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DOTS: S2000 hunting!

June 6, 2010 / banpei / 1 Comment

Ever since I started doing the Miata Hunting I always wondered why the Miata is so ubiquitous while I couldn’t find a single Honda S2000… For some reason I just didn’t spot them, up till three weeks ago when I spotted three S2000s within one week!

I must confess I already spotted this S2000, but since it was parked in a terrible spot (where you can hardly stop and shoot a picture) it took a while before I had the opportunity to make this shot:

DOTS: 2005 light blue Honda S2000
Unfortunately the owner parked the car the wrong way around… :(

On my way back from where I shot the Suzuki Cervo SC100 I spotted this dark blue Honda S2000:

DOTS: 2006 dark blue Honda S2000
Since the owner was already sitting in the driver seat I reckoned he would be taking off soon. I grabbed my camera which still had a manual focus 135mm lens on it and tried to get the focus right as quickly as possible. The driver took off the minute I started to set the focus and I tried to get a lucky shot. I guess I spent all my luck on the SC100 that day: I managed to get three shots and the above is the best shot of those three…

The saturday after I got lucky again: while doing groceries I spotted this red S2000 AP1 in the same carpark as where I spotted a red Miata before:

DOTS: 2002 red Honda S2000
It is an early model from 2002 and I used the door of the Carina as a tripod (actually the Carina would qualify as a quadpod! :P) to get a couple of nice shots. I liked this shot the best: as a nice touch it shows the front fender of the Carina in the foreground.

I don’t think the S2000 hunting will ever get a part two: in my experience the S2000 is about twelve times rarer than the Miata. With that in mind it would take me another 36 Miatas before I can post about the S2000 again. ;)

DOTS: Miata hunting! (part 8)

May 23, 2010 / banpei / 1 Comment

Even though I have collected plenty of Miatas already to fill up another three parts I still want to keep this Miata hunt to one single Silver Miata I spotted:

Silver Mazda Miata
The Silver Miata was parked next to an small industral zone with some car shops. Since I spotted it on a Sunday I don’t reckon it was parked there by one of the shops and since I also just spotted earlier on some guys fixing up an old Celica on a driveway around the corner I suspect it is owned by one of them…

As you can see the Miata had a small bump on its nose but apart from that I must say this a nice looking Miata! It is not the looks I like, but rather the, I hate to say this word, stance of it. It has been dropped till the tires barely hit the fenders and, even though it does not have massive camber nor very wide wheels, it looks very nice this way! Only thing I would change were a bit wider wheels to fill the fenders to the max…

The Miata is owned by a member of the Dutch MX5 Club:

Silver Mazda Miata
I did have a look on the MX5 Club forums, but I haven’t been able to track down the owner. Perhaps anyone around recognizes the car?

DOTS: 1979 Suzuki Cervo SC100

May 16, 2010 / banpei / 0 Comments

Half a year ago I posted a black 1981 Suzuki Cervo SC100 and thought it was a one time only… Well last Sunday I spotted another Cervo:

Down on the Street: Suzuki Cervo SC100 GX
This brown GX model was parked in the back of a parking lot in front of a party-centre. You can see the sign saying “Parkeren achterzijde” which roughly translates into “rear parking”. Glad they didn’t park it there, otherwise I wouldn’t have spotted the Cervo!

Seen from the front it looks immaculate:

Down on the Street: Suzuki Cervo SC100 GX
Apart from that one tiny little dent in the front bumper…

But on the rear…

Down on the Street: Suzuki Cervo SC100 GX
…lots of dents in the rear bumper! How can you bump such a tiny car into something else? I mean: you can practically feel the distance when you stick your arms out of the window! ;)

MOT expired about two years ago and apart from the flat tire I can’t see anything wrong with this car…

DOTS: Toyota Supra MA71

May 9, 2010 / banpei / 1 Comment

A week ago Laurens Hoogeveen contacted me if I were interested in pictures of an old Supra spotted on the Dutch highways. Of course I am interested in pictures of (older) J-tin! :)

Down on the Street: Toyota Supra MA71
If you are a bit familiar with the Dutch highways you will recognize the spot he took these pictures: A4 from Schiphol (Dutch national airport) to Amsterdam (south) around the A9 junction.

On this image you can also see the owner’s name of the Supra:

Down on the Street: Toyota Supra MA71
Alexander Strik is a known Supra owner and a regular on the tracks. So presumably the returned from a trackday on Zandvoort (famous Dutch racetrack).

Down on the Street: Toyota Supra MA71
I love the big wing on this Supra! It reminds me a bit of the old bosozoku wings from the late 80s and early 90s! ;)

Down on the Street: Toyota Supra MA71
And how do I know the Supra is a MA71? Well, the Supra is a 3 litre turbo (MA71), so according to the Toyota designation it should be a MA71.

Big thanks to Laurens for the pictures! :)

DOTS: Subaru GL (Leone) coupe

May 2, 2010 / banpei / 0 Comments

As a child I still remember going to a Subaru dealer with my dad in the mid 80s. My dad wanted to buy a car and me and my brother tried to persuade him to buy a XT6. When that failed we tried the sporty looking 3 door GL coupe, like this one but then in red:

Down on the Street: Subaru GL (Leone)
Next time I saw the GL coupe again was when I lived in Amsterdam. Someone in the neighborhood owned a white 1.6 GL coupe and parked it regularly across the street.

Down on the Street: Subaru GL (Leone)
So when I spotted this chocolate brown GL coupe I just had to take pictures of it! I did not see the owner nearby, but looking at the seat position he or she must be quite small!

Down on the Street: Subaru GL (Leone)
Looking at the car now makes me think that it is Subaru’s model placed against the Toyota Carina A60 coupe and the Datsun Bluebird 910 SSS coupe.

And what about my dad? Well, somewhere at the back of the dealership there was this gold painted Carina DX TA60 wagon parked. It had been converted to run on LPG, had a tow hook and foldable rear seat. Guess in what car we drove home that afternoon… ;)

DOTS: beaten up 1993 Suzuki Swift GTi

April 25, 2010 / banpei / 0 Comments

This trashed 1993 black Suzuki Swift GTi has been standing near the office for quite some time and I wondered who would leave this car behind…

Black 1993 Suzuki Swift GTi
Apart from not having any MOT for the past six months it has been beaten up severely: mirrors are broken loose, front fender shows some big dents, scratches along the side of the car…

Black 1993 Suzuki Swift GTi
Rear wiper gone…

Black 1993 Suzuki Swift GTi
Mirror on this side broken loose as well and even more dents on the car…

Of course for most of the Dutch population this car will recall the 2009 Queensday attack where the attacker used a black Suzuki Swift and killed eight people before missing his target and crashing into some monument… I still remember seeing the footage of that attack and thought from now on any black Suzuki Swift will be a very impopular car to own/drive… Next Friday that will be one year ago exactly and I like to express my deepest respects to the victims of this madman.