Tag: sprinter trueno (Page 14 of 15)

Carina sightings: Carina AA63 versus Trueno AE86

January 13, 2010 / banpei / 0 Comments

Now this is nice for a change: a Toyota Carina AA63 and a Toyota Sprinter Trueno AE86 drifting on a touge near Sagamiko in 1997! You can see the Carina after 1:56:

The AE86 driver clearly has a lot of skill: he drifts those corners exactly as Keiichi Tsuchya would have done in his AE86 back in 1997! He also drifts as skillful both uphill and downhill and both during day and night!

The Carina driver is not that skilled: he spins out 3 out of 4 times. On the other hand you can see him having engine trouble at the end of the video. According to ae86lan the Carina had a stock exhaust with a rust hole in it, so that is the source of that nice sound. :D

Initial D fan FAIL

September 9, 2009 / banpei / 0 Comments

Failblog.org is one of my favorite daily blogs. Hilarious pictures and videos of fail.

Last weekend they had a new masterpiece:

House Advertisement Fail

It was not the big fallus which I saw first, not even with the big red circle and lines around it, but what I saw first was this:

Initial D fan Fail!
Apparently I have more interest in the Initial D Sprinter Trueno diecast than to sexual objects. Hmmm…. Is that a bad thing? Big Banpei FAIL?! [???]

How to recycle your AE86 seats?

July 18, 2009 / banpei / 0 Comments

Alexi Smith from Nori Yaro posted a picture of another way to recycle your AE86 seats:

Recycle your AE86 in a different way!

It kind of reminded me of the AE86 seats I tried to clean up… Not that they were this moldy, but believe me: they were moldy enough!

Back then I was very brave and removed all metal rings holding the seat together. Thinking about me removing those rings still hurts because of the blisters I got. Then I removed the cloth and washed it 3 or 4 times, both by hand and in the washing machine. In the end the seat looked cleaner than when I got them, but when I compared it to the dirty seats which were already in my Trueno I decided to keep those: they were cleaner than the ones I had washed!

Well at least I learned how the disassemble and reassemble both AE86 seats. ;)

[ Picture made by Nori Yaro ]

AE86 Crash test

June 11, 2009 / banpei / 3 Comments

Cannabolic (user on AEU86) found this video on Youtube showing a sideways impact on a Toyota AE86:

It is a bit hard to see, but the car is a LHD zenki Trueno 2 door coupe. I assume that it is a USDM Corolla SR5 since it has black bumpers. Not much is left of the position the driver is supposed to be in, so side impact on this speed is not recommendable! What did I drive up to two years ago? A silver 4AGE converted US SR5 2 door coupe! Damn! That’s exactly the same car!

What about its source? Maybe it was a promotion video for OMP roll cages? More likely it is an original 80s US crash test before the car is allowed to be sold on the market? That leave us the question why a sideways impact on high speed is part of this test?

Of course: they could also have wanted to find out if the car was safe enough for its main purpose 20 years later: going sideways! Clearly going that way leaves a lot less crushable area than going in a straight line. ;)

Hilarious: how would you know your friends are dorks?

June 5, 2009 / banpei / 1 Comment

Suppose you own and drive a black and white panda painted Toyota Sprinter Trueno, just like this example:

Perfect Initial D Sprinter Trueno AE86 replica
How would you know then that your friends are a bunch of dorks as well?

Simple: they all own moviecar replicas as well!

All your friends driving movie cars as well!

I’m still missing a few cars in this lineup: a red Charger (the General Lee), a white VW Beetle (Herbie), a Ford Gran Torino (Starsky and Hutch) and a 1974 Dodge Monaco with police package (The Bluesmobile), so you definitely need to make more friends!

Found through Jalopnik

People reusing my images?

February 10, 2009 / banpei / 0 Comments

Funny, within 15 minutes I encountered images made by me were reused by someone else. Of course I’m doing the same thing over and over, but never encountered this twice on two different sites within such a short period. ;)

First I noticed (thanks to HR blog!) the Czech website 86ers.org using the picture of my 15 inch Celica Supra MK2 rims in their wheel guide.
This is the original:

Then within 15 minutes I encountered someone reusing my old avatar which I used on AEU86 when I still owned my Trueno. The picture contains the right taillight of my old Trueno 2 door coupe with the Sprinter Trueno sticker above it. The image originally was meant as a showcase for the OEM AE86 reproduction stickers but later on used as my avatar after I got bored by the AE86 vs R34 avatar.
This is the original:

Even though it is coincidence, I still think it’s rather odd…
But don’t get me wrong here: please use and re-use my pictures, just like I would do with yours! ;)