Remembering Japanese cars from the past
Some time ago somebody forwarded me the Carina TA60 owned by Premium Shitbox on Instagram. I really love the way they fixed up the Carina and lowered it.
They picked up this bone stock 1982 Toyota Carina DX TA60 in Germany. Apart from the body colour, this Carina is 100% the same as mine: same brown/tan interior, seatbelts on all five seating positions and an A40 automatic gearbox.
Continue readingIn the category of the reverse fetishes: Japanese nowadays love the USDM look and this Illest Trueno on HaCHiRoCK Festa 2013 proves it:
The whole car breathes Illest, Fatlace, hellaflush and any other style that emerged from the United States.
On the left side deep dished bright green RS Watanabe (rear) rims: Continue reading
Zeppann13J is known for his extensive collection of deep dished vintage rims. But what more can such a collection offer?
A gigantic collection of centercaps of course! So how many different can you count here? ;)
As you can see the picture stops somewhere in the middle, so here is the other half of the collection:
Amazing! They are all there: SSR, SSR Longchamp XR4 Equip, Hart Racing, Gallop Racing, you name it and he’s got it!
Found at Zeppann’s blog
This is a real WTF?! In my brains the words Trampio and Levin are connected like fire and smoke, so how come this Trueno is featuring the Trampio livery then?
First of all the Trampio Levin AE86 never featured the N2 flares since it never competed in the N2 series, so it can’t be the original.
Second of all there was no Trampio Trueno AE86, only the Levin… Continue reading
After my impulse buy I started to look for real yellow Carina GT-Rs. I did see them in the brochures, but as far as I can remember never saw any photos of them IRL.
I ended up finding this magnificent example in a family album treasure style photograph:
A Carina GT-R on a set of black SSR Longchamp XR4 rims. It was so beautiful I just had to share it
Found at: Drift car man pages
On one of my tours around Bali somewhere between Uluwatu and Kuta I came across this Ford Laser (aka Mazda Familia or Mazda 323) on a set of SSR Longchamp XR4 rims!
Ford Laser / Mazda Familia (323) on Longchamps
So I stopped and made a couple of pictures.
To be honest: this was the very first time I ever saw these babies in real life! They were even more beautiful than seen on pictures. ;)
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