Remembering Japanese cars from the past
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My interest in the Honda City Bulldog hasn’t died out yet. What about this Bulldog doing a close escape during a Bulldog cup race?
Amazing how much that car can withstand! It is doing a full roll @2:48, survives it and the driver even recovers the car from the gravel and returns to the pit without much trouble! That’s one sturdy car! I want one now! ;)
Another proof that Japanese girls love weird fashion: the mori hari. This has been fashion for a while now and the media is picking it up as well, like this damn funny advertisement:
If you want to see how big this craze is, watch this video:
WTF?! How can you have 8cm of hair?
During the late 80s Nisseki created some commercials which appear to be parodies on existing commercials. Take for instance this one featuring an Alfa Romeo Junior:
It sure does remind me a lot of the Ken&Mary Skyline commercials of the 70s.
And what about this one with a bunch of VW Golfs:
Sure does remind me of the 80s Ajax commercials.
You can find more of them here
Last week I posted a Count the Soarers! posting, so how about soms Skyline R30 counting this week?
Count the Skylines!
I stopped counting after 22. How many did you count? :P
I posted some videos of this Finnish Carina before and his car is getting more and more interesting! A few days ago he posted a new in-car video of a drift session on the Botniaring:
Even though the sound of his Carina does not match our expectations (no high revving 4A-GE, but a bi-turbo 2L-T) he surely can throw the car sideways as it should with all that (slow) torque!
Apparently I was truely wrong about his project two years ago when he posted up the first videos on StreetFire…
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