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DOTS: Honda CRX Mk1

September 6, 2009 / banpei / 2 Comments

I was taking an rural country road to prevent traffic in Hungary on a very busy main road. In one of the small villages I spotted this Honda CRX Mark 1:

Honda CRX Mk1 in Hungary

I think it was at least 2 years ago I saw the previous CRX Mk1, so it is quite a rarity in the Netherlands nowadays. I was quite happy to see such an “old” car and even drove back to take a few snapshots of it:

Honda CRX Mk1 in Hungary

It was parked next to the common Hungarian small village gutter (see also the DOTS Subaru Justy) next to a mildly tuned Beemer E34 5 series.

Honda CRX Mk1 in Hungary

The CRX itself looked a bit more tuned than the Beemer and features a set of deep dish steelies, a Mk2 (?) spoiler, aftermarket bumpers and sideskirts and a bigger exhaust. And even though it was all ziptied together, I must say it looked alright to me! (???)

Genuine Dutch Nissan 2400GT catalogue

September 5, 2009 / banpei / 3 Comments

Look what fell on my doormat two days ago?

Dutch Nissan 2400GT catalogue arrived

A Dutch Nissan 2400GT (aka Skyline) catalogue from 1972! (???)

Dutch Nissan 2400GT catalogue arrived

I found this rarity through a Dutch seller of old Datsun press photos and she did have this catalogue in her possesion as well! Lucky! (???)

Dutch Nissan 2400GT catalogue arrived

Of course it will be scanned and posted here to share it with the rest of the world. ;)

Hilarious: Race with clutch in Neutral?

September 4, 2009 / banpei / 0 Comments

Starter button pulled out? Race with clutch in Neutral? Push the starter button after you drove the car?

You may wonder what gibberish this is… Well, I can explain it with a very simple picture:

1974 Daihatsu Max start instructions

Kyteler from Retro Classics found these great instructions on a sticker on the door of the 1974 Daihatsu (Fellow) Max he bought last week.

Weird sentences I found so far:
– …(don’t depress the accelerator pedal)…: ok, won’t do that. Will tell the accelerator pedal only cheerful stories then! (???)
– …starter button pulled out fully…: shouldn’t that be choke? ?(????)
– After you race a few times with the clutch in neutral…: Race the car with the clutch in neutral? How am I supposed to do that? Accelerate really fast on the straight and then press the clutch and do a couple of laps?
– Immediately after you drive the vehicle, push the starter button completely: huh? Is it running Microsoft Windows or something?

And this sticker is not the only weird thing about this car! [???]
Head over to Retro Classics to see more pictures of his 1974 Daihatsu Max!

Japanese rustoseums (part one)

September 3, 2009 / banpei / 7 Comments

Japanese Nostalgic Car blog found another blog full of rotting J-tin. [???]

Most of these blogs have pictures of rusted cars in both wild and urban areas! It appears like it is a national hobby in Japan to keep your old car outside your house if you have the space for it and otherwise park it in a yard (aka rustoseum) with some other rusty friends.

Just have a look at some cars featured on the blog JNC-blog found:

1967 or 1968 Nissan Cedric C130
A rare Nissan Cedric C130 Mark 2 from 1967 or 1968 without a windscreen. Windscreen missing == rotten interior! Not good! ?(?`???)?

Nissan Skyline GC10 2 door hardtop coupe
A Nissan Skyline C10 2 door hardtop coupe, in other words a KGC10 (GT-X) or a KPGC10 (GT-R). But actually there is no hardtop anymore! Hopefully another GC10 hardtop coupe is happy with its new top…

Nissan Skyline C210 1600ti
Nissan Skyline C210 1600ti: the lowest spec of the C210 Skyline. A mere L16T inline 4 with double carb setup powered this Skyline. I would still love to own this car though: it would be a lot faster than my Carina! (???)

If you ever wondered what the Skyline C210 without round taillights looks like, have a look at this picture:

Nissan Skyline C210 1600ti rear
Not too bad, isn’t it?

On the same dump there was also this super clean car:

Very clean Toyota Carina GT-TR TA63
A Carina GT-TR TA63!! (???)
I have no idea what it was doing there: I could not find a rusty spot on it. Even better: not even a spec of dust! According to the blogger the car was for sale!

Stay tuned for more pictures from Japanese rustoseums!

Carina sightings: Carina AA63 winning D1SL North

September 2, 2009 / banpei / 1 Comment

Found a Carina AA63 competing in D1SL North 3rd round (Chitose) on Youtube. The car is driven by Taoka Tomokazu and he ends up winning this event!

During quarter finals it competes against a JZX100 Chaser and wins:

During the finals it is put against a Nissan 180SX RPS13 driven by Masayuki Ono Akira where the Carina wins the first run:

The second run the Carina spins due to the 180SX touching the Carina. In the rematch the Carina spins again, but this time by its own error so the error by the 180SX is now nullified. Then in the final run the Carina and 180SX are equally matched in lines, but at the final corner the 180SX spins.

So the outcome is that the Carina won!

The 180SX driver pretends to be angry at his RPS13 and climbs on top of it pretending to stamp on its roof. :D

Of course the Carina could never have come this far without the help of a bit of rain, like what Alexi lacked during his third round in D1SL Central when the track dried up… The rain neutralizes the factor of having a more powerful engine than the others, so even less powerful cars have a good chance of winning. Still it is a very very good result controlling a car in such heavy rain and winning in such fierce competition! ?(´?`)/

Video: the universal language

September 1, 2009 / banpei / 2 Comments

Even though I don’t understand a word Russian, I do get the feeling I understood about 90% of what the guy said in this video about his Celica AA63:

From what I understand is the following:

Welcome to my garage. As you can see I also have a German Ford Taunus Mk III which is very very rusty. On the other side of my garage I have my Toyota Celica AA63 coupe. It features a 4AGE engine and GT seats. I stripped it completely bare because it is so rusty and I’m doing a full rebuild. To do so I needed an engine lift, which is in this corner, to remove the engine and transmission. That’s about as far as I got with my project.

Maybe it is because I’m getting used to watch and try to understand Japanese car videos or could it be that there is a universal language called video???

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