Remembering Japanese cars from the past

Month: November 2009 (Page 2 of 6)

Minkara guide – Part three: add cars

Earlier we covered the registration process and setting up your profile, so let start adding cars now!
Minkara guide step 2: go to car listing
Minkara guide part 3: go to car listing

This is where you click to go to the car listing page…

You will see an empty page on which you have one big button. Now what should you do with that button then?
Minkara guide part 3: click on add car
Minkara guide part 3: click on add car

Click it of course! 😉

Which takes you to the edit car details page:
Minkara guide part 3: edit car details
Minkara guide part 3: edit car details

I tried to put in there whatever I could translate. The only tricky part is selecting the manufacturer and model! The lists are so long that I can’t really translate them. Least I can do is provide you with the most important manufacturers from the list:
???: Toyota
??: Nissan
???: Honda
??: Mitsubishi
???: Mazda
???: Subaru
???: Suzuki
????: Daihatsu
???: Isuzu
??: Mitsuoka

After you selected the manufacturer the page will reload and load the models by that manufacturer. What you can do is use Firefox, select the drop-down box containing the models, right-click on the selection and choose “view selection source”. This way you will get that list in html formatted text which you can put through Google-translate. It won’t work very well, but at least it is better than nothing. 😉

So, filled in all details? Click on the “Check” button to see how it is going to look on your profile:
Minkara guide part 3: confirm car details
Minkara guide part 3: confirm car details

Satisfied? Click on “Submit” button to confirm your car. Otherwise click on the “Edit” button to go back to the edit screen.

Minkara guide part 3: done!
Minkara guide part 3: done!

Well, we’re done! Congratulations: you just added your first car to your Minkara profile!

Next episode we will look into adding modifications to your cars!

Minkara guide – Part two: enable profile

After last weeks registration (Minkara guide part one) we now continue with the basic profile. After you have logged in you must go to your profile page first:
Minkara guide step 2: go to your profile page
Minkara guide step 2: go to your profile page

As you can see it is pretty empty there! First thing they ask you to do is to agree to the terms (yes, once again!):
Minkara guide step 2: agree to the terms
Minkara guide step 2: agree to the terms

So, check that checkbox and press continue…

After you have done that you will see a very very very long page with way too many options:
Minkara guide step 2: edit profile details
Minkara guide step 2: edit profile details

As you can see: it is a bit unclear if you don’t know what it says! I tried to put it all in one single image and tried to translate it properly but some thinks are a bit unclear for me as well…

You can also upload your default profile picture here. It will be used as an icon and also shown bigger on your public profile page.

After you have filled in everything and pressed the Submit button you will get a confirmatiobox asking if everything has been filled in correctly. Press OK to continue… And surprise surprise: your profile details have been filled in!

That’s it for this guide! In the next part (will be posted tomorrow!) we will start adding cars.

Commerical time: Airwolf chasing in a Chaser?

We all know Japanese love to use (foreign) actors in their commercials and Jan-Michael Vincent (Stringfellow Hawke in Airwolf) was no exception to that:

Maybe Toyota thought of the possibility to reuse this Chaser commercial in the US, but never actually did because the Cressida never got the 24 valve 1G-GTTE Twin Turbo engine!

If they would have aired this Commercial when I was a young lad I would most certainly have tried to convince my dad to buy that Airwolf car! 😉

DOTS: Miata hunting!

Ever since I started doing the Down on the Street series I thought it was amazing how many Mazda MX5s (aka Miata in the US and Roadster in Japan) I saw on the streets. Since I thought it was quite odd I started taking (quick) pictures of every single one of them I encountered.

For instance I saw this one parked next to a private apartment/housing block. I could not go in there without lifting a chain at the entrance and trespassing the private parking lot, so I took the picture from the street.
Mazda MX5 parked next to an apartment block
Mazda MX5 parked next to an apartment block

It is also funny to see how many Miatas are imported from the US! I think about 50% of all cars I’ve seen so far were actually imported Mazda Miatas! This red Miata is no exception to that:
I pass this Red Mazda Miata every day
Red Mazda Miata

I actually pass this red Miata every day (going to work) and still I have only two pictures of it taken with the crappy camera. Shame on me!

This is another Miata I pass every day:
I pass this White Mazda Miata every day as well
White Mazda Miata

But then on my way to the nursery of my son. This one has got a big dent in it and has been parked there for ages now without moving… Currently the dent is starting to rust and the car itself is starting to look brown due to the amount of leafs on the car… Feels a bit like a deja vu!

Next time more Miatas! 😉

Genuine Dutch Datsun 240K GT catalogue

Oops I did it again…
Datsun 240K GT GC110
Datsun 240K GT GC110

Yes: I bought another car folder… And this time I found the Dutch Datsun 240K GT and could not resist myself from buying it…

Datsun 240K GT GC110
Datsun 240K GT GC110

In contrast with the sober looks of the Dutch Nissan 2400GT this folder really goes wild with the styling! Beautiful 70s girls dressed up in fashionable 70s style. Somehow it really fits the GC110 well!

Datsun 240K GT GC110
Datsun 240K GT GC110

While the Nissan 2400GT was marketed as a performance car the 240K GT was clearly marketed as a stylish sports car.

Datsun 240K GT GC110
Datsun 240K GT GC110

Lucky enough this time Nissan allowed the export models of the Skyline to retain famous the round taillights!

Datsun 240K GT GC110
Datsun 240K GT GC110

And the car still has the same 2.4 liter L24 engine.

Scans will follow soon! (I hope)

Hilarious: Nomuken shows his other driving skills!

You all knew Ken Nomura was able to drift himself to a third place in the D1GP this year, but what you didn’t know was that he has a much wider range of driving skills!

So what else can he do then? Well, parallel drift parking (30 cm space at each side of the car), popping a balloon while driving reverse, sharpen a pencil while driving reverse and last but not least: light a match while driving reverse! 😀 😀

Too bad he only uses his ER32 for the parallel drift parking… I really would loved to see him do the pencil sharpening with his ER34! 😉

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