Remembering Japanese cars from the past
The cover of the March 1983 issue of Auto Holiday magazine looks like a great deal of fun!
The magazine for car and leasure for youngs in the early 80s is clearly promising their readers to have a ball. ;)
Especially if you look at the kaido racer contents on the inside: Continue reading
I keep finding it funny how Japanese have a reverse fetish for any performance car from abroad, especially for the early 80s heroes like this Renault 5 Turbo!
But I could only agree with them: that Renault 5 Turbo does look just as appealing as the NSX-R. ;)
Direct link to video: Renault Turbo 5
Chuckled a bit when I saw this picture:
Does a Nissan Skyline DR30 fall into the etcetera category?
Found at Diary of a sign maker @ Minkara
A few days I go I already posted about winning the tail lights and the very same day I received a package from Japan (from a different AY source) containing a set of Soarer Z10 centercaps, Carina mudflaps, Carina brochure and this little yellow 1/64 scale Toyota Carina GT-R:
I got it for a bargain price and did not expect much from it until I read this posting last week and was very impressed by it.
I compared it against the Hotwheels Skyline KPGC110 GT-R I bought some last week and I was shocked by the difference in quality! See also this picture: Continue reading
Honza (aka Gred) sent me a link earlier this week with a link to a perfect Carina TA62 coupe. Apparently it is for sale for a mere 38000 Czech Koruna (1900 US dollars) which is next to nothing for a nice example like this one!
One of the first things that I noticed is that looks like it had a recent respray that is following the OEM JDM Carina panda paint scheme.
The second thing were the, obvious, deep dished wheels. Continue reading
Finally I’ve been able to win a pair of them: the kouki Carina sedan tail lights seem to be made of unobtainium these days! Big thanks to Ewan from Hayatonka!
And as an added bonus: even more kouki headlight surroundings, grille, city lights and indicator lights!
Too bad the package won’t make it before Christmas. :'(
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