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Merry Christmas with AI-generated AE86es

December 24, 2023 / banpei / 0 Comments

Tonight is Christmas Eve and that means spending time with family, eating dinner, opening gifts under the Christmas tree and family and I’m really looking forward to that! I’ll be offline for a few days and I wish you a Merry Christmas! But I didn’t want to leave you empty-handed and present you with a gift as well!

I thought the best way to express that was by looking at the current state of AI and generating some Christmassy pictures with an AE86. For all four images, I used the following term: “White Toyota Trueno AE86 with popup headlights, Christmas trees and snowy landscape”. I did two in comic/cartoon style and two in photo-realistic style.

Cartoon style

DIY JDM Christmas tree with Hot Wheels ornaments

December 23, 2016 / banpei / 1 Comment

As this year is nearing it’s end, I thought I should do something special this year. The Christmas holidays are coming up soon, and in all it’s joy and glory fits a Christmas tree. I got one at home, but I didn’t have one in my office. And since my office is partially a JDM shrine, the tree should be one as well. A JDM Christmas tree to be more exact!

JDM Christmas tree

The idea for this came when I received a red Hotwheels AE86 as a present for Sinterklaas. Sinterklaas is the Dutch Santa Clause and therefore I thought I should do something with it. So I wondered how much work it would be to convert a Hotwheels car into a Christmas tree ornament. It couldn’t be that long?

Watch the video below on how to create one yourself: Continue reading

Merry Christmas!

December 25, 2015 / banpei / 1 Comment

Merry Chistmas and the best wishes for 2016!

My wishes last year were:

World peace
Cure for all diseases
Discovering a barn-find Nissan 2400GT (I’ll also settle for a Nissan 240K GT)

None of them came true unfortunately…

My wishes for 2016 would be:

World peace
Cure for all diseases
Finishing the 4AGE swap that has been taking over one and a half years already

Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

December 24, 2014 / banpei / 0 Comments

As every year a merry Christmas and the best wishes for 2015!

My wishes for the New Year are:

World peace
Cure for all diseases
Discovering a barn-find Nissan 2400GT (I’ll also settle for a Nissan 240K GT)

Merry Chistmas and a happy New Year!

December 24, 2013 / banpei / 2 Comments

It almost became a unwritten tradition to post a picture of a certain Toyota Carina with my X-mas wishes and last year was a bit sad. So I decided not to get as corny as my neighbor who sends me a Christmas card including her and her dogs and decided to post this photo I took of a Silvia instead:

So merry Chistmas and a happy New Year!

Merry Christmas and a rustfree New Year!

December 23, 2012 / banpei / 10 Comments

Yes, that is no typo:

Merry Christmas and a rustfree New Year!

My automotive year ended quite badly. What turned out to be a very tiny hole in the rear inner fender on both sides proved to be a true nightmare: the tinworm struck again, ate its way through and instead of a white Christmas I’m actually seeing quite reddish now…
Lucky enough this is the only rust on the whole floorpan of the Carina as it has been creeping from inside out and not the other way around. So to prevent my Carina from becoming a rustoseum I’m having this fixed shortly after New Year and let’s hope it is a rustfree year for everyone! :)