Need car guidance on your Nissan Skyline R31?
This lovely lady can surely help you out with her Caribbean background music! ;)
Author: banpei (Page 228 of 318)
No, that is not a typo! It is indeed an Fujiwara Tofu Toyota Corolla AE81:
Fujiwara Tofu Corolla AE81 special
If Bunta Fujiwara would have driven an AE81 instead of the famous AE86, this is how he would have dressed up his little rolla. ;)
(it even has proper sideskirts!)
Found on Dennis’s mango blog when browsing the archives.
Somewhere during early October I spotted this immaculate white MR2:
White Toyota MR2 mk1
This 1987 MR2 is a USDM import and entered the Netherlands somewhere in 1993. Somehow it surely must have been garaged a lot during its life: my Trueno was imported to the Netherlands during the same era but did not survive the Dutch weather well and the MR2 is renowned to be rust proofed just as bad as the AE86…
White Toyota MR2 mk1
I only saw this MR2 once, so I don’t have many pictures of it. As you can see the MR2 is parked in front of building which is under construction. Well the building is still under construction, so maybe the owner will return when everything has been finished. ;)
Red Toyota MR2 mk1
The same day I spotted this faded red MR2 somewhere in a private yard. It is about 150 meters away from the white MR2 and doesn’t have its MOT renewed since 2000… The yard used to be owned by a secondhand car dealer, so maybe this MR2 is a leftover? I’m still thinking about visiting the owner of the place and do some inquiries about the car. :)
This Nissan cinema advertisement from 1980 should have no comments at all: the tiny dust cloud tells you everything!
Yesterday I already posted a car chase by the Abunai Deka and today I have another one! This time they swapped their regular Nissan Leopard Y31 for a second generation Pontiac Firebird Trans Am!
Now this is a perfectly good example why American cars are superior to the Japanese: you can empty your gun on a Trans Am and it will still be going as strong as when it left the Pontiac factory in the mid 70s! Now compare that to their regular Leopard: would they have survived at such an attack at all?
After four and a half minute of wrecking 20 to 30 perfectly good late 70s and early 80s Salary Men type saloons it comes to an end when the Trans Am finally escapes the junkyard. It must have been a wise choice of the director to pick the junkyard as the background of this scene: after wrecking 30 cars you can just leave them there! Saves a lot of trouble in logistics! Brilliant!
Most people already read or heard the news today: the D1GP drifter Atsushi Kuroi died three days ago in a motorcycle accident.
He was one of the early drifting pioneers and his professional drifting career began in the first season of D1GP (2001) when he entered it with his well known OneVia S13. He was well known for throwing up big clouds of smoke when going sideways and that is most probably what most people will remember of him.
I’d like to remember him like this:
As the man who could grip an amazing 77kg during the D1GP arm wrestling event!