Tag: ken & mary

Family Album Treasures: Ken & Mary Nissan Skyline R30

Family Album Treasures: Ken & Mary Skyline R30

December 18, 2014 / banpei / 3 Comments

The Ken & Mary Skyline advertisements from the 70s made a really huge impact on the Japanese youngsters of the 70s. Both Ken and Mary became icons and so did the umbrella icon. Not surprisingly the Japanese baby-boomers love to pose in front of a Nissan Skyline C110 (kenmeri) with a red umbrella. In this case the car is slightly different: a Nissan Skyline R30!

I have to be honest here: I don’t know the origin from this photo, when it was taken, no idea who is in the photo and why she decided to be there. But what is for sure is that a person called Jing found the photo and added it to his Skyline pictures album.

Found at Jing’s Skyline photos

Japanese Rustoseums Nissan Skyline KPGC110

Japanese Rustoseums (part thirtyseven)

June 7, 2012 / banpei / 4 Comments

Now imagine you are about to enter a town called Koyaguchi Nogami and you see some car wrecks hidden in the foliage:

You get a bit closer and see this: Continue reading

WTF: Aussie Spares Datsun C110 banger racer

February 17, 2012 / banpei / 3 Comments

Apparently Aussie Spares only cares for Vailiant, Falcon and Holden and not for vintage JDM tin…

I think Ken and Mary would disapprove…

Friday Video: JDM Classic illustration

December 9, 2011 / banpei / 1 Comment

Amazing what you can do with a Kenmeri Skyline, Hakosuka Skyline, Fairlady Z, some photoshop skills and fooling around with different JDM styles:

I especially love the Grand Champ Hello Bosozoku style! ;)

Direct link to video: Japanese classic car Skyline Ken＆Mary ケンメリ JDM 旧車 illustration

BTW: this is a crosspost with Bosozokustyle.com

Video: Ken & Mary in 2011

October 20, 2011 / banpei / 1 Comment

I was browsing through some kyusha styled car videos on Youtube and I bumped into this video featuring the owners girlfriend and the Skyline C110 Ken & Mary theme song on the radio.

Everything just fits together: even Mary drives the car nowadays! It’s just like Ken and Mary in 2011!

Redesign and change of heart!

September 4, 2011 / banpei / 9 Comments

In case you are a regular you must have a big WTF?! by now… Yes, indeed not only did I just change the look and feel of the blog, I also decided the blogging software should be changed to WordPress.

Why? Well that’s quite simple: the old software was getting too complicated (I hacked a lot into it), outdated (less nifty features as WordPress), Facebook posting (still to be enabled) and the comment spam was getting worse and due to anti spam matters real comments were declining… So I decided, even though I’m very skeptic about WordPress, to rely on a system that works.

About the redesign: it is a fantastic theme called Custom Community by Themekraft. If you didn’t recognize the logo: it was inspired/borrowed by the Nissan Ken & Mary Skyline C110 advertisement campaign:

Hope you will like the change as much as I do! ;)

BTW: if you encounter problems with old pages, please send them to me through the contact form. Also the blogroll will be extended to its original length later on.