Remembering Japanese cars from the past
A perfectly red Carina GT-T TA63 is always a beautiful sight:
Red Carina GT-T TA63
The Heroes Racing rims and hood vents are a nice touch to the whole package!
And it looks great grouped together with a pair of Celicas as well:
Red Carina GT-T TA63 and two Celicas
Both pictures have been taken at the Celica-day earlier this year.
Found at [Beginners Celica @ Minkara]
My Canon EOS 350D camera got stolen last weekend:
Someone broke into my home during the night, grabbed two phones and my camera bag and ran off thinking they got some big loot. Instead they got a six year old camera and a bunch of irreplaceable vintage lenses and a backup harddisk containing a lot of photos I don’t have on my computer anymore…
This was in the bag:
Canon EOS 350D camera (Serialnumber 1530709971) modified with a matte prism focus screen, a Nikon DK21-M occulair and a Hama M42 to EOS adapter.
Lenses:
Canon 18-55mm kit lens (EOS mount)
Zenitar 16mm fisheye (EOS mount)
Helios 44-2 58mm 2 (zebra) serialnumber N0000525 (m42 mount)
Helios 44M 58mm 2 (m42 mount)
Carl Zeiss Tessar aus Jena 50mm 2.8 (zebra) serialnumber 8500624 (m42 mount)
Mir-1B (MNP-1B) 37mm 2.8 (m42 mount)
Mamiya 28mm 2.8 (m42 mount)
Panagor 80-200mm 3.5 (m42 mount)
APS Teleconverter
Accessories:
Remote control for Canon 350D
Cleaning wipe with the new “Spil Games” logo
USB Harddisk Western Digital 750GB
As you can see most of it is pretty worthless on the secondhand market but very hard to get by if you want it. Also the Helios and Mir lenses became my two favorite lenses over the past few months…
I’ve decided to give a 100 euro reward for the person who will return the camera and lenses to me!
On a side track: lucky enough they did not steal my analogue cameras and I did have a spare Zenit-E camera with *another* zebra Helios 44-2 lens and bought a new black and white film last Saturday. So this is my current photographing gear:
It is about three times as heavy as my EOS 350D used to be, but IMO certainly three times as much fun!
I also ordered more black and white film and a batch of Rodinal to process them.
The Skyline DR30 is one of the most iconic skylines ever and Seibu Keisatsu helped a great deal with that.
Now if only that afterburner option would have been available on the real Skyline RS-Turbo it would have been even more awesome!
Found at [kensaitou @ Youtube]
Just had a big WTF?! when I found this Scuderia Nissan ad from 1971 on some historical Skyline GT-R KPGC10 related site:
Scuderia Nissan ad from 1971
Basically it offers to transform your road legal Skyline GT-R to a racing spec car.
Found at [Spirit of Skyline]
Now this Miata is a bit of everything: it is yellow, white and blue, it is imported brand new and it has quite a lot of rust!
Down on the Street: Yellow Mazda Miata
Originally imported in 1990 as a Miata and registered as white. Apparently the owner (or previous owner) resprayed it yellow but did not bother to change the registration. Then the sunroof got replaced by a blue hardtop.
From the backside you can see that it is gathering quite some rust:
Down on the Street: Yellow Mazda Miata
Perhaps a small accident at the rear and that’s why there is also a panel missing?
Back in the 80s most Japanese car manufacturers were creating hot turbo-ed (pronounced as Tarbo) city cars: Honda had the Honda City Turbo, Nissan had the Nissan March Turbo, Toyota had the Corsa Turboand if you didn’t have a turbo you had at least a Twin Cam (pronounced as Shweencam) engine like Suzuki did.
Daihatsu always was a master in creating small cars, so naturally they joined the turbo race with their own Charade Turbo. But when that wasn’t appealing enough they joined forces with Innocenti DeTomasso and created the Daihatsu DeTomasso Turbo:
Basically the car is the same as the normal Charade Turbo, but it has a better tuned engine, restyled to match the looks of the Innocenti Turbo DeTomaso. The Innocenti Turbo DeTomaso is a remodelled Mini by Bertone built by Innocenti with a tuned Daihatsu engine by DeTomasso and the Daihatsu Charade DeTomasso Turbo is a Charade with that very same engine. Can you still follow it? Neither did I at first… :D
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