Tag: toyota celica

Japanese Rustoseums: Toyota Celica 2000GT RA25

A few days ago I asked Daniel O’Grady a similar question: why do the Japanese cars in Japan rust from the top down while they rust from the bottom up on the European soil? It is funny because I can explain the European bottom up rust: we simply put salt on our roads during wintertime…




Sanctuary: the Initial D Fujiwara Tofu shop (Haruna)

Yes, a new idea/section/regular just emerged: sanctuaries! Why? Well basically last night I suffered from insomnia and for whatever reason my mind wandered to the original Initial D Tofu shop which is located in Shibukawan next to Mount Haruna (the town called Akina in Initial D) and that the original tofu shop has been demolished…




Commercial time: Jumping beater Celica A60

What better way to promote your auto parts shop than by jumping a beater Celica A60? Shortly before it jumps you can see it is the facelifted model….




Thrilling Celica RA40 at Bathurst in 1980

Just saw this video being posted on Facebook by Thomas Delien on the TACN Facebook page and it is a thrilling 5 minutes of footage from Peter Williamson’s Celica in the 1980 Bathurst race: Peter Williamson was doing live footage for the Australian Channel 7….




Picture of the Week: Celica M-300 by HKS

Found these Celica M-500 pictures on Tumbler: Haven’t found any info on this HKS Power Celica M-500… But I do know that it is powered by a twin turbo 5M-GTE:…




ITT2012: loose ends

My final ITT 2012 post and after that I’m done with the interesting photos from this great festival. 😉 So first of all there was a large German delegation from the Toyota Oldies site where the owner brought his rare Toyota Tercel Snow 4WD (AL25): I just love the snow branding on the Tercel:…