Month: January 2015 (Page 3 of 4)

Friday Video: Nomuken drifting a Honda City Turbo II

Friday Video: Honda City Turbo II drifted by Nomuken

January 9, 2015 / banpei / 2 Comments

It’s Friday so here is another video to enjoy: Nomuken drifting a Honda City Turbo II!

You can actually drift a Honda City Turbo II then? I thought they were front wheel drive!

Well yes you can: with a little bit of help from the handbrake and a Toyota Starlet Glanza V EP91 Turbo engine. The Honda City Turbo II also got the nickname bulldog, so does the Chihuahua refer back to the Toyota Starlet? Like a fancy dressed up hairless skinny bulldog?

Judge for yourself in the video: Continue reading

Family Album Treasures: The Toyota Celica TA22 Family

Family Album Treasures: The Toyota Celica GT family

January 7, 2015 / banpei / 0 Comments

In 1970 Toyota launched the all new Celica family with the high performance 2T-G engine and this car was also better known as the Toyota Celica GT.

Only in 1972 the GT lineup got extended with the “light weight” GTV (Gran Turismo Veloce) and the 18R-G powered 2 litre GT.

Todays Family Album Treasure is actually one of the first 2T-G powered GT models (so a Celica TA22) and you can recognize it by the location of the fuel filler location: Continue reading

Down on the Street: Honda Prelude MK5

January 6, 2015 / banpei / 0 Comments

Last week I bumped into this last generation Honda Prelude in an underground parking garage:

Sorry for the mediocre photo quality, but camera phones, dim light and fluorescent lamps are not a good combo.
The prelude was parked there shortly before I entered the parking garage as the car was still wet from the rain above ground.

This last generation Honda Prelude is disappearing from the streets rapidly: Continue reading

Carina Sightings: Toyota Carina GT meeting in 1994

Carina Sightings: 1994 Toyota Carina GT meeting

January 3, 2015 / banpei / 0 Comments

What would a Toyota Carina GT meeting look like in 1994? Well these photos were taken in 1994 at a Carina meeting somewhere in the Saitama Prefecture:

All Carinas are GT models and all except one (RA45 18R-G) are 2T-G powered. How bizarre is that? I would say that’s pretty epic as the 2T-G versions of the third generation are now close to extinct!

The big lineup really looks great: Continue reading

Ebay Treasures: a Dutch Prince Skyline S50 on Ebay!

January 2, 2015 / banpei / 1 Comment

This really is an Ebay treasure: a genuine Dutch registered Prince Skyline S50! Yet again I received this via Japanse Klassieker group on Facebook, Roland Verheijen posted it on their page:

I knew they have been sold in (small numbers) in the Netherlands but never had any hope one would turn up for sale once. Well, today one did turn up for sale and it really is a treasure!

Don’t have high hopes for this one as the body is very rusty: Continue reading

Toyota Celica Supra Mk II MA61 parking fail

Hilarious: Toyota Celica Supra Mk2 parking fail

January 2, 2015 / banpei / 0 Comments

While doing some research on the Toyota Celica Supra mk2 (aka Toyota Celica XX in Japan) I found this hilarious photo:

There is a Toyota Celica Supra mk2 P-Type parked on top of the last model Mazda Protegé (aka Mazda 323 and Mazda Familia) sedan in a typical parking lot. It is clearly a face-lifted P-type (Performance type) Celica Supra as it features the dished 7 inch wide Celica Supra wheels, the overfenders and the wraparound front indicators. It could be a MA61 or MA67 (sources differ on this matter) but it clearly is (or was) a mint Toyota Celica Supra mk2.

Now what went wrong here? Did the owner just confuse the pedals? Or did he/she try to conquer the Mazda Protegé? Or did he/she tried to park sideways? We’ll probably never know…

Found at: Failblog