Manga Cars Ever wondered which cars are featured in Initial D? And perhaps also wondered which model, make and type these manga cars are? In this third episode of Manga car spotting, I’ll be spotting cars in the first book of Initial D! This first book is the US version of the Manga by Tokyopop…
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Manga Cars In this second episode of reading Manga and car spotting I have many cars: a Nissan Silvia S13, Skyline R30, Laurel C31 and C32 and many, many more cool 80s and 90s JDM manga cars! The Walking Man by Jiro Tanaguchi The Manga I’m reading here is called The Walking Man by Jiro…
JDM Trivia #6: 1981 Nissan Drive Guide System This weeks trivia is all about the 1981 Nissan Drive Guide system which was basically a crude navigation system for the Nissan Skyline DR30 and the Nissan Gazelle and Silvia S12. Nobody took a wild guess at the teaser from last week, but I’ll get to the…
I had an interesting thought when I watched BANKAKUEMIKO’s video on a white Nissan Silvia CSP311: what if Roger Moore would have driven a Nissan Silvia CSP311 in the original Saint TV series? The white Silvia looked so classy, elegant and exciting that the Saint certainly would have bought one if he could have. A…
It is always sad to see an abandoned project for sale, especially if it may be a well known Nissan Silvia S12 Grand prix widebody: According to the ad the Nissan Silvia S12 Grand Prix has been stripped to bare metal and all rust has been resolved and a cage has been welded in. Everything…
There is so much footage of the Hoshino Impul Nissan Silvia KS110 Super Silhouette race car that we tend to forget there was actually another car on the gird that resembled it: the Nissan Gazelle KS110 driven by Haruhito Yanagida! In the season 1981 Yanagida’s car resembled Hoshino’s car with its bodyshape, but Yanagida’s car…