Remembering Japanese cars from the past
This Nissan Micra K11 was literally down on my street: it was parked on the parkinglot across the street!
My first reaction was: what the f*#K is that bodykit?
Then I realized it looked very familiar… A bit like a Mitsuoka or maybe a Riley or Wolseley? But later on I found out the grille is exactly the same shape as the one of a Glas Gogomobile TS250 Coupe!
From the rear the car is a normal Micra: Continue reading
I know I featured this Toyota Crown MS85 Super Saloon a good year ago, but it appears in front of the office now and then:
And it looks so damn great I can’t leave it be. ;)
The Crown really looks a bit gangster with its colors and high springs: Continue reading
It is always fun to spot a Japanese classic car down on the street, especially if it is a red 1986 Nissan Silvia S12 parked in some parking lot in the center of my hometown:
I stopped, parked my car and started shooting pictures with my phonecam, not knowing it was actually quite special…
Red cars fade easily and that is due to the red paint in general is not resisting sunlight as much as other paints. This red Silvia is very well preserved and maybe even garaged since a long time: Continue reading
About one year ago I spotted this Mitsubishi FTO in my rear view mirror and when I drove home from work after picking up my brand new Civic I spotted the little red FTO parked on the side of a street:
Of course I could not let it pass, parked my car alongside and started taking snapshots. The old guy in the photo was not related to the car and had no idea to who it belonged nor was he impressed when I told it the car was actually quite special.
Even though the FTO is the little FWD brother of the Mitsubishi GTO/3000GT it is a design of its own: Continue reading
Now for something more refreshing after all those Hungarian Honda Civics: a JDM Toyota Altezza SXE10!
Last Wednesday I was enroute (by bike) to pick up my son from school when in a blink of an eye I spotted something wrong with the “Lexus IS200” on the other side of the street. I quickly grabbed my phone and took the picture above.
There was indeed something odd and it wasn’t only being RHD, nor the JDM Altezza grille and after market bumper: Continue reading
This actually isn’t the last of the Honda Civics I spotted in Hungary, but it will be the last one I’ll share. Maybe it has been some sort of foreboding spotting that many Civics? Anyway, the others were, I guess, less interesting… Now this Honda Civic EK is interesting:
As you might have spotted it features ATS Cup rims and double exhaust pipes which are obviously not very JDMish. Correct: it actually is very Veedubbish (or VWish) and most of the tuned cars in Hungrary are done in this style. I even spotted and photographed a flushed Civic EG that made me think Honda could actually have been originating from Germany, but not worth sharing as the car was a WIP.
So what if the rims actually belong to a Golf? To be honest: the whole BBS style rims on JDM cars originated from the BMW scene, so why not a set of ATSes?
So what do you think about these mix and match styles?
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