Remembering Japanese cars from the past
Just submitted this picture to Failblog:
As you can see: Google Chrome fails to play Youtube movies. I already tried Chrome on my blog and discovered than no Youtube videos would show up on my blog. After a small investigation I discovered that there is some security issue on Google Chrome and Youtube.com.
FAIL! :D
Edit @11:30: Apparently they fixed it now. Glad I was able to capture it. ;)
Today I spotted a Nissan Exa while driving through town. It stopped at the junction which I was passing and followed 50 meters behind me for two or three blocks so I only got a good look at it at the junction. Of course I didn’t have my camera with me, so once again a cameraphone would be quite handy in these occurrences.
Normally the Exa is quite rare here in Holland since it was never sold here and normally was only imported from the US. However this model had a very distinctive front spoiler, so I looked it up and it appeared to be a Grand Prix edition which was only sold in Australia. Hmmm… Forgot to look if the driver actually was on the right side of the car…
The Exa looked like this:
As you can see the front looks very similar to the S12, but actually I think it looks rather more a like the Toyota AE86 Sprinter Trueno. Too bad it looks horrible at the rear and that it is wwd. ;)
While searching for Exa info I also found this great Nissan Sunny Turbo picture:
Notice the mirrored “Turbo” writing on the grille. Imagine cruising and all of a sudden some car rushes in very fast. All you can see in your mirror is “Turbo” written on the grille… I love those small details on 80s cars… ;)
Thanks to the Nissan Exa club for their info about the Exa Grand Prix.
I’m back from holiday in Hungary and I didn’t spot any A60 Carina at all. :(
However I did spot a red A60 Celica in Szombathely and in Körmend a silver USDM AE92 Corolla GT-S (JDM version would be a Sprinter Trueno). Unfortunately both times I didn’t have my camera with me… These are the times I miss a camera on my phone. :(
I told my girlfriend that the silver AE92 would be the successor of my previous car: the good old AE86 Corolla. In fact it would be not entirely true since my good old Corolla used to be a SR5 before TE71Corolla converted it.
This is what the A60 Celica looked like:
But then a bit more shabby and used. Well, what would you expect from a 26 year old Celica. ;)
The Celica did feature normal rims, so no Celica Supra or Pizza Cutter rims. It also featured the first generation popup-lamps so I suspect it was a TA60 Celica ST.
This is what the AE92 Corolla GT-S looked like:
But then in Silver of course…
I did spot some other special rwd cars, like a Nissan S14, Lada rallycar and a Datsun 1800. Maybe I’ll spot a Carina A60 next year? Who knows…
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