Remembering Japanese cars from the past
The Japanese food producer Hagoromo decided it should hop on the Star Wars bandwagon in the late 70s and made this commercial:
This commercial is promoting their famous Sea Chicken, which is basically just a can of tuna.
Maybe they would have sold more if they called it Star Chicken instead! ;)
Yesterday I already posted a car chase by the Abunai Deka and today I have another one! This time they swapped their regular Nissan Leopard Y31 for a second generation Pontiac Firebird Trans Am!
Now this is a perfectly good example why American cars are superior to the Japanese: you can empty your gun on a Trans Am and it will still be going as strong as when it left the Pontiac factory in the mid 70s! Now compare that to their regular Leopard: would they have survived at such an attack at all?
After four and a half minute of wrecking 20 to 30 perfectly good late 70s and early 80s Salary Men type saloons it comes to an end when the Trans Am finally escapes the junkyard. It must have been a wise choice of the director to pick the junkyard as the background of this scene: after wrecking 30 cars you can just leave them there! Saves a lot of trouble in logistics! Brilliant!
We all did it once: doing a dry drift run. I did it as well: try out that heel-to-toe technique when standing still. Do a clutch kick without the risk of damaging your clutch. Do a quick up- and downshift without the chance hearing of grinding teeth from your gearbox. A very effective and safe way of learning to know your car.
But what if you are actually on a circuit and have blown your engine to bits and still want to enjoy your car? Well, you make videos like this:
I must say this guy is quite good in mimicking the 16v 4AGE and the T50 gearshifts! It kind of reminded me of this guy imitating an “import car” with his mouth. Maybe he watched Initial D a bit too much? :P
At February 14th the Chinese new year will start and as we all know the Chinese give each year a zodiac and an element. Upcoming year it will be the year of the tiger with metal as its element.
Satoru Works created some very special knuckles for upcoming year:
Satoru Metal Tiger Lucky New Year knuckles
Yes, a set of Metal Tiger knuckles for your car to give it that extra luck during your drift sessions! ;)
Found at Doriten’s blog. If I understand him correctly the end result will not be a photoshopped image and will be available alongside their normal range of knuckles.
This video of D1GP/D1SL the drivers doing an arm wrestling match made me grin big time:
Big LOL @ Naoki Nakamura who even fails to win when using both arms! :D
I spotted this funny picture on Doriten’s blog:
Need extra space on your Autozam AZ-1?
I did see the Autozam AZ-1 once on a JDM classics meeting and it is so small that I could never ever fit in one! Not even in the passenger seat! So I can understand the owner ingeniously placed a rack behind the AZ-1!
Oh, and who is that guy in suit? Chief Daimon from Seibu Keisatsu?
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