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 readingSome of you may think you just encountered a deja-vu and yes you have twice!
First of all: I did feature this AW11 rustoseum over two and a half years ago.
Second of all: in the past two weeks my server crashed twice and last time I lost one day of data. Unfortunately I also lost this posting… Nevertheless I’ll repost it again. :)
I did this video in a similar way as Daniel O’Grady is doing his Wasabicars videos (be sure to check out his videos!): Continue reading
Suzuki SC100 owner Ron shared this rusty Suzuki Fronte LC10W racer with me in the comments of the Wangan Warriors 10 posting:
The Fronte LC10W features already a lot of racing looks, but this little powerhouse certainly has been modified to race spec in the b(l)ooming 70s or 80s!
From the side it becomes apparent that there is no way to return this LC10W to that era anymore: Continue reading
Not only hard tuned cars were present on the Wangan Warriors meeting, but also a lot of oldskool cars from the 80s and early 90s.
I already posted the decals of this original Suzuki Swift GTi before, but here it is in full glory:
Also this original Skyline GT-R R32 can nowadays almost be considered as a classic: Continue reading
Half a year ago I posted a black 1981 Suzuki Cervo SC100 and thought it was a one time only… Well last Sunday I spotted another Cervo:
Down on the Street: Suzuki Cervo SC100 GX
This brown GX model was parked in the back of a parking lot in front of a party-centre. You can see the sign saying “Parkeren achterzijde” which roughly translates into “rear parking”. Glad they didn’t park it there, otherwise I wouldn’t have spotted the Cervo!
Seen from the front it looks immaculate:
Down on the Street: Suzuki Cervo SC100 GX
Apart from that one tiny little dent in the front bumper…
But on the rear…
Down on the Street: Suzuki Cervo SC100 GX
…lots of dents in the rear bumper! How can you bump such a tiny car into something else? I mean: you can practically feel the distance when you stick your arms out of the window! ;)
MOT expired about two years ago and apart from the flat tire I can’t see anything wrong with this car…
When I 16 years old and still in high school there was this guy in my class who became 18 years old and was allowed to drive a car to school (in the Netherlands the age getting your license is 18). The car he drove was a tiny black Suzuki Cervo SC100 with some wicked rims under it. It looked a bit like the SC100 I found a few days ago:
Down on the Street: Suzuki Cervo SC100
Maybe it is even the same car and still owned by that same guy! ;)
Down on the Street: Suzuki Cervo SC100
Back then I thought it was one of the best cars you could possibly own: a small (economical) car with enough power to make it a bit sporty due to its size… Of course I wanted such a car as well. Back then I never concluded that my size (6 foot 5) would be a problem… I fitted on the passenger seat and my hair was scraping against the headlining, what’s wrong with that?? ;)
When I finally wanted to buy my first car I was looking for such small cars. I did drive the Suzuki Alto CA71 owned by my brother and found out that it was already hard to drive a car longer than 30 minutes when you are cramped between the seat, the headlining and the steering wheel… So in the end I started looking for a B class car instead.
To give you an impression on how small these Cervo SC100s are:
Down on the Street: Suzuki Cervo SC100
Yes that’s right: it is parked between a Toyota Starlet and a Peugeot 206 and it is about three quarters of the size of that Starlet! :D
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