Remembering Japanese cars from the past
Part twenty three??? Yeah I kind of forgot to post this, so I skipped one a few weeks ago. ;)
This Nissan Silvia CPS311 project shows you that not all rustoseums end up as a piece of crumbled oxidized iron!
Amazing what they eventually did with the car. However I do wonder how much of that original CSP311 was used in the restored one!
Direct link to video: NISSAN Silvia CSP311
I found a Carina GT-R bargain on auctions yahoo: it has many modifications, RS Watanabe and Hayashi Street rims and only costs 70000 yen!
Carina AA63 drift missile
From this side it looks quite okay…
But from this angle:
Carina AA63 drift missile
It looks like sh*t!
The tail lights already have been swapped for late type tail lights and even if you are handy with a hammer and chisel you can’t make much of it anymore…
On the positive side: many modifications have been made to this car, including some nice goodies under the hood:
Carina AA63 drift missile
A tower brace, carburetors, 4-1 performance header, trunk battery, MSD ignition, high lift cams and a balanced crankshaft. Apart from that it has camberplates, a roll cage, FC Calipers, bucket seats and many more modifications!
I’d personally say the car is definitely worth it for spares if you can manage to pay the shipping costs. ;)
You can find the auction here: Carina drift missile on Auctions Yahoo
The S20 engine (used in the Skyline GT-R KPGC10) is definitely Nissan’s (actually Prince’s) most beautiful engine ever:
Nissan’s most beautiful engine: S20
So if anyone could transform this picture into a nice black T-Shirt I’d definitely would buy it! :)
Found at [Spirit of Skyline]
This time a police series that actually was never broadcasted on television: Special Criminal Investigation (1989) was a game by Taito and was the successor of Chase HQ and succeeded by Chase HQ 2 (2006). The game itself was much inspired upon the infamous Abunai Deka car chases and featured two cops chasing criminals in a Nissan Fairlady Z Z31:
Taito S.C.I. Fairlady Z Z31 poster
I can still remember playing the English version in the arcade halls back in the early nineties!
In case you are curious where the chases are, well here is a (two part) walkthough:
In other words: the heroes drive Japanese cars and the criminals drive foreign cars! :D
Found through: [R31 House @ Minkara]
As you could have read here I spotted lots and lots of cars in the SF Bay area (and a bit outside that area) and took a lot of pictures of them. Most of them were done with my trusty analogue SLR and one of them was this Toyota Cressida MX61:
Toyota Cressida MX61 in San Francisco
From the other angle the car looks perfectly normal, but as you can see from this angle you can see the Jokers face in it. ;)
I finally developed all films I took with my analogue SLR (Zenit-E with Weltblick 135mm at full lens opening) at the Infineon raceway drift exhibition. I never took photos of moving objects at night so most photos were taken with a very wild guess: the light meter on the camera did not show anything at all, the Sixtomat lightmeter I use as a backup was stretched to its 1600 iso maximum and then calculated back with 5 stops since my camera had a black and white 100 iso film in it. To my surprise a lot of them actually worked out fine for some of the pictures!
Take for instance this photo of a competing AE86:
Competing Corolla GT-S AE86
I must say: not bad at all for a first time!
Also the Techno Toy Tuning 510 is still recognizable:
Techno Toy Tuning Datsun 510
Could have been better if I would have had a flash with me, but nothing whatsoever in my camera bag… Next time I’ll definitely bring along a strong one!
Here is another Corolla GT-S AE86:
Corolla GT-S AE86 going sideways
The picture is quite nice, but I’m not really getting the feeling it is going sideways. I should have either used a different angle or extended the timing a bit.
Perhaps a bit more like thiis Nissan 240SX S13 (with Silvia nosejob):
Nissan 240SX (Silvia S13 conversion) going sideways
Now I really get the feeling this car is going sideways. With a freezing flash it would have been a perfect shot!
And last but not least, a long exposure shot:
Long exposure shot
Not the best angle for these kind of pictures, but nevertheless still content with the result.
Take note that these are scans of the negatives (with a proper negative scanner) so I’ll definitely develop these five as proper photos and see if I can stretch their quality a bit more! Also next time I’ll include the next roll of film which was a 400 iso color film.
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