Remembering Japanese cars from the past
One of the cars at the Internationaal Toyota Treffen has been my favorite for a long time now:
Thomas’ (aka The Doctor) Corolla KE20 started out as a Belgian rally modified Corolla KE20 and after blowing up his engine twice he decided to take it off the road and rebuild it from the ground up again!
The work and effort he put into the project can really be seen: Continue reading
The Dutch Toyota importer Louwman has been neglecting their heritage and clubs for the past decade. With the launch of the Toyota GT86 (aka Toyota 86 and Scion FR-S) they decided to change that and asked the TACN if they could join in and put the Toyota GT86 on display during the festival. They also has some sort of social media contest (which IMO was rubbish and did not do) where you could “win” 4 rounds on the Midlands circuit in Lelystad. It was still a nice gesture.
Near the end of the day one of the AEU86 members went home and parked his kouki panda red Corolla GT AE86 next to its siblings:
I immediately walked over and shot a couple of pictures of father and son next to each other. ;)
Quickly popped in my 28mm lens to make the angle wider: Continue reading
A little bit different than the previous nostalgic posts is todays post. At the festival I found two Lexus IS200s where the engine was swapped in favor of some other engine. The (sorry to day this) lesser one was this IS200 with genuine JDM Altezza grille:
It has been imported to the Netherlands less than a year ago as an IS200 but on papers it already had a 2.5 litre engine. I think you can already guess what engine it had…
Indeed! A second generation 1JZ-GTE: Continue reading
Yesterday I posted the yellow whale Crown MS68 but I also shot a couple of photos of another kujira (whale) crown: green hardtop coupe MS75!
The coupe was completely bone stock and still in its original paint!
I think I shot a similar photo like this one last year at the Japanese Classic Sunday: Continue reading
Last year someone brought along their Crown RS40L but this year they could not make it. Another MS50 wagon made it to the festival but I only took one photo of it. So next in line is the kujira (whale) Crown where this super rare Crown Wagon MS68 was in perfect condition.
Naturally I photographed it in any angle possible, just like this one with lots and lots of silky smooth bokeh: Continue reading
For some reason this genuine Dutch Celica did gather crowds continuously:
I think the (very good) reason behind it was that it has a sweet 18R-G engine under its bonnet: Continue reading
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