Remembering Japanese cars from the past
The general taste changes a lot during the years, especially concerning what is beautiful and what is not. So what was considered beautiful thirty years ago? Well I guess you can see the general picture here:
Auto Holiday was a magazine for car and leasure for youngs in the early 80s.
We see the leisure here, but what are the cars then?? Continue reading
Two weeks ago I posted up a relatively cheap Carina AA63 drift missile only to discover another on Auctions Yahoo two weeks later!
Another Carina AA63 drift missile
Its current price is 50000 yen (615 US dollars) but reserve hasn’t been met yet. At least this Carina is still in one piece so it could get a little bit more pricier than this.
The engine is quite impressive: a 4AGE 16 valve with independent throttle bodies!
Another Carina AA63 drift missile
To make it all work smooth a set of Toda cams, aftermarket piggyback ECU and a lightened flywheel have been installed.
Other modifications are a set of SSR Longchamp XR4s, camber plates and front tower bar and on the inside a set of Recaros to make you feel a bit more comfortable in those loooong corners:
Another Carina AA63 drift missile
This missile seems to be in a bit better shape than the other one, but this one has had less extensive modifications.
In case you want to bid on it, you still have five days left and can find the action here: Carina AA63 at Auctions Yahoo.
If you like something different: the seller also has a few shakotan and bosozoku style rides for sale!
For my other blog Bosozoku Style I regularly visit various bosozoku style related sites. On AllJapanExpress I came across this pink shakotan Carina AA63:
Pink shakotan Carina AA63
Nicely lowered, overfenders and SSR Mk I rims at the rear. Just a few mods away from becoming a kaido racer! :)
I’m not sure what is worse on this Carina, the color or the bodywork:
Pink shakotan Carina AA63
Somehow I’m relieved this car did not have huge spoilers, oil coolers and a bamboo spears exhaust, but on the other hand it would have been fun to see such a thing. ;)
I already posted this video in the Bosozoku Style Meeting Monday. The video contains a groundscrapingly low Carina RA45 on deep dished steelies at an Odaiba meeting earlier this month. The Carina clearly has some challenge with the conquering the pavement:
And that sound: lovely!
Definite necessity for your family album, a picture of yourself and your buddy building your own kaido racer out of your dads old Nissan Leopard F30:
Nissan Leopard kaido racer
No, I’m not taking on any bets and certainly not going to do Michael Palins effort in half the time…
It is all about this envelope I received earlier this week: one of the orders for the Bosozoku Style Coloringbook than was returned to sender. Not that it is that odd, but what was odd was the state of the envelope:
Around the world in 40 days
It went all the way to New Zealand (about on the opposite site of the earth for me) and back in 40 days! I do use thick and heavy envelopes with a solid back to send it to the buyers who are not on the continent. And miraculously the contents survived well enough to be resent to the buyer (with a new address) so it was a good thing to take those precautions! :)
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