the late Shinichiro Sakurai taken back in 2004 on the Prince company, Prince Skyline and the Prince R380!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJXT9ewTA6s
It’s amazing what this small company achieved in just a few years. Of course we all know the Nissan-Prince merger meant the end for the Prince Motor Company. However the thriving engineers stuck around and made thriving products like the S20 engine, Skyline C10 and Cherry E10! It might actually have been the savior for the company as the expensive racing program might have brought down the company.
Found at [AUTOnGRAPHIC] (Edit 2021: link removed as AUTOnGRAPHIC no longer exists!)
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