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DOTS: 1992 Subaru Leone DL

August 22, 2010 / banpei / 0 Comments

After shopping at the local DIY shop I spotted this Leone parked right next to the parking lot:

Subaru Leone DL sedan
The car is a 1.6 DL. DL should stand for DeLuxe, but in Dutch terminology it means bottom of the lineup. :P

Perhaps the owner is following the latest automotive trends, but I rather suspect the roofrack was intentional to haul some stuff back home:

Subaru Leone DL sedan

BTW: the people from the Netherlands probably already noticed it by the sign, but I shot this picture already a few months ago… ;)

Familiy Album Treasures: Meet the Dorikin!

August 21, 2010 / banpei / 0 Comments

This is one of the snaps from the Rotary specialist RE-Sugiyama’s family album: Apex’s eldest son together with competitor Keiichi Tsuchiya!

Dorikin with RE-Sugiyama
Now that is true sportmanship!

Hilarious: Up Garage

August 20, 2010 / banpei / 1 Comment

I already knew Japanese commercials were wacky, but this commercial by Up Garage doesn’t even try to make sense at all:

WTF?! I definitely want to buy my tires there! :D

Carina Sightings: Rusty Carina SG in a field

August 18, 2010 / banpei / 0 Comments

To say in yesterdays rustoseum spirits we will continue today with a rusty Carina SG left in a field:

Rusty Carina SG
I found it here and the translated text mentions something about a famous catchphrase “Carina foot guy”. I searched on it and found here that it was the catchphrase of the first generation Carina GT.
Anyone more familiar with that phrase?

Japanese rustoseums (part fifteen)

August 18, 2010 / banpei / 4 Comments

Apparently not only the Japanese are tossing their cars into the trenches and leave them to rot: the Russians clearly are able to do just as great job as their Japanese neighbors:

Dumped Nissan Cedric Y31 in Russia

And from behind:

Dumped Nissan Cedric Y31 in Russia
A damn shame: I would have given that car a great home! :(

Corolla Levin TE71 Super Silhouette

August 16, 2010 / banpei / 0 Comments

Of all Super Silhouette cars the Nissan Skyline RS Turbo DR30 was the most iconic, but as we know there were other cars as well. The Nissan Silvia S110 (and S12), Nissan Bluebird 910 and Mazda RX7 were the most well known. What I didn’t know yet was that there also was a (private) Toyota Corolla TE71 sibling:

It looks a bit like a minified version of that famous Silvia S110! The car is actually doing quite well: it ends up at the third place! An amazing result!

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