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DOTS: Scruffy looking Nissan 200SX S14

This bone stock Nissan 200SX (JDM name is of course Silvia S14) was parked from time to time outside the office building where I work. Just like the Celica Supra MA61 of last week it disappeared after a while.

More than half a year later I found it on the other side of town, badly parked under a tree and growing moss under it:
Scruffy looking Nissan 200SX S14
Scruffy looking Nissan 200SX S14

As you can see it has been parked here for ages!

In the meantime it must have gotten some damage either through being parked here or hitting something before because the left sidelight is now fitted badly (rightside of the picture):
Nissan 200SX S14 sidelight badly fitted
Nissan 200SX S14 sidelight badly fitted

The paint was already a bit bad when it was parked outside the office, but it only got worse:
Scruffy paint at the rear
Scruffy paint at the rear

The paint literally falls of the bumper now… Well, it is not that bad: the bumper can’t rust. ;)

I tried to capture the enormous amount of garbage in it, but I failed… All you can see is the crap on the outside…
A lot of crap on the windshield
A lot of crap on the windshield

But believe me: there was a lot of fast-food wraps and stuff lying in it…

The funny thing is that the police did not tow away the car yet… You are not allowed to park your car within a radius of 4 meters from the corner of a street. The Nissan is clearly parked about 2 meters away from the corner. Ah well, it is probably the neighborhood: streets and corners are wide, so nobody is bothered with an ill parked 200SX.

Old footage: Touge drifting in 1992

I posted some old footage of touge drifting in 1996 before, but now 86ers.org found some more vintage videos from the early 90s. This was years before Shuichi Shigeno even moved his pencil enough to create Initial D!

The drifting looks very skilled for those days. Even though we are used to much higher speeds 17 years later it still looks quite fast drifting for an AE86 drifting uphill! The music kind of reminds me of the terrible music they used for all anime openings early 90s! Somehow I’m glad they did not use this type of music for Initial D. :D

The second video has a better taste in music:

In the second video they are drifting uphill again. That brings me to another thing: why are they drifting uphill? Isn’t it much better to drift downhill?

Apart from drifting uphill: I see some very nice drifts and some other cars than the AE86: a B310, a TE71 and a KP61. Ah, can’t we just go back to the 90s when the amount of horsepower didn’t matter that much?

Hilarious: Clarkson Island

After watching this hilarious video by Harry and Paul I could not watch the latest episode of Top Gear anymore without thinking about…..pausing in the middle…..of the sentences!

The whole Z car battle of last Monday just looked silly compared against the Miata and Quattroporte comparison by Harry and Paul @2:40…

Ooowwwmygawd…..now that was funny!

Commercial time: Honda Vigor promotional video

This week someone I follow on Youtube posted a promotional video of the Honda Vigor. This typically eighties stylish video was made in 1989 when the third generation Vigor was launched:

I’m not too sure about what it should say… Is it supposed to be a Luxury car for Italian lesbian Countesses? Or is is supposed to be a fun car for the driver (gear shifting with an automatic, jumping through narrow Italian streets)? Or is it supposed to say that anyone buying this drives a RHD car on the wrong side of the road? I don’t know, but maybe there is a hidden message behind that stylish eighties video…

Oh, and an Engrish mistake in the credits: apparently everyone but the cast is not considered human anymore:
Honda Vigor promotional video - Engrish error: Stuff instead of Staff
Honda Vigor promotional video – Engrish error: Stuff instead of Staff

The salary man is Shigeo Nagashima!

Almost two weeks ago I posted a couple of videos of Magnum P.I. like commercials by Toyota for the Mark II GX61. I was wondering why the salary man was in both commercials, but now Zeb from GX61 cleared that up: that man is Shigeo Nagashima, a professional baseball player who played with the Yomiuri Giants till 1974. After that he became the manager of the Yomiuri Giants till he got fired in 1980. After that he didn’t do anything till 1992 when he became manager of the Yomiuri Giants again.

To quote Zeb from GX61:
So THAT’s why these cars often have baseball bats on the parcel tray!

Probably the Toyota commercials funded his unemployment during the early eighties. He did a some more commercials than the two with the 1982 and 1983 GX61!
1981 Corona T130:
1981 Corona T130 commercial

1984 Mark II GX61:

And in 1988 he did a commercial for Visa:

Now what is that last commercial supposed to say?

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