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Video: how to change a tire by a machine?

November 12, 2009 / banpei / 0 Comments

As a follow up on last Mondays How to change a tire by hand? an high tech machine to change tires automated:

Now that certainly is a big difference compared by doing that by hand! :D

Actually in both titles change should actually have been remove: in both videos the tires get removed and no new tires will be mounted on the rims again.

Also this machine was new to me: I’m still used to the old hub rotating machines where you stick an arm on the hub (and between the tire and the rim). Not anything near this machine with three different arms to loosen the tire from the bead and another arm to push the tire and another finger coming from the first arm to actually remove the tire… Maybe I only went to old fashioned tire shops in the past! :D :D

Video: how to change a tire by hand?

November 9, 2009 / banpei / 2 Comments

I have no idea why, but maybe this guy thought it would be bad for his power to weight ratio to bring along spare rims with tires on a drift session. So he only brings along a spare tire and some tire changing tools!

First he starts to separate the tire from the bead on both sides which takes him roughly six minutes to finish. Unfortunately the video stops after they guy explaining the next steps. But I can imagine he would be sitting there changing his tires the rest of the day! :D

Norwegian Toyota Celica A40 got milk?

November 8, 2009 / banpei / 0 Comments

At first I didn’t really understand what the Celica and drifting had to do with milk at all, but when they showed the punchline it was clear to me!

They show you how you drive when the windows of your car are covered with metal sheets and think can be compared to a fully blinded milk carton. Well I don’t know what they normally do with their milk cartons, but I always feel how much milk is left. ;)

So what’s left of the comparison between the milk carton and the (blinded) Toyota Celica? Something you can feel as well? :P

I do think the Celica used is real: it has got too many details! Take for instance the pizzacutter rims: they are not Celica A40 rims so they had to be added later on. The interior of the celica is also too detailed and if you look at 0:14 you can see the tape used to hold the “metal sheets” between the window and the sheets. So probably the CGI characters and bouncing tires are added later on…

And they have another commercial as well:

So, a screw cap is better than plunging open the carton?

BTW: it is nice to see those marketing guys use nostalgic Japanese cars for their advertising! :)

Hilarious: Bollywood meets Japan in the 60s!

November 6, 2009 / banpei / 2 Comments

In 1966 Bollywood shot a movie called Love in Tokyo. The movie was shot partly on site in Tokyo, so be prepared to see a totally different Tokyo than you are used to:

Pole dancing in the sixties?!

In this video you can already see parts of the, back then, newly built Shuto Expressway.

Cars I spotted so far: Prince Skyline S50 taxi, some Nissan Cedrics next to the traffic lights, a Toyota Corona T40 with the old lady and now and then a Prince Gloria S40.

In this part the male character drives, what looks like, a Nissan Fairlady 1500 SP310:

Enough of the cars! This one is really hilarious:

And another one to say goodbye:

If you want to know more about this movie, you can find all the information you need here:
Love in Tokyo

80s feeling: Gloria

November 3, 2009 / banpei / 1 Comment

This picture gave me a real 80s feeling:

A whole bunch of Nissan Gloria 430s!

First thing that got into my head was Gloria by Laura Branigan:

Gloria, you’re always on the run now
Running after somebody, you gotta get him somehow
I think you’ve got to slow down before you start to blow it
I think you’re headed for a breakdown, so be careful not to show it
Those lyrics suit the picture really well!

Doing the Itsuki IRL

October 29, 2009 / banpei / 0 Comments

TonyA. from FuzzyFeeling posted some old videos from some Silvias drifting on Mikuni pass way way back in 2003 by Youtube user kcrmsr. kcrmsr posted some other videos as well so naturally I browsed all of them till there was no video left to watch. ;)

This one was a quite funny one, where he is doing an Itsuki in one of the Silvias (starting at 1:09):

People who have seen Initial D will probably know exactly what I mean with doing an Itsuki, for others: in the episode “The Rainy Downhill!” from Stage One Kenta Nakamura (member of the Red Suns) challenges Takumi for a downhill race in the rain on Mt. Myogi. Takumi accepts and asks Itsuki (who hitched a ride from Takumi) to sit on the rear bench of the Trueno. In effect Itsuki adds extra weight on the rear wheels while tumbling from left to right (and vice versa) through the interior of the Trueno.

As you can see, IRL it is the same. The guy can’t even sit straight while cornering the first three turns and on the last turn he almost ticks over…