Month: January 2010 (Page 5 of 6)

DOTS: Miata hunting! (part 4)

January 10, 2010 / banpei / 1 Comment

Time for some more Miata hunting!

Mazda Miata
I really love the picture of this grey Miata together with the red leafs! Too bad the Ford Ka was in the way. :(
This Miata was imported in 1999, most probably from the US.

Another import:

Mazda Miata
Yet again an imported Miata from (probably) the US. It was imported to the Netherlands by a Mazda specialist only a few days before the current owner bought it in 2002. The current owner placed the rack, double exhaust and replaced the taillights with these Lexus-look taillights. IMO this Miata looks great this way! :)

So, how about an original Dutch MX5 then?

Mazda MX5 mk2
I spotted this mk2 MX5 while doing my groceries and yes: it is parked in front of a Coffee Shop… ;)

Commerical time: Chrysler Galant surfing!

January 9, 2010 / banpei / 0 Comments

Now you may think what a Chrysler has got to do on a JDM oriented blog? Well, these Austalian imported Mitsubishi Galants were rebadged it as Chrysler!

So, what better way to sell the Galant to the Aussies than with a nice surf music! Chrysler persuaded the Beach Boys to rewrite their hitsong I get around and if that wasn’t convincing enough for the buys they also fitted
a trike in the wagon variant to show it is big enough for them! Radical dude!

Hilarious: Autozam AZ-1 hauling an extra set of tires!

January 8, 2010 / banpei / 2 Comments

I spotted this funny picture on Doriten’s blog:

Need extra space on your Autozam AZ-1?
I did see the Autozam AZ-1 once on a JDM classics meeting and it is so small that I could never ever fit in one! Not even in the passenger seat! So I can understand the owner ingeniously placed a rack behind the AZ-1!

Oh, and who is that guy in suit? Chief Daimon from Seibu Keisatsu?

Random: Most beautiful JDM sunset!

January 7, 2010 / banpei / 1 Comment

Most beautiful sunset ever?

Found here:
kgc10kai blog

Repost: 30 years of Tamiya R/C cars

January 6, 2010 / banpei / 2 Comments

Now this is probably the coolest Tamiya poster I’ve ever seen:

30 years of Tamiya R/C cars
This poster from 2006 covers the most important models by Tamiya in their 30 years of radio controlled cars. It starts with the Porsche 934 Turbo RSR Now on the top left and you can see many nice JDM models in there: next to the 934 a Group 5 Celica Celica liftback A28, in the mid left a Group 5 Nissan Fairlady S30 240Z, a Honda City Turbo, some Skyline R32s in the mid right and a Supra JZA80 at the right bottom. Can you spot some more great models I missed?

Found at Jalopnik via Burst sausages via Save the Enzos via ac75d’s photostream @ Flickr (can it even get reposted more than this? :o )

Carina sightings: diffin Carina GT-R AA63

January 6, 2010 / banpei / 1 Comment

Those British and Irish laddies never get enough of diffin those JDM cars:

The Carina is still on its original springs and that shows at the front when doing donuts. Also notice how nice a Carina looks on those Hayashi Streets!

The comment by the video poster is fat gut, slow car. Maybe true compared to diffin an AE86 but I’d still rather have the ‘rina. ;)