Remembering Japanese cars from the past
The first thing I thought when I saw this pigsbutt (butaketsu) Laurel SGX was that it had developed a rusty (coin) slot:
Rusty pigsbutt Nissan Laurel C130
Its rear end is completely rusted through and, apart from the interior, the rest of the car doesn’t look much better either…
Still it is not way beyond repair: its new owner is going to restore it in full glory! :)
(BTW: it is not advisable to lookup “rusty slot”! :P )
Found here: [Every one of their flow]
Last Sunday I saw an ad appear on Marktplaats offering a rare metallic green Carina GL TA60 for sale:
Metalic green Carina GL TA60
In the Netherlands the GL is a rare package where the rear seats have the headrests, more comfortable seats, storage compartments at the back of the front seats in the front doors and in the luggage compartment separate compartments for jack and tools, It doesn’t sound like much, but if you take one peek into my trunk you will know why you need seperate compartments for your tools. ;)
The interior still looks great considering it is already 30 years old:
Metalic green Carina GL TA60
However there appears to be a small repair patch on the passenger seat…
The car has 127k on the odometer:
Metalic green Carina GL TA60
And apparently they love the odd numbers on it as well.
Unfortunately when I checked the ad for the second time it had gone already. So either someone got really lucky or they decided not to sell the car after all. Thanks to Google cache I was still able to share it. :)
I liked the Carina hardtop coupe TA17 in last treasure so much that I found another one:
Hayashi Streets with mad camber
Clearly a picture taken from someones 70s photo album: a nice Carina TA17 hardtop coupe sitting on a set of 13 inch Hayashi Streets with baloon tires and even the front wheels have some camber. (would be demon camber in those days!)
Found at [Evo golfers @ Minkara]
Newdeluxe1969 posted a video where he attends the JCCA 2011 New Year Meeting. Don’t expect footage of the event itself because most of it contains fast forward driving in his Nissan Skyline VC10 through Odaiba:
Found at [newdeluxe1969 @ Youtube]
A few days back I spotted this black 2009 Mazda MX5 NC on the parkinglot next to my local supermarket:
Black Mazda MX5 NC hardtop
Nice! :)
Unlike what the title says they aren’t exactly for sale at Ebay, but rather on its free of charge Dutch co-site called Marktplaats.
Over two years ago I found the worlds ugliest hubcaps on Marktplaats. I found another Corolla KE30 hubcap set for sale at Marktplaats:
Marktplaats KE30 hubcaps
Last time I did get a lot of emails from people who wanted them, but I was unable to get them because that set got sold. So if you really want them, be quick and I might be able to arrange them for you. :)
Then I also bumped into these rims, advertised as suitable for an AE86 . and had a big laugh about the picture:
AE86 rimsL: Only needs a bit of color
Basically the MS Paint text roughly translates into:
Only needs a bit of color. AE86 Toyota 4x 15 inch
Damn funny! :D
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