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Did you actually read what I wrote?
It could be at 0:19 or at 0:44 or at 1:03, but IMO all three cars are the same Mark II GX61 Hardtop coupe. Taillights are definitely not Carina and match more or less this Mark II:
Mark II GX61 Hardtop coupe
I must say that they look quite the same so I understand the mix up.
As I wrote: IMO it is not a Carina and probably a GX61 Mark II
I did come across the TS factory Carina some time ago. It was one of the inspirations for me to buy the Carina after all. ;)
Too bad the V-factory site doesn’t work right now… Maybe it will come up in the next couple of days or perhaps my internet connection is not working right now because your blog isn’t loading its images either… I’ll recheck later.
It depends on the plans for next year and about how easy my son is by then, but perhaps we’ll also meet up with family in Budapest and I can break myself loose from them. ;)
Well, i´m from Perú and I know this Carina GT-R personally. This is a real JDM Carina. We peruvians, import JAPANESE RHD cars and do a conversion we call “timón cambiado” (Changed Steering wheel) and relocate (professionally) the steering wheel to the left. Thats how we can enjoy Silvias S13, Corona GT-T, Celica GT-
T, Supras, Skylines…etc..etc..etc..
Thanks for clearing that up!
It honestly looked exactly like it would have come from the factory, so apparently you do very good conversions in Peru! ;)
Here in the Netherlands and most other European countries it is allowed to drive a RHD car, so nobody bothers to convert it to LHD. Probably the cost to do that would make it very uninteresting for most people.
How do you do that with the older Skylines? I thought the engine was such a tight fit they could never produce a LHD during the R30-R34 era…
The rerouting of the water pipes from the blog’s pic is not my engine bay pic, I’m using the conventional method of using the ae86 water pump and blocking the original water flow.so its not so messy and looks more original, but i think the temp will be slightly higher.
Sorry, I didn’t look/read properly: the color of the enginebay is different than yours!
I do agree: this enginebay and the enginebay of the car on your blog look messy. I don’t think it matters much for the temperature: all the bends in these pipes won’t help either…
Thankfully this year already started out great! I see that the front parts are already ready for delivery: they have already cleared customs yesterday, so I think they will arrive somewhere this week!
I think everyone could understand beeping reverse signals, but spoken are a bit hard for people not speaking Japanese. ;)
But reverse signal on the Supra? Is the rear view of the Supra that bad, or is it there to warn people a powerful car is doing a high speed reverse?
I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don’t know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.
Hi, Glad you like the video, I took it at “HotOlds 2007” held at Shizuoka stadium whilst Holidaying in Japan with a good friend of mine, If you send me an email I’ll let you have my photobucket details for some more Did you know? that if you look at the inside of the load area you’ll just be able to make out the origional “saddle” fuel bag mounted inside which was moved to make way for the IRS rear clip that has been installed. very cool car and a Very, Very cool show.
BTW, I’m also the Owner of the Silver Sapporo you’ve posted pictures of in an earlier blog, the first and third pictures are actualy the same car and ignoring the JDM plate it’s a U.K car.
The wheel of the hachi in front of the Impulse hachi gets smashed first into the bodywork and then on the rear wheel of the other and gets launched a few meters and flipped over! The Impulse driver keeps his head cool and keeps his distance…
And big explosions it had indeed! The Nissan engine you have pictured above is the all-powerful FJ20ET, the turbo version of which became known as the “Plasma.” This was the engine powering the mighty DR30 Skyline and later S12 Silvias.
Also, I think Toyota at one point labeled the 7M-GTE as a “Lasre” engine as well. I swear I’ve seen an ad for it as such.
Does anyone know what car it is at 2:30? Its looks some kind of Mitsuoka but i dont remember them making this. Or maybe its some kinda conversion for a Nissan March/Micra (If you look at the roofline from the side). Who know more about this car???
Mitsuoka was the first thing I thought of as well. But they didn’t make such a car so far, not even as a concept…
Second thing I thought of was the Morgan Life Car, but that is not this wild looking.
So my guess would be either a heavily modified Mitsuoka or Morgan, or a one off special inspired on the Morgan Life Car…
I bought them from http://auctions.yahoo.co.jp, but I wouldn’t reccomend it: the shipping was way too expensive in retrospect.
But maybe I know someone who got them in Australia and maybe that’s a better deal. ;)
Is it me or is there no GT-R R35 in the video? Its an Skyline V35… All R-skylines had a RB engine, the V-skylines had a VQ indeed. And there is no GT-R model of the V-series Skylines. Still a great car tough!
Even after four weeks, i wouldn’t dare to step into the car without insecticide properly sprayed all over the car. Wouldn’t want to have them crawl into my ears and eat my braaaaiiinnss..
You are absolutely right!
All sources of this movie and also Smokey Nagata speak of the V35 GTR, but it is NOT a GTR! After searching I still haven’t found the exact date he did that trick, but I think it must be somewhere around 2005.
It is indeed a V35 and back then there was no GTR, so I recon Top Secret named it GTR because of the V8 swap. Currently they do have a Top Secret white R35, so I guess I messed it up with that one. ;)
I would NEVER choose that street when going anywhere! I can already imagine caterpillars jumping on my head, covering me with this white needle or something, I would die of heart attack. GOSH! I will prolly never visit Rotterdam :D
This is an interesting take on the concept. I never thought of it that way. I came across this site recently which I think will be of great use www driveafrica.co.za . Check it out! Big thanks for keeping me entertained.
You are right about the Datsun designation: I totally forgot about the branding not being Dastun like all other Nissans were called in the early 80s. To quote myself from one of the other blogpostings: All BS110 240RS rallycars originally were made by Blydenstein in the UK, so the car is not a factory produced rallycar, but they were produced on behalf of Nissan: that’s why they were badged Nissan and not Datsun.
You are partly right about Hoshino’s Silvia S12 still being a S110 during the Super Silhouette Formula: it switched over to the new styling both front and rear end (including the new taillights as well): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL6uI7_emMU
The Super Silhouette Formula cars were a tubular chassis with only the driver section being an aluminum monocoque design and a body of FRP. In other words: it was easy to switch the body itself to the S12 design but quite impossible to change the structure of the car somewhere mid season, hence the back looks like a stretched version of the S12 shape at the rear end.
It’s almost sad that it’s not redesigned for the S12 chassis. Head-lamps and Tail-lamps do not an S12 make though. A standard S110 Hatch is a curious looking beast, I wouldn’t call them pretty by any means. The Silhouette car went a long way in helping the looks department. I guess a matched wide-body and fitting dished rims will do that to any car though. ;)
For anyone else interested, it’s the rear window and bodyline that gives away it’s still the S110.
Sweet car irrespective of the front on it (+ rear lamps) and sweet blog too man, I take a peek at this most everyday, even have it on my little blogroll list on mine to share the enjoyment. Keep it up man.
Thanks for the compliment and blogroll! :)
I just started reading yours and I immediately added yours to my blogroll as well! Got to do a lot of catching up next days!
Pretty sure it’s viscous instead of vicious.. So, did i win anything? LOL.. Nice writeup. Will be doing the exact same thing when i’ve finished the engine conversion on my Charmant. Thanks..
The hubcaps suck, The front and rear spoilers I’m kinda nuetral on and I like the twin antenae, never know it could have a CB radio. But my question is are these things the equivilant to Cressidas or AE86 Carollas?
Depends on how you see it: if you compare it to an AE86 Corolla the Carina TA60 and TA62 with solid axle sure share almost the same suspension, have the same weight (40kg heavier) but lack the engine of the AE86. If you compare the AA63 to an AE86 it does have a better suspension (IRS) but the downside is the extra weight (about 120kg heavier).
Comparing a Carina to a Cressida is the same as comparing the AE86 with the KP61 Starlet: the Cressida is in a whole different segment of the market. It is bigger, more luxurious, heavier (about 200kg heavier than the AA63!) and it also features an inline 6 instead of the inline 4.
In the same manner that there’s a cliche of people outside Japan that find the JDM parts, badges, etc. appealing. There’s a similar type inside Japan that find the export market parts, badges, etc. appealing. The little differences can make your car unique inside your own market and all that. As an example, for the C110 (JDM: Nissan Skyline, Export: Datsun 240K GT(GL)) there’s occasionally a few sets of “Datsun” badges on Yahoo! Auctions Japan for sale at an exorbitant rate by comparison to the cost of their domestic product. Whereas over here and in much of the Export market, the pricing structure is mirrored. Also, don’t forget the fame brought about by Bob Sharp Racing in America to the Datsun name in cars such as the Paul Newman driven Datsun 280ZX (S130)
Woot ! I’m so glad Auto Otaku is still alive ! Merging is a good idea, and I think we all understand how hard it is for you with so much work on hand ! I appreciate your efforts a lot !
Goor is an old name and the original meaning is moor. This name is used in combination with an prefix very often in the Netherlands and Belgium compare with Moor in the United Kingdom and the same word Moor in Germany.
Correct: it means moor/swamp, and that’s what I said at the end:
Its inhabitants are struggling to either rename the town or to return it to its original name Gaore (which means swamp)
If I would have said that upfront it wouldn’t be that funny! ;)
@EKhatch and Koguchi Power: Thanks! :)
BTW: This is the actual reason keyboard cat couldn’t make it. He was already occupied by playing at somebody else’s wedding:
Thanks! :)
I was already doubting about that, but the TA63 is becoming quite rare nowadays… The 3T-GTE is used for swaps and there were more AA63 than TA63 made by Toyota. I’ve corrected it in the posting.
Thanks! Great to see someone playing that rpg! :)
I was wondering as well if it were possible to have your own car… For instance: I would love to own a TA63 Carina if I would have an account on that site… Or should I be satisfied with the availability of at least something as special as the Toyota Mark II?
Thanks for the write up and linking in the videos. Glad you liked it. :)
It was a great car that, and I had it since 2002. It went through a variety of different engine conversions.
Those videos are from near its end of life with smallport 4age.
The orange AE70 was built to replace it.
The engine and suspension and megasquirt etc were used in the AE70 where possible, and lots of parts were upgraded. So, I?never had them both going at one time.
The AE70 was ultimately a better car but the Carina sure was fun.
Feel free to hit me up, or our websites board anytime.
hi, i own one that has a handle as the back which you can lock into open position or close all the time….it does not have the water line and mechanism….what model is that?
As you can see on the parts diagram there is no manual option available. Perhaps it had been installed afterwards with a grille without thermostat?
It is possible to modify the system by replacing the thermostat (part 53107A) with a manual option to turn the shaft (part 53106A) to open and close the grille.
I suffer from them on all my blogs and the AEU86 forum. It is too bad you had to close the registrations, but great news you are opening up again soon! :)
I have this setup and sourced all the gear off yahoo japan. My grille came with the manual/locking mechanism as well as the thermostat. You can select it to flip on the thermostat or just lock it open.
There is another model which I also bought that does not have this option. It also does not have the twin gold strips (no bumps for them either – not been ground off). The mechanical side of it is identical between both, but you can still lock it open by screwing in the factory bolt provided but its a little more tricky than the lever model.
That is valueable information! :)
I do see the shaft (53106-12010) is a seperate part from the thermostat (53106-12020). I understand from your experience the shaft is the same, but the thermostat is missing. Do you mean with “the factory bolt” the bolt attached to the shaft? (96160-00400)
And perhaps the rotating grille differed between the 3 door and the 2 door with the gold stripe, just like the 3 door GT version was called GT-V?
The Factory Bolt is spring loaded to keep it tight, and both parts are shown as 91511-40520 for the bolt and 90501-07030 for the spring (according to my EPC).
On the grille I bought the thermostat had never been removed.
I saw the grille work for the first time today. I used the A/C to bring the temp up a bit and it opened at idle. It was a lengthy 2-3minutes before it fully opened.
I guess its the fact that drifting uphill is somehow ‘safer’ as compared to drifting downhills, I mean, here in Malaysia, that’s what our local touge drifters (beginners) do, uphill first, then downhill later (once skills refined)
hai…nice picture u have here. ok, i was looking for this 3T-GTE engine for my corona. In Malaysia, this type of engine is so hard to find now days. Do Netherlands have ‘halfcut’ body of corona 3T-gte?
Not sure if you’re still thinking about playing, but I used to play PCL back in the day (makes me feel old! haha) and decided to see if they’d opened up registration yet and it appears as though they have!
Just signed up for a new account since I’m pretty sure my old one was deleted.
It’s rather fun to play, and though they don’t have every single car available, there is a pretty huge selection!
Thanks Tigroo.t!
Did some browsing on your site! Looks great!
Unfortunately my French is a bit poor, so it is a bit hard to understand from time to time…
Thanks!
I love that sticker! Need to get one myself as well! :)
The car was parked behind the postoffice in Körmend, the town where my wife is from. Got a few more pictures, so upcoming weeks more DOTS!
Sorry we could not meet up! We only went 10 days to Hungary this year and spent 5 of them as our honeymoon so all other days were spent with visiting family and travelling. ?´?????
IMO that is bullshit: if you are a race enthusiast you would immediately remove that thing and replace it for the louvre grille (zenki) or the glass grille (kouki): both better for weight reduction and has much more airflow going to the radiator.
I don`t know where you have seen that car standing around before.
But since this week i am the proud NEW owner of this car.
If you live around Hoorn you might see it out in the wild again sometimes :)
Haha! That is amazing seeing the new owner turn up here! :)
I think you bought a very nice car! Like I said before: the interior appeared to be in excellent shape and the exterior got the usual usage damage. I was amazed how well the car was after being over 20 years old.
When I shot these pics the car was parked in Hilversum near the Rotor Media building. My best guess is that the previous owner used to work for as a freelancer for either BNN or Pilarzyck media.
Unfortunately Hoorn is a bit far away to spot, but you will never know: I used to visit Hoorn every two years I think, so perhaps I will see it there as well! ;)
I’ve seen a couple of swaps done in the AE86 and most of it was quite straight forward if you how. Only tricky parts were the waterpump (take one from your old bluetop), waterlines (reroute them) and mating the 4AGZE loom with the loom of the AE86 (we have a specialist for that in Holland).
Then again: I was calling the 4AGZE swap straight forward because I’ve seen many many other swaps (3SGE/F20C/etc) which are much harder to do and require a lot more changes to the car than this one. ;)
Hi,
I live in NZ, and have owned two Carina’s, used to have a silver 82, and now have a red 83/84, which I’m converting to run a 4AGZE engine. Thanks for the site, there isn’t much information on Carina’s, so it’s nice to know people have some interest in them. We drive on the left, so NZ can import direct from Japan without conversions :-)
– Dave
Thanks for the compliment Dave!
That was one of the things I also noticed when I bought mine: I could not find much information about the Carina either. So I started collecting info and posting stuff here. ;)
You can send him a message here: http://minkara.carview.co.jp/userid/170503/message/
But then you would need a minkara account. Getting one is quite hard because you would need to translate every step through Google translate.
Most probably the guy does not read English, so you would need to communicate in Japanese (using Google translate as well).
Maybe I can give it a go since I already have a minkara account. ;)
Nice!
Moet hier op zolder ook nog een paar oude Datsun en Simca folders en posters hebben liggen. En nog een paar kasten folder uit de jaren ’80-’90. :)
Thank you, but I wont translate every page with google.
As japanese language is (also)formally differs from english (and hungarian), I’m afraid, that I couldn’t even understand what he may try to tell me or ask from me.
I was just wondering, how much money would he like to get for the car…
I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don’t know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.
man i can see you usually posts pics of old school japanese cars, and believe me, instead they are in the junkyard, they look VERY good against a lot of old jdm cars i see in my country´s streets…
where do you live banpei??
are you sure this was not accidentally? because i saw a rally lancer evolution (VI?) doing a very dangerous/risky/unbelievable drift into a hairpin and the driver said after that, he was trying to save the front of the car from the crash but he didnt crash the rear (very lucky) he was expecting the crash, but just got luck, what about this guy? he do that very often?
I just found another video of Kawabata at that event:
From a different angle you can see he is doing just a tiny bit more than the 90 degree drift, maybe 110 to 120 degrees drift. So it isn’t as dramatic as shown in the first video!
I think the 4th pedal is a dead pedal… no? I don’t see a lever behind it. From the picture it looks like the Clutch lever is coming off of it, but there is a black plastic looking block under the 4th pedal.
I like it, but I get too much of a Lexus vibe from it then a Toyota.
I really like the comparing specs you posted. Definitely brings the AE86 heritage out to an eye level.
Yeah, some other cars sold by Japan Vintage are much better deals than this Carina! I’ve seen some very nice Laurels, Bellets and other nostalgic J-tin for sale by them…
I didn’t know Auto Shop Takeey’s yet. Thanks! ;)
As you can see what looked like space between the pedal and the floor is actually a footrest with an open space in between. So the people who said it was a footrest were right! Thanks! :)
I am already very sorry I started the whole DOTS thing… My computer is already clogging up with various rustoseums and other least interesting Japanese cars. Ah well, as long as interesting things keep coming up I’ll continue. :P
I love these little 323s.
If this was in New Zealand it would probably fetch twice that asking price easily, these 323s are sought after for rotary conversions. Since this is both a 2 door and it has the early front end design (bug eyes) it’s worth more than a 4 door or a later model square light car.
I Just Love this Rare Gem! and for just $16,495 the cost of a corolla. tham i wish i buy this car . if you ever go back let me know i give you the money for it.
Hi – glad you like my carina videos… I must have owned about 10 carinas in the past but only have 1 now. My AA63 Carina racecar, about to get a new 4agte motor and about 200kw! I can’t wait. Ken
hi there…
thats a beautiful rally car!!. but where i can find a workshop manual, do you have idea? because i buy 2 240 rs the first car is complete and the other one it just chasis… has the factory 00043 and 00044. both cars compite in my country in 1984 1985 are the winners in those days… the cars race in CIRCUIT not rally… if you want i can send you a pics for the cars.. and tell me about this engine because here dont have much spares… in Guatemala work with Nissan or Datsun, and japannes who comes to Guatemala to tune the engine 6 times, the engines its a full race spec, my father was the crew chief and tell me that the car has 280hp.
The car is cheap because it has no documents, hence it can only be used for parts….until someone who has a rotten one swaps the vin and etc to the good one and therefore becoming “legal”…. ;)
About the “unwanted car”… :D … no chance, if it’s an “Old Rwd Toyota” it’s guaranted tha someone will want it and it will cost at least 1.000 euros!
Thanks for the compliment! :)
I didn’t know the also competed on the circuit! All I know is that they produced the 240RS to homologate it for rally use. So they started a limited production run of the 240RS which could be used for several other purposes. Great to hear they also competed somewhere else than in rallysport!
About the old RWD Toyota: the Sheriff was already cheap and I did see a lot of KE20s and KE30s going cheap as well. So that’s why I thought of the “unwantedness”. ;)
Will go over 1.000 euros if the car is in a reasonable condition. Cars as The Sheriff and many of the KE20s and such are completely rotten and some/many parts are mising, broken or simply really old!
amazing the fact about “And it only travelled 60000 kilometers!” man, in my country there is A LOT of cars a lot “newer” than this but with the triple distance travelled. is a shame >_< by the way im not a fan of this kind of cars but i appreciate and i RESPECT how well keep is the car in overall (considering the year, and because is not keept by a collector or something hehe)
nice post =)
That gives hope!!
I’ll do another contest soon with an easier question then. ;)
The answer should have been Seibu Keistatsu. A famous cop show from the early 80s featuring nice J-tin, like the Skyline RS-Turbo, Nissan Gazelle and a 280Z.
I absolutely love Gloria’s tough i never really liked the looks of models like the 430 and Y30/31/32. I’m sure they are great cars tough but if it was up to me i’d love to have a Y33/34 or on of those great A30’s. On the otherhand, a dark 430 lowered with some “vintage” rims could be a good looker!
The more I read it, the more it impresses me. I don’t know how I ever worked without hilarious and funny things in our life, Life would be so much easier especially when there’s a jokes here and there. Being funny is nice because a lot of serious people are lacking with this kind of behavior that is why they are much look older. I would like to thank you for your outstanding blog post. Keep it up! Awesome!
Just can’t understand why they let them rust away like that. On the other hand they’ll probably say the same of all the rusting Beetles and stuff like that in Europe :)
I can’t understand who just lets a car like this (especially overhere where they are pretty rare) leaves it over to the forces of nature. Sadly i don’t car any place/storage nor the budget to restore it. But im curciouse to the orange note behind the window. If i remember correctly you can ask the personal details of the cars owner at the RDW after letting them know the license plate. Costs about 6euros i think, but if you might really be interested in the car i think a phone call would might work quicker especially since it seems there are more buyers looking after it. Sadly the license-plate is not read-able. I wonder if it would still had APK (VAT) or since when it on the name of the current owner. :) Who knows it might just be stolen and left there.
Hello, Nice 86! I am currently working on a Trueno. I’d like to replicate the car just like yours. Do you mind if you can share detailed photos of your car? and maybe you also have the Trueno logo for the trunk (hatch) and GT Apex? lastly, a Fujiwara tofu shop logo/text.
Hope I’m not asking too much… The car is almost done on its primer coating stage. in about 2 days we will be starting to coat panda white and black. I like the version that you did… before they replaced the engine and installed a CF hood on the 86.
Again Nice car! Hope to hear from you really soon!
PS: So they actually used a PIAA foglamps huh? cool!
I wish the car was mine… ;)
The car is created by Impulse as a showcase of what they can do with their workshop…
The PIAA foglights are a lot more common in Japan since it is a Japanese company after all. I think it is not a problem to find a set in the US since they have a PIAA USA company as well. Outside those two countries the PIAA stuff is a bit harder to get by…
About the stickers: well, we do sell some Trueno and Apex Twin cam 16 replica stickers in the AEU86 shop: Toyota Sprinter Trueno AE86 replica stickers
There is currently a new batch being manufactured, so most of them will be available again soon!
I tried to register myself on minkara a while ago. Tough i did manage to make it… sort off… some things were not very clear to me. So Thank you very much Banpei, just what I needed!
Saw your post – I can get hold of a 240RS competition manual. It is a photocopy so some of the detailed photographs are unclear but the supporting text is fine.
I have two 240RS cars in the UK. Both being restored. I have a wealth of knowledge on the engines and also the gearboxes. Any questions I’d be pleased to help. Many people across the world helped me so I would be returning the favour.
You should be aware that the final EVO cars had more in common with the 720 pickup than the homologation cars!
I would love to see some shots for your cars – I may be able to shed some light on how they are set up.
regards
Tom
I used to live in japan, and while walking through a local junkyard, i saw a panda coupe GT Apex still all intact. The poor hachi had alot of rust and they had stacked it on top of another car. It was sad to see, but I managed to get the grille and could have got the original radiator with it but it started to rain and I didn’t have the tools. So I came back the next day, but the radiator was taken out…Anyways I wanted to get a price on it or sell it to the right person…I’ve held on to it for like 9yrs now…
Judging by the way he took that corner I would hazard a guess that the whole outside is an outer clipping curve and they have to apex the entry and exit corners. Looked pretty sweet to me, though I do prefer watching retro’s drift.
The U11 is the one right at the top…
The person who created this images stopped at the 9th generation:
I dun think I was “around” then :)
You just don’t get to see these “birds” around here anymore.
In Malaysia, it stopped at Gen 9
So naturally the G10 and G11 were not in the picture.
Oh, sadly you didn’t spot mine Classic Red NA :)
White is a pretty rare color here in Holland. Tough i think its still one of the best colors for the MX. Is it really not been drivin’ in ages? This would be an awesome cheap drift-bullit for me :O
I am warning people to be very wary of the guy who says he owns the two cars, chassis numbers 43 and 44.They are owned by a Mr.Philippe Hayman in belgium. See this page it says every owner of nissan car http://home.scarlet.be/prokartracing/NISSAN%20240RS.htm
Nice miatas again. But really strange the red one is reg’d as a 323. I guess its just a error in the RDW database. A while ago i checked a car and it said its APK (MOT) expired in 1995 while the car simply has had its checks all trough the years. :)
Yes, the database could be wrong on this one…
I thought of another possibility: either the car was stolen and got its plates swapped from another Mazda… Or the owner steals gas and swapped the plates to make someone else look like the culprit?
I think you’re right about that one! :)
I did find this image of the UP10 Convertible:
It looks very similar, but unfortunately the image is in too low quality to know for sure…
I generally make photos of all interesting cars I see. Most of the time the location is the location when I pass a car and if I see it a second time sometimes I make additional pictures… See also the deteriorating S14: http://www.banpei.net/category/tags/silvia-s14
When I made the pictures of your Colt on the first location a few of them were not blurred (dirty lens), so when I spotted your car the second time I made an additional picture. ;)
I want to comment about the post my son Luis Arturo sent recently. The fact is that we were trying to buy two of the 240 RS that are stored in a dealership in this country, but after trying several times to get information about the price and some information about the cars and information about the minimun parts to take at least one of them to the racing track for the national championship, but we never got a strong information, so I decided not to insist and find another brand of car to race. Evedn, I contacted a friend of mine who was one of the mechanics that the dealership sent to Japan to learn about racing preparation of this cars.
But finally I was dissapointed, because I really like the 240 RS and even I drove one of them a lot of years ago.
In the 80´s the Nissan dealer imported at least 5 Nissan 240 RS to this country, in order to fight the Toyota strong leadership in track racing.
Of the original cars, three went to track racing preparation, one for the Nissan dealership owner-partner, the other for a well known racing driver and a third for another person who was rallying with other brand.
The Nissan silvia 240 RS as known here, won the national championship for three ó four years in a row. They were equipped with dry sump oil system, and they were really strong competitors against the other cars..
One special thing about these cars is that they never broke an engine.
I know a lot of stories about them because I was racing a small Nissan at that time and I have been at the shop with the Nissan racing team a lot of times.
Years later, one of the 240 RS was sold to a very close friend of me and he invited me to drive the car with him in two races as a second driver…………. later, my friend sold the car again to the dealership owner.
Right now as I know there are four of the original 240 RS for sale. Two of them in racing trim for track use (one is a rolling chassis
without engine,trans) the other two are virtually stock 240 RS cars.
Poor, poor S14. Can’t wait for a new Miata article. Wanted to make some photo’s of my Miata in the snow yesterday but nomatter what i tried i couldnt get the frozen door opened.
Maybe i do need to clean up the garage someone, haha.
I believe even Prince sold a stationwagon version of the Skyline before Nissan bought Prince. I’ve seen C210, R30, R31 and R32 Stationwagons before the Stagea was out. But never a C10, and I’m affraid you are right that they will costs millions of Yen looking at the prices of normal Hakosuka and C110’s these days. Not to mention the GT-R models :(
They now even made a SUV of the Skyline series!
Thanks! :)
I did discover your blog two weeks ago and read your posting about the Stagea! Amazing how the taillights fit so nicely into the Stagea’s rear!
Going to add it to the blogroll! ;)
hey man i like the set u got could u help me out too cuz i basically need the entire set up main grill,fog lights and indicators with the grill plz email anilsagar09@yahoo. i dont know japanese so i cant use yahoo.jp
Sure. Just did it: unfortunately the car is not in the database. :(
I removed the link to the database since I wasn’t sure if all that data should be public. ;)
I can tell you that it’s not a US government test to see if the car is allowed on the market, just because i know they didn’t do a test like this. I think it’s more of one of those “OMG look what happens when you’re unsafe!!!11!” things, like the episode of 5th gear where they crash test a rebuilt car to show that they kill you.
anyways it’s pretty scary, the link is dead now but i’ve watched it
Ah, that’s different that the modern EU regulations then! Here it is only allowed to sell cars that actually have been test proved by the EuroNCAP! :o
Thanks for the dead link warning. I’ll see if I can find that video again!
Nice roadsters again. That Black NA would look great if he got rid of the lexus-lights. :)
Never heard of JS Team but they got some nice cars for sale.
Love the Blue 323, Great Find! Its getting rarer to see a blue one for sale –
By coincidence I was the guy who bought the one mentioned in Practical Classics!
I Thought you might like to know I managed to find a replacement new clutch on ebay for £4.95; So thought I may as well take it for a visit to my local track for a watch – turns out someone snapped it while it was parked……. http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonysphotos/3747763782/in/set-72157621658446691/
I bought the car because it was unusual, but it wasnt till I done some research that I realised how little were still on the road!
I’m definately going to keep it as original as possible, I guess Im abit of a stickler when it comes to originality
Awesome. I’ve been keen on a PNV R30 Skyline Coupe for a while now, there’s all kinds of awesome commercials and sale brochures around with Paul Newman’s face scattered over them.
Just as a note. It’s a typical conversion for JDM lamps but what Flauski has done is linked the two lamps. In standard form the JDM lamps work exactly the same as the Export lamps do.
Park lamps illuminate the outer circle and brakes, the inner. Though obviously on Export the Inner is the Dot and on Domestic the Inner is the Circle.
The Japanese lamps I got for my C110 had already been modified to work In the all lit up then brighter (2nd filament) for brakes.
TAMIYA 1st in quality around the world! They’re old mission statement is still true today. Always great detail and excellent build quality on their RC models and static display kits.
I had a really cool promotional video from the late 80’s with all the great RC cars (Hot-Shot, Fox, Frog, Hornet, Wild Willy, Porsche 956… et al) Also 30min section about the process to make their scale static models thru all stages to production, and finally a guide to detailed diarama construction.
You’re welcome! :)
Yeah I know the feeling: on one hand I love to post those pics because of the rust and deterioration and on the other hand I hate to post them because I realize they were once very cool cars…
No, it isn’t that bad… But it is such a rare car to turn into an itasha. On the other hand: take a look at the massive amount of C10s converted into zokushas! ;)
Nah, needed to take my exit and I don’t want to risk a fine for holding a mobile while driving. :P Was quite a nice sight tough 2 red Roadster side to side. :)
Did however drive the new Nissan Cube few days ago. Such a funky car!
Finally some real fun JDM cars getting to Holland. Like a wish coming true :P
I have a carina AA60 with double headlights …where can i get the park lights to buy?thats the small light in between the two headlamp….? email me at [email protected] its hard to find
Hey man! Haha, I am the owner of this Carina. What you described is exactly what happened – the rubber mount burst and caused the imbalance and took the fuel lines with it. It isn’t pretty under there!
I’ll have to reconnect the fuel lines with new lines, get the driveshaft balanced and install it back in without the stupid rubber mounts.
Actually the TE-27, TE-37 has Levin and Trueno version. What i know Levin was for export and Trueno was for Japan market only. Once it reached TE-47 there is no Levin moniker for this. Which is strange. I have this TE-47 and its a Trueno Sprinter.
My name is Philippe Heymans from Belgium and i have receive a mail half november 09 from the Guatemala owners family Siekavizza asking my interest in the 4 cars + spare parts stock. Afther a couple off mails and phone calls the deal was done.
Before i receive pictures from other people about the same cars for sale and i just could waiting the were shipped to the new owner in the UK to visit and buy one.
Half november 09, i was on internet around 02H00 in the night when the mail from Carlos Siekavizza comes in, i reply imediatly and later the deal was OK.
Maybe i have dissapointed other people who trying to become those cars, sorry for that.
I like to have contact with Arturo Gramajo to know more about the race cars history in Central America. My mail: [email protected]
Nice Roadsters again. That NB looks more BRG than black on the photo. Could be me tough. :) Also quite strange so see a NA Miata with a OEM MX-5 foglight. Good thing is these cars are cheap as chips these days. So its not like you only see them in the “better” neighborhoods. Tough, I’d be scared of someone ripping your soft-top apart.
It is black, but my right side window was very dirty! :D
Maybe the Miata had a rear collision damage and had its bumper replaced including the foglight? But I agree that is is quite weird…
Just a few minor detail clarifications. It was the “oldschool.co.nz” Nationals and the Hardtop is of the 910 variety ;) I had wondered whether you’d seen that post or not! I guess this answer my question, ahhaha. I specifically put the Carina before the jump to see if you’d be more interested. :)
Great to hear people remember my Carina fetish! :P
Yeah, I did see it, but since I read it from the RSS feed I do get the whole article, and not the summary.
Please could you give me Carlos Siekavizza e-mail or phone number. I am from Peru, in South America and I am rebuilding 2 240rs. Maybe he can help get some parts I need.
I wouldn’t use it for a banger race: its a cabrio and it doesn’t have a rollbar either, so the chassis is not stiff enough to endure the absue. Would be more sane to use a cheap T16 coupe and weld in a cage. ;)
One of the lads on my football team has one of these in Blue with a white roof and looks the dog’s bollox. They need to add it to the Toyota European line-up. The turbo diesel from the Landcruiser would do nice.
With the current gas price in Europe an optional diesel would be great I guess! On the other hand the Dodge Ram 2500 and 3500 V8s (not the diesel models!) are very popular cars nowadays, so apparently people have enough money to feed such a monster in Europe. ;)
Auch! Thanks for the correction, just corrected it! :)
Europe isn’t much of a UTE region… We only got the Nissan 520/620/720 and the Toyota HiLux, but AFAIK the Isuzu KB20 never reached the shores of Europe…
Poor poor Zenki. :(
I wonder what the owner is thinking. Is it stolen? Is it a project car that never started? Does the owner not known these cars are kinda “special” to enthousiast. There are still people like that. Last week I got overtaken by a old granny in a S13. So probably doesn’t even know. =D
I have no idea why someone leaves a car unattended so long. Maybe the owner is doing time in Jail? Or moved to another continent for a year? Or maybe he is in hospital for over a year now… Who knows?
About the granny: I compare it to my mom… She wanted to buy a 323F in the early 90s because she really liked how the car looked with the popup lights. Perhaps the granny thought the same 20 yeas ago and bought it as new. ;)
The van looks badass in that video. A bit like a amphibious verhicle.
I got some photo’s waiting to be automaticly posted on my website but can’t find them so quickly. (Long story, got few hundred post waiting to be released automaticly at a certains time but can’t find it trough the mass of other posts). Also cant recall where I found them to be honest. Should become public today or tomorrow iirc.
Will post the link here as soon as I see its come online. ^^
And what about the Ford Cougar and Fiat Coupe?! Such great and rare cars! And that Imprezza WRX. Such a shame ='[
Oh, and isn’t that a K12 SRi on the mid left?
I see the Fiat coupe quite regularly in Hilversum, but still a shame to wreck it… The Impreza is not a WRX, no scoop on it and the body looks more like a AWD GL to me.
Funny, the Fiat Coupe is quite rare overhere.
Btw, Tought the WRX didn’t have a scoob on the hood. (Only the WRX STi)
Could be wrong tough. Not really “into” the scooby’s
We should repeat a meet like this in valkenburg!!! Wich is a very nice place BTW. I’m going there once in a while. (Casino, Spa, restaurant “gaudi” and shopping in Maastricht or Aachen)
I would know about 3-4 cars from Luxembourg (3xAE86, 1xAE82) that might join!
Nice NA’s again.
Liking the silver one, just needs a nice OEM lip and it’ll look superb.
I’d swear the second one is a BRG tough. But could be that my eyes are just playin’ trick on me tough. =^_^=
Don’t count on my color-recognizing-skills to much. I’m colorblind to, lol. It could be blue tough, but thats a very rare color on NA’s, most of them are British Racing Green, Classis Red or Mariner Blue. But you’re probably right.
Nowadays it is also being pushed as a brand on this side of the pond by Henkel as Duck Products, hence we call it Duck Tape. Just as many people name it Gaffer’s tape because Gaff also produces the same tape. ;)
Great to see these old CM’s. Never knew Ken & Mary were already known before the “Kenmeri”…
Shame there was no Hakosuka CM to be seen. Now “that” would have been great to watch =^.^=
Saw it quite a while ago and still can make up my mind if its eighter good looking or hella ugly. Oh well, atleast its something new. =] That logo in the grill has to go tough! It makes the gront look like some kinda boring Nissan for the US market (like the Sentra’s). lol
If I remember correctly there was an other weerd conversion right under the blue RPS13. A red car iirc but can’t recall what the conversion really was. A Chaser or Cefiro with R32 front or something?
From NZ and I’ve never seen it before. Not surprising, I guess. Strangely, the licence plate is supposed to be attached to a Datsun 180B, rather than the 120Y it is attached to. Weird and pointless fact #13798123
Nice NA. So now and than I’m active at the Dutch MXOC forum but I can’t recall seeing this NA pass by. Might be a sticker from an ex-owner. :) When I was on the hunt for my NA 8 out of 10 Roadsters had a MXOC sticker on it. ^^
But it sits very nice indeed altough I’m not a fan of the wheels. And an OEM lip would suit it very well ^^
Maybe you were not the target audience of this commercial! ;)
A 180B? I’d say that is at least a bit strange… Maybe the owner owned both a 180B and 120Y and switched the plates to prevent to be recognized as the stripping guy? :P
I’ve got it now, needs some repairing! 120 000 km. Got it for €750 euro’s, this guy must have been crazy or out of money somehow ;)
I’ve also got the Colt 1.6 16V glxi 1992 113bhp and these cars really rocks.
I’ve been driving mitsubishi’s all my live and I’ll never ever change brand.
Thanks for clearing that up! A bit stupid from my side since I could have found that out if only I looked up the registration in the RDW database. :(
The VW Taro was never sold in the Netherlands and this is an imported Taro…
Since it is a rebadged Hilux the Taro is still a pickup with identity crisis. :P
Did I write it was the nazi swastika then? I tried to describe the differentiation between the manji and nazi swastika. And the last line was meant as a humorous note… :P
Shuichi Shigeno located the manga in his hometown, Haruna, and drew several scenes from there. Also the gasstation is also an existing location. ;)
I’m sure the tofu shop owner does know about it since his shop was already in a live-action movie remember? And of course he will get at least one fanboy visit every day:
I’ve actually read somewhere on a Dutch Honda forum ( CCH I think ) there are only 3 or 4 Honda Beats driving in the Netherlands so you’re very lucky to spot it, they’re all owned by enthousiasts btw. They look like so much fun to drive :)
Tsuchiya did not compete in the original N2 series despite winning the 1984 Fuji Freshman Cup with the Carrot AE86 Trueno and also taking Class-3 honors in Group A in 1985 JTCC with the Advan AE86 Levin. In 1986 he continued to race in Group A, but later switched to FWD AE82 FX-GT. From 1987 he raced Honda EF Civic, 1988 BMW E30 M3, 1989-90 Ford Sierra Cosworth RS500, 1991-93 Nissan Skyline GT-R BNR32.
When I spotted the 240SX he wasn’t around and when I drove behind him I did not get the chance to speak to him. Besides that: I’m not interested in buying a 240SX
That TE71 at the beggining leaks awesomeness! The front end kind of looks like a Ford Capri. I wonder what’s under the hood!
And it’s great to see the MotorFIX wagon fixed up… but, I don’t really know, weren’t the A-Pillars completely crushed a while ago? If it is the exact same car then those guys did hell of a good job.
Well, if you imagine the whole car used to be a 4 door sedan they already did a great job in the first place! The A pilars were indeed crushed but you can see they are reinforced now.
Hey, I’m having issues viewing your site in Netscape (I can barely make out the words). I’ve tried increasing the font size using the style menu but that didn’t really help much. Any tips on what I can do? (Oh ya, I’m on Windows XP) – how to lose weight in 5 days
Yeah, I know… Still supposed to write that when I have the time but as always too many things at hand.
Can someone borrow me some time? Well give it back with interest! :P
Thanks! :)
The red levin is owned by a friend of mine. He rebuilt it from (prize winning) factory OEM spec to (prize winning) drift spec last winter. He’s a genius regarding making a car look good!
Hello banpei.
I am a Gaijin, but I work in Osaka Japan as foreign sales advisor to Hitachi. Boring office job, I know, but I was wondering if you know the location of the grey Toyota Mark II grande and the Cedric Y31 that you posted pics of.
I buy and acquire forlorn, stolen, or abandoned vehicles, with proper approval from the law of course, and nurse them back to health, and fullsize Toyota’s and nissans are my favorite because of the large parts network for them, and their durability and solidness. (I imported an 89′ Mark II Grande to America to drive daily since I loved the handling so much)
So would you know where these cars are located?
Hello my friend… I got a Toyota KE70 WAGON 1986 DX with engine 4K 1.3L but that engine needs soon as possible a overhauling,, two weeks ago a friend sells to me a powerful 2T (OHV) 1.6 engine with a very rare A40 automatic transmission in excellent conditions.. Those parts came from an old Celica second generation 1981 coupe two doors… my plan is to overhaul the 2T engine fist, before transplant it to my KE70 chassis..
I would appreciate if in some how you covert your 2t manual in to an electronic manual to share with us… I live in Panama (Latin America) and it’s so hard to find an old book car store…
Thanks for the reminder! :)
I’m scanning them now and then: it is a quite time consuming operation… I managed to get somewhere around page 100. I still got to scan a lot of them, so hopefully I’ll finish scanning somewhere in the near future. :)
Seen pictures of this Dutch 2000 and 2400GT before. Can’t recall seeing one towing a caravan tough. Sure is an extraordinary sight. And seeing a 2400GT just behind it is just “wow”. Just out of curiosity I’ve been looking for one of these in Europe but only could find a few tidy ones for sale Finland. Otherwise these things are impossible to find I guess. Still kinda amazed that nearly 60 have been sold in Holland. Where oh where would they have gone? I must admit it gets me a little exited there is a (very small) chance finding a original LHD Hakosuka in a local junkyard.
At the first picture I tought it was quite real. And the second picture I tought “hey, its looks just like Madurodam”, must be taken with a Tiltshift lens. Than I clicked the fold =D
Where did they go? Well, most of them were abused and buried on the junkyards. I know two of them were exported to other countries in the past few years and I know some Skyline enthusiast bought one a few years ago and tried to restore.
But actually I did see original Dutch car IRL somewhere in April. Did take pictures of course and still need to make a little writeup on that one! Will try to do that this week! :)
There should be an organization on each country that buys old cars and stores them in warehouses, that way “history” is preserved and there’s more chances someone will find a vintage car they’re interested in. It would also help to remove those abandoned cars occuping spaces on residential streets or random fields.
I think such organizations exists and are called museums! :P
However it would be very hard to buy from a museum…
But you are right: it can still be saved! ;)
Hi i am Diego I from to Argentina.And I had loking for the t series manual for a long tim. but it is imposible to find it in pdf format to download from internet.
If you scan this please send me the link to download it, bcause I need it so much.
Thanks a lot.
Regards.
Tanks to you Banpei, for your time, scaning the book for all toyota lovers like us. we would apreciate a lot your time on it.. by the way hello DIEGO , it’s good to see , that other buddys of latin america take time to fix those legendary motors.. maybe in the future its posible to create a toyota club for fans in Latin America so ! VIVA la RAZA CARAJO!….
I think that was out of the scope for that race! :D :D
In my experience the mileage of an AE86 won’t get much better than 8 liters per 100 kilometers, so I don’t suspect the Tec-Arts will do much better than 6 or 7 liters per 100 kilometers. Especially if they drive it like Tsuchiya on a circuit! ;)
That car is just another of the many KB310 Sunny Coupes that are competing. Speaking of KB310 Sunny Coupes, I will have one of my own in the not too distant future. I got my brother to buy it as an interim car while his VB110 and S30Z are off the road, once he gets his VB110 back, I’ll be getting the KB310.
By the way its not a R31 van its a wagon. And you dont have to have S1 or 2 front you can swap to an S3 or get a replica GTS1 front or whole kit. Its an excellent first car as they are cheap but they run forever and have virtually no problems. If you put the common turbo kit on it making it an RB30ET you have an even crazier R31. Dont put it down if you havent driven one or been for a ride in one.
Hi,
the car is not that immaculate, you just have to know the model. The front bumper has been replaced, the black line in it is gone OR the whole car was resprayed. The last possibility is strong given the fact that the wheels are not correct either. These t16 convertibles had standard alloys, this one has plastic hubs.
Plus there is no picture of the roof, which at that age is usually with torn, broken and untransparent windows because of age. so it looks great but that is not certain.
but it is a real pitty anyway.
a friend of mine offered 1200 euro and he did not get it, so they really try to make money on this one.
My convertible t16 from 1987 looks as good as this one since I cleaned it up and placed a new roof plus put the engine in perfect order. It looks as good as this one but has ….
230.000 km on the counter but we have info that looks more like 330.000 km
There actually is an electric AE86 made by the Chiba Automobile University! http://www.hachiroku.com.au/blog/?p=3475
Personally I think it is quite interesting they kept the FR layout! ;)
hey, so i saw your post and pic of the eudm gauge cluster with the bright white lights in it…..i want one of those soooooo badly….how much can i get one for? ill even send you mine!
I know that picture! That’s where my 2400GT search initially started!
That particular one is really a shame because the owner of the junkyard is not selling anything that is in his junkyard and the car will rot away…
The standard EUDM cluster got the greenish color bulbs with the zenki cluster (like the one I posted, but then with a green color) and the kouki cluster got the white/yellow color bulbs with the well known vertical white stripes. If you want the cluster to be bright white like the one in the picture you need to fit white leds (like RS Yasu did) to a zenki cluster.
I’m searching one for you now, so can’t give you a price estimate yet…
Both the TA60 and KE70 are overpriced here as well: TA60s in a decent state are around 2500 euros and the KE70 around 2000 euros. Generally all cars older than 25 years are already above 2000 euros, simply because people don’t have to pay roadtaxes for them.
But the thing I don’t understand is that there are 5 million people living in Finland, that’s more than three times less than the Netherlands. How come you have so many great (nostalgic) cars left in your country?
Japanese cars have been popular in Finland for a long time, Toyota has been the most sold brand for the last 20 years or so,only recently VW went past them though i think,so yeah some cars have been sold to Africa but because so many were sold back in the days many still remains i guess. And i also think it may have something to do with taxes, cars from -94 and onward are actually MORE expensive to pay for, i think its 35cent per day and older cars up to -93 are “only” 26cent per day in vehicletaxes,I hope u understand what i mean? :P
And they are quite small too… compared to the Astra or the 206 to the sides, I wonder why manufacturers make bigger and taller cars nowadays. They look ugly!
That’s what the masses want: bigger, taller and heavier. Apparently John Suburb wishes to drive all by himself in his 1400kg weighting Astra and enjoy the luxury of spacious cars. :(
You’re right. The rims look OK on this Miata but I would definitely get rid of the trunk spoiler and the exhaust . Thanks for sharing. I appreciate you miata hunting posts a lot.
It is all done with magic: that’s how it works in the circus! :D :D
Seriously: the series were done with a really low budget, so this car chase already surprised me!
but they are carring them like crap!! (hey bampei, it has been a long time, buddy near my house is a rx7 scca or something i just know is like 1982 with “lexus tailights” at the back, im crazy to take some pics but my cam is fucked!)
Even though all those cars were fitted with ITBs (I suppose), the 4A-GE is the engine that has the best intake sound… and, why not the exhaust sound as well? :)
Man, new cars lack souls… I’d be willing to have an old car that needs work to be done instead of a chunky econobox that is too boring to drive.
hey banpei why dont you ask to the neiborghs if the car is just abandoned or something, maybe you can get it for free since the car is there so long time, besides, is probably that the engine is “intact” but it would be really lucky if the engine is well preserved with so many time of not use
I already did that, but they didn’t know the owner either. They rather saw it go than having it in front of their house…
The engine did not run for over 2 years and it shouldn’t be a big problem getting it to run.
Anyway, better read this: http://www.banpei.net/blog/dots-nissan-200sx-s14-fall-end
Whats up with that 260Z driver?? Im going straight OH NO somehow I’ve lost control now I’m going to spin out. It’s like a 4 year old playing Gran Turismo.
The Bassie and Adriaan series are made for four year-olds, so it is not really surprising they drive like this! :D
My guess is that they tried to look impressive and it is made in the 70s when nobody really was an expert in stunts on television.
But Japanese cars are exported all over the world due to its varieties and affordable price. So I want to know Japanese Used Car Exporter.can anyone help me.
damn…i think is nostalgia, i remember your first post about the s14 and now is gone…i was expecting a happy ending like someone getting the car to rebuild it or tune it or something like that…
Hey Art, a friend of mine who pay a visit to see this car a months ago have called the junkyard in Hilversum and they said last week the car are destroyed already. :(
wow. this video really is cool. i really love drag racing. and ever since i am addicted with the sports car. but now i have toyota camry. and what i did to my car, of course put some booster to the engine. i love my toyota camry parts. love it.
wow really this car is a legend. you know what? legend car i mean those car that was invented a year ago are very nice and totally performs better. they will not last over the year if it is a garbage. well for me right now my honda odyssey is great. honda odyssey parts are really amazing.
yeah. that’s right. in order to see different car from different maker, you should be able to be friends with other. LOL. dodge neon parts are simply great and fantastic
HI.
I’VE BEEN SEARCHING FOR THE PASSENGER SIDE DOORS FOR AN 82 TA60 CARINA 1.8 SALOON. ANYONE KNOW WHERE I CAN GET SOME? I AM BOURNEMOUTH UK BUT AM PREPARED TO HAVE THEM SHIPPED OR PICK UP IF IN EUROPE. UK tel no. +44 01202556897
Dunno, there is no rule against it. Personally I’m not in favor of running both the award and the nomination. But if anyone nominates my blog I guess it could get nominated… :D
wow, that is great. Mitsubishi thought to downsized Pajero would really create a great mini SUV. nice.think gonna love that SUV, if i had that, i gonna put a SUV Grille Guards to protect the front of my vehicle.
No, it’s cool cos it’s a Carina! :-D loving it. btw Art, my Carina 4AGZE conversion is almost complete!!! I’ll send you some pics when she’s running :-D
hi there thanks for your comment, he mazda should be out again next year prob miss he granite as i don get my licence back ill after, the mazda will have alot more power nextt season
There are a lot of chinese cars that are sold in my country, mostly models from Chery, Chang’an and Great Wall. But it would be nice if this car was imported now!
Or even better: A chinese company buying the licence to make R32 Nissan Skylines. :D
It was so rare to see brand new AE86s, RX-7s and even a Soarer drifting in such old videos. I even spotted a couple of EA-T Civics, a S30 Z, R30s… wow, there’s a lot to see there.
The bodykit of that car is handmade from steel by some previous owner. I am not the owner but there’s a project topic of that car in finnish Toyota-club. The adress is http://www.fintoys.net but unfortunately there’s not much to see for the visitors.
Thanks for the hint. I’ll definitely check out fintoys and see if I can find the topic.
That bodykit is amazing, especially if it was handmade by steel. Can he do another one on my sedan? :P
BTW: thanks for the captcha hint: I increased the difficulty to keep spammers away but apparently I went a bit too wild on that. ;)
Sincerely, I think this is the most stupid cash back plan or whatever they call it.
Most of the cars on the last photo are great.
Here, in Portugal, 95% of them (except that Aixam-like car xD) would sell for a great price. I would take a hint you could sell anyone of them for at least the 2000 pounds.
And the MR2 you could do some 9000€.
Sad that some people don’t know what they have on their garage…
(offtopic:
I discovered your blog a few days ago and started reading it in the first post.
You’ve made me wish (even more) go back to the 80’s.
Thanks and congratulations for the job :D
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I agree: it is a waste of resources and the cars are definitely worth more. But i think the people using the cashback actually don’t care that much: all they want is to get rid of their old car for a reasonable price without any hassle. So receiving the cashback triggers them to sell it off for a way too low price.
Most of them are not mine (however I did post one in the past that was mine). I generally find them scattered around the internet when I’m searching on Minkara and Yahoo blogs. The reason to post them is that it is amazing how similar those pictures all are. :)
Someone just sent me this link. Mine is the red series 3 pictured next to the white s2. I used to share your opinion on s2’s until I purchased a gts1 last year. Now I’ve grown to like them. They’re not a pretty car, but a very aggressive looking car when done up right. S2 pictured next to my car has since had a change of wheels, and is one of the better looking s2’s I’ve seen.
I like your Miata hunting reports. First NB looks really nice, the second NB is always parked in front of my school (carschool IVA in Driebergen) but not sure its from a student. Soft-top of the classic red is pretty rare. Never seen one with “side-windows” and these rims are a little bit to big for my liking. ^^
The first NB is parked regularly on this spot and I’ve only spotted the second NB once.
I agree with you regarding the big rims but that is, of course, a matter of taste. ;)
BTW: Driebergen is quite near Hilversum, so it could very well be that the NB is from someone living in this area.
This is real 21059 with rotary engine. “The VAZ-21059 Car (first made in 1980) was powered by the two rotor VAZ-411M engine, and also the two rotor VAZ-4132 engine.
Transmission was a 4 speed manual and the car had an optional extra fuel tank.”
Thanks Tony! Glad it isn’t a replica. But why the Banzai flag on the hood?
BTW: Radicallylowcars is a great site! I did read it with great interest. :)
The Japanese have a habit of throwing out perfectly good stuff, be it cars, bikes, or electronics. I dont buy umbrellas in Japan because so many just get left around on railings or just thrown aside.
To see a beautiful F30 Leopard and most tragically, an MS125 CROWN, is horrible.
Where are these old kaido gems?
It would give me great pleasure to maybe get permission from the city or town where they are and bring them back to life.
Als je die achterlichten zo wilt hebben, heb ik misschien wel iets voor je!
Een soort stickerfolie met gaatjes. Fly Eyes noemen ze het in de UK (waar ik het vandaan heb).
Je plakt het erop, en als je het niet bevalt, haal je het er gewoon weer af :)
Lichtopbrengst leidt er ook niet onder.
hi , i may look strange but were you born in japan or did you moved to japan ? i am thinking about doing the move someday but i would like to know about someones experience . we ear a lot of things about japan but are they all true ? anyway if you are interested in sharing your experience write me at [email protected]
actually your the “dumbass” the hachiroku reffers the the cars model, ae86 not the year, the hachiroku was made from 1983-1988 and the ae85 is the hachigo, the year of the car is not mentioned in initial d and this is an amazing remake of the car, so to op, nice eight six, wish i owned it.
I totally agree.
Imagine: these great cars once were sold in the Netherlands as well. Picture yourself driving such a car, lowered with some rare JDM wheels. And then realize all these Laurels rusted away in the same way as this sorry example.
There is no love in this world… :(
i was cheating though, was coming back from Japan Classic Sunday, where this car was!
Was great to see it irl, but seeing it driving past (and overtaking it again, to see it coming past again and again and again :P) was sooo much better!
I didn’t quite get this part: “At the end of the straight cars would dive into a banked corner which suddenly ended”. Does this mean that the track surface tilted a bit to the left and suddenly the big banked right corner showed up? Do you have any picture of this? I would like to know. :)
As you can see the S30 is going full speed through the banked corner, the banked corner suddenly becomes flat followed by a sharp right turn (and another left turn).
Gee, I thought that I was the only person that also owns that magazine, plus June, July and August 1983 from my return tour at Kadena ABF, Okinawa Japan. Nice.
No idea. :D
The person who placed the ad refused to answer my emails and I didn’t bother to call him back since I’m not interested in actually buying it. ;)
The engine is most probably a Rover V8 from a late 90s Range Rover. Not sure how popular those Rover engines are in the Netherlands, but they always find a way to get into small and crazy cars. :P
Quite a rare color for a NA6. The rust at the sill and around the wheelarches is a common Roadster problem but I have never seen even the boottruck rust like this. O.o
This car really needs to get some love, but knowing that its currently imported it will probably be a project. :)
This may look ‘inhuman’ from me, but the first thing I thought when I heard the news in the morning was what had happened to the cars that we often see in the events :S
do you know the license plate of that car? My grandfather had an exact same version of that, but he sold it cheap, and i didn’t want it at that time (stupid me) and now it lives in the big scrapyard in the sky :( I know there’s a car with almost the same license plate still around :)
Daimatic is a 2 speed automatic, which you still have to shift yourself, but without a clutch… so it’s a bit strange :D
This one starts with PK-89-, so it is not the one (almost) the same to your grandfathers car… But I can put a piece of paper under its windshield wiper if you want to…
Clutch-pedal-less two speed? Sounds just as wicked as the clutch-handle-less Honda Cub. ;)
About the tail lights, they are from the facelift version of the 2 door carina, 1983 or 1984 onwards.
The centre panel/license plate backing is the same either way, and the lights fit up with no modifications, just swap em straight over to any 2 door *A6* carina.
monroe shock absorbers.. that car which has been parked is kinda interesting to drive. i think i gonna enjoy driving that car. i wonder when a student like me can drive that car.
Thanks! A real shame I couldn’t make it on Monday. :(
Well, hopefully my company will send me to the conference next year as well and I’ll be able to properly meet up! Didn’t mind the Infineon Raceway alternative though. ;)
Yeah I would have been there but i have class in sf until 6:00 and by the time I got there it would have been well past 9:00 because of traffic. Glad you enjoyed it, til next time.
The easiest way to tell if is going to be a simple task or not is to look at the inside of the door,in the corner where the mirror is attached. If there is a small access panel normally a triangle shaped of plastic that is either screwed on or will simply pop off and snap back on.
I’ve got one too…But I don’t have the radiator…It’s for Sell, I’m thinking $300 just for the grille…The plastic Fog light version for the Levin go’s for $195 on Ebay…So If anyones interested, I’m in California….Holla…LOL…
Never tought that a big ducktail could look so awesome in a carina sedan. My TA60 will someday be black and I have been looking for same styled rims so a “boso” ducktail would look badass in it. :)
I just can’t express in words how much I love that typical old car noise, with the movement of the valves heard through the carburetor and that special whine that some transmissions have. Oh, I also wish they revved it to the redline… at least once; if the engine is in good shape it shouldn’t happen anything serious.
so you’re kinda inviting yourself for a little drive? :P
Well it’s all done and back on the road, so we will meet again and then i’ll take you for a spin :)
It is not mine, but you can see the car features a relocated distributor next to the firewall. There are several kits to do this, but also a direct ignition system (like MDI Direct Ignition) would solve this problem.
I just created it as a quick example.. but we are already working one shirt like this a while (a SR20, VR38 and RB26 version) but it takes allot of time making them compatible for a decent printed t-shirt. We don’t have any of these engine shirt for sale yet, but quite like the idea of an S20 shirt so we’ll go work on it. This was just a quick photoshop. ;)
The fact that his AE86 is a LHD version reaaaally helped him a lot on this conversion. RHD AE86 will have those brake and clutch hydraulics fouling that big-ass intake plenum.
What is it exactly car or a shark..Is it easy to ride with such a long extension in front of car.. But overall looks nice and unique..thanks for sharing.. Cars for sale
As the Nexia obviously is a copy of the old Opel Kadett E (Vauxhall Astra), won’t the Kadett windshield fit too? You can find plenty of Kadett windshields here in Europe, as those Kadetts rust like crazy and you’ll find them in the scrapyard.
You might want to get in contact with a few Australian glass suppliers. I got a replacement windscreen (windshield) for my AE86 2 years back no problem – They might not ship them that far, but they might be able to give you the name of their supplier who probably will.
dun forget to post the head lights after u have fit it in your jdm carina..
As you can see, I received the package:
Aazuma Package (Grille and headlights)
However the brackets are bit worse than I expected, so I need to fix them up first.
Apparently there is a bug in PHP which makes PHP believe there is still another recordset. This causes an infinite loop when you don’t implement it the way as indicated as stated in the multi-query example.
See also:
http://nl2.php.net/manual/en/function.mysqli-store-result.php#74478
its a 2 dr carina that is chasing the 4dr carina not a soarer, if u look carefully.
It put it on full screen now and re-watched it. You’re absolutely right: it’s a 2 door Carina, not a soarer. Thanks! d:)b
Nobody?
I counted 38
Now that is one cool article.
Good stuff, keep it going.
Cheers
Tobias
Thanks for the complement Tobias! d:)b
Thanks by linking my blog to ur blog, nice to share infos with you.
That’s NOT a Carina.. It’s an early 80’s Corona GT hardtop coupe, notice the swept rear pillar and sloped rear deck? DOY :P
Did you actually read what I wrote?
It could be at 0:19 or at 0:44 or at 1:03, but IMO all three cars are the same Mark II GX61 Hardtop coupe. Taillights are definitely not Carina and match more or less this Mark II:
Mark II GX61 Hardtop coupe
I must say that they look quite the same so I understand the mix up.
As I wrote: IMO it is not a Carina and probably a GX61 Mark II
4th car in is an at141 corona sedan. almost a carina :) note the pointy front. they came out 4age and 3tgte among others.
You are right… :)
I totally forgot to mention the Corona in the picture!
Stupid thing is that the meeting was an Toyota A60 platform meeting, so the AT141 is a bit out of place here. ;)
http://www.phoenix-c.or.jp/ncml/
Here is the website of the track
Thanks! :)
I’ll have a close look at that site. :)
Mike Garrett put images on his auto-otaku Flickr account:
http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/2452766/36471852
These are all the Carina images I could find in the set:
http://flickr.com/photos/auto-otaku/3076439123/in/set-72157610575139161/
http://flickr.com/photos/auto-otaku/3077326608/in/set-72157610575139161/
http://flickr.com/photos/auto-otaku/3076445187/in/set-72157610575139161/
http://flickr.com/photos/auto-otaku/3077326232/in/set-72157610575139161/
I really like that last picture. :)
He also shot this great R31:
http://flickr.com/photos/auto-otaku/3076433547/in/set-72157610575139161/
http://flickr.com/photos/auto-otaku/3076435405/in/set-72157610575139161/
http://flickr.com/photos/auto-otaku/3076434769/in/set-72157610575139161/
I’d wish I could own one someday!!
That Carina is totally sick
Here is the website of VF http://www.vfactory-net.jp/
But I don’t like it much, lack of information about that AA63 there(
TS Factory also have nice Carina with 3S-GTE http://ts-factory-hp.com/TA63.html
Thanks! :)
I did come across the TS factory Carina some time ago. It was one of the inspirations for me to buy the Carina after all. ;)
Too bad the V-factory site doesn’t work right now… Maybe it will come up in the next couple of days or perhaps my internet connection is not working right now because your blog isn’t loading its images either… I’ll recheck later.
I could finally check the site and they have very nice stuff there! ;)
Unfortunately nothing about the Carina…
“Maybe I’ll spot a Carina A60 next year? Who knows…”
You can spot a TA62 coupe for sure, if you come to Budapest :)
It depends on the plans for next year and about how easy my son is by then, but perhaps we’ll also meet up with family in Budapest and I can break myself loose from them. ;)
Well, i´m from Perú and I know this Carina GT-R personally. This is a real JDM Carina. We peruvians, import JAPANESE RHD cars and do a conversion we call “timón cambiado” (Changed Steering wheel) and relocate (professionally) the steering wheel to the left. Thats how we can enjoy Silvias S13, Corona GT-T, Celica GT-
T, Supras, Skylines…etc..etc..etc..
Cheers!
Alfredo
Celica RA63 18RG
Hello Alfredo!
Thanks for clearing that up!
It honestly looked exactly like it would have come from the factory, so apparently you do very good conversions in Peru! ;)
Here in the Netherlands and most other European countries it is allowed to drive a RHD car, so nobody bothers to convert it to LHD. Probably the cost to do that would make it very uninteresting for most people.
How do you do that with the older Skylines? I thought the engine was such a tight fit they could never produce a LHD during the R30-R34 era…
Hey mate i have one thing to say to you & that is your a c**k swallower.
I second that comment, you are a d**k head!!!!!!!!
you are a f**kin sad k*** i bet you cant even afford an r31 u sh*t face motherf****r.
mate i agree, 31’s are fucking f****t styles, lets say me and you l*** cousins go smash an aussie w****r
your t#^%#^%# must be on your @^#$hole, worst blog ever…..f&$#wit
Thanks for the nice complement! :)
You can’t even read properly… I clearly say that I personally think the car is ugly. I’m NOT stating that it actually is, that’s what you make of it!
Besides that: I clearly say I’m an absolute big fan of both the R30 and R31 but not of these bodyforms. I’m just being honest in that. ;)
Also please read about what I wrote about Skylines in general before you make an opinion about a person:
http://www.banpei.net/search/node/skyline
Apparently I stepped upon some toes by giving my personal opinion, well, sorry about that!
i see older WW Golf
looks like rusian car number 9
cobro
Please have a look at this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Gol
It really looks the same as the second generation Gol to me. ;)
Banpei,
The rerouting of the water pipes from the blog’s pic is not my engine bay pic, I’m using the conventional method of using the ae86 water pump and blocking the original water flow.so its not so messy and looks more original, but i think the temp will be slightly higher.
Sorry, I didn’t look/read properly: the color of the enginebay is different than yours!
I do agree: this enginebay and the enginebay of the car on your blog look messy. I don’t think it matters much for the temperature: all the bends in these pipes won’t help either…
he can’t keep up since now the Carina is being pushed by a faster car.
I don’t really have the idea that I really should have seen this movie and I feel kind of disappointed now…
Thank you for your comment with the url redirecting to trojan downloads. Removed the url now. ;)
Thankfully this year already started out great! I see that the front parts are already ready for delivery: they have already cleared customs yesterday, so I think they will arrive somewhere this week!
Keep writing
I think everyone could understand beeping reverse signals, but spoken are a bit hard for people not speaking Japanese. ;)
But reverse signal on the Supra? Is the rear view of the Supra that bad, or is it there to warn people a powerful car is doing a high speed reverse?
I don’t think it matters much for the temperature: all the bends in these pipes won’t help either…
yeah people from finland does drive cars when they are young i whas maby 11years old when i got my first car :) / your youtube mailer xD
I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don’t know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.
Ann
That is not Finnish registration plates…just wanted to let you know ;)
Thanks for the correction!
I looked it up and they are Norwegian plates, so I’m very sorry for the mixup!
You are welcome :),Very nice pictures here on your blog,keep up the good work! And yeah i am a Carina TA60 owner too ;) Cheers.
It looks a lot like Subaru Leone. I want to see closeup photos.
Maybe this helps?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32437582@N02/3032147109/sizes/l/
Seems to be for sale ?
http://page6.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/f71450314
Thanks! :)
But for that price alone without shipping to Europe I can purchase a 4AGZE and gearbox myself and have someone do the conversion for me…
For sure, I see a lot of cars on Yahoo auctions, but when you add shipping to Europe in (I am UK based) it doesn’t make sense to get them here..
I have seen this sliding with the guys from motorfix (KE70 guys) on track. Hot looking car!
marvis.
LOL! Wassup with the actor’s reactions when they’re racing? Looks more like a comedy to me, haha~
Masato does the Star wars theme too. He looks really goofy with an Afro hairstyle too!
http://japansugoi.com/wordpress/star-wars-japan-theme-song-sung-by-masato-shimon/
Thanks for the link! :D
That was even more amazing than his Kamen Rider performance!!
magnifique, surtout la 1ère photo avec le kit large…elle est vraiment sublime cette célica xx 2800 gt
For sure, I see a lot of cars on Yahoo auctions, but when you add shipping to Europe in (I am UK based) it doesn’t make sense to get them here..
Hi, Glad you like the video, I took it at “HotOlds 2007” held at Shizuoka stadium whilst Holidaying in Japan with a good friend of mine, If you send me an email I’ll let you have my photobucket details for some more Did you know? that if you look at the inside of the load area you’ll just be able to make out the origional “saddle” fuel bag mounted inside which was moved to make way for the IRS rear clip that has been installed. very cool car and a Very, Very cool show.
BTW, I’m also the Owner of the Silver Sapporo you’ve posted pictures of in an earlier blog, the first and third pictures are actualy the same car and ignoring the JDM plate it’s a U.K car.
Loving the cars man..keep up the good work…add me to ur blogroll!!!!!
Yes… minivan stoppies are cool. And a worldwide phenomenon, as you can see in the linked Youtube video, filmed here in Brazil.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP5kVQdIg1I
This one is even more impressive, as the driver builds more speed and does it in a narrow street with lots of onlookers.
Hope you like it! And keep up the great work in the blog!
Thanks for the complement and video! :)
That’s even an more amazing stoppie!
The wheel of the hachi in front of the Impulse hachi gets smashed first into the bodywork and then on the rear wheel of the other and gets launched a few meters and flipped over! The Impulse driver keeps his head cool and keeps his distance…
And big explosions it had indeed! The Nissan engine you have pictured above is the all-powerful FJ20ET, the turbo version of which became known as the “Plasma.” This was the engine powering the mighty DR30 Skyline and later S12 Silvias.
Also, I think Toyota at one point labeled the 7M-GTE as a “Lasre” engine as well. I swear I’ve seen an ad for it as such.
Nice post!
LOL! Het zullen die japanners weer eens niet zijn :’)
Does anyone know what car it is at 2:30? Its looks some kind of Mitsuoka but i dont remember them making this. Or maybe its some kinda conversion for a Nissan March/Micra (If you look at the roofline from the side). Who know more about this car???
Mitsuoka was the first thing I thought of as well. But they didn’t make such a car so far, not even as a concept…
Second thing I thought of was the Morgan Life Car, but that is not this wild looking.
So my guess would be either a heavily modified Mitsuoka or Morgan, or a one off special inspired on the Morgan Life Car…
Hi! Where can i order these headlamps? I have a a63 with single headlamps but those can not compare with the dubble lamp edition :)
I bought them from http://auctions.yahoo.co.jp, but I wouldn’t reccomend it: the shipping was way too expensive in retrospect.
But maybe I know someone who got them in Australia and maybe that’s a better deal. ;)
Ok:) If you could find som double headlights or any other styling parts to the Toyota aa63 model you could send me an e mail at [email protected].
Loving the photo, has a great feel to it. Shame it isn’t bigger, would be a perfect wallpaper :)
Is it me or is there no GT-R R35 in the video? Its an Skyline V35… All R-skylines had a RB engine, the V-skylines had a VQ indeed. And there is no GT-R model of the V-series Skylines. Still a great car tough!
Even after four weeks, i wouldn’t dare to step into the car without insecticide properly sprayed all over the car. Wouldn’t want to have them crawl into my ears and eat my braaaaiiinnss..
+1
I tried to find a higher resolution version but this was the largest I could find…
You are absolutely right!
All sources of this movie and also Smokey Nagata speak of the V35 GTR, but it is NOT a GTR! After searching I still haven’t found the exact date he did that trick, but I think it must be somewhere around 2005.
It is indeed a V35 and back then there was no GTR, so I recon Top Secret named it GTR because of the V8 swap. Currently they do have a Top Secret white R35, so I guess I messed it up with that one. ;)
I have no idea what the caterpillars are secreting but it makes me curl my nose just looking at it
Reminds me of gypsy moth larvae, a big problem in the southeastern United States.
They are indeed moths, but not the same family. They are called Ermine moths (Yponomeutidae).
WTF
WYKOP ?ONDZI!!!!!!!!!!!!!! KURWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!oneone1111jeden
omfg, thought it’s photoshopped while looking at 1st photo…
Thank you for the compliment! You’re one as well! :)
It is for real. You can see it in this video:
You fool! Insecticide is much worse for health than worms!
I have no idea what the caterpillars are secreting but it makes me curl my nose just looking at it
What a mess
great photo!!. no more no less! i like it
Found quite a few of these on the Yahoo Auctions, hopefully our website makes it a bit easier to find AE86 parts.
Find the parts here:
http://auctions.nengun.com/toyota/trueno-ae86
Then apply filter of Meter – By Make – Toyota, and there are a few of them, such as:
http://auctions.nengun.com/item/118867548
Your blog has lots of great posts, keep up the good work!
this is a joke.. this dudes not really sellin that car
Are you serious? I wouldn’t have guessed that! :D
BTW: I haven’t received any offer yet… ;)
No further bosozoku styling (like ridiculous body modifications) or what so ever.
Hey ,thanks for the info,what a car ????
I would NEVER choose that street when going anywhere! I can already imagine caterpillars jumping on my head, covering me with this white needle or something, I would die of heart attack. GOSH! I will prolly never visit Rotterdam :D
This is an interesting take on the concept. I never thought of it that way. I came across this site recently which I think will be of great use www driveafrica.co.za . Check it out! Big thanks for keeping me entertained.
You’ll find after a bit of a squint at the later Silvia Super Silhouette car, that it is in fact still the S110 body-shape but with an S12 Nose-piece.
I’m also fairly certain the 240RS was known as a Nissan 240RS (BS110) and not a Datsun 240RS.
You are right about the Datsun designation: I totally forgot about the branding not being Dastun like all other Nissans were called in the early 80s. To quote myself from one of the other blogpostings: All BS110 240RS rallycars originally were made by Blydenstein in the UK, so the car is not a factory produced rallycar, but they were produced on behalf of Nissan: that’s why they were badged Nissan and not Datsun.
You are partly right about Hoshino’s Silvia S12 still being a S110 during the Super Silhouette Formula: it switched over to the new styling both front and rear end (including the new taillights as well):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL6uI7_emMU
The Super Silhouette Formula cars were a tubular chassis with only the driver section being an aluminum monocoque design and a body of FRP. In other words: it was easy to switch the body itself to the S12 design but quite impossible to change the structure of the car somewhere mid season, hence the back looks like a stretched version of the S12 shape at the rear end.
It’s almost sad that it’s not redesigned for the S12 chassis. Head-lamps and Tail-lamps do not an S12 make though. A standard S110 Hatch is a curious looking beast, I wouldn’t call them pretty by any means. The Silhouette car went a long way in helping the looks department. I guess a matched wide-body and fitting dished rims will do that to any car though. ;)
For anyone else interested, it’s the rear window and bodyline that gives away it’s still the S110.
Compare;
0:46 on the YouTube Video banpei shared in his comment with
0:38 on this clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fVd0A1p6Kg
Sweet car irrespective of the front on it (+ rear lamps) and sweet blog too man, I take a peek at this most everyday, even have it on my little blogroll list on mine to share the enjoyment. Keep it up man.
Thanks for the compliment and blogroll! :)
I just started reading yours and I immediately added yours to my blogroll as well! Got to do a lot of catching up next days!
Pretty sure it’s viscous instead of vicious.. So, did i win anything? LOL.. Nice writeup. Will be doing the exact same thing when i’ve finished the engine conversion on my Charmant. Thanks..
Yep: it should be viscous! Thanks for the correction!
And you just won honorable mention in the posting. ;)
The hubcaps suck, The front and rear spoilers I’m kinda nuetral on and I like the twin antenae, never know it could have a CB radio. But my question is are these things the equivilant to Cressidas or AE86 Carollas?
thanks for this video
Depends on how you see it: if you compare it to an AE86 Corolla the Carina TA60 and TA62 with solid axle sure share almost the same suspension, have the same weight (40kg heavier) but lack the engine of the AE86. If you compare the AA63 to an AE86 it does have a better suspension (IRS) but the downside is the extra weight (about 120kg heavier).
Comparing a Carina to a Cressida is the same as comparing the AE86 with the KP61 Starlet: the Cressida is in a whole different segment of the market. It is bigger, more luxurious, heavier (about 200kg heavier than the AA63!) and it also features an inline 6 instead of the inline 4.
In the same manner that there’s a cliche of people outside Japan that find the JDM parts, badges, etc. appealing. There’s a similar type inside Japan that find the export market parts, badges, etc. appealing. The little differences can make your car unique inside your own market and all that. As an example, for the C110 (JDM: Nissan Skyline, Export: Datsun 240K GT(GL)) there’s occasionally a few sets of “Datsun” badges on Yahoo! Auctions Japan for sale at an exorbitant rate by comparison to the cost of their domestic product. Whereas over here and in much of the Export market, the pricing structure is mirrored. Also, don’t forget the fame brought about by Bob Sharp Racing in America to the Datsun name in cars such as the Paul Newman driven Datsun 280ZX (S130)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3467/3279020314_695c133697.jpg
..and the first scheme looks very much like it was based off the IMSA GTP Z32 (300ZX)
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g160/NSRz32/061993imsa300zx.jpg
Woot ! I’m so glad Auto Otaku is still alive ! Merging is a good idea, and I think we all understand how hard it is for you with so much work on hand ! I appreciate your efforts a lot !
Merging with Auto Otaku??? What are you talking about??
Goor is an old name and the original meaning is moor. This name is used in combination with an prefix very often in the Netherlands and Belgium compare with Moor in the United Kingdom and the same word Moor in Germany.
Correct: it means moor/swamp, and that’s what I said at the end:
Its inhabitants are struggling to either rename the town or to return it to its original name Gaore (which means swamp)
If I would have said that upfront it wouldn’t be that funny! ;)
Knowing bunta he would have thought the digital dash useless and too fancy for drifting.
Any ideas where i could buy one for my mr2 ???
cheers
Congratz with the wedding… :)
And a big LOL at Millen hahaha
this is so crazy how this car is. this has to be a joke.
these are definitely some cool cars. I would love to have one.
…and where was our invitation? ;-)
Congratulations !
Thanks! :)
We tried to keep it small and only invited our parents and brothers… But you are welcome to come over and congratulate us in person. ;)
@EKhatch and Koguchi Power: Thanks! :)
BTW: This is the actual reason keyboard cat couldn’t make it. He was already occupied by playing at somebody else’s wedding:
i meant ae85 :D
Congrats to your wonderful day…
It does have the taillights of the zenki Sprinter Trueno, however the interior is kouki:
http://www.akihabaranews.com/fr/news_gallery.php?id=15037&img_name=Initial_D_Arcade_Stage_4_Limit_016.jpg
Also another weird thing: you’re not allowed to film it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNftscjYdNk
Top Carina is 3T-GTE powered.
More pics of the carina on my site,
Joe Manji pt.3
Thanks! :)
I was already doubting about that, but the TA63 is becoming quite rare nowadays… The 3T-GTE is used for swaps and there were more AA63 than TA63 made by Toyota. I’ve corrected it in the posting.
this has to be the strangest picture that i every saw. This definitely has to be a joke. Unsure what else to think about this picture.
this is definitely making me laugh so much. I just love this car so much.
this is an awesome dashboard. I just love it. I want to get one in my car.
i used to use that site since about 05 its pretty cool and most guys are welcoming
Thanks! Great to see someone playing that rpg! :)
I was wondering as well if it were possible to have your own car… For instance: I would love to own a TA63 Carina if I would have an account on that site… Or should I be satisfied with the availability of at least something as special as the Toyota Mark II?
Cool, thanks for posting this up. It’s an amazing clip but I agree, I’d rather see the raw footage than the artsy slow mo shots.
Thanks for the write up and linking in the videos. Glad you liked it. :)
It was a great car that, and I had it since 2002. It went through a variety of different engine conversions.
Those videos are from near its end of life with smallport 4age.
The orange AE70 was built to replace it.
The engine and suspension and megasquirt etc were used in the AE70 where possible, and lots of parts were upgraded. So, I?never had them both going at one time.
The AE70 was ultimately a better car but the Carina sure was fun.
Feel free to hit me up, or our websites board anytime.
Cheers,
Karl
I’ll buy it…
it may be a joke but it may be something from that tree behind. they will definitely make a mess on your car.
hi, i own one that has a handle as the back which you can lock into open position or close all the time….it does not have the water line and mechanism….what model is that?
You want to sell the grill ?? If you still have it
I have a grill coming in that I might be willing to sell.
As you can see on the parts diagram there is no manual option available. Perhaps it had been installed afterwards with a grille without thermostat?
It is possible to modify the system by replacing the thermostat (part 53107A) with a manual option to turn the shaft (part 53106A) to open and close the grille.
Looks good man!!!
Thanks! :)
Recently we had about a ton of spam bots on our site sending virus links to our members so the admins closed the registration down.
I am an Admin on PCL.com and registration should be opened shortly.
I suffer from them on all my blogs and the AEU86 forum. It is too bad you had to close the registrations, but great news you are opening up again soon! :)
Im That Initial D Freak
I have this setup and sourced all the gear off yahoo japan. My grille came with the manual/locking mechanism as well as the thermostat. You can select it to flip on the thermostat or just lock it open.
There is another model which I also bought that does not have this option. It also does not have the twin gold strips (no bumps for them either – not been ground off). The mechanical side of it is identical between both, but you can still lock it open by screwing in the factory bolt provided but its a little more tricky than the lever model.
That is valueable information! :)
I do see the shaft (53106-12010) is a seperate part from the thermostat (53106-12020). I understand from your experience the shaft is the same, but the thermostat is missing. Do you mean with “the factory bolt” the bolt attached to the shaft? (96160-00400)
And perhaps the rotating grille differed between the 3 door and the 2 door with the gold stripe, just like the 3 door GT version was called GT-V?
Thanks for clearing that up! :)
The Factory Bolt is spring loaded to keep it tight, and both parts are shown as 91511-40520 for the bolt and 90501-07030 for the spring (according to my EPC).
On the grille I bought the thermostat had never been removed.
I saw the grille work for the first time today. I used the A/C to bring the temp up a bit and it opened at idle. It was a lengthy 2-3minutes before it fully opened.
I can leave a note under his wiper if you want to! :)
But I am a bit afraid it won’t be read at all… :(
I guess its the fact that drifting uphill is somehow ‘safer’ as compared to drifting downhills, I mean, here in Malaysia, that’s what our local touge drifters (beginners) do, uphill first, then downhill later (once skills refined)
Since I only drive on flat roads (The Netherlands is about as flat as a pancake) I never realized that. So it makes sense though! :D
WHOAH man that car was hidden under a stone? it looks so WELL preserved and the interior is very VERY well conserved. Nice post man =)
whoa man look at those cars, they were so NICE (no scratches, no damage, nice sound) i would pay to be there just watching around
zenki interia was red/brown
kouki interia was black/gray
hard to tell the dash display could be kouki
Hi, for more imformation on Sunny coupé, I present to you my site: http://www.sunnycoupe.com
best regard
Tigroo.t
they are like noobs lol
hai…nice picture u have here. ok, i was looking for this 3T-GTE engine for my corona. In Malaysia, this type of engine is so hard to find now days. Do Netherlands have ‘halfcut’ body of corona 3T-gte?
Not sure if you’re still thinking about playing, but I used to play PCL back in the day (makes me feel old! haha) and decided to see if they’d opened up registration yet and it appears as though they have!
Just signed up for a new account since I’m pretty sure my old one was deleted.
It’s rather fun to play, and though they don’t have every single car available, there is a pretty huge selection!
Cheers,
Eksale
Thanks Tigroo.t!
Did some browsing on your site! Looks great!
Unfortunately my French is a bit poor, so it is a bit hard to understand from time to time…
LOL! :D
Yes, I do agree with you on that point. ;)
Unfortunately not: the 3T-GTE was only available in Japan.
That’s a great shot, congrats! :) Where is it came from? You were in Hungary, and we didn’t have a beer? It’s a shame. :)
Check this:
http://galeria.totalcar.hu/tesztek/2008/05/27/hasznaltteszt_scion_xb_2005/?current_image_num=19&image_size=xl
TRD sticker with Hello Kitty. My favorite. :)
Thanks!
I love that sticker! Need to get one myself as well! :)
The car was parked behind the postoffice in Körmend, the town where my wife is from. Got a few more pictures, so upcoming weeks more DOTS!
Sorry we could not meet up! We only went 10 days to Hungary this year and spent 5 of them as our honeymoon so all other days were spent with visiting family and travelling. ?´?????
Honeymoon, yeah! All the best! The hungarian girls are the best! :D
the tranlator is your friend :)
I served all day and it’s really not bad
http://translate.google.fr/translate_t#
The car is located in the Netherlands, so of course the car is not JDM. ;)
Not such a bad idea if your heater is as slow to warm up as mine LOL
It’s worth the dollars if you really are a race enthusiast and is totally fond of winning. I also think that it is a very wise add-on to have.
IMO that is bullshit: if you are a race enthusiast you would immediately remove that thing and replace it for the louvre grille (zenki) or the glass grille (kouki): both better for weight reduction and has much more airflow going to the radiator.
I don`t know where you have seen that car standing around before.
But since this week i am the proud NEW owner of this car.
If you live around Hoorn you might see it out in the wild again sometimes :)
Haha! That is amazing seeing the new owner turn up here! :)
I think you bought a very nice car! Like I said before: the interior appeared to be in excellent shape and the exterior got the usual usage damage. I was amazed how well the car was after being over 20 years old.
When I shot these pics the car was parked in Hilversum near the Rotor Media building. My best guess is that the previous owner used to work for as a freelancer for either BNN or Pilarzyck media.
Unfortunately Hoorn is a bit far away to spot, but you will never know: I used to visit Hoorn every two years I think, so perhaps I will see it there as well! ;)
one up for the carina
Hello,
I cant find the blog, where this Carina is. Can you write the link for me, please?
Thanks
Andrew
Hello Andrew!
You can find the Carina here:
Carina GT-TR
I dont know how to get in touch with him/her (in english, of course).
Do you have any ideas?
Thank you.
SETTING UP A 4AGZE FOR RWD USAGE UNLESS YOU HAVE AN MR2 IS NO EASY TASK TRUST ME IM 2 YEARS INTO MY BUILD & STILL NOT DRIVING IT
I’ve seen a couple of swaps done in the AE86 and most of it was quite straight forward if you how. Only tricky parts were the waterpump (take one from your old bluetop), waterlines (reroute them) and mating the 4AGZE loom with the loom of the AE86 (we have a specialist for that in Holland).
Then again: I was calling the 4AGZE swap straight forward because I’ve seen many many other swaps (3SGE/F20C/etc) which are much harder to do and require a lot more changes to the car than this one. ;)
Hi,
I live in NZ, and have owned two Carina’s, used to have a silver 82, and now have a red 83/84, which I’m converting to run a 4AGZE engine. Thanks for the site, there isn’t much information on Carina’s, so it’s nice to know people have some interest in them. We drive on the left, so NZ can import direct from Japan without conversions :-)
– Dave
Thanks for the compliment Dave!
That was one of the things I also noticed when I bought mine: I could not find much information about the Carina either. So I started collecting info and posting stuff here. ;)
You can send him a message here:
http://minkara.carview.co.jp/userid/170503/message/
But then you would need a minkara account. Getting one is quite hard because you would need to translate every step through Google translate.
Most probably the guy does not read English, so you would need to communicate in Japanese (using Google translate as well).
Maybe I can give it a go since I already have a minkara account. ;)
Nice!
Moet hier op zolder ook nog een paar oude Datsun en Simca folders en posters hebben liggen. En nog een paar kasten folder uit de jaren ’80-’90. :)
I would love to see those then! :)
It looks like the Japanese James Bond almost DB5ish
se-ku-shi ;)
LOL! :D :D
Indeed sekushi! :D
Thank you, but I wont translate every page with google.
As japanese language is (also)formally differs from english (and hungarian), I’m afraid, that I couldn’t even understand what he may try to tell me or ask from me.
I was just wondering, how much money would he like to get for the car…
Andrew
I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don’t know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.
Margaret
http://cardrawing.net
Thanks for the compliment!
And great site for car drawing tutorials! I certainly enjoyed this one:
http://cardrawing.net/?p=50
man i can see you usually posts pics of old school japanese cars, and believe me, instead they are in the junkyard, they look VERY good against a lot of old jdm cars i see in my country´s streets…
where do you live banpei??
are you sure this was not accidentally? because i saw a rally lancer evolution (VI?) doing a very dangerous/risky/unbelievable drift into a hairpin and the driver said after that, he was trying to save the front of the car from the crash but he didnt crash the rear (very lucky) he was expecting the crash, but just got luck, what about this guy? he do that very often?
greetings man! nice material!
LOL those are the hidraulics lol
I live in the Netherlands, but the pictures above were found on a Minkara (Japanese) site.
BTW: There is a very rusty Honda Civic Mk 2 coming up next Sunday. :)
I just found another video of Kawabata at that event:
From a different angle you can see he is doing just a tiny bit more than the 90 degree drift, maybe 110 to 120 degrees drift. So it isn’t as dramatic as shown in the first video!
Haha nice feature Banpei, Car almost finished, Few bits and pieces left,
Ps; In that video the car was low on petrol and it was starving the carb!
Here is a better 4k powered one….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_ZlIBRCLGU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfq4x0oi0YM&feature=related
Can send you updated pics if you like,
Cheers dude,
Jack
And found another one of Kawabata doing a similar thing in 2007:
Not as much angle as the one in Okayama, but it is very similar.
Found at:
http://jasonsgrainofsalt.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/this-video/
I think the 4th pedal is a dead pedal… no? I don’t see a lever behind it. From the picture it looks like the Clutch lever is coming off of it, but there is a black plastic looking block under the 4th pedal.
I like it, but I get too much of a Lexus vibe from it then a Toyota.
I really like the comparing specs you posted. Definitely brings the AE86 heritage out to an eye level.
Thanks,
-Ant|N/Aontherun
If it is a dead pedal, why put it in there? I just don’t get it… :|
BTW: The FT-86 will be in Gran Turismo 5!
http://www.youtube.com/v/ezrmU9YayHs
looks like a VVTI engagement pedal to me… or it could just be a foot rest
Yeah, some other cars sold by Japan Vintage are much better deals than this Carina! I’ve seen some very nice Laurels, Bellets and other nostalgic J-tin for sale by them…
I didn’t know Auto Shop Takeey’s yet. Thanks! ;)
mayb the button stand for TBD???
but had no idea wat it is stand for..wakaka
sexual car
TBD? To Be Defined? :D :D
The fourth pedal has been cleared up! :)
7tune.com just posted additional pictures of the FT-86, including one picture of the pedals on a different angle:
http://www.7tune.com/wp-content/gallery/ft86new/FT-86_030.jpg
As you can see what looked like space between the pedal and the floor is actually a footrest with an open space in between. So the people who said it was a footrest were right! Thanks! :)
You can find the new pictures of the FT-86 at 7Tune here:
FT-86 up close and personal
thanks a lot man, you are becoming like a old-school car hunter hahaha take care buddy
I am already very sorry I started the whole DOTS thing… My computer is already clogging up with various rustoseums and other least interesting Japanese cars. Ah well, as long as interesting things keep coming up I’ll continue. :P
one of my kidneys for a scanned version? Hmmm?
Deal! :D
Seriously: it may take some time to scan all those pages… Will take an attempt, but it probably won’t go quick.
:) Great! Let me know if you need any help with scanning :)
the gansta´s life lol
So sweet seeing the little 4cylinder S50’s destroy the competition. G1, 1500cc of pure power! 71ps of power that is!
hej im ser også bye en bil, der kan nogen hjælpe mig?
I love these little 323s.
If this was in New Zealand it would probably fetch twice that asking price easily, these 323s are sought after for rotary conversions. Since this is both a 2 door and it has the early front end design (bug eyes) it’s worth more than a 4 door or a later model square light car.
I Just Love this Rare Gem! and for just $16,495 the cost of a corolla. tham i wish i buy this car . if you ever go back let me know i give you the money for it.
Hi – glad you like my carina videos… I must have owned about 10 carinas in the past but only have 1 now. My AA63 Carina racecar, about to get a new 4agte motor and about 200kw! I can’t wait. Ken
hi there…
thats a beautiful rally car!!. but where i can find a workshop manual, do you have idea? because i buy 2 240 rs the first car is complete and the other one it just chasis… has the factory 00043 and 00044. both cars compite in my country in 1984 1985 are the winners in those days… the cars race in CIRCUIT not rally… if you want i can send you a pics for the cars.. and tell me about this engine because here dont have much spares… in Guatemala work with Nissan or Datsun, and japannes who comes to Guatemala to tune the engine 6 times, the engines its a full race spec, my father was the crew chief and tell me that the car has 280hp.
Best regards
Luis
The car is cheap because it has no documents, hence it can only be used for parts….until someone who has a rotten one swaps the vin and etc to the good one and therefore becoming “legal”…. ;)
About the “unwanted car”… :D … no chance, if it’s an “Old Rwd Toyota” it’s guaranted tha someone will want it and it will cost at least 1.000 euros!
Cumps!
Thanks for the compliment! :)
I didn’t know the also competed on the circuit! All I know is that they produced the 240RS to homologate it for rally use. So they started a limited production run of the 240RS which could be used for several other purposes. Great to hear they also competed somewhere else than in rallysport!
I don’t know where you can find a workshop manual for the 240RS. My best guess would be the guys from http://www.240rs.jp/ could have one. Only other thing I could find was this advertisement on fast road and track:
http://www.fastroadandtrack.co.uk/frat/showad.php?adid=3689
Pictures are always more than welcome! Please contact me through the contact form! (at the top of the page)
That would be an awesome Carina then!
By chance referring to is this Carina?
Ah, that changes the whole thing! :)
Thanks!
About the old RWD Toyota: the Sheriff was already cheap and I did see a lot of KE20s and KE30s going cheap as well. So that’s why I thought of the “unwantedness”. ;)
Forgot to mention…
Will go over 1.000 euros if the car is in a reasonable condition. Cars as The Sheriff and many of the KE20s and such are completely rotten and some/many parts are mising, broken or simply really old!
Cumps!
Ah, so the same as in Holland. ;)
Hope its fixed
Test, test. 1, 2, 3 :)
Thanks for testing! :)
lol my old corolla (1989 model) was not even near of that spec,my corolla was about 40-60hp max lol
amazing the fact about “And it only travelled 60000 kilometers!” man, in my country there is A LOT of cars a lot “newer” than this but with the triple distance travelled. is a shame >_< by the way im not a fan of this kind of cars but i appreciate and i RESPECT how well keep is the car in overall (considering the year, and because is not keept by a collector or something hehe) nice post =)
is this still for sale
The ad still exists, so I guess it is still for sale. ;)
Now we get to actually goes down at the touge after the races, rofl
I’ve heard of this Dating sim before, but didn’t have the drive to look into it. That’s hilarious!
ROFL!
Great classic brochure. I love the CSP311!
Only in Japan. So genius!
I have really no idea what tv-show that could be. Maybe some difficult Japanese car-related question would sort this out =)
That gives hope!!
I’ll do another contest soon with an easier question then. ;)
The answer should have been Seibu Keistatsu. A famous cop show from the early 80s featuring nice J-tin, like the Skyline RS-Turbo, Nissan Gazelle and a 280Z.
I absolutely love Gloria’s tough i never really liked the looks of models like the 430 and Y30/31/32. I’m sure they are great cars tough but if it was up to me i’d love to have a Y33/34 or on of those great A30’s. On the otherhand, a dark 430 lowered with some “vintage” rims could be a good looker!
That KE70 is insane! The wagon too, their speeds are ridiculous… in a good way.
I screamed at 2:38 o.O
I get all tingly inside every time I see the motorFIX corollas doin’ it sideways. :D
If you consider to share it, don’t need to scan, it’s easier take pictures and then convert to a pdf file.
good Luck.
Jose
Lima Peru.
The more I read it, the more it impresses me. I don’t know how I ever worked without hilarious and funny things in our life, Life would be so much easier especially when there’s a jokes here and there. Being funny is nice because a lot of serious people are lacking with this kind of behavior that is why they are much look older. I would like to thank you for your outstanding blog post. Keep it up! Awesome!
Looks like a really nice test track. Is this one fully owned by Nissan or is it a public owned track?
Never knew the BBS’s where made in Japan. Btw, nice car models in the background at 8:45. Have the same ones right here on my desk. Haha
It is private test track, however it is not off limits. Nissan uses it for product demonstrations as well, like this Nissan Leaf test drive:
I buy my parts, and also sell any surplus parts to the guys at http://www.Nissan-240RS.com
Cheers PT
how does he pump it?
take a look at my toyota carina st171
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Probably by hand as well! :D :D
Maybe he also has a footpump in the boot?
That is the best looking ST171s I’ve ever seen! :)
Thanks for sharing!
BTW: Fixed the image in the first comment.
The ideal woman?!
Made me think of this ‘galdori’ video i saw a while ago…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfw8k78sTL0
Stuff like this always reminds me Over Rev! manga :)
Lookin’ good. What car is it shown at the banner? I know its a Toyota, but what model?
A Toyota Carina A6 of course! :P
Thanks for the compliment!
Just can’t understand why they let them rust away like that. On the other hand they’ll probably say the same of all the rusting Beetles and stuff like that in Europe :)
I can’t understand who just lets a car like this (especially overhere where they are pretty rare) leaves it over to the forces of nature. Sadly i don’t car any place/storage nor the budget to restore it. But im curciouse to the orange note behind the window. If i remember correctly you can ask the personal details of the cars owner at the RDW after letting them know the license plate. Costs about 6euros i think, but if you might really be interested in the car i think a phone call would might work quicker especially since it seems there are more buyers looking after it. Sadly the license-plate is not read-able. I wonder if it would still had APK (VAT) or since when it on the name of the current owner. :) Who knows it might just be stolen and left there.
Wow, sorry for my english today.
MOT expired earlier this year.
It is easier to track down the owner that way if it only costs that little money! Thanks for the tip! ;)
Great post! Will definitely be doing this.
Hello, Nice 86! I am currently working on a Trueno. I’d like to replicate the car just like yours. Do you mind if you can share detailed photos of your car? and maybe you also have the Trueno logo for the trunk (hatch) and GT Apex? lastly, a Fujiwara tofu shop logo/text.
Hope I’m not asking too much… The car is almost done on its primer coating stage. in about 2 days we will be starting to coat panda white and black. I like the version that you did… before they replaced the engine and installed a CF hood on the 86.
Again Nice car! Hope to hear from you really soon!
PS: So they actually used a PIAA foglamps huh? cool!
I wish the car was mine… ;)
The car is created by Impulse as a showcase of what they can do with their workshop…
The PIAA foglights are a lot more common in Japan since it is a Japanese company after all. I think it is not a problem to find a set in the US since they have a PIAA USA company as well. Outside those two countries the PIAA stuff is a bit harder to get by…
About the stickers: well, we do sell some Trueno and Apex Twin cam 16 replica stickers in the AEU86 shop:
Toyota Sprinter Trueno AE86 replica stickers
There is currently a new batch being manufactured, so most of them will be available again soon!
I tried to register myself on minkara a while ago. Tough i did manage to make it… sort off… some things were not very clear to me. So Thank you very much Banpei, just what I needed!
Hi Luis,
Saw your post – I can get hold of a 240RS competition manual. It is a photocopy so some of the detailed photographs are unclear but the supporting text is fine.
I have two 240RS cars in the UK. Both being restored. I have a wealth of knowledge on the engines and also the gearboxes. Any questions I’d be pleased to help. Many people across the world helped me so I would be returning the favour.
You should be aware that the final EVO cars had more in common with the 720 pickup than the homologation cars!
I would love to see some shots for your cars – I may be able to shed some light on how they are set up.
regards
Tom
Hi I’m in Canada trying to make 200sx into a 240rs any idea where I could buy fender flares thanks
I used to live in japan, and while walking through a local junkyard, i saw a panda coupe GT Apex still all intact. The poor hachi had alot of rust and they had stacked it on top of another car. It was sad to see, but I managed to get the grille and could have got the original radiator with it but it started to rain and I didn’t have the tools. So I came back the next day, but the radiator was taken out…Anyways I wanted to get a price on it or sell it to the right person…I’ve held on to it for like 9yrs now…
Judging by the way he took that corner I would hazard a guess that the whole outside is an outer clipping curve and they have to apex the entry and exit corners. Looked pretty sweet to me, though I do prefer watching retro’s drift.
Great car! But didn’t they forget the U11?
And the G10 & G11. Or maybe they don’t see the ‘Sylphy’ was a real bluebird :)
ive got a silvia version of these same layout design etc except each model is a separate image goes from the mega old CPS311 to the 7th gen S15
id imagine theres more around
this is a great stuff…
thanks
hey.. gud video and info
The U11 is the one right at the top…
The person who created this images stopped at the 9th generation:
I dun think I was “around” then :)
You just don’t get to see these “birds” around here anymore.
In Malaysia, it stopped at Gen 9
So naturally the G10 and G11 were not in the picture.
Cool! I’d love to see those! :)
Got a link to them?
This may be the greatest post ever, excellent work and very appreciated!
Thank you all for the compliments! :)
Part two is almost finished and will be posted on Monday or Tuesday.
Oh, sadly you didn’t spot mine Classic Red NA :)
White is a pretty rare color here in Holland. Tough i think its still one of the best colors for the MX. Is it really not been drivin’ in ages? This would be an awesome cheap drift-bullit for me :O
Keep them comming!
There are more coming up in the next weeks, so maybe yours will be spotted as well! :D :D
I have that! 2 of, one slightly different but shares many images. I should probably throw up a few scans or photos of such things, myself.
Also in the Dutch language then? :P
hey i was just, wondering about your celica wheels…were you selling those or….. give us an email maybe…
Yup, thats a fail. Haha
I am warning people to be very wary of the guy who says he owns the two cars, chassis numbers 43 and 44.They are owned by a Mr.Philippe Hayman in belgium. See this page it says every owner of nissan car http://home.scarlet.be/prokartracing/NISSAN%20240RS.htm
Sorry me, link have my name in, it is just
http://home.scarlet.be/prokartracing/NISSAN%20240RS.htm
All names nissan people on there
Nice miatas again. But really strange the red one is reg’d as a 323. I guess its just a error in the RDW database. A while ago i checked a car and it said its APK (MOT) expired in 1995 while the car simply has had its checks all trough the years. :)
Thanks for the warning! :)
Yes, the database could be wrong on this one…
I thought of another possibility: either the car was stolen and got its plates swapped from another Mazda… Or the owner steals gas and swapped the plates to make someone else look like the culprit?
looks more like a Toyota Publica convertible.
DOH!
I think you’re right about that one! :)
I did find this image of the UP10 Convertible:
It looks very similar, but unfortunately the image is in too low quality to know for sure…
this is my car? why did you make a photo of my car at different locations?
????
I generally make photos of all interesting cars I see. Most of the time the location is the location when I pass a car and if I see it a second time sometimes I make additional pictures… See also the deteriorating S14:
http://www.banpei.net/category/tags/silvia-s14
When I made the pictures of your Colt on the first location a few of them were not blurred (dirty lens), so when I spotted your car the second time I made an additional picture. ;)
How is the car doing btw?
i no it looks like alot of other cube kei cars and that stupid scion but dam that would look awesome VIP’d out
awe i cant even win something when theres only 4 people in it lol
YAY….thz dude…haha
There is always a next time… ;)
Probably going to have another one next month.
wow 9 yrs is a long time. LOL hold onto it for another 10 and then it will really be worth some bank.
Fury-S12, join the club =]
And gratz to the winner.
I want to comment about the post my son Luis Arturo sent recently. The fact is that we were trying to buy two of the 240 RS that are stored in a dealership in this country, but after trying several times to get information about the price and some information about the cars and information about the minimun parts to take at least one of them to the racing track for the national championship, but we never got a strong information, so I decided not to insist and find another brand of car to race. Evedn, I contacted a friend of mine who was one of the mechanics that the dealership sent to Japan to learn about racing preparation of this cars.
But finally I was dissapointed, because I really like the 240 RS and even I drove one of them a lot of years ago.
In the 80´s the Nissan dealer imported at least 5 Nissan 240 RS to this country, in order to fight the Toyota strong leadership in track racing.
Of the original cars, three went to track racing preparation, one for the Nissan dealership owner-partner, the other for a well known racing driver and a third for another person who was rallying with other brand.
The Nissan silvia 240 RS as known here, won the national championship for three ó four years in a row. They were equipped with dry sump oil system, and they were really strong competitors against the other cars..
One special thing about these cars is that they never broke an engine.
I know a lot of stories about them because I was racing a small Nissan at that time and I have been at the shop with the Nissan racing team a lot of times.
Years later, one of the 240 RS was sold to a very close friend of me and he invited me to drive the car with him in two races as a second driver…………. later, my friend sold the car again to the dealership owner.
Right now as I know there are four of the original 240 RS for sale. Two of them in racing trim for track use (one is a rolling chassis
without engine,trans) the other two are virtually stock 240 RS cars.
Besides he looks a bit older now he isn’t changed much i must say.
Nice car for sale ad. heheh.. I would buy that car and put maggots over it.
omg,it bring back memories…sobsob…wakaka…
it’s the cruise control controls :P
Thanks! :)
I didn’t think of that! Quite stupid I guess! ;)
Poor poor cars
FREAKING SICK!!!!!
i wish my wagon had a BT 20v
well, it’s not THAT stupid, i’ve only seen it on an MA70 Supra before, most of the times, it’s in the stalks ;)
His skills are just amazing!
Yeah I Have one of these mmc galant sigma hardtop! Its great luxury car with all goodies + climatronic in 1985! I love this car
thanks for the great stuff. keep posting
Poor, poor S14. Can’t wait for a new Miata article. Wanted to make some photo’s of my Miata in the snow yesterday but nomatter what i tried i couldnt get the frozen door opened.
Maybe i do need to clean up the garage someone, haha.
Red miata’s always look better O.-
Lucky someone is still taking car over that NA and it would be left to the forces of nature like the S14.
Seconds try: “Lucky someone is still taking care of that NA so it wouldn’t be left over to the forces of nature like the S14.”
I suspect the owner just parks the car at the exact same spot and use the car only for “fun”. ;)
A GC10 Van? Say whaaaaat?!
I have never seen or heard that these were ever made. I believe I have a new favorite Stationwagon now. :)
They are so rare that they must be worth more than a KPGC10! :D :D
I believe even Prince sold a stationwagon version of the Skyline before Nissan bought Prince. I’ve seen C210, R30, R31 and R32 Stationwagons before the Stagea was out. But never a C10, and I’m affraid you are right that they will costs millions of Yen looking at the prices of normal Hakosuka and C110’s these days. Not to mention the GT-R models :(
They now even made a SUV of the Skyline series!
Yes, Prince sold a station wagon before and it was called the Prince Skyway. Much better name IMO. :)
Just pointing out that the LZ20B was also used in KP710 sss
rally cars as well.
Thanks! I always thought the Violet 710 SSS used the LZ18 but apparently I was wrong about that. I’ve added it to the article. :)
nice find!
the last one is the best.
your blog is awesome. keep up the good work banpei san.
or could it be from the half cut where he salvaged the engine from.
great blog! old school jdm love is awesome.
check this out, i think you’ll dig it!
http://kyushakai.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/audi-rs6-avants-are-garbage/
Hey banpei
this is out of topic, but are u from JNC, thought i saw you there. just dropping by and saying hi. happy new year to you
Thanks! :)
I did discover your blog two weeks ago and read your posting about the Stagea! Amazing how the taillights fit so nicely into the Stagea’s rear!
Going to add it to the blogroll! ;)
I do have an account on JNC forum and occasionally comment on the blogs.
Happy new year to you as well! :)
Happy newyear. That 2010 may bring us loads of JDM goodness ^^
hey man i like the set u got could u help me out too cuz i basically need the entire set up main grill,fog lights and indicators with the grill plz email anilsagar09@yahoo. i dont know japanese so i cant use yahoo.jp
ewwwwwwww! hahaha! i wish they’d go back to just good ol’ fashion tuning.
Very good post, thanks a lot.
Great photo! Look like it came straight from some ’80 gangster-movie. :P
I’ve loved Az-1’s ever since Tokyo Extreme Racer Zero. Yea, I’m corny, but I love that game.
I hear that they are rare and just as expensive as a FD in JDMLand
They are quite rare for such a young kei-car, but you can pick up one between 600000 yen ($6000) and 1600000 ($17000) at Goo-net.
On the other hand: if you can fit in one it is certainly worth every penny! :)
So sad :(
Can you look if you can find the licence of this S14 in our dutch 200SX database?
Sure. Just did it: unfortunately the car is not in the database. :(
I removed the link to the database since I wasn’t sure if all that data should be public. ;)
I can tell you that it’s not a US government test to see if the car is allowed on the market, just because i know they didn’t do a test like this. I think it’s more of one of those “OMG look what happens when you’re unsafe!!!11!” things, like the episode of 5th gear where they crash test a rebuilt car to show that they kill you.
anyways it’s pretty scary, the link is dead now but i’ve watched it
Ah, that’s different that the modern EU regulations then! Here it is only allowed to sell cars that actually have been test proved by the EuroNCAP! :o
Thanks for the dead link warning. I’ll see if I can find that video again!
Nice roadsters again. That Black NA would look great if he got rid of the lexus-lights. :)
Never heard of JS Team but they got some nice cars for sale.
Great collection. He has a very strong accent in his German making it hard to understand for somebody not german tough.
Like the Toyota Will and Pao. Since i saw this Pao I’ve really started to see the potentional in these little cars ^^
http://damnjdm.webs.com/apps/blog/show/2570752-sexy-pao-yes-they-exist-
My god that looks good ^^
Haha! Have to agree upon that: the Pao is looking sexy! However I still wouldn’t choose it even if I got paid for it. ;)
Love the Blue 323, Great Find! Its getting rarer to see a blue one for sale –
By coincidence I was the guy who bought the one mentioned in Practical Classics!
I Thought you might like to know I managed to find a replacement new clutch on ebay for £4.95; So thought I may as well take it for a visit to my local track for a watch – turns out someone snapped it while it was parked……. http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonysphotos/3747763782/in/set-72157621658446691/
I bought the car because it was unusual, but it wasnt till I done some research that I realised how little were still on the road!
I’m definately going to keep it as original as possible, I guess Im abit of a stickler when it comes to originality
Anyway, Nice to see an interesting article!
Dave
Your 323 looks amazing! And 4.95 for a replacement clutch is next to nothing! ;)
Got to love classics for that! :)
Awesome. I’ve been keen on a PNV R30 Skyline Coupe for a while now, there’s all kinds of awesome commercials and sale brochures around with Paul Newman’s face scattered over them.
Yup. I love those Paul Newman commercials!
That’s not KE30. It’s a Datsun 1200 B110 Pickup
Thanks!
But I actually knew that already a year ago. ;)
http://www.banpei.net/blog/toyota-corolla-ke30-turns-out-be-a-nissan-sunny-b122
But I forgot to edit this posting… Will do that now. :)
Just as a note. It’s a typical conversion for JDM lamps but what Flauski has done is linked the two lamps. In standard form the JDM lamps work exactly the same as the Export lamps do.
Park lamps illuminate the outer circle and brakes, the inner. Though obviously on Export the Inner is the Dot and on Domestic the Inner is the Circle.
The Japanese lamps I got for my C110 had already been modified to work In the all lit up then brighter (2nd filament) for brakes.
Far greater look to the rear end, IMO.
Hello! Any updates on the “drift button”?
i have a nisan B110 car i want to see the real view to repair this vehicle
Hey Art, where do you found the car? somewhere in Hilversum??
The car look nice btw :)
Hahahaha… My longs hurt from laughing so loud. =D
Crazy Japanese!
Yep. Somewhere in the south of Hilversum, near the heath.
Had the same trouble when I found this video… It still hurts! :D
Ah ok, and it is for sale?
No idea… Should I leave a note for you?
TAMIYA 1st in quality around the world! They’re old mission statement is still true today. Always great detail and excellent build quality on their RC models and static display kits.
I had a really cool promotional video from the late 80’s with all the great RC cars (Hot-Shot, Fox, Frog, Hornet, Wild Willy, Porsche 956… et al) Also 30min section about the process to make their scale static models thru all stages to production, and finally a guide to detailed diarama construction.
this is the same GTi http://link.marktplaats.nl/310463197 for sale.
Indeed the same! :)
Also the price is interesting!
6 throttles?OMG
RIP Mr.Newman
you were and are my hero
Thanks for the plug sir!
Love/Hate these pics..they sadden me to know what they could’ve been…=/
You’re welcome! :)
Yeah I know the feeling: on one hand I love to post those pics because of the rust and deterioration and on the other hand I hate to post them because I realize they were once very cool cars…
i really do like this car!
Doesn’t look as bad as I expected it to be…
Nice NB’s again. Saw a red NB with hard-top flying by the other day. Quite a rare sight overhere, but damn that thing looked good to. :)
No, it isn’t that bad… But it is such a rare car to turn into an itasha. On the other hand: take a look at the massive amount of C10s converted into zokushas! ;)
And you didn’t take a picture of it? :P
Hey cool feature! Thanks for using my pics :D
Matt
Nah, needed to take my exit and I don’t want to risk a fine for holding a mobile while driving. :P Was quite a nice sight tough 2 red Roadster side to side. :)
Did however drive the new Nissan Cube few days ago. Such a funky car!
Finally some real fun JDM cars getting to Holland. Like a wish coming true :P
Now if only the Toyota Mark X would also come to Holland I would be just as happy as you are! :D :D
I have a carina AA60 with double headlights …where can i get the park lights to buy?thats the small light in between the two headlamp….? email me at [email protected] its hard to find
Well, you’re in luck! I do have an extra set of park lights:
http://www.banpei.net/blog/my-carina-carina-sidemarkers-auctions-yahoo
So, you have email! :)
Wow that is tragic and truly unbelievable.
Hopefully it will be rescued before it’s too late.
A garage of high tech vintage dreams.
Hey man! Haha, I am the owner of this Carina. What you described is exactly what happened – the rubber mount burst and caused the imbalance and took the fuel lines with it. It isn’t pretty under there!
I’ll have to reconnect the fuel lines with new lines, get the driveshaft balanced and install it back in without the stupid rubber mounts.
Love your site, so many Carinas!
added your site to our links too :)
Thanks for the compliment and link! :)
I guessed it most probably would be the rubber… Well, at least it will be new rubber this time!
LOL! :D
Imagine what else must be parked there! A Citroen SM? A Toyota Soarer? A Honda CR-Z? :P
Perhaps it’s just a big fan of the Beastie Boys? :-P
That could be the case… But are the Beastie Boys also fan of Datsun then? :P
Uhm, I’m missing something here? :)
Thanks! I forgot to add the videos… Never happened before! :(
this is just an introduction of our website:
http://www.model-direct.com
Actually the TE-27, TE-37 has Levin and Trueno version. What i know Levin was for export and Trueno was for Japan market only. Once it reached TE-47 there is no Levin moniker for this. Which is strange. I have this TE-47 and its a Trueno Sprinter.
Its for sale for quite a while than. iirc I’ve seen it for sale already a long long time ago on mobile.de
Nice car anyway!
Wow! That looks brilliant!
Shame I don’t have 900k Yen…
Must have missed it a couple of times then! This was the first time I actually spotted there!
subarus are nice
It looks like it should be in a anime or a sega game or something
My name is Philippe Heymans from Belgium and i have receive a mail half november 09 from the Guatemala owners family Siekavizza asking my interest in the 4 cars + spare parts stock. Afther a couple off mails and phone calls the deal was done.
Before i receive pictures from other people about the same cars for sale and i just could waiting the were shipped to the new owner in the UK to visit and buy one.
Half november 09, i was on internet around 02H00 in the night when the mail from Carlos Siekavizza comes in, i reply imediatly and later the deal was OK.
Maybe i have dissapointed other people who trying to become those cars, sorry for that.
I like to have contact with Arturo Gramajo to know more about the race cars history in Central America. My mail: [email protected]
Best regards to all
Philippe
Thanks for clearing that up! :)
Nice Roadsters again. That NB looks more BRG than black on the photo. Could be me tough. :) Also quite strange so see a NA Miata with a OEM MX-5 foglight. Good thing is these cars are cheap as chips these days. So its not like you only see them in the “better” neighborhoods. Tough, I’d be scared of someone ripping your soft-top apart.
It is black, but my right side window was very dirty! :D
Maybe the Miata had a rear collision damage and had its bumper replaced including the foglight? But I agree that is is quite weird…
I love the Marchal logo. Great find Banpei.
Thanks! :)
To be honest: the reason why I wanted Marchals was because the bosozoku dig them. ;)
Just a few minor detail clarifications. It was the “oldschool.co.nz” Nationals and the Hardtop is of the 910 variety ;) I had wondered whether you’d seen that post or not! I guess this answer my question, ahhaha. I specifically put the Carina before the jump to see if you’d be more interested. :)
Great to hear people remember my Carina fetish! :P
Yeah, I did see it, but since I read it from the RSS feed I do get the whole article, and not the summary.
Look at those horrific US-spec bumpers on the Honda cars. It’s enough to make a grown man cry.
Hello Philippe
Please could you give me Carlos Siekavizza e-mail or phone number. I am from Peru, in South America and I am rebuilding 2 240rs. Maybe he can help get some parts I need.
Thanks,
Raúl Orlandini
Hi Raul,
Use my private mail please : [email protected]
regards
Philippe
The driver/comedian name is Egashira 2:50.
Strange, I never saw Egashira 2:50 & Keiichi Tsuchiya in a same show
Wow, wish my T16 was as clean as this one! Looks like it doesn’t have any rust. Really hope it will be used as a parts car and not for banger racing..
Thanks! :)
Just watched a few sketches on Youtube and boy, he is surely annoying! Definitely need to see some more! :)
Such a crime!
I wouldn’t use it for a banger race: its a cabrio and it doesn’t have a rollbar either, so the chassis is not stiff enough to endure the absue. Would be more sane to use a cheap T16 coupe and weld in a cage. ;)
Hey man the car is great.But I thing the maintenance is not done properly.
Nice post.
Wow, Tawau once again has so much to offer to the world, visit http://www.discovertawau.com/
I know of Carlos e mail is
[email protected]
gud luk
Thats just wrong :(
One of the lads on my football team has one of these in Blue with a white roof and looks the dog’s bollox. They need to add it to the Toyota European line-up. The turbo diesel from the Landcruiser would do nice.
The car has not been maintained.Fuzz…I cant understand that how one can put the car in such situation.
With the current gas price in Europe an optional diesel would be great I guess! On the other hand the Dodge Ram 2500 and 3500 V8s (not the diesel models!) are very popular cars nowadays, so apparently people have enough money to feed such a monster in Europe. ;)
This is what I’m talking about! great find. I love seeing vintage pictures of sexy old school japanese metal
This is a great video. I love classic footage like this! 86life!
Hey banpei, that’s no 620 ;) It’s an Isuzu KB20. Also known stateside as a Chevy LUV.
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w143/bobster069/IsuzuLUV.jpg
Auch! Thanks for the correction, just corrected it! :)
Europe isn’t much of a UTE region… We only got the Nissan 520/620/720 and the Toyota HiLux, but AFAIK the Isuzu KB20 never reached the shores of Europe…
Ah shucks,
Should have known by the youtube vid code :P
LOL! :D
gidrach ??? ?????????????? ????)
All greetings! I too from here http://forums.drom.ru/retro/
http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=70983#70983
I’ve corrected the posting. Thanks! :)
Nice GZ10 Soarer BTW! I did see it some time ago on JNC forum as well! :)
Poor poor Zenki. :(
I wonder what the owner is thinking. Is it stolen? Is it a project car that never started? Does the owner not known these cars are kinda “special” to enthousiast. There are still people like that. Last week I got overtaken by a old granny in a S13. So probably doesn’t even know. =D
No problem my friend
I will soon make new photos and I will lay out on JNC
I have no idea why someone leaves a car unattended so long. Maybe the owner is doing time in Jail? Or moved to another continent for a year? Or maybe he is in hospital for over a year now… Who knows?
About the granny: I compare it to my mom… She wanted to buy a 323F in the early 90s because she really liked how the car looked with the popup lights. Perhaps the granny thought the same 20 yeas ago and bought it as new. ;)
More photos there
http://reviews.drom.ru/toyota/carina/12278/
His previous car Corolla CE70
http://reviews.drom.ru/toyota/corolla/12277/
Thanks! Nice rebuild of that 3T-GTE!
Saw some photos of this event already on the interwebs. Look like a great event. God Rock Auto creations looks so good! :D
Btw, what is that van at 1:16?
Nice! Any links to them? :P
The van is a Mazda Bongo:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda_Bongo
About the most bonkers van design ever! :P
The van looks badass in that video. A bit like a amphibious verhicle.
I got some photo’s waiting to be automaticly posted on my website but can’t find them so quickly. (Long story, got few hundred post waiting to be released automaticly at a certains time but can’t find it trough the mass of other posts). Also cant recall where I found them to be honest. Should become public today or tomorrow iirc.
Will post the link here as soon as I see its come online. ^^
Talking about timing. Its just came online as I was typing that comment. Anyway here it is: http://damnjdm.webs.com/apps/blog/show/3345686-as-promised-nostalgic-2-day-yokohama-s-photo-s
Very cool pics, I love the shot of the LZ16. And it’s rare to see an FJ20 with all the red paint left on the rockers….:)
Delete by user :-(
Fixed! :)
Apparently Nasubiayu removed the old one and replaced it with a new (high definition) version.
and what about the Nissan Prairie, in the middle, in front of the blue Golf :(
Well, it is probably worth as much as the EE80. Sounds like a good deal to me. :P
And what about the Ford Cougar and Fiat Coupe?! Such great and rare cars! And that Imprezza WRX. Such a shame ='[
Oh, and isn’t that a K12 SRi on the mid left?
No, its not like that. I think this is good idea. It will very useful at time of rainy season or fog to clean side mirrors for car
I see the Fiat coupe quite regularly in Hilversum, but still a shame to wreck it… The Impreza is not a WRX, no scoop on it and the body looks more like a AWD GL to me.
Funny, the Fiat Coupe is quite rare overhere.
Btw, Tought the WRX didn’t have a scoob on the hood. (Only the WRX STi)
Could be wrong tough. Not really “into” the scooby’s
i also like round headlights(quad lights) for my t140!=)
the corona t140 has that style of headlights too but it’s quite rare.
At least someone had the good mind to drop off a G Whizz
We should repeat a meet like this in valkenburg!!! Wich is a very nice place BTW. I’m going there once in a while. (Casino, Spa, restaurant “gaudi” and shopping in Maastricht or Aachen)
I would know about 3-4 cars from Luxembourg (3xAE86, 1xAE82) that might join!
Nice NA’s again.
Liking the silver one, just needs a nice OEM lip and it’ll look superb.
I’d swear the second one is a BRG tough. But could be that my eyes are just playin’ trick on me tough. =^_^=
Love to see more NA spots in the future!
Even though I’m slightly colorblind I could swear the car is dark blue. Will take an additional picture later this week! :D
Well, the round lights were shared between the A60 and T140 platform in case of the van and taxi. See also here:
http://www.banpei.net/blog/carina-sightings-corona-ct141-taxi-jcca-nym-2010
http://www.bosozokustyle.com/sites/default/files/toyota-corona-taxi-1982-1983.jpg
Don’t count on my color-recognizing-skills to much. I’m colorblind to, lol. It could be blue tough, but thats a very rare color on NA’s, most of them are British Racing Green, Classis Red or Mariner Blue. But you’re probably right.
More decals!
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4022/4436720083_3effd312c8_o.jpg
Thanks! That’s a very beautiful (yet painful) picture! :)
It now showed up on marktplaats for 1900euro’s:
http://link.marktplaats.nl/343295517
well,very nice car…how can be made a replica car????? thats new to me lol
Thanks! That’s a very steep price drop! :o
Wow, that is incredible! Now the question should be: does it work? :D
It’s ‘duct’ tape, btw.
Though you can no doubt use it on ducks, it gets used for everything else! haha ;)
in this case, i have to agree to duck tape.. the guy isn’t really standing up, is he? :)
Actually it used to be Duck tape from the start:
http://www.octanecreative.com/ducttape/duckvsduct.html
Nowadays it is also being pushed as a brand on this side of the pond by Henkel as Duck Products, hence we call it Duck Tape. Just as many people name it Gaffer’s tape because Gaff also produces the same tape. ;)
But what’s in the name anyway… :P
no doubt about it, the “Initial D” manga/anime/video game made the AE86 awesome
Contacto
Suzuki Guatemala
Dirección:
Ave. La Castellana 39-48 Z.8
Ciudad de Guatemala
Guatemala
01008
Teléfono: 2420-2100
Fax: 2420-2103
def red!
Lookin’ good Banpei
=^.^=
Thats one great looking Supra indeed…
Thanks! :)
Can touch this!!!
my… my music is so… so hard! :D
not diggin the super high rear suspension :/
Everyone speaks Japanese, and then the guy who shoots up the skyline, starts jibbering in English! That made me laugh most of all!
Cool chart, never knew there were so many models either! The GTS Type S model is very common in New Zealand, both 2 door and 4 door.
Even though the GTS Type S is not as very impressive spec-ed as the GTR I still love to have one as a daily! :)
I didn’t know that, but I’m glad it lined up!
Well for the next time (and I hope there will be one!) you now know on what day you should post it. :P
Please tell me he just accidently placed that comma wrong… please… lol
=O.o=
Great to see these old CM’s. Never knew Ken & Mary were already known before the “Kenmeri”…
Shame there was no Hakosuka CM to be seen. Now “that” would have been great to watch =^.^=
Crazy LEDs!
I have a Minkara account! Thanks Banpei.
You’re welcome! :)
Still need to do the other guides as well… Anyone know a good shop where I can buy some time? :P
To make up for the Hakosuka CM, how about a Hakosuka catalogue then?
http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=89174
Yum yum! :9
Saw it quite a while ago and still can make up my mind if its eighter good looking or hella ugly. Oh well, atleast its something new. =] That logo in the grill has to go tough! It makes the gront look like some kinda boring Nissan for the US market (like the Sentra’s). lol
If I remember correctly there was an other weerd conversion right under the blue RPS13. A red car iirc but can’t recall what the conversion really was. A Chaser or Cefiro with R32 front or something?
AE86 with R32 front clip.
Talking about weird conversions, I do know there is an AE86 with R34 front clip in Greece:
From NZ and I’ve never seen it before. Not surprising, I guess. Strangely, the licence plate is supposed to be attached to a Datsun 180B, rather than the 120Y it is attached to. Weird and pointless fact #13798123
Nice NA. So now and than I’m active at the Dutch MXOC forum but I can’t recall seeing this NA pass by. Might be a sticker from an ex-owner. :) When I was on the hunt for my NA 8 out of 10 Roadsters had a MXOC sticker on it. ^^
But it sits very nice indeed altough I’m not a fan of the wheels. And an OEM lip would suit it very well ^^
Maybe you were not the target audience of this commercial! ;)
A 180B? I’d say that is at least a bit strange… Maybe the owner owned both a 180B and 120Y and switched the plates to prevent to be recognized as the stripping guy? :P
I’ve got it now, needs some repairing! 120 000 km. Got it for €750 euro’s, this guy must have been crazy or out of money somehow ;)
I’ve also got the Colt 1.6 16V glxi 1992 113bhp and these cars really rocks.
I’ve been driving mitsubishi’s all my live and I’ll never ever change brand.
BTW it drives in Twente now ;)
Congrats on the bargain! Great to hear it is in good hands now! :)
Those are my RS’!
Then you certainly have the coolest rims ever!
Any chance on sharing some more pics of them?? :P
man. them wheels he has in the back. im in love with, along with the cherry blossoms. them two =sex
Nice car! thanks you for sharing this information :)
bet clic
My personal favorites are the Advans, as long as they are the deep dish variants like this! :)
john is a very famous man in the ae86 culture of ireland, he hasand had some seriously nice cars all old skool rwd’s and will have alot more as well
also goes by the name of the phantom bellydancer
The third is f**k**g amazing! beautifully styled!!
Hi! That car is VW Taro, in Finland we have someof those, i think that it is lisenced from Toyota Hilux :)
Thanks for clearing that up! A bit stupid from my side since I could have found that out if only I looked up the registration in the RDW database. :(
The VW Taro was never sold in the Netherlands and this is an imported Taro…
Since it is a rebadged Hilux the Taro is still a pickup with identity crisis. :P
This is not the Nazi Swastika man, the one the nazis had used is inverted. Good try though.
Did I write it was the nazi swastika then? I tried to describe the differentiation between the manji and nazi swastika. And the last line was meant as a humorous note… :P
Classic Red NA’s FTW. :)
Nice combo with the Spider indeed.
I’ve always wondered. Was that shop there before the manga, or did someone decide to build a tofu shop based on the manga?
And if the first, did the tofu shop owner know about his shop being used and did he suddenly become a tofu overnight success?
Shuichi Shigeno located the manga in his hometown, Haruna, and drew several scenes from there. Also the gasstation is also an existing location. ;)
I’m sure the tofu shop owner does know about it since his shop was already in a live-action movie remember? And of course he will get at least one fanboy visit every day:
Toyota Ipsum (picnic) next to Fujiwara Tofu shop
Picture was found here
Only in Am…. uhhh… Japan :)
I’ve actually read somewhere on a Dutch Honda forum ( CCH I think ) there are only 3 or 4 Honda Beats driving in the Netherlands so you’re very lucky to spot it, they’re all owned by enthousiasts btw. They look like so much fun to drive :)
Then I was quite lucky to spot it then! However, just as lucky for anyone to spot my Carina I guess. :D
The BMW is the star of that video, despite only getting shared camera time with the gaggle of AE86’s.
LOL! :D
I guess it is more or less from what angle you see it! :D
I understand your BMW – Carina liking…
I took the bumper off my Carina the other day doing some minor respraying, and with the bumper off it reminded me of an old 80’s BMW shape…
I think you’ll find that’s a JZX100, not a C35.
Thanks! Corrected that… :)
I judged that upon the taillights, but after watching the video a few times more it certainly is a JZX100!
Got any pictures of that? :P
I have spot this one once in Laren. And few times spot it drive in front of my house.
Such a sad sight! What a loss… you can’t inmagine people letting these cars rust away like that!
Damn! That song is pure class!
:D Wonder what its called…
You certainly live in a better area than me: my street hardly has any traffic at all! :(
Aww, I wanted to see the magazine. :P
I bet it was good stuff, haha. The censored part of the video also makes difficult to see his driving moves.
This guy is awesome. I wish I was in Ebisu, drifting an AE86 in the rain while eating McDonald’s burgers!
I did save the uncensored version because I expected it to be removed… I’ll see if I can share it somewhere. ;)
That would be very generous from you. :P
I love your blog by the way, I can always count on it for random Japanese car stuff! Of course, Bosozoku Style has interesting stuff too. :)
Tsuchiya did not compete in the original N2 series despite winning the 1984 Fuji Freshman Cup with the Carrot AE86 Trueno and also taking Class-3 honors in Group A in 1985 JTCC with the Advan AE86 Levin. In 1986 he continued to race in Group A, but later switched to FWD AE82 FX-GT. From 1987 he raced Honda EF Civic, 1988 BMW E30 M3, 1989-90 Ford Sierra Cosworth RS500, 1991-93 Nissan Skyline GT-R BNR32.
Haha!! This is my carina and a mates ae70 at taupo. good weekend!!
You got an excellent looking Carina man! Love the Longchamps! :)
do you asked him if he want to sell it? :)
When I spotted the 240SX he wasn’t around and when I drove behind him I did not get the chance to speak to him. Besides that: I’m not interested in buying a 240SX
That TE71 at the beggining leaks awesomeness! The front end kind of looks like a Ford Capri. I wonder what’s under the hood!
And it’s great to see the MotorFIX wagon fixed up… but, I don’t really know, weren’t the A-Pillars completely crushed a while ago? If it is the exact same car then those guys did hell of a good job.
The te71 looks cool but the frt end looks weird cause doesnt hav the signal lamp and with quad.
Ahhhh awesome. I had one of those too. Unfortunately I made the mistake to sell it.
Well, if you imagine the whole car used to be a 4 door sedan they already did a great job in the first place! The A pilars were indeed crushed but you can see they are reinforced now.
Personally I like it that way: it makes the car stand out from the rest of the crowd. But then again: it all depends on someone’s personal taste… ;)
haha, yeah I wanna run a top mount intercooler so i need a spare hood :)
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Nice coverage Banpei.
Lovin’ that red Levin!
He does quite a good job for an automatic!
PS.: When can we the next Minkara guide? ^^
(I’m having a hard to finding out how to upload photo’s =^.^=)
Yeah, I know… Still supposed to write that when I have the time but as always too many things at hand.
Can someone borrow me some time? Well give it back with interest! :P
Thanks! :)
The red levin is owned by a friend of mine. He rebuilt it from (prize winning) factory OEM spec to (prize winning) drift spec last winter. He’s a genius regarding making a car look good!
Hello banpei.
I am a Gaijin, but I work in Osaka Japan as foreign sales advisor to Hitachi. Boring office job, I know, but I was wondering if you know the location of the grey Toyota Mark II grande and the Cedric Y31 that you posted pics of.
I buy and acquire forlorn, stolen, or abandoned vehicles, with proper approval from the law of course, and nurse them back to health, and fullsize Toyota’s and nissans are my favorite because of the large parts network for them, and their durability and solidness. (I imported an 89′ Mark II Grande to America to drive daily since I loved the handling so much)
So would you know where these cars are located?
I have no idea where the photographer shot these pictures, but you can always ask him. This is where the gallery was located:
http://minkara.carview.co.jp/userid/170503/car/344758/1784600/photo.aspx
And this is his profile page:
http://minkara.carview.co.jp/userid/170503/profile/
According to your Flickr description of the picture of the tire, it was apparently abandoned. Did you, ehm, “borrow” it? :P
By the way, the link to Beeoneoneoh links to your own site!
LOL! Even though there was still thread left on the tire it was definitely too old to do anything with it…
Fixed the link! I forgot to paste the url in there and then it automatically links to my site. Thanks for the warning! :)
I’ll keep an eye on this ;)
The detailed photo’s or the car batches (from I think JCS) are great to see ^^
Thanks! :)
Yeah, they are indeed from JCS 2010! I’ll post some from 2008 as well. :)
The N2 flared TE71 reminded me of the old Opel Manta :’P
Those aren’t bullet holes, civics dont come with bulletproof glass, that looks like slingshot + big marble damage
Thanks your Blog show me.
Hello my friend… I got a Toyota KE70 WAGON 1986 DX with engine 4K 1.3L but that engine needs soon as possible a overhauling,, two weeks ago a friend sells to me a powerful 2T (OHV) 1.6 engine with a very rare A40 automatic transmission in excellent conditions.. Those parts came from an old Celica second generation 1981 coupe two doors… my plan is to overhaul the 2T engine fist, before transplant it to my KE70 chassis..
I would appreciate if in some how you covert your 2t manual in to an electronic manual to share with us… I live in Panama (Latin America) and it’s so hard to find an old book car store…
Tanks
AC
Thanks for the reminder! :)
I’m scanning them now and then: it is a quite time consuming operation… I managed to get somewhere around page 100. I still got to scan a lot of them, so hopefully I’ll finish scanning somewhere in the near future. :)
That guy on 1:20 has got some serious skills…
SWEET ! I’d love to slap a OM617 Diesel in it and put that baby to work….
Too bad I’m not rich .
-Nate
I see Gotosan’s green coupe in the thick of the action :’P
Oh dear that is sad.. and annoying.
haha it looks great. I\d like to have one brum brum…
Seen pictures of this Dutch 2000 and 2400GT before. Can’t recall seeing one towing a caravan tough. Sure is an extraordinary sight. And seeing a 2400GT just behind it is just “wow”. Just out of curiosity I’ve been looking for one of these in Europe but only could find a few tidy ones for sale Finland. Otherwise these things are impossible to find I guess. Still kinda amazed that nearly 60 have been sold in Holland. Where oh where would they have gone? I must admit it gets me a little exited there is a (very small) chance finding a original LHD Hakosuka in a local junkyard.
At the first picture I tought it was quite real. And the second picture I tought “hey, its looks just like Madurodam”, must be taken with a Tiltshift lens. Than I clicked the fold =D
Where did they go? Well, most of them were abused and buried on the junkyards. I know two of them were exported to other countries in the past few years and I know some Skyline enthusiast bought one a few years ago and tried to restore.
But actually I did see original Dutch car IRL somewhere in April. Did take pictures of course and still need to make a little writeup on that one! Will try to do that this week! :)
LOL! :D
You don’t need a tiltshift lens in Madurodam. ;)
i got a new ID.
Thanks! :)
Just subscribed and added you as a friend!
I already see some very interesting videos! :)
ill just share it!!!!!
That is a very nice RT132! Where are you from?
I bet it still can be saved!
There should be an organization on each country that buys old cars and stores them in warehouses, that way “history” is preserved and there’s more chances someone will find a vintage car they’re interested in. It would also help to remove those abandoned cars occuping spaces on residential streets or random fields.
Not possible, I know… :(
I think such organizations exists and are called museums! :P
However it would be very hard to buy from a museum…
But you are right: it can still be saved! ;)
very nice!
Hi i am Diego I from to Argentina.And I had loking for the t series manual for a long tim. but it is imposible to find it in pdf format to download from internet.
If you scan this please send me the link to download it, bcause I need it so much.
Thanks a lot.
Regards.
Diego
This commercial doesn’t make sense. I love it!!
Tanks to you Banpei, for your time, scaning the book for all toyota lovers like us. we would apreciate a lot your time on it.. by the way hello DIEGO , it’s good to see , that other buddys of latin america take time to fix those legendary motors.. maybe in the future its posible to create a toyota club for fans in Latin America so ! VIVA la RAZA CARAJO!….
regars and many tanks to you , good people.
nice video, that thing has some power!
– stopzilla review
I like the Seibu Keisatsu style! cognac and everything! woaw!
Dope! but, how eco friendly are the cars? and especially the Hachiroku. better milage then a prius?
I think that was out of the scope for that race! :D :D
In my experience the mileage of an AE86 won’t get much better than 8 liters per 100 kilometers, so I don’t suspect the Tec-Arts will do much better than 6 or 7 liters per 100 kilometers. Especially if they drive it like Tsuchiya on a circuit! ;)
That car is just another of the many KB310 Sunny Coupes that are competing. Speaking of KB310 Sunny Coupes, I will have one of my own in the not too distant future. I got my brother to buy it as an interim car while his VB110 and S30Z are off the road, once he gets his VB110 back, I’ll be getting the KB310.
The pictures are nice..REally a good choice..
Hello peopple, I.m Diego from Argentina Again, I would like to know if you have the service manual of 2T engine to download.
Thanks
Regards
I see it now. Thanks!
A KB310 as a temporary car? Nice! :)
WTF!? Look what ya did to the Door its all ruined. I wonder how will this turn up or anyone want to buy this after your experiment.
Hehe.
Seriously, how much? LOL.
yeah, that’s really true since nissan 300zx’s style is kinda impressive.
By the way its not a R31 van its a wagon. And you dont have to have S1 or 2 front you can swap to an S3 or get a replica GTS1 front or whole kit. Its an excellent first car as they are cheap but they run forever and have virtually no problems. If you put the common turbo kit on it making it an RB30ET you have an even crazier R31. Dont put it down if you havent driven one or been for a ride in one.
Nothing better than a panda hachi-roku under the rain!
I’m glad they left the 4A-GE in its place. It could have been an electric engine!
Hi,
the car is not that immaculate, you just have to know the model. The front bumper has been replaced, the black line in it is gone OR the whole car was resprayed. The last possibility is strong given the fact that the wheels are not correct either. These t16 convertibles had standard alloys, this one has plastic hubs.
Plus there is no picture of the roof, which at that age is usually with torn, broken and untransparent windows because of age. so it looks great but that is not certain.
but it is a real pitty anyway.
a friend of mine offered 1200 euro and he did not get it, so they really try to make money on this one.
My convertible t16 from 1987 looks as good as this one since I cleaned it up and placed a new roof plus put the engine in perfect order. It looks as good as this one but has ….
230.000 km on the counter but we have info that looks more like 330.000 km
There actually is an electric AE86 made by the Chiba Automobile University!
http://www.hachiroku.com.au/blog/?p=3475
Personally I think it is quite interesting they kept the FR layout! ;)
1200 euro and still didn’t get it? Did they expect to receive the highest price for a non-drivable car?? Madness!
Thanks for the info!
This is indeed a nice transporter. Practical and a great eyecatcher .
Stoer ding!
Wow how awesome!
Found this picture a while back of this 2400GT in a junkyard in Switzerland:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/71144572@N00/3266325378/
hey, so i saw your post and pic of the eudm gauge cluster with the bright white lights in it…..i want one of those soooooo badly….how much can i get one for? ill even send you mine!
I know that picture! That’s where my 2400GT search initially started!
That particular one is really a shame because the owner of the junkyard is not selling anything that is in his junkyard and the car will rot away…
The standard EUDM cluster got the greenish color bulbs with the zenki cluster (like the one I posted, but then with a green color) and the kouki cluster got the white/yellow color bulbs with the well known vertical white stripes. If you want the cluster to be bright white like the one in the picture you need to fit white leds (like RS Yasu did) to a zenki cluster.
I’m searching one for you now, so can’t give you a price estimate yet…
Wooohoo! I’m on you blog! Thanks! and beterschap voor je zoon.
Naaaahhh!! It’s a shame! It was a monument!
Yeah we have a lot of those in Finland ;) Also the KE70 corolla is very popular among young boys here. (and overpriced…)
Very cool pics you’ve got there. You might wanna finish it off with a pic of Taka with riding a bike with a shotgun.
Both the TA60 and KE70 are overpriced here as well: TA60s in a decent state are around 2500 euros and the KE70 around 2000 euros. Generally all cars older than 25 years are already above 2000 euros, simply because people don’t have to pay roadtaxes for them.
But the thing I don’t understand is that there are 5 million people living in Finland, that’s more than three times less than the Netherlands. How come you have so many great (nostalgic) cars left in your country?
Haha! Vette shit!
Yeah there is a KE70 1.3 auto on Marktplaats for 2500euro….
Couple weeks ago there was one for 4750euro or something crazy like that.
Maybe Finland didn’t ship al their awesome old cars to country’s like Africa?
Japanese cars have been popular in Finland for a long time, Toyota has been the most sold brand for the last 20 years or so,only recently VW went past them though i think,so yeah some cars have been sold to Africa but because so many were sold back in the days many still remains i guess. And i also think it may have something to do with taxes, cars from -94 and onward are actually MORE expensive to pay for, i think its 35cent per day and older cars up to -93 are “only” 26cent per day in vehicletaxes,I hope u understand what i mean? :P
Hi all
I’m rhum from France, The 2T engine manual repair is available to download ? If yes, what is the process ??
1000 Thanks
Best Regards
Rhum
Red Miatas look so nice!
And they are quite small too… compared to the Astra or the 206 to the sides, I wonder why manufacturers make bigger and taller cars nowadays. They look ugly!
That’s what the masses want: bigger, taller and heavier. Apparently John Suburb wishes to drive all by himself in his 1400kg weighting Astra and enjoy the luxury of spacious cars. :(
I think my friend just bought them
You’re right. The rims look OK on this Miata but I would definitely get rid of the trunk spoiler and the exhaust . Thanks for sharing. I appreciate you miata hunting posts a lot.
Geweldig!
philippines
That thing looks brutal! R30s in red are so agressive and awesome.
love the Panda Trueno, Fat rim all around
Yeah, it is indeed a very cool Trueno! :)
Another nice gallery/blog post:
http://minkara.carview.co.jp/userid/417436/blog/19722019/
Cool!
I have my coverage of hachirock 2010 on my blog, though you may be interested – http://www.plus6four.com
have also added you to my blog roll =)
Cheers!!
Hellow!
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I have added your site to my site.
Please link my site to your site.
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Nice coverage! Wish I could have been there!
Nice blog! I added you to mine as well!
Thank you for the link! I returned the favor!
You got an amazing site: so many tokusatsu to watch!
Hi there. It would be awesome if you could convert this manual to a pdf :D Can’t find one anywhere and I’m looking to rebuild my motor. Thankyou!
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nice one :))
I think it’s funny how they put those arrows to show the aerodynamics of the boxy GC10. :P
I just thought I would ask: what version of the C10 Skyline is the one that has 3 squared tail lamps on each side? You seem to know better than I do…
Ooooh these good old days. :D
I have no idea what they’re talking about but I like how the went from a normal road in a city to wandering onto a racetrack! haha
Have found chassis 000047 in very good condition stored over years inside a car dealers warehouse… will be shipped to Belgium. The car looks like new.
It is all done with magic: that’s how it works in the circus! :D :D
Seriously: the series were done with a really low budget, so this car chase already surprised me!
Nice!
Could you perhaps send me some photos when it arrives?
but they are carring them like crap!! (hey bampei, it has been a long time, buddy near my house is a rx7 scca or something i just know is like 1982 with “lexus tailights” at the back, im crazy to take some pics but my cam is fucked!)
I must say one thing according to my experience that Japanese Cars are more innovative and have plenty of varieties.
Here in Costa Rica, we used the Corona CT141 for taxis I am looking parts for my father car.. I going to try to send you pictures
Thanks!
Try sending them to banpei[at]banpei.net
More form this series at
http://www.ae86.hu/hu/2010/02/12/japo-szlalom/
Nice! :)
you found my carina (; i will add some more photos later :p and it might be soon in register. =)
Even though all those cars were fitted with ITBs (I suppose), the 4A-GE is the engine that has the best intake sound… and, why not the exhaust sound as well? :)
Man, new cars lack souls… I’d be willing to have an old car that needs work to be done instead of a chunky econobox that is too boring to drive.
hey banpei why dont you ask to the neiborghs if the car is just abandoned or something, maybe you can get it for free since the car is there so long time, besides, is probably that the engine is “intact” but it would be really lucky if the engine is well preserved with so many time of not use
I already did that, but they didn’t know the owner either. They rather saw it go than having it in front of their house…
The engine did not run for over 2 years and it shouldn’t be a big problem getting it to run.
Anyway, better read this:
http://www.banpei.net/blog/dots-nissan-200sx-s14-fall-end
Ah, so it is yours! :)
Can’t wait to see how it turns out!
correct me if im mistaken its just i cant help but notice your wheels, is it photoshopped?
Good eye spotting those mkiii’s. i would not have been able to tell.
True what Killua said. A lot of cars these days lack soul.
Whats up with that 260Z driver?? Im going straight OH NO somehow I’ve lost control now I’m going to spin out. It’s like a 4 year old playing Gran Turismo.
The Bassie and Adriaan series are made for four year-olds, so it is not really surprising they drive like this! :D
My guess is that they tried to look impressive and it is made in the 70s when nobody really was an expert in stunts on television.
During the handbraketurns the wheels stops for a split second. Had to rewatch those parts a few times though. :D
But Japanese cars are exported all over the world due to its varieties and affordable price. So I want to know Japanese Used Car Exporter.can anyone help me.
yeah, drag racing is kinda amazing sports. i really love drag racing. and i love to watch it. because i really love sports car.
believe it nissan sentra parts are really amzing
damn…i think is nostalgia, i remember your first post about the s14 and now is gone…i was expecting a happy ending like someone getting the car to rebuild it or tune it or something like that…
T_T maybe life is not a happy ending story
I was thinking about paying the local junkyards a short visit this week and see if it is there…
Hey Art, a friend of mine who pay a visit to see this car a months ago have called the junkyard in Hilversum and they said last week the car are destroyed already. :(
well hopefully he’s in a better place
wow. this video really is cool. i really love drag racing. and ever since i am addicted with the sports car. but now i have toyota camry. and what i did to my car, of course put some booster to the engine. i love my toyota camry parts. love it.
wow really this car is a legend. you know what? legend car i mean those car that was invented a year ago are very nice and totally performs better. they will not last over the year if it is a garbage. well for me right now my honda odyssey is great.
honda odyssey parts are really amazing.
yeah. that’s right. in order to see different car from different maker, you should be able to be friends with other. LOL.
dodge neon parts are simply great and fantastic
Hi, That 1977 ad has to be the coolest ad ever, I really like it, Wasnt that version of the isuzu gemini called the sandpiper edition?
now thats WTF????
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Isn’t that one of the creations of that Japanese coachbuilder “Ducks-Garden” who also makes Fairlady 2000 replica’s based on the Eunos Roadster?
The first Levin has TRD Tosco rims. Love the look of N2 with 13″ wheels!
Shouldn’t that be 1983? ;)
You got me there! :P
Just corrected it.
Sensei! _o_
Could very well be… They also created some bizarre areoparts for other cars in the past.
Hahaha, thanks for the laugh. The turbo boost was the best!
Yep, usually he is laughing or talking loudly if he likes the car.
The green gloves are not giving the wheel that much input.
+1, hilarious.
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The only comment here is “what” or in Japanese”hei” …
Very funny stuff, ( anything Nomuken says in general is funny).
It’s an Ex-Safari Rally NISSAN 240 RS in good running condition.
PRICE: US$40000 only!
E-mail me for photos.
Let me know if you need further details.
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nice car. you got it right man! that Nissan 350Z really don’t look as a classic Japanese car. but isn’t it that nissan is made by japanese? right?
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Thank you for sharing this information. I’m looking for more post in the future.Oscar
Goedemiddag,
Ik ben ook bezig met het afstellen van 2T-B carbs.
Is het mogelijk dat ik een kopie van deze manual van je krijg/koop ?
Digitale of gewone kopie.
Alvast bedankt.
Thijs Dubelaar
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Can your blog participates in the voting?
Dunno, there is no rule against it. Personally I’m not in favor of running both the award and the nomination. But if anyone nominates my blog I guess it could get nominated… :D
Ernstig! Hoe kan je dat je auto aandoen!
This car is not dumped, and since 2008 it already has all 4 wheels.
http://forums.drom.ru/1068518829-post100.html
“My Nissan 1988. Pictures on 4 wheels not, but he has at all. But not yet fulfilled its direct functions. :)” (Google Translate)
No car should be allowed to have that much adhesive on its paint.
There you can practice russian language trying to read diary of this car :)
http://www.drive2.ru/cars/toyota/celica/celica_60/whatever/
I always liked R129 Mercedes-Benzes, but I didn’t know about this one. It’s quite a crazy car!
I think he needs a new suspension, hehe.
Thanks! Will try to. :P
Glad the Cedric wasn’t dumped at all! :)
Sweet car!! I have a 97 and a 95, I am partially sponsored by punishment-racing so check them out somtime!!
I believe the spoiler is an OEM item. It’s good to see an Eclipse that hasn’t been riced or abused, because I think the design is very nice.
its a great car….
wow, that is great. Mitsubishi thought to downsized Pajero would really create a great mini SUV. nice.think gonna love that SUV, if i had that, i gonna put a SUV Grille Guards to protect the front of my vehicle.
Wow it looks lovely car i have scene in my favorite cartoon show.
i’ll go for Nissan
I like Nissan more
Four door goodness !!
Hahaha, how amazing! I was just looking for pics on google and I found this:)
I bought the car from Ruud a few months ago. I’m busy replacing the heater core.
I hope to fire it up this week!!!
You can spot the car in near Maastricht (Limburg).
Funny to see how the car moves around in the Netherlands! :D
Next time I’m near Maastricht I’ll keep my eyes open for it. :)
Front lip looks to be from MR2 (AW11)
Could very well be. AW11 is 1666mm wide and the Carina 1650mm wide and that is nearer than the AE86. I’ll see if I can source one and see if it fits!
lovin’ the Winter Style
Device on the roof would be better to remove …
I am leaning towards summer.
(Both are cool because it is a wagon (van).)
No, it’s cool cos it’s a Carina! :-D loving it. btw Art, my Carina 4AGZE conversion is almost complete!!! I’ll send you some pics when she’s running :-D
are they the original bumpers? cos they’re smaller than the all the other ‘rina bumpers I’ve seen.
hi there thanks for your comment, he mazda should be out again next year prob miss he granite as i don get my licence back ill after, the mazda will have alot more power nextt season
Air, solar power & mind power !!
I personally prefer the steel wheels. Much neater.
My friend found the same vehicle on an auction site. Way too expensive.
Great picture!
I have a thing for red Hako’s =^o^=
awesome blog mate! be sure to check mine out. i’m a huge fan of Japan, just like you!
There are a lot of chinese cars that are sold in my country, mostly models from Chery, Chang’an and Great Wall. But it would be nice if this car was imported now!
Or even better: A chinese company buying the licence to make R32 Nissan Skylines. :D
I didn’t realize the S13 can look good in red. Cool licence plate too!
There were 3 Starlets as well, great to see a video that old !
Why not have them build the R30 in license first? ;)
Thanks! Nice blog! :)
If we go that way, then I would also ask for some Hachi rokus! :)
Oh, the list would be endless.
Thats my car, funny to see in on this page ;) and that spoiler is OEM.
The wheel are not nissan gt-r nismo lookalikes but Work emotions ;)
It was so rare to see brand new AE86s, RX-7s and even a Soarer drifting in such old videos. I even spotted a couple of EA-T Civics, a S30 Z, R30s… wow, there’s a lot to see there.
I’ve got to see for more updates in the future. Anyway, thanks for the info.Oscar
The bodykit of that car is handmade from steel by some previous owner. I am not the owner but there’s a project topic of that car in finnish Toyota-club. The adress is http://www.fintoys.net but unfortunately there’s not much to see for the visitors.
Those CAPTCHA questions are bit hard to answer :)
Great to see people coming here and recognizing their car! ;)
Sorry for the wheel mixup. I’ve corrected it right away.
Thanks for the hint. I’ll definitely check out fintoys and see if I can find the topic.
That bodykit is amazing, especially if it was handmade by steel. Can he do another one on my sedan? :P
BTW: thanks for the captcha hint: I increased the difficulty to keep spammers away but apparently I went a bit too wild on that. ;)
i WANT THIS CAAAAAAAAAARS!!!!!! it hurts seeing this great cars rotting away
how dare they let this cars rost away <.<
its not Russian
its MOTHER NATURE UKRAINIAN car))))
Sincerely, I think this is the most stupid cash back plan or whatever they call it.
Most of the cars on the last photo are great.
Here, in Portugal, 95% of them (except that Aixam-like car xD) would sell for a great price. I would take a hint you could sell anyone of them for at least the 2000 pounds.
And the MR2 you could do some 9000€.
Sad that some people don’t know what they have on their garage…
(offtopic:
I discovered your blog a few days ago and started reading it in the first post.
You’ve made me wish (even more) go back to the 80’s.
Thanks and congratulations for the job :D
)
Thanks! I’ve corrected it. :)
I agree: it is a waste of resources and the cars are definitely worth more. But i think the people using the cashback actually don’t care that much: all they want is to get rid of their old car for a reasonable price without any hassle. So receiving the cashback triggers them to sell it off for a way too low price.
BTW: Thanks for the compliment! :)
The fender mirrors add even more…Very nice.
Yeap, it’s definitely VAZ 2105 with usual common VAZ 1500 engine inside. He just want to be JDM :)
Not to mention, that it is LHD… ;)
You are sharp! I did not spot that one yet! :)
I have seen this car race at the Molson Indy here in Canada.
Now its the Toronto Indy.
Very quick cars !!
(Q107 is a local station).
Question(sincerely, I still don’t understand): are these photos from your family album?
Some of them are so nostalgic, that I wish their were on mine.
;)
Most of them are not mine (however I did post one in the past that was mine). I generally find them scattered around the internet when I’m searching on Minkara and Yahoo blogs. The reason to post them is that it is amazing how similar those pictures all are. :)
Someone just sent me this link. Mine is the red series 3 pictured next to the white s2. I used to share your opinion on s2’s until I purchased a gts1 last year. Now I’ve grown to like them. They’re not a pretty car, but a very aggressive looking car when done up right. S2 pictured next to my car has since had a change of wheels, and is one of the better looking s2’s I’ve seen.
I like your Miata hunting reports. First NB looks really nice, the second NB is always parked in front of my school (carschool IVA in Driebergen) but not sure its from a student. Soft-top of the classic red is pretty rare. Never seen one with “side-windows” and these rims are a little bit to big for my liking. ^^
Already waiting for the next Miata hunt ;)
The first NB is parked regularly on this spot and I’ve only spotted the second NB once.
I agree with you regarding the big rims but that is, of course, a matter of taste. ;)
BTW: Driebergen is quite near Hilversum, so it could very well be that the NB is from someone living in this area.
Merry Christmas, hope you got some good stuff. (Or at least stuff you can use).
Hi, The pic shows a face-lifted 997.
Best regards from Copenhagen, Bo
I’m not a Porsche expert, so I recognized it as a 997. I’ll correct it right away!
Thanks! :)
Am I the one who doesn’t understand? What’s pong?
Pong is an old arcade game from the early 70s that marked the beginning off the whole Arcade industry. Here is an example of the game:
This is real 21059 with rotary engine. “The VAZ-21059 Car (first made in 1980) was powered by the two rotor VAZ-411M engine, and also the two rotor VAZ-4132 engine.
Transmission was a 4 speed manual and the car had an optional extra fuel tank.”
Thanks Tony! Glad it isn’t a replica. But why the Banzai flag on the hood?
BTW: Radicallylowcars is a great site! I did read it with great interest. :)
Right out of a 70’s anime…(Maybe “Battle of the Planets”.)
Greaaaat video :D
Saw some Celica’s in there and a Starlet I think.
Very cool to see this.
Pretty cool front you have there :D
The “Japan” looks like it is only parked there.
The billet mask on the Crown is very cool.
Hi! I’m also writing itasha blog like about itasha stickers, how to put it on my car….The process of creating itasha is also art.
Well.. Takumi’s Trueno is ’85.
The car is an Isuzu Bellett.
The Japanese have a habit of throwing out perfectly good stuff, be it cars, bikes, or electronics. I dont buy umbrellas in Japan because so many just get left around on railings or just thrown aside.
To see a beautiful F30 Leopard and most tragically, an MS125 CROWN, is horrible.
Where are these old kaido gems?
It would give me great pleasure to maybe get permission from the city or town where they are and bring them back to life.
Als je die achterlichten zo wilt hebben, heb ik misschien wel iets voor je!
Een soort stickerfolie met gaatjes. Fly Eyes noemen ze het in de UK (waar ik het vandaan heb).
Je plakt het erop, en als je het niet bevalt, haal je het er gewoon weer af :)
Lichtopbrengst leidt er ook niet onder.
I think that it is a stamp on a T-shirt. Can we find this somewhere?
I found the source: it is Gabriel Tyler’s (Techno Toy Tuning) wife company who makes them:
http://www.gtfaction.com/
But their website is offline. :(
I did find this:
http://community.ratsun.net/topic/27604-gtfaction-t-shirts-hakosuka-skyline-ae86-kp61-starlet/
So at least a preview. ;)
Starlets and 86’s on a shirt are cool…difficult to find cool shirts these days.
God… nothing can replace that raspy and high pitched 4A-GE sound. It just warms my soul.
He must have been having a lot of fun!
hi , i may look strange but were you born in japan or did you moved to japan ? i am thinking about doing the move someday but i would like to know about someones experience . we ear a lot of things about japan but are they all true ? anyway if you are interested in sharing your experience write me at [email protected]
Take a look at Algarcar Standvirtual website.
Thank you.
Maybe they are the same as these?
http://www.minunauto.com/files/imagecache/picture_592x445/files/images/24336/Kuva0193.jpg
Found here: http://www.minunauto.com/auto/24336
DUMBASS. Takumi’s Trueno is an 86. thus the anime calls it “HachiRoku” meaning 86.. 85 is his friend’s car the “Hachi-Go”
actually your the “dumbass” the hachiroku reffers the the cars model, ae86 not the year, the hachiroku was made from 1983-1988 and the ae85 is the hachigo, the year of the car is not mentioned in initial d and this is an amazing remake of the car, so to op, nice eight six, wish i owned it.
I think he/she referred to the fact that the car is a ’85 model. The quote before the 85 meaning it is a 1985 model. ;)
It appears to be the same. I could find them listed as Zona Spoke 9. :)
Just, wow.
Ultraman would not be happy with that !
muahahahaha ! they cant be serious ! ahaha
So much sadness.
The shape of my head is internet famous.
And it gets more famous every day! :P
Nice to see you hanging around here!
how much will u sell for in aus dollars?
As you can see I’m not selling anything except the point I made that the AE86 is seriously overpriced. ;)
The roads of Tokyo are so clean and ordered. I love the random old cars appearing here and there!
hhahah demon camber
Wauw! Hoe komen ze er echt op!
Belachelijk vet!
No idea… But then again: there are plenty of nutcases making Hello Kitty shaped Oshisushi. :D
Poor Laurel. It really like these cars. They look so good low and on a nice pair of classic Japanese wheels (Equip 01’s or something along that line)
I totally agree.
Imagine: these great cars once were sold in the Netherlands as well. Picture yourself driving such a car, lowered with some rare JDM wheels. And then realize all these Laurels rusted away in the same way as this sorry example.
There is no love in this world… :(
Do you know what these are officially called, and where to get them? Googling “Skyline Heart” doesn’t come up with anything.
Unsure what they’re actually called (“Skyline Heart” is as good a name as any), but you can buy them from the Rubber Soul webshop here:
http://rubber-soul.net/p-orijinaru.htm
SHWEENCAM TARBO
LOL! :D
That’s exactly what it sounds like!
Not very aerodynamic !!
this true though… when was the last time YOU saw one on the road? :P
I saw one on the road… But that was a marble stretch inside the Louwman Museum. :D :D
Seriously: never. I really envy you! :P
i was cheating though, was coming back from Japan Classic Sunday, where this car was!
Was great to see it irl, but seeing it driving past (and overtaking it again, to see it coming past again and again and again :P) was sooo much better!
So sad to see that Honda Life languishing as well! Any better pictures of it?
Here is a picture of that Honda Life:
http://rscarplamo.web.fc2.com/disused.lifestepbun.html
But apart from that I could not find any additional pictures on that site…
I didn’t quite get this part: “At the end of the straight cars would dive into a banked corner which suddenly ended”. Does this mean that the track surface tilted a bit to the left and suddenly the big banked right corner showed up? Do you have any picture of this? I would like to know. :)
I think this video will explain it at 1:08:
As you can see the S30 is going full speed through the banked corner, the banked corner suddenly becomes flat followed by a sharp right turn (and another left turn).
Ah, I can see it now. Must have been very challenging for the drivers.
Thanks for the video, too. S30s roaring and blasting at high speed are always good to see.
Those guys are tough. Don’t mess with ’em.
Awesome! Finally get to see some video of these cars racing in their day. Can’t beleive I stumbled onto this site the day you post this.
i love toyota carina “1978”
if any person have movie or photo from that send to me please
email: [email protected]
Thanks! I think you were predestined to stumble on my blog on that particular day. :)
Or how much of the engine is just on the drivers side of the firewall ??
Gee, I thought that I was the only person that also owns that magazine, plus June, July and August 1983 from my return tour at Kadena ABF, Okinawa Japan. Nice.
No idea. :D
The person who placed the ad refused to answer my emails and I didn’t bother to call him back since I’m not interested in actually buying it. ;)
The engine is most probably a Rover V8 from a late 90s Range Rover. Not sure how popular those Rover engines are in the Netherlands, but they always find a way to get into small and crazy cars. :P
That’s my silly shadow.
Good to see your shadow here as well! ;)
Quite a rare color for a NA6. The rust at the sill and around the wheelarches is a common Roadster problem but I have never seen even the boottruck rust like this. O.o
This car really needs to get some love, but knowing that its currently imported it will probably be a project. :)
wow that’s worthy enough. is that rotating grilles still used by japanese cars today? i mean could that cheap car part for sale still on this days?
I’m so sorry to hear that :-( Hopefully you didn’t lose too many pictures!
I wish i was born around 1950 LOL. There are not many cool cars nowadays. I would love to own a kpgc10 coupe.
Thanks Kjetil!
I lost mainly the pictures I took at weddings and dissertations, but all those have been sent to the persons involved.
This may look ‘inhuman’ from me, but the first thing I thought when I heard the news in the morning was what had happened to the cars that we often see in the events :S
Let’s hope most of them survived. :)
The tri-spoke Advans (?), color and side exhaust are a nice touch to this car. Definitely a different R30.
A true track battle machine !!
I didn’t know this model of Carina existed. It looks pretty good, well executed and the color is great!
do you know the license plate of that car? My grandfather had an exact same version of that, but he sold it cheap, and i didn’t want it at that time (stupid me) and now it lives in the big scrapyard in the sky :( I know there’s a car with almost the same license plate still around :)
Daimatic is a 2 speed automatic, which you still have to shift yourself, but without a clutch… so it’s a bit strange :D
dug in my archives, and here’s a pic of it, in all it’s glory…
http://hachi.uwhost4.net/Raw30297.JPG
I want one in the same colour :D
This one starts with PK-89-, so it is not the one (almost) the same to your grandfathers car… But I can put a piece of paper under its windshield wiper if you want to…
Clutch-pedal-less two speed? Sounds just as wicked as the clutch-handle-less Honda Cub. ;)
hi banpei, do you know where can I get that tail lamp?
will it fit to any version of a60 coupe carina?
thanks :)
As far as I know they fit both models, but you need to swap the license plate surrounding as well. They popup on Auctions Yahoo from time to time.
Currently there are none for sale, but these two links may help you a bit:
Search on “AA63” through tail lights on Auctions Yahoo
Search on “TA63” through tail lights on Auctions Yahoo
Search on “Carina” through tail lights on Auctions Yahoo
Sadly, this car was never sold in the US in that form otherwise I’d own one!
Have you seen the Supra Database? http://www.supradatabase.nl
You can check the reg there and see the history of the car (if it’s known)
my father had one in white, then painted it yellow.
that was a great car.
Unfortunately unknown…
I would love to own one. If the space in the rear would be a bit bigger I would consider using it as a family cruiser. ;)
you can mail photo’s and licence plate and it will be added to the database!
Hey Cheers for the mention in your blog Banpei!
About the tail lights, they are from the facelift version of the 2 door carina, 1983 or 1984 onwards.
The centre panel/license plate backing is the same either way, and the lights fit up with no modifications, just swap em straight over to any 2 door *A6* carina.
Long live GX71s!
wow this is nice article about the show of honda odyssey parts. i love to have this one at my garage.
lovely car. and lovely wheels. i just want to know if you know what is the function of flowtech headers. thanks.
do yo know the hedman headers, i think this one has the part that you are looking. the exhaust. try to check this out if it is what you are looking.
monroe shock absorbers.. that car which has been parked is kinda interesting to drive. i think i gonna enjoy driving that car. i wonder when a student like me can drive that car.
This is a Mazda Luce
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mazda_R130_or_Mazda_1800_aka_Mazda_Luce_coupe_manufactured_1969.JPG
Wow, it’s definitely rare. I just searched Google images and most pictures redirect to your site.
How nice would it be if someone restored it and put a set of side draft carburetors in it. :D
was hoping to meet you on monday night. glad you got to see some of the corollaness in norcal.
Thanks! A real shame I couldn’t make it on Monday. :(
Well, hopefully my company will send me to the conference next year as well and I’ll be able to properly meet up! Didn’t mind the Infineon Raceway alternative though. ;)
Yeah I would have been there but i have class in sf until 6:00 and by the time I got there it would have been well past 9:00 because of traffic. Glad you enjoyed it, til next time.
The easiest way to tell if is going to be a simple task or not is to look at the inside of the door,in the corner where the mirror is attached. If there is a small access panel normally a triangle shaped of plastic that is either screwed on or will simply pop off and snap back on.
I’ve got one too…But I don’t have the radiator…It’s for Sell, I’m thinking $300 just for the grille…The plastic Fog light version for the Levin go’s for $195 on Ebay…So If anyones interested, I’m in California….Holla…LOL…
Never tought that a big ducktail could look so awesome in a carina sedan. My TA60 will someday be black and I have been looking for same styled rims so a “boso” ducktail would look badass in it. :)
It sounds so GOOD!
I just can’t express in words how much I love that typical old car noise, with the movement of the valves heard through the carburetor and that special whine that some transmissions have. Oh, I also wish they revved it to the redline… at least once; if the engine is in good shape it shouldn’t happen anything serious.
deze corolla staat toch bij amstelhoek?
Gr.
Klopt. :)
that sounds almost as cool as my 2T-G does atm! :P
When it’s back from carshow it’s at atm, i’ll make a similar vid :D
Ach ok… trouwens ik heb nog wat fotos voor je blog :) zal eens naar jouw email opsturen
ebay ebay ebay !
Nice! Would love to hear it personally as well! :)
Graag! Je weet mijn adres. ;)
so you’re kinda inviting yourself for a little drive? :P
Well it’s all done and back on the road, so we will meet again and then i’ll take you for a spin :)
Looks exactly like my daily!
Just sayin’.
Something like this??? haha
http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/4568/projectshirtvolii.jpg
=^.6=
(Note that the distributor has been relocated (transverse 4A engines have them located at the back))
How did u relocate the distributor??? thanx for answer
I am starting love itasha too. I want to give up my toyota car just to have one of these cars.
Yeah, I was secretly inviting myself! :P
So I definitely take that invitation with both hands! :)
Exactly that one! Didn’t know Damn JDM already had one! Thanks!
It is not mine, but you can see the car features a relocated distributor next to the firewall. There are several kits to do this, but also a direct ignition system (like MDI Direct Ignition) would solve this problem.
I just created it as a quick example.. but we are already working one shirt like this a while (a SR20, VR38 and RB26 version) but it takes allot of time making them compatible for a decent printed t-shirt. We don’t have any of these engine shirt for sale yet, but quite like the idea of an S20 shirt so we’ll go work on it. This was just a quick photoshop. ;)
in the mean time i’ve uploaded a vid to my youtube account ;)
The fact that his AE86 is a LHD version reaaaally helped him a lot on this conversion. RHD AE86 will have those brake and clutch hydraulics fouling that big-ass intake plenum.
I must say I was really hoping for some more AE86’s. They are all over in Japan, I guess.
hey! i recognize those wheels! :D
No shit! :D
Yup. On the other hand us LHD users have great difficulties with aftermarket JDM exhaust headers… He had to have one created from scratch. :(
Dude, ur in sf?? Stop by bobs donuts tonight….
What is it exactly car or a shark..Is it easy to ride with such a long extension in front of car.. But overall looks nice and unique..thanks for sharing..
Cars for sale
Geniaal!
Geniaal!
Mako from Initial D! That’s the first thing I thought.
Mako from Initial D! That’s the first thing I tought.
hi Tom
are you Tom Murphy??
Just stumbled onto your blog – We have this T – but unfortunately not on a black shirt – its black on a white T..
Loving your blog btw!
http://www.zazzle.co.uk/s20_heart_of_a_legend_tshirt-235006434382295697
Just stumbled onto your blog – good times!
We have this engine on a T! Unfortunately its printed black on a white T – but here it is anyway..
http://www.zazzle.co.uk/s20_heart_of_a_legend_tshirt-235006434382295697
Loving the blog!
As the Nexia obviously is a copy of the old Opel Kadett E (Vauxhall Astra), won’t the Kadett windshield fit too? You can find plenty of Kadett windshields here in Europe, as those Kadetts rust like crazy and you’ll find them in the scrapyard.
You might want to get in contact with a few Australian glass suppliers. I got a replacement windscreen (windshield) for my AE86 2 years back no problem – They might not ship them that far, but they might be able to give you the name of their supplier who probably will.
This is one of the larger auto glass chains:
http://www.obrienglass.com.au
Sportmax.