Remembering Japanese cars from the past
Some of you may think you just encountered a deja-vu and yes you have twice!
First of all: I did feature this AW11 rustoseum over two and a half years ago.
Second of all: in the past two weeks my server crashed twice and last time I lost one day of data. Unfortunately I also lost this posting… Nevertheless I’ll repost it again. :)
I did this video in a similar way as Daniel O’Grady is doing his Wasabicars videos (be sure to check out his videos!): Continue reading
In the Netherlands we did receive a couple of the cool nineties-era Mitsubishi products like the Lancer Evo II (and III), GTO (called 3000GT here) and the Eclipse, but the FTO was a Japan-only exclusive model. You can imagine my amazement when I spotted this little red RHD Mitsubishi FTO in my rear view mirror:
Can you see it?
Or here a bit better: Continue reading
On our way to Hungary I spotted this Mazda MX5 NB parked in the hotel parkinglot:
The licenseplates in Germany identify the area of registration by its first characters. In this case the car came from Lindau (Bodensee) because the first characters are LI.
For me it was a surprise to see so many Mazda MX5s in Germany (still not as much as in the Nethelands) because I expected it to have a strong competition from the Porsche Boxster and the BMW Z3/Z4 in Germany.
Sortly before I went on holiday I spotted some J-tin driving in front of me. Unmistakably it turned out to be a red Datsun Laurel C31.
Also note the Honda S2000 I featured over two years ago on the right side of the photo.
At the bottom of the hill the Laurel was trapped at the traffic lights and I was able to shoot a close up photo: Continue reading
Spotting old J-tin on the streets is a big hobby of mine and most of the time I can see in a split second that there is some old Japanese car lurking around in a parkinglot. Imagine the surprise when I walked out of the office and found this good looking dark grey Toyota Crown Super Saloon parked across the street:
At the same time I was talking to someone on the phone and no other camera on me. So I tried to break off the conversation as quickly as possible and take a few quick snapshots with the phonecam.
Here is another picture where I got up close: Continue reading
I’m finally back from my holiday in Hungary, so posts will be more regular than in the past three weeks! ;)
Bad news is that Hungary is noticeably having less old cars on the road (and obviously old J-tin), but the good news is that during my way to Hungary I encountered this nice Nissan 200SX S14a while driving to the hotel:
It had been parked next to a Suzuki motorcycle dealership and lucky enough the next morning it was still there and I took two quick snapshots.
The S14a has been lowered a little bit, has a bigger intercooler and put on a set of (currently) popular BBS alloys: Continue reading
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