The Ken & Mary Skyline advertisements from the 70s made a really huge impact on the Japanese youngsters of the 70s. Both Ken and Mary became icons and so did the umbrella icon. Not surprisingly the Japanese baby-boomers love to pose in front of a Nissan Skyline C110 (kenmeri) with a red umbrella. In this…
Now imagine you are about to enter a town called Koyaguchi Nogami and you see some car wrecks hidden in the foliage: You get a bit closer and see this:…
I was browsing through some kyusha styled car videos on Youtube and I bumped into this video featuring the owners girlfriend and the Skyline C110 Ken & Mary theme song on the radio. Everything just fits together: even Mary drives the car nowadays! It’s just like Ken and Mary in 2011!
In case you are a regular you must have a big WTF?! by now… Yes, indeed not only did I just change the look and feel of the blog, I also decided the blogging software should be changed to WordPress. Why? Well that’s quite simple: the old software was getting too complicated (I hacked a…