Time to continue with the Celica TA64 in the 1985 Safari Rally:
Funny to see how they keep the driver Juha Kankkunen cool at one of the stops: with a spray can! Of course filled with CFCs in good old 80s style!
I love the night shot in this video! You can see the Celica TA64 shining through the bush and dashing past the camera like a predator that is after its prey!
Part 5 gets a little bit boring…
And the final part includes the victory of the TA64!
Somehow I expected a lot of J-tin next to the roads in those videos like you see on modern footage from Africa, however almost all cars in those videos were Peugeots!
Monday moring RSS reading gave me these beautiful videos by Zeppann containing various old Japanese (and European/American) cars at a Classic Car Club meeting held July 19th in Kuroishi:
Japanese cars spotted at quick glance (after 6:30 minutes) were almost the entire nostalgic lineup of Japan: (in no particular order)
Honda S800, Honda S600, Honda Beat, Nissan Cedric C210, Nissan Laurel C130, Nissan Skyline C110, Nissan Fairlady S30 280Z, Nissan Skyline C10, Mitsubishi Galant Lambda, Hino Contessa Coupe?, Nissan Fairlady S30 240ZG, Mazda Cosmo, Nissan Silvia CSP311, Mazda 360, Nissan Sunny B10, Honda N360, Nissan Skyline C210, Nissan Cedric C330, Mitsubishi Eclipse, Mitsubishi Starion, Soarer Z20, Toyota Corolla AE86, Nissan Cedric Y30 hardtop, Nissan Laurel C31 hardtop, Nissan Skyline DR30 ironmask, Nissan Bluebird 510, Prince Gloria, Nissan Cedric C130 (early), Toyota Crown MS110, Mitsubishi Minica (first generation) and Isuzu Bellet.
Then I got bored and stopped identifying them. [???]
And then there was a second video:
With a Subaru 360, Daihatsu Max, Mitsubishi Galant GTO, Mitsubishi Lancer, Toyota Publica and many many many many (did I already say many?) more Japanese nostalics! ?(´?`)/
IMO worth watching and not a even a second of that video was wasted time!
Yet another great video by hiroun156: an in depth video of the 1985 WRC Toyota Celica TA64! Unfortunately he is only posting parts of the whole video and the current part count is at part 2.
The video itself is not an heroic aftermath video made 20 years after, but an actual 1985 report of the 33rd Marlboro Safari Rally held that same year. The Safari Rally is one of the hardest rallies: the 1985 edition was 5167.6 km long and consisted mostly of gravel roads.
The first video:
I found two inconsistencies in this video:
1. At 8:09 the camera switches from the driver position to the navigator. At this point the interior also switches from the TA64 to an AE86! ?(???;)
2. At 8:57 you get five seconds of onboard footage. If you look carefully enough you will notice it is an AE86 by both engine sound and upper part of the dash. (????)
My guess is that they did not have the appropriate footage and filled it up with some shots they did have of the AE86…
The second video:
During a jump of the Celica I spotted that the TA64 has, in contrary of the TA63, a solid axle. I looked it up and indeed it has a solid axle:
Live axle of the Toyota Celica TA64 TCT
Now that’s an axle! ??????
I found these two vintage 1960s crash test videos of the Nissan Bluebird on Youtube. The first video shows the crash tests of a dummy sitting on the rear seat of a Nissan Bluebird 410 crashing at 50 km/h and 100 km/h:
Most probably these tests were done to see the impact of wearing seat belts at the rear seat at 50 and 100 km/h. As you can see the 410 two point seatbelt is pretty useless at 100 km/h: the seat belt fails due to the force of the impact and the dummy is launched and beheaded by the dashboard. Lovely slow-motion replays at the end of the video!
But believe me: even though the carnage looks bad, for that time these tiny 410s were quite safe! Compare that with these GM crash tests! But I still wouldn’t want to be beheaded by my own dashboard…
The second video shows the Nissan Bluebird 510 crash test at 40 km/h, creating a chain crash a few other 410s and a (new?) 510:
This test is actually very ingeniously done: no remote operated brakes, just a plain and simple wirecutter activating the brake system! It is like watching the Mythbusters from 1968! ;)
This test shows the advantages of using both a headrest and a seat belt. In the slow-motion footage at the end you can see that the dummy in the front car stays in place even after this car gets hit three times! The headrest saves the dummy from breaking its neck, while clearly the dummy of the second car wasn’t that fortunate: it hits both the windscreen and breaks its neck due to the front seat lacking a headrest.
Another thing becomes clear with this test: the 510 is a lot safer than the 410! Even though 410s receives a lot of damage on both front and rear ends while the 510 (third in row) crumples a lot more than the 410 to reduce the force of the impact.
I’m glad I’m driving a bit more modern car than these two! However, I seriously doubt a 27 year old car is considered safe according to nowadays standards…
One of my favorite postings at Japanese Nostalgic Car blog is the Friday Video. Most of the time they feature the old Japanese police cop series, from which Seibu Keistatsu the most frequently returning series is.
This model is so detailed, even the stickers on the side have very very tiny decal saying 4 valve DOHC next to the bigger RS-Turbo letters! And even the window mouldings are silver! ??????
And of course the inside of the car is just as detailed as the outside! The big computer console is just like in the series! ?(´??)?
Compare the pictures above to this video footage of the RS-1, RS-2 and RS-3:
It may not be as detailed as the perfect AE86 by AutoArt, but think of it this way: the AutoArt AE86 is 1/18 and this is a 1/43 diecast! So this diecast is more than twice as small and the total length is about 10 centimeters! Then think of all those tiny little details on it! Now that is small!
According to the blog this new detailed diecast is available since April 2009! Now all I need is someone outside Japan selling this diecast! ?(????)
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