Remembering Japanese cars from the past
Jalopnik posted today a very simplistic idea/how-to about turning netbooks into animated tail lights and guess what they used as an example?
Indeed: a US/kouki Corolla GT-S AE86 tail light! I actually liked the idea that they picked Nyan Cat as the animation! :D
Is this going to be the next automotive craze? And if so, as Jalopnik states, sequential animated tail lights are legal: so why not?
Yesterdays Jalopnik’s question of the day was Who are the craziest car fans? and their list noted the Japanese Nostalgic Car fans to be the 5th craziest of them all:
If you think that new Honda owners are obsessed, you haven’t seen the crews that restore and modify classic Japanese iron. In the States and Southeast Asia they are vigilant. In Japan, they are downright unhinged.
Hey guys, what about the J-tin fans in Europe? I think us, especially the ones on the islands, are equally unhinged as our Japanese counterparts. ;)
Honda fans made it to the sixth place and go to Jalopnik to see the full list.
Jalopnik nominated the AE86 as Project Car Hell musclecar of the 80s and it is nominated against the Mitsubishi Starion.
Jalopnik:
The AE86 is a pretty cool car, of course, but these days it’s akin to what the ’69 Camaro was to my generation: just about the only old car that every high-school kid can identify.
You can find (and vote) here:
PCH, 80s Japanese Muscle Edition: AE86 or Starion?
I wished they would have taken my old AE86 as example of how the AE86 looks:
instead of this:
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