Remembering Japanese cars from the past
How long can you hold on the roof of a Nissan Gloria 230? This car chase video shows you can for about one and a half minute:
The pickup used in the chase is a Nissan 620 Isuzu KB20 and its contents is a bit fragile… :D
Don’t know the exact name of this series, but it translates into the Metropolitan Police and it surely reeks of 70s detective series! :)
It can’t get more VIP than with this Nissan Gloria Brougham VIP Y30! If not only for its interior, but also for its smooth VG30ET 3 liter V6 turbo engine! Apparently Youtube user iwa730 wants to share its luck with us:
Its got about everything Nissan and the Japanese innovation could cram into that 185 inch long ship: cruise control, active suspension, cruise control and radio controls on the steering wheel, auto transmission with sports switch, radio with tapedeck, aircon, leather seats, pluche door cards, adjustable power mirrors, code protected driver side door, genuine hardtop roof, wire wheels and the list is probably ten times longer than this!
Also the car is in great imbalance: the V-30-turbo Brougham VIP badge is about ten times as heavy as the Nissan badge on the other side of the car! :D
Anyone wants to trade his Nissan Gloria Brougham VIP for my Carina TA60? :P
Just realized I haven’t posted the Nissan 200SX S14 for a while, so here are some recent pictures of this rustoseum:
Down on the street: Nissan 200SX S14 rustoseum
Yes, it is still there… And the car is getting a better stance every day since the tires are getting flatter and flatter…
Down on the street: Nissan 200SX S14 rustoseum
Even people start using it to write dirty car graffiti on its rear window!
Down on the street: Nissan 200SX S14 rustoseum
The winter time was very harsh for this car! It is rusting so badly I already start calling it a rustoseum…
Now this is the weirdest 4×4 I’ve seen for a while: a Honda CRX 4×4!
I found a video on a (Honda related) Minkara and when looking at some other videos posted by its uploader it revealed the 4×4 CRX was actually from the Netherlands! Now that’s social media: finding stuff on the other side of the planet that actually happens around the corner! :D
I found it is actually for sale as well:
CRX 4×4 for sale
According to the information I found in the ad (and another one) the CRX shell is placed on top of a Nissan Patrol with a 3.3 liter turbo diesel engine. Now that’s a fun machine! :)
Time to feed you some more tokusatsu! An 8 minutes Kamen Rider compilation with the heroic Kamen Rider song in the background!
I think I got enough of the rubber suits, big explosions, bad kung fu, bosozoku wannabes and sung heroic poems for the next three months! ;)
Over one year ago I posted a series of drift videos on the Hakone mountain pass, shot somewhere in 1995. In this video the same mountain pass, about 3 years earlier and this time only a zenki Corolla Levin AE86 is doing its drifts:
This guy is a very skilled drifter, he drifts both up and downhill. At the same time he manages to keep the car within the lines of the outer lanes through the whole corner!
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