22.000 KM 1968 Crown:
http://www.standvirtual.com/index.php?op=show&id=p655335
22.567 KM 1974 Celica:
http://www.standvirtual.com/index.php?op=show&id=p563535
47.000 KM 1973 Datsun 1200:
http://www.standvirtual.com/index.php?op=show&id=p460760
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Do not worry about getting caught by the Carina Sheriff: apparently the Sheriff resigned and put it for sale!
So this can be yours for a mere 350 euros:
Portugese Carina Sheriff
It has comfortable bucket seats too:
Interior of the Portugese Carina Sheriff
The handle near the dashboard is to lock the adjustable steering wheel (only up and down).
For that price the car is a bargain, even as spares car. Too bad my shed is already full of spares… Anyone else interested in the Sheriff?
hiroun156 posted this fantastic video about testing the Prince R380 on Youtube:
During its testing you can see it drives with an average of 250km/h on the big testing course. Not bad for a first attempt by Prince to beat the Porsche 906 on the Fuji Speedway with a mere 200hp engine! Not only did it beat the Porsches in 1966 but it set some new land speed records! Hayai!
Time for some more Japanese rustoseums:
Rusty Toyota Carina TA63 GT-TR
This rusty beaten up Carina GT-TR was found here.
Rusty Toyota Corolla Levin AE85
I posted this rusty Corolla Levin AE85 before on hachiroku.com.au. It is painted in the infamous colorcode 879 and it has got a nice pair of fender mirrors! ;)
Rusty Toyota Starlet KP61
This KP61 Starlet interested me: it is sitting in a junkyard and yet it has a set of Watanabe rims! Who would throw out a pair of wats?
Also funny to see the foliage coming out of the grille! First thought is always that the foliage must have been picked up during a ride, but in reality it is just growing from under the car!
It wasn’t planned to make this a Toyota only rustoseum posting, but next time I’ll make it up by posting only non-Toyota rustoseums!
I always had a soft spot for the third generation Mitsubishi Colt: it was my first car and it still brings back many memories… So whenever I see a third generation Mitsubishi Colt I always look for two things:
1. Is it my old Mitsu?
2. Is it a GTi?
I was in luck three times: just once I spotted my very own Colt driving in the other direction of where I was going to and twice I spotted this Colt GTi 16V:
Mitsubishi Colt GTi 16V
The GTi exists in two versions a 1.6 and a 1.8 liter version. However the early type Colt only featured the 1.6 liter GTi driven by the 124 hp 1.6 4G61 engine.
This GTi still has its original GTi rims, however in the picture below you can see that it is missing one:
Mitsubishi Colt GTi 16V
It does have an hubcap, so it can’t be the spare wheel of the car…
Also a fun fact: the Colt and Lancer both have 4×114.3 pcd rims, so the rims of older Toyota, Datsuns and Nissans fit on these cars (wide!). It works the other way around as well, however the offset of the FWD cars is highly positive so you will need spacers to make them fit on RWD cars!
Funny to see the double exhaust tip implying the car needs to breathe well. If you look carefully you will see the second silencer going transverse under the car which feeds the double exhaust tip with a single pipe. Apart from the 2-1 flexible header at the engine the entire exhaust is exactly the same for the whole line. Imagine what improvement an aftermarket exhaust would give this GTi. ;)
The first and last pictures are from a set I took with the shitty-cam I always bring along (weights less than the EOS) and all other photos failed miserably. I did not spot the Colt again till last Tuesday when I was in a big hurry, so I stopped and snapped another four pictures with the shitty-cam from which two failed again and only one (the picture above) was worth keeping.
As you can see, the second time I spotted the car was, yet again, around the corner of the office where I also spotted the Toyota Celica Supra MA61. Hopefully I will spot it again and this time have time to have a few pics of the interior as well. ;)