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!
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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
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?
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! :(
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!
How often can you spot a Nissan Skyline R34, Toyota Celica ZZT230 and a Toyota Bb parked next to each other?
If you look closely you can also spot another Celica ZZT230 further down in the parkinglot!
Skyline R34, Celica ZZT230 and Toyota Bb parked next to eachother
And how about spotting another red Toyota Bb parked in the center of some Dutch town the same day? And spot two other R34s the same day as well?
Toyota Bb parked in some Dutch towncenter
And if you turn your head 45 degrees see another Nissan Fairlady 350Z parked next to a big giant?
Nissan Fairlady 350Z
It is possible: if you visit the funpark Madurodam in the Hague! The funpark is a scaled down version of the landmarks in the Netherlands, so a heaven for all scale model enthusiasts! :P
I’ve paid the park a visit with my son and my wife and saw various cars parked or driving on the roads of Madurodam. Most of them were just VW/Audi/Mercedes/etc. and actually some were interesting cars like Porsches and Masseratis but I did not expect some JDM car nut to throw around Skylines, Fairladies and Celicas as if they were common cars in the Netherlands! Take for instance this blue R34 next to the main railway station of Utrecht:
Blue Nissan Skyline R34 in Utrecht (main railway station)
Just blends in the scenery nicely!
And I also didn’t know people at the ING Bank headquarters owned a black R34:
Blue Nissan Skyline R34 in Amsterdam (ING bank HQ)
Yep, apparently even people at the ING bank have taste! :P
There are probably a lot more Celicas, Fairladies and R34s to spot in Madurodam but I wouldn’t have had the time to take a picture of them anyway…