Remember the Cockroach Carina I posted two weeks ago? Well, it got crushed:
Kinloud posted the video today, so it is still fresh! Nothing beats a freshly crushed cockroach! ;)
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Thanks to Beeoneoneoh I’m following Men of 510‘s blog, which is about…you probably guessed that one: the Nissan Bluebird 510! ;)
Apart from a lot of manly 510 pictures they also post cute 510 pictures from time to time:
Cute girl in a Nissan Bluebird 510 van
Would Oliver ever be as cute as this kid?
And the last one is all about Digi Charat:
Dejiko and Gema from Digi Charat love the 510 as well!
No way the Toyota Carina can compete with that amount of cuteness! Anyone want to trade a white Carina TA60 for a Bluebird 510 with me?
I found this picture of rice paddy crop art on Pink Tentacle’s blog:
Is this minivan really drifting?
I wasn’t really looking at the rice paddy crop art: I was immediately looking at the minivan! First few seconds I thought it was drifting! :D
Of course it is an optical illusion: the wide angle lens makes the straight road at the bottom shaped like a bend and the minivan is actually reverse parking at the bottom of the picture!
Rice paddy crop art: plant different colored rice plants in a pattern
Rice paddy crop art: plant different colored rice plants in a pattern
About the rice paddy crop art, it is nothing more than planting differently colored rice plants and wait for the result to grow. It is the same as we do in Holland with the tulip bulbs. ;)
Yesterday when I entered the office a nice big X-mas box (seriously!) was waiting for me and later that day another enormous box arrived at the office. I opened both of them yesterday evening.
The enormous box contained a 2T/3T gasket set:
2T/3T gasket set
I found this cheap set for as much as two of the inlet gaskets! IMO you can never have too much gaskets! :)
But what was in the X-mas box then?
What is in this box?
You probably can guess that one already:
2T-B double carburetor set from a 1983 Toyota Celica
It is a 2T-B carburetor set! Giving an instant upgrade of 11HP on my 2T engine! That is almost an increase of 15% in horsepower! :)
2T-B double carburetor set from the side
And from the side it looks even better! :)
Remember last weeks posting with the webers??
Vroom! Vroom! Vrooom! Vrooooooom!
:D :D
2T-B carburetor set from another side
So, what’s next? Well, I still need an air filter to complete the set. Whenever I find an original 2T-B air filter or an open air filter I will start installing this on the Carina! :)
Half a year ago I posted links to two videos which showed the first Japanese Grand Prix in 1963. The same person posted part 2 today of this series: the Japanese Grand Prix of 1969! :)
Unfortunately the videos can’t be embedded, so my story and pictures will have to compensate that. At the bottom of this article I placed the links to the videos!
Japanese Grand Prix of 1969 held on the 10th of October 1969
This time it only consists of the GP race itself, so no 1969 saloons and no early C10s racing in these videos…
The new and improved Toyota 7 on the 1969 Japanese Grand Prix
This was one of the most notable races in the history of the Japanese Grand Prix. In 1968 Toyota had tried to race with the brand new Toyota 7 in the Group 7 race and they failed: they ended up behind Nissan’s R381 and the Porsche 907 due to technical problems. In 1969 they were back with the improved Toyota 7: new aerodynamics and a new intake and exhaust system!
Start of the 1969 Japanese Grand Prix
But Nissan and Porsche did also improve their cars: Nissan had the Prince GRX3 V12 powered R382 ready for the Japanese Grand Prix. This marked the final between the Prince and Nissan merger. Also Porsche attended with the new 917 featuring a 4.5 liter 12 cylinder boxer. The Toyota 7s had a very good start and passed the Nissans at the start, but so did the Porsche 917!
The Porsche proved not to be any competition at all: they were very powerful but lacked stability in tight corners and reliability. Also one by one the Toyota 7s were losing ground to the mighty Nissan R382 and incidents like this one did not help either:
Toyota 7 in trouble after evading a 917
And finally the Nissan R382 number 20 driven by Motoharu Kurosawa was able to pass the leading Toyota 7:
Toyota 7 getting passed by the number 20 R382 driven by Motoharu Kurosawa
In the end the Toyota 7 finished 3rd after Motoharu Kurosawa’s winning R382 and the second R382 driven by Yoshikazu Sunaku.
Motoharu Kurosawa winning the 1969 Japanese Grand Prix
Motoharu Kurosawa winning the Japanese Grand Prix of 1969 marked Kurosawa’s final breakthrough and Kurosawa became one of Nissan’s primary drivers.
The videos feature Jazz as background music. It really feels late 60s with those jazzy tunes in the background and somehow it really fits it well! Perhaps Jazz was the Eurobeat of the 60s?
You can find both videos of the Japanese Grand Prix 1969 here:
[ The Japanese Grand Prix 1969 part 1 ]
[ The Japanese Grand Prix 1969 part 2 ]
WTF?! Some 80s guy riding his BMX bike is getting chased by a Dekotora truck and a Nissan Laurel C32 policecar?
It is actually a videoclip by Cadillac for the song ????????NO! NO! NO! shot in 1987. I think it is supposed to look like some 80s teen series with the obvious hero, the school and the bad guys (Dekotora truck driver and the police woman). And of course the Nissan Sunny B210 going sideways (a different sideways than drifting ;) ) brings the comical factor in this clip!