Remembering Japanese cars from the past
I have no idea how sane the Japanese are, but given the fact that I already posted here and here about sorry looking ultra rare Cosmo Sports I bet they don’t value this car enough. Even worse, I found more proof:
Lucky enough this one still looks salvageable, so it is no complete loss.
Found at ??????
The Mazda Cosmo HB always has been one of my favorite eighties cars:
As a young kid I kept looking through the Mazda brochures my dad once got at the dealership when he was looking for a wagon and regretted he walked out of the showroom without asking for testdrive in the new Mazda 929, the piston version of the Mazda Cosmo HB.
Of course the Japanese version of the car was featuring a lot more than the 929 spinoff we got: Continue reading
Compared to yesterdays RX7 this bone stock Cosmo may look a bit dull. Outside Japan it was sold as the Mazda 929 with a 2 liter piston engine and the 929s from Germany and Switzerland are currently flooding the Netherlands, and this Cosmo HB does feature the Rotary Turbo!
You can also enjoy a Japanese cover of France Gall’s Poupee de cire, Poupee de son (actually Serge Gainsbourg wrote that for her) and imagine you are driving through the Japanese landscape yourself. A added benefit is that the whining rotary actually makes the song even more enjoyable! ;)
This Luce Cosmo (HB platform) is placed in a Beverly Hills surrounding with an American license plate. I’ve seen this advertising trick more often with these old commercials. Were the Japanese thinking that when a car had an American license plate and a sunny Californian setting it would be with loved by the Americans? Or has Amercian approval? Or had American style?
For sure this Luce Cosmo never made it to the US at all!
And I love the Kossumoo! at the end! :)
Maybe not as rare as the rusty Cosmo collection but this Skyline DR30 collection is equally rusty and extensive!
Skyline DR30 rustoseum collection
The Fairlady Z Z30 appears to be a bit out of place here…
Found at [R31 House @ Minkara]
When I was looking fo pictures of rusty Ultraman’s Cosmo when I wrote about the Mazda Cosmo wreckyard I came across this Ultraman Cosmo FAIL:
Ultraman car FAIL
WTF?! That doesn’t look like a Cosmo! Not even a Mazda! It is a 911!
Here another picture from the side of the Porsche:
Ultraman car FAIL
Found at [SkullBrain]
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