Remembering Japanese cars from the past
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…
Both jrotaro and ae86lan posted videos of their drift runs on the Ebisu drift festival. This one is onboard a KE70 (obviously with no K engine under the hood anymore) showing the mad angles of this 4A-GE mosquito squad:
The last runs the KE70 acts as a referee car when the red Levin and blue Trueno go head to head against each other. The Trueno may look a bit boro, but leaving the third door in the pit is quite common nowadays. ;)
This video by ae86lan shows his drift skills in the KE70:
Clearly he needs to clean his windshield before recording a video. :P
And a last video with more mosquito action from jrotaro onboard a white Trueno:
I did know about the existence of turbo-ed 2T and 3T engines, but bi-turbo?
If you look well enough you can see a big intercooler behind the cutted front air dam. Also where the grille used to be an oil cooler has been placed. It is unknown which engine has been used for the swap, but it is surely a bi-turbo diesel engine. (probably a 2L-T hilux diesel engine)
The original car appears to be a TA60 Carina coupe and its 31 years old Finish owner takes really good care of it:
Yep, that’s how easy it is to get a Carina sideways when you have loooooads of torque! I wonder how long it will take before D1GP will be flooded with diesel engines. :D :D
This is the most recent video of the car:
I wonder if there will be more updates soon! :)
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