That were my exact thoughts when I watched this video of the New Year drive of a classic Nissan owners club! As a teaser before the video, this is what a KPGC10 and PGC10 traffic jam looks like:
The video was shot while the pack was exiting a parkinglot near Ichihara. (video on the next page) Continue reading
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In june 1980 Auto Holiday Magazine had this hot girl on its cover:
Or would that Racing Forg rim she is sitting on be much hotter?
Anyway, this issue of the magazine for car and leasure for youngs had something even hotter on the inside: Continue reading
Amazing what you can do with a Kenmeri Skyline, Hakosuka Skyline, Fairlady Z, some photoshop skills and fooling around with different JDM styles:
I especially love the Grand Champ Hello Bosozoku style! ;)
Direct link to video: Japanese classic car Skyline Ken＆Mary ケンメリ JDM 旧車 illustration
BTW: this is a crosspost with Bosozokustyle.com
I found this video of illegal street drag races in Japan during the early 90s. What strikes me most is the enormous number of Fairlady Zs and Skyline GT-R used for this purpose.
The most amazing modification is done to a Z31 around 2:33!
This time a police series that actually was never broadcasted on television: Special Criminal Investigation (1989) was a game by Taito and was the successor of Chase HQ and succeeded by Chase HQ 2 (2006). The game itself was much inspired upon the infamous Abunai Deka car chases and featured two cops chasing criminals in a Nissan Fairlady Z Z31:
Taito S.C.I. Fairlady Z Z31 poster
I can still remember playing the English version in the arcade halls back in the early nineties!
In case you are curious where the chases are, well here is a (two part) walkthough:
In other words: the heroes drive Japanese cars and the criminals drive foreign cars! :D
Found through: [R31 House @ Minkara]
Today is my third day in the San Francisco bay area and I think I’ve shot at least 50 photos of remotely interesting cars with my phonecam and about 20 interesting cars with my analogue SLR. Time for a small recap!
First of all I found it hard to believe, but in the first 10 minutes of driving with the rental car to the hotel I spotted an 240SX S14, a Lexus SC400 and a drift style 240SX S13. I think if I would have spotted those cars in the Netherlands it would have taken me either a week to spot them or I must have been at a meeting at that moment. ;)
Second of all: everybody drives an Integra!
SF Bay area: everybody drives an Integra
Again: back home the Integra is just as omnipotent as my Carina, so spotting one is quite rare. In the bay area everybody seems to be driving an Integra!
I looked it up on Wikipedia:
A total of 301,102 Acura Integras were sold from calendar year 1994 to 2000 in the U.S.
And I bet most of them are still driving around in the bay area!
Apart from the Integras I saw many many many Nissan 350Zs!
SF Bay area: everybody drives a 350Z
The 350Z is back home a bit less omnipotent as the Integra, but here you see them on about every parkinglot. The one above was shot in downtown SF btw.
Runner up is definitely the Mazda Miata (or MX5s) and for some weird reason none of them was topless. After the Miata it gets a bit harder, but I guess it probably would be the four door Charger…
I did see much variation in the styling: from lowrider trucks to drift cars to big rim cars to hellaflush ratlook roofracked Integras:
SF Bay area: Hellaflush roofrack Integra
I must say this car was pretty bad maintained and the rat look was not deliberately made.
Last but not least: I spotted many many older cars including this Cressida MX61.
From this angle it looks great, but on the right side it was pretty smashed up. Which brings me to another weird thing: everybody tends to keep on driving with insanely dented cars. In the Netherlands most people get their cars fixed as soon as they get a dent in it, but it appears as if you don’t need to fix up your car and you keep on driving as if nothing ever happened.
SF Bay area: Smashed up Cressida
That’s it for now, but I’m positive I’ll have more of this stuff in the upcoming days. ;)