Adding the zenki Levin AE86 bumper and lip were a very good improvement by the owner of this KE70 wagon.

Corolla KE70 wagon with zenki AE86 bumper+lip
Even the original Apex Twin Cam seats and the panda paint scheme seems to be a nice fit! :P

Found at Diary of sardines with your Hachiroku

Since I was on holiday for the past four weeks I totally missed hachi-roku-day! :(
Lucky enough I already saw some great stuff in the past days like the 48km Corolla GT on Speedhunters. I also saw this video by JRotaro on Youtube of lots of hachis having fun at the Fuji drift course next to the Fuji Speedway:

Now this is something you definitely don't want to miss! ;)

Drugs are bad m'kay.

Dried mushroom filter
At least, that's what I thought when I saw this dried out mushroom filter on the RS Yasu blog.

The mushroom filter belonged to this very nive Levin:
See more mushrooms! (sorry, no badgers)

In total there were three AE86s on the paddock. Yesterday I already posted the purple Corolla AE86 with the BEAMS 3S-GE conversion, so how about this red Corolla AE86 with some deep dished SSR dori-dori rims?

His Corolla Levin AE86 started its life as a Swiss red panda Corolla GT and slowly he migrated it to a driftstyle hachi.

Oldskulls Corolla (Levin) AE86 @JAF2011
He actually downgraded its looks by removing the Vertex bumpers. Personally I like it much better with the stock bumpers back on again: mimics the grassroots JDM driftstyle much better!
BTW: The photo was a bit of over exposed on the left due to inserting the film.

The hachi is owned by my friend Oldskull and I still think it is amazing what he does to it! The SSR Dori-doris are just a small example how great you can make a hachi look!
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It has taken about a month for me to finally post up some of the celluloid photographs I took with my Zenit-E and a "new" Industar 61 lens at the Japans Autosport Festival 2011 at Zandvoort. As we Dutch say: "It takes a while but then you have something!" but that probably hits like a plier to a pig! :P

First reason it took so long was that the pictures got lost between the processing company and the photostore. Second reason was that I was too lazy to scan them. Third reason was that I was too lazy to upload them. So here they finally are!

I'll start with my Carina parked next to this Datsun 240Z:

Datsun S30 240Z @ JAF2011
I made the decision that the Carina would be a better off parked next to a classic 70s JDM sportscar than one of those "modern" cars in the background. ;)

When chatting with the owner of the Corolla AE86 with 3S-GE swap this yellow 240Z stopped by. The owner turned out to be an AE86 owner as well. What is the chance that I parked my Carina next to his 240Z? One out of 10000?

Next up is this first generation green Mazda 626 hardtop coupe:
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