Tag: Super Silhouette

Brilliant: collection of Showa scale model cars

Now this was a big jaw-dropper: two videos of a Toyota Mark II Grande GX71 literally covered in Showa scale model cars. This must be the largest personal collection of scale model cars I’ve seen! Now if you look carefully enough you can see that each and every scale model car has its own special…




Family Album Treasures: the Shakotan Boogie photo album

Today’s Family Album Treasure is literally someone’s family album: In the video below Hattoriworks is going through his 1987 Fuji Grand Championship photo album….




WTF: Tomica Nissan Gazelle S12 Super Silhouette replica

After yesterdays TOMs Corolla Group 5 I was searching for Group 5 cars and found this Tomica Gazelle. Wait a minute! Isn’t that supposed to read Tomica Skyline Super Silhouette replica? No, it isn’t! This is all about the Tomica Nissan Gazelle S12 Super Silhouette replica: Yes, someone made a replica of the Tomica Skyline…




Family Album Treasures: Super Silhouette daughter

One of my favorite Minkara feeds is by Restive Horse who owns a very nice Nissan Skyline DR30 and a cute little daughter and likes to post about both of them. Some time ago he posted one about his daughter with the Tomica Skyline Super Silhouette: If I was able to view the very same…




The other Nissan Silvia Super Silhouette racer

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…




Hilarious: Prius Super Silhouette racer!

At the Tokyo Auto Salon this year the Nihon Automobile College (NATS) made a couple of cars based upon another car. This Prius has been modified into a Celica Super Silhouette racer: Just imagine this Prius Super Silhouette going down the Fuji International Speedway in the Group 5 competition with a whopping 180 km/h with…