Remembering Japanese cars from the past
Last week on Friday I picked up my son from school. Since it was such nice warm autumn (or fall) afternoon and he was playing happily with some of the other kids at school I took a short hike in the street of my son’s school. Then I spotted this well used Suzuki Alto SS40:
Actually Wikipedia refers to it as the SS80 and I only read this later after I made this video.
You can watch the video below:
Continue readingApparently the contact form was broken for a while and I only found out because someone mailed me directly.
Fix has been performed and it works now.
To make it up to you I’d like to post this nice ratlook Alto SS40 I spotted at the Japanse Autosport Festival:
Suzuki must have looked very well to the 1981 Honda City in both the styling and choice for advertising for the Mighty Boy:
The Suzuki Mighty Boy is a small ute based upon the Cervo/Alto SS40 and apparently was targeted at the young.
Direct link to video: 1983 SUZUKI MIGHTY BOY Ad
This Alto is going round and round on the roundabout and I’m mishearing lyrics as Jalan…jalan which means walking in Bahasa.
So is it walking in circles?
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