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Hilarious: Bollywood meets Japan in the 60s!

November 6, 2009 / banpei / 2 Comments

In 1966 Bollywood shot a movie called Love in Tokyo. The movie was shot partly on site in Tokyo, so be prepared to see a totally different Tokyo than you are used to:

Pole dancing in the sixties?!

In this video you can already see parts of the, back then, newly built Shuto Expressway.

Cars I spotted so far: Prince Skyline S50 taxi, some Nissan Cedrics next to the traffic lights, a Toyota Corona T40 with the old lady and now and then a Prince Gloria S40.

In this part the male character drives, what looks like, a Nissan Fairlady 1500 SP310:

Enough of the cars! This one is really hilarious:

And another one to say goodbye:

If you want to know more about this movie, you can find all the information you need here:
Love in Tokyo

Japanese BBS wheels

November 5, 2009 / banpei / 1 Comment

This video kind of surprised me:

This video from 1993 clearly shows (some) BBS wheels are produced in Japan. A bit weird for someone living next to Germany expecting a German wheel manufacturer to actually produce them in Germany!

A little research learned that the Japanese company Washibeam produces the BBS F1 Magnesium wheel and all one piece Aluminum racing wheels. They sell those wheels back to BBS Kraftfahrzeugtechnik AG and vice versa for the other wheels. In this way the production of the wheels can continue even if either BBS or Washibeam go bankrupt.

Carina Sightings: Slammed Carina AA63 sedan

November 4, 2009 / banpei / 0 Comments

Okay, it may not be as ground scraping as the Carina firevan, but it surely is lowered a lot compared to normal Carinas (like the one right next to it):

Slammed Carina AA63 sedan

In some way it made me think of the sedan version of the Carina firevan: both slammed, deep dish rims and of course its red color… On the other hand this one is a bit over the top: a set of fender flares and a big beacon light on the roof.

It looks like the car had a clear headlight conversion as well, so at night it will probably look real mean! If I would live in a RHD country I would definitely gotten such a set for mine!

Unfortunately I don’t have anymore pictures nor info on this Carina than this. The picture was taken by one of my favorite Japanese blogs ( zenswd ) on a meeting but he didn’t give much more info than this.

New motorFIX AE70 wagon video

November 3, 2009 / banpei / 2 Comments

A new video by motorFIX:

It contains both their rusty AE70 wagon and an the immaculate KE70 sedan owned by one of their customers. Both cars were drifting on the YZ Circuit and they are FAST! Both cars are clearly faster than the other AE86s on the track!

The Corolla KE70 sedan should actually be called a Corolla SE70 sedan: it had a 3SGE swap from a Toyota Altezza by the motorFIX garage including its six speed gearbox. It almost got some scratches when it spun and barely missed the tirestacks. Would have been a terrible shame if that would have happened!

80s feeling: Gloria

November 3, 2009 / banpei / 1 Comment

This picture gave me a real 80s feeling:

A whole bunch of Nissan Gloria 430s!

First thing that got into my head was Gloria by Laura Branigan:

Gloria, you’re always on the run now
Running after somebody, you gotta get him somehow
I think you’ve got to slow down before you start to blow it
I think you’re headed for a breakdown, so be careful not to show it
Those lyrics suit the picture really well!

Contest: winner of the NFS Shift

November 2, 2009 / banpei / 2 Comments

And the winner of the NFS Shift game is…
prize for the contest: nfs shift

nobody!

I received no solutions at all, so either the question was too difficult or nobody actually wants NFS Shift. I hope it is the first but I actually suspect it to be the latter…

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