Remembering Japanese cars from the past
About ten years ago it was very hard to find a panda white Sprinter Trueno AE86 at all and nowadays it is more or less a challenge to find one that was originally delivered in panda white!
The owner of this panda red Levin AE86 must have thought his car was just the opposite of the panda white Trueno:
The writing says Maeda Tomato Shop (private) and what is the opposite of tofu-white panda? Right: tomato red panda!
Found at Morningcoffee
Remember the piece of waste by Isokorpi Customs?
It is no longer a piece of waste: Isokorpi Customs managed to shoehorn a 1JZ-GTE in the enginebay: Continue reading
As a follow up on yesterdays Restive Horse cage post another picture from the KCAR Autopolis meeting:
So how many Skyline DR30s can you count in this picture?
And to win a small prize: how many tekamen (iron mask) can you count in this picture?
Found at Restive Horse car club
Almost two years ago I spotted the Restive Horse car club on the Garage Pleasure blog and I started following them since. I was a bit surprised to find this picture this morning:
That’s his daughter Miss Hasemi (yes, that’s really her name!) sitting in the best protected spot of the car enroute to the KCAR Autopolis meeting.
In case you are wondering what that insane trackmonster looks like: Continue reading
Sortly before I went on holiday I spotted some J-tin driving in front of me. Unmistakably it turned out to be a red Datsun Laurel C31.
Also note the Honda S2000 I featured over two years ago on the right side of the photo.
At the bottom of the hill the Laurel was trapped at the traffic lights and I was able to shoot a close up photo: Continue reading
Back in the early 80s when the Japanese Super Silhouette series were at its alltime high in popularity Kazuyoshi Hoshino drove his iconic Nissan Silvia S110 silhouette racer to many victories.
Kazuyoshi Hoshino was a smart man: apart from founding the Hoshino Racing he also founded the Hoshino Impul company which produced the Impul D-01 wheels as their first product. By mounting these wheels on his silhouette racer he had the best advertising possible and many of these wheels were sold to his (young) followers.
Also this guy fell for them and mounted them on his Nissan Gazelle S110, just like his hero Hoshino. Definitely a keepsake for the family album!
Found at: Minkara
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