Remembering Japanese cars from the past
Welcome to another Down on the Street video!
I found this unmolested Nissan 240SX in Santa Cruz while driving towards the beach. I stopped and jumped out of the my rental car and shot a short video. Unfortunately nobody was around and I couldn’t make any inquiries about it.
![Unmolested Nissan 240SX [Down on the Street]](https://www.banpei.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/dots-unmolested-nissan-240sx.jpg)
With unmolested I obviously mean it has not been converted into a drift car. It is even rarer to find a bone stock S13 than a tuned or lowered one. Continue reading
I’ll continue where I left off: right at this Honda Civic.
For some unknown reason the whole meeting was overcrowded by Civics and for another unknown reason the roads around the meetup were clogged up with high revving VTECs. Once is funny, a couple of time is nice, but after several hours it just gets plain annoying.
Anyway, let’s talk a bit about this Civic: I think the IKEA background suits this Civic. This Civic does not seem to have a clear theme and is a bit of various popular parts together. Take a bra / nose protector, ground scrapingly low coilover set, wide steelies and you are done with it.
Of course that summary is very harsh and I actually did like the car as a whole and took several more pictures of it… Continue reading
Enroute to the Wangan Warriors 2013 season kick-off I already encountered a group of sports cars (Skyline R32, Silvia S12 and a Subaru WRX) but when I came near to the meeting grounds the sports and performance cars were literally swarming from all directions!
This Nissan 200SX S13 was parked next to the entrance was remained glued to my retina for the remainder of the meeting:
So if this is his mum’s car…his car should be even messier? :P
The interior looks serious though… Continue reading
I’m still not done yet with the Japanse Autosport Festival: there is still some odd stuff lying around. ;)
First of all Ibrahim and I spotted this terrific Toyota MR2 AW11 parked opposite of my Carina in the parkinglot:
Only to find out a couple of hours later (when it passed by the place the S13 had overheated again) that this very same car used to belong to 7Tune blogger Allard van der Grafhorst who immediately recognized it!
I have to verified it with the originals and it is the same white MR2 as I spotted two years ago. Obviously there are some differences compared to when Allard owned it: Continue reading
It doesn’t happen very often anymore that I encounter interesting cars down on the streets. Finding a interesting Japanese sportscar like this Nissan 200SX RS13 is quite rare and what is even rarer: it is used as a grassroots drift car!
Nissan 180SX RS13 drifter
Judging from the side this car has seen some action already. And what was more surprising: the 200SX passed me a couple of days later and the driver turned out to be a girl.
The rear of the car was empty and a strutbrace was placed between the two rear towers to give the body more stiffness.
Nissan 180SX RS13 drifter
Extra gauges are placed in the A pilar:
Nissan 180SX RS13 drifter
The body had a matte respray not too long ago and I must admit the matte finish makes this car stand out even more!
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