Tag: hardtop coupe

Pigletsbutt Laurel C30

The Nissan Laurel C130 hardtop coupe is also know as the butaketsu (pigsbutt) Laurel, so should its predecessor Laurel C30 hardtop coupe be called the Kobutaketsu (pigletsbutt) then? From the front it looks exactly the same as the normal Laurel C30:…




Wrecked: More compact Nissan Skyline hakosuka

Time to start again with the wrecked series. Some time ago I found this fatally damaged hakosuka Skyline on Minkara: If this compressed bootspace doesn’t impress enough, there was also damage on the front side of the car:…




ITT2012: The green whale MS75

Yesterday I posted the yellow whale Crown MS68 but I also shot a couple of photos of another kujira (whale) crown: green hardtop coupe MS75! The coupe was completely bone stock and still in its original paint! I think I shot a similar photo like this one last year at the Japanese Classic Sunday:…




Toys: vintage Bluebird-U 2000GT RC car

Last week I stumbled across this Nissan Bluebird-U RC car by Bandai: It has dents all over it and the remote control doesn’t look that remote nowadays but back when it was new it was the best you could get! Just imagine that the boy who used to play with this rare 2000GT hardtop coupe…




Family Album Treasures: fishy Mark II GSL

Normally fishermen pose with their catch next to the boat they used to catch it, so would these two guys have used their Toyota Mark II GSL for that purpose? No I don’t think so: they must have caught their fish on a pier or something and then posed in front the rear-end of the…




JCS2011: Emblems, decals and details!

Time to share some emblems, decals and sticker close ups! Toyota Crown MS75 emblem This Crown emblem was on the bumper of a Crown hardtop coupe MS75. I love the bonkers design of this whale Crown and certainly small details like this little Crown logo… Another Crown detail: Toyota Crown MS56 emblem The Crown emblem…