Remembering Japanese cars from the past

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DOTS: Miata hunting! (part 5)

The past two weeks I wasn’t able to shoot many pictures on the street (except the second pic of this post) due to the snowfall, so time to get back to the Miata hunting!
DOTS: Black Mazda MX5 mk2
DOTS: Black Mazda MX5 mk2

I found this black second generation MX5 parked in a parkinglot across the street of an apartment complex. I saw it parked there several times after I shot this first pic so the owner probably lives there.

DOTS: Mazda MX5 mk2
DOTS: Mazda MX5 mk2

Another second generation MX5. I shot this one two days ago when there was no snowfall. Ironically only 10 minutes after I shot this picture it started snowing.

The picture (and another 5 or 6!) was taken with the crap-cam and due to the lack of light (8:06 in the morning) it looks a bit crappy. I wasn’t in the mood to get into the parkinglot: the parkinglot is owned by the Dutch Evangelical Broadcasting company (EO). Dunno if the owner works there: I only see that car occasionally parked there.

Now, finally a picture not taken with the crap-cam:
DOTS: Black Mazda MX5 mk2
DOTS: Black Mazda MX5 mk2

Another black MX5 and parked somewhere in Hilversum. This picture was the actual start of the Miata Hunting during summer. This was the third Miata/MX5 I spotted that day and thought it would be a great feature on the site. ;)

Video: Heartbreaking Nissan Skyline C110 crash tests

I found an early 70s short documentary about the development of the Nissan Skyline C110! It starts with the the C110 development, then moves to manufacturing of a C110 and then comparing a C110 to previous generations around 2:00 with a four-split screen.

Skyline C110 development and manufacturing

The only touges we saw in the past were nicely paved mountain passes with screaming twin cams drifting in a downhill battle. Nice to see there were actually rough touges in the 70s!

Skyline crash test

The end of the first and second video continue on the design and crash testing of the Skyline C110:

The test track is, of course, the Oppama Grandrive. Funny to see they already covered the looks of the testcars/prototypes with black cloth as well back then! And just when you think everything is going well they show the C110 Skyline crash test! What’s even more heartbreaking are all those crashed C110s piled up with foliage growing through them.

I must say this is one of the nicest vintage videos I’ve seen in ages!

Japanese rustoseums (part six)

Time for some more Japanese rustoseums? This time they were shot by RA64Freddy:
Nissan Skyline DR30 in a frozen mudfield
Nissan Skyline DR30 in a frozen mudfield

This Skyline looks a bit lonely in that frozen mudfield. Who would leave such a nice four door sedan in the mid of a muddy field?

Toyota Sprinter AE70 2 door hardtop
Toyota Sprinter AE70 2 door hardtop

What about this Sprinter 2 door hardtop then? According to RA64Freddy it is a 1500cc 3A-U engined car, so the AE70 designation should be correct for this beauty!

Carina sightings: Corona CT141 taxi at JCCA NYM 2010

Not entirely a Carina this week, but it is as near as it can be:
Toyota Corona CT141 taxi
Toyota Corona CT141 taxi

The Corona T140 series featured the last of the Corona lineup used as a taxi! The Corona T140 taxi was basically a Corona in the middle with a Carina A60 front and rear end.

After the T14 series taxi was finally phased out in 1991 Toyota replaced it with the Crown S130 taxi lineup, which became a separate model from the S150 model (Toyota Comfort) onwards.

It is beautiful to see someone saved one of these ubiquitous taxis and remained it as close to stock as possible! The only thing missing in this picture is the taxi sign on the roof! :)

Found at Life doodling.

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