Remembering Japanese cars from the past
Some months ago I posted Smokey Nagata’s Skyline V34 GT-R in the hilarious section, this time another hilarious video by Smokey Nagata:
As you can see: he is doing his emissions test of his catalytic converter by putting Eiji “Tarzan” Yamada inside the Top Secret Supra and comparing results of before and after.
Direct link to video: ラーマン山田 の 人体実験 スポーツ触媒 編 ～あわや 排ガス中毒 死!?～ / / Rahman Yamada’s Human body Experiment “catalyst”
I found a part of really old episode of Inazuman on Youtube and tried to find out more about that series.
Somehow I think it was not the Grand Championship cars which inspired the bosozoku, but rather this series with this weird flying car called Raijingo!
On Youtube I found the hilarious opening of the series:
WTF? He is able to rebuild collapsed buildings and shoot ropes, like spiderman, and pulls the building erect again?
According to the reviews of the series I found out that the flying car called Raijingo actually has a psychic link with Inazuman. Raijingo is capable of shooting missiles from its mouth. The car looks like it was originally a Nissan Fairlady 1500 SP310. Raiji means thundergod in Japanese, so it would have been more logical if the car was based upon a TE27 Trueno!
This was the part of the video I found and be prepared for a thrilling car chase between Raijingo and a Nissan Gloria A30:
Even though I’m a serious Gran Turismo fan I was planning to buy Need For Speed Shift today after I saw all the incredible screenshots and videos on Speedhunters! However this made my decision a bit tougher:
WTF? Those physics are seriously flawed! ??????
If you thought that was an accidental glitch, how about this one:
Just have a look at the results on Youtube then!
And how about this one?
Yo! Yo! NFS Shift will make you… Jump! Jump! Uh-huh-huh! ?(´?`)/
Still going to buy NFS Shift though… Apart from the weird glitch (which will certainly be fixed by a patch soon!) the game looks incredible and breathes nothing but pure racing!
A popular Japanese TV show called Sokon Tokoro featured a couple of fantastic wacky custom cars last week:
The first car is the George Tokoro’s (the TV show host) Subaru R1 badged as a Ferrari. Not very hot. :(
But then a large line of wacky customs arrive around the corner of the stadium:
– A 1994 Cadillac limo lowrider limo with plush pink interior. The paint joib contains 11 colors!
– A dragster disguised as a tank! It is powered by jet engine capable of pushing more than 25000 hp! Even the fireproof camera can’t stand its blast! It can reach a speed of 400 km/h!
– A factory stock Campagna T-REX, but for people who do not know this bike it is certainly wacky! ;)
The second video:
More bizarre cars:
– A BMW E66 which at first sight looks quite normal. Then the Buddhist priest gets out and shows the trunk is decorated with sutras written in Swarovski crystals!
– The priest also owns this Toyota Celsior with gullwings, scissor doors and a split hood and way too many displays! Even the headrests have display panels (to watch with the eyes in the back of your head!)
– A Dekotora van with a Batman theme.
– A 1981 Daihatsu Hijet with a Rocket launcher on its back. The rocket does work and is propelled as an ordinary water-rocket!
– A replica of the Earth Defence Force’s Pointer from the Ultra Seven TV series showed in the late 1960s. The car itself is based upon the original car it was made of: the 1967 Chrysler Imperial.
– A Hitachi ASTACO of the Tokyo Fire Department immitating a giant crablike monster!
IMO they missed one car/owner in this video: 
Daisuke Shouten’s Bosozoku styled Toyota Celsior UCF11 vip car!
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During the Tokyo Drift exhibition in Odaiba Keiichi Tsuchiya drives a mazda FC3S convertible with Daijiro Inada riding shotgun. Tsuchiya loses control over the mazda (that hardly ever happens!) and crashes into the tirewall:
If you look closely in the slowmotion replay you can see Keiichi braces himself against the impact while Daijiro (not wearing a seatbelt) didn’t see it coming and is squashed like a fly against the front window. ?????
Last week we already featured a tokusatsu video of Robot Keiji K and this week we have another tokusatsu video:
It is a wacky Autobacs tokusatsu ad called GO! GO! Autobacs! (???)
If you thought that was wacky, what about this Autobacs ad?
Or this one?
Lucky enough not all Autobacs ads are as wacky as these! Some are even dead serious, horribly boring and targeted at mid-level salarymen!
But I also found some horrible 80s Autobacs ads. Can’t wait to post those! (???)
p.s. Happy birthday Olivér!
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