This Nissan cinema advertisement from 1980 should have no comments at all: the tiny dust cloud tells you everything!
Month: February 2010 (Page 5 of 6)
Yesterday I already posted a car chase by the Abunai Deka and today I have another one! This time they swapped their regular Nissan Leopard Y31 for a second generation Pontiac Firebird Trans Am!
Now this is a perfectly good example why American cars are superior to the Japanese: you can empty your gun on a Trans Am and it will still be going as strong as when it left the Pontiac factory in the mid 70s! Now compare that to their regular Leopard: would they have survived at such an attack at all?
After four and a half minute of wrecking 20 to 30 perfectly good late 70s and early 80s Salary Men type saloons it comes to an end when the Trans Am finally escapes the junkyard. It must have been a wise choice of the director to pick the junkyard as the background of this scene: after wrecking 30 cars you can just leave them there! Saves a lot of trouble in logistics! Brilliant!
Most people already read or heard the news today: the D1GP drifter Atsushi Kuroi died three days ago in a motorcycle accident.
He was one of the early drifting pioneers and his professional drifting career began in the first season of D1GP (2001) when he entered it with his well known OneVia S13. He was well known for throwing up big clouds of smoke when going sideways and that is most probably what most people will remember of him.
I’d like to remember him like this:
As the man who could grip an amazing 77kg during the D1GP arm wrestling event!
This car chase video actually starts with a Nissan Laurel C230 chasing a pedestrian. Apparently this woman is very scared of the Laurel (or its driver) and fakes being hit by the Abunai Deka Nissan Leopard.
After that an exciting chase between the Leopard and the Laurel starts!
A lot of cars can be seen in the background: at 0:28 a brand new Toyota Celica AT160 can be seen (parked next to an A60 Carina sedan!) and a few seconds later an A60 Carina coupe parked in the far background. And let’s not forget the white Honda Today at 0:56! Another white Carina A60 coupe can be seen at 2:03, a KE70 van at 2:06 and as a bonus a 300ZX Z31 at the traffic light!
Now can you name more than these cars?
My mouth started watering when I spotted this amazing JZA63 Carina GTTR buildup:
Toyota Carina GT-TR JZA63
The Carina was originally a TA63 GTTR model, so attaching the 2JZ engine to the W55 instead of the 3T was easy.
Toyota Carina GT-TR JZA63
The car is AE86 front struts converted to fit the 8 way adjustable AE92 HTS shocks and a R33 4 pot brake conversion has been done as well. Only a few bushings have been replaced by its polyurethane counterparts, but at the front it features 12k Swift springs and 8k TBS springs at the rear. So it should be stiff as a board.
Toyota Carina GT-TR JZA63
All around the car is featuring Work Meisters in 17 inch diameter and 9J wide! To fit those rims the fenders had to be extended at the rear. 205/40 tires are lightly stretched over these Meisters.
Toyota Carina GT-TR JZA63
The interior of the Carina is stripped and replaced with a set of Recaro seats and a roll cage has been fitted.
Toyota Carina GT-TR JZA63
Of course the engine has been modified as well: NA 2JZ was taken from a JZS140 Crown with TRD cams, ITBs, a custom built oilpan and a special purpose muffler. In other words: very powerful! The owner even switched the W55 to a W58 gearbox to handle all that power!
Toyota Carina GT-TR JZA63
In other words: this JZA63 Carina is a beast which I’d certainly would love to tame! ;)
Another video was posted upon that beautiful Skyline van!
Last time I was wrong: the chassis code is VC10 instead of GC10!
The owner asks in the description of the video if anyone has a VC10 outside Japan. So if you have one, head over here to send him your footage!