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Abandoned MR2 AW11 in Tokyo, photo by Dino Dalle Carbonare

Friday Video: Dino Dalle Carbonare’s insane abandoned Japanese cars

October 13, 2023 / banpei / 0 Comments

It’s Friday, so I have another video for you! I was doubting whether I should post this under the Rustoseums or the Friday Video category. I chose the latter because it is quite a lengthy video to watch! Dino Dalle Carbonare, Dino DC on Youtube, is a quite famous car photographer who works and lives in Japan. He posts regularly on Speedhunters, but nowadays he also is more active on Youtube.

Abandoned Japanese cars in Tokyo

A few weeks ago he posted this video about the abandoned Japanese cars he encounters on a daily basis. This is quite similar to what Daniel O’Grady has been dedicating his entire channel to, but for Dino this is quite a side step. As Dino lives near Tokyo, most of these cars are found in the greater Tokyo area.

Rusty pair of Mazda Cosmo 110S [Japanese Rustoseums]

February 27, 2016 / banpei / 2 Comments

The sight of a rust Mazda Cosmo 110S is a sad sight, but seeing a pair rust together is even sadder:

The better looking one of the pair appears to be the short wheelbase L10A.

The other one seems to be similar in length but I can’t tell for sure if it also is another early type or if it is the more common series II: Continue reading

Japanese Rustoseums: Kyusha Kai Toyota Mark II GX71 wagon

December 5, 2014 / banpei / 0 Comments

Seeing a custom car end up in a junkyard is a real shame, especially if it is a nice kyusha kai Toyota Mark II GX71 wagon like this example:

The blue color with its pearlescent paint kind of gives it away as a real show car and when BANKAKUEMIKO moves around the car the tiny details make it more and more obvious: the flushed wagon hatch, the wire wheels on the rear seat, the custom vinyl wrapped trim, the xenon lights and most obvious the lengthened bonnet which fits it right into the kyusha kai, shakotan and/or kaido racer scene. (mixes them a bit)

You can watch the full video below: Continue reading

Count the Nissan Skyline R31s at R31House

September 29, 2014 / banpei / 2 Comments

Just take a deep breath and count the number of Nissan Skyline R31s in this photo:

I must admit I stopped counting after the fifth row of Nissan Skyline R31s…

These three photos were taken at the R31 House junkyard. Continue reading

Japanese Rustoseums: the very rare junkyard

August 23, 2014 / banpei / 0 Comments

From various sources (like WasabiCars) I understood that finding a junkyard in Japan is very rare. There are some private yards that are mostly owned by garage owners and use the cars in the yard as spare parts. When I saw this photo of a real junkyard on a Japanese blog I couldn’t believe what I saw:

In this big pile of rust I detected: a Mercury Cougar, a four door Toyota Chaser X30, a Mitsubishi Galant Λ (aka the Mitsubishi/Plymouth Sapporo and Dodge Challenger), a Toyota Celica A60 (maybe an XX?), a Nissan Skyline C210, a Toyota Corona T130, a Toyota Crown MS50 and the nicest of them all: a Toyota Publica van.

More photos of this junkyard can be found here: route0030

Japanese Rustoseums - Overgrown Toyota Corolla Levin AE86

Japanese Rustoseums: Overgrown Levin AE86

July 3, 2014 / banpei / 0 Comments

Sometimes you get lucky and bump into the original source of an earlier rustoseums post and find additional photos, just like this Toyota Corolla Levin AE86:

The first images are an overgrown Toyota Corolla Levin AE86 but below that I found the photos I posted earlier (found at a different source) of an overgrown Toyota Carina AA63. As you can see the Levin is just as badly overgrown as the Carina and even worse in terms of its rustyness. It still has one good thing: the gigantic ducktail spoiler.

As you can see even the supercharged 4A-GZE has been overgrown: Continue reading