To say in yesterdays rustoseum spirits we will continue today with a rusty Carina SG left in a field:
Rusty Carina SG
I found it here and the translated text mentions something about a famous catchphrase “Carina foot guy”. I searched on it and found here that it was the catchphrase of the first generation Carina GT.
Anyone more familiar with that phrase?
Tag: rustoseum (Page 8 of 11)
Apparently not only the Japanese are tossing their cars into the trenches and leave them to rot: the Russians clearly are able to do just as great job as their Japanese neighbors:
Dumped Nissan Cedric Y31 in Russia
And from behind:
Dumped Nissan Cedric Y31 in Russia
A damn shame: I would have given that car a great home! :(
How can anyone leave a beautiful Mazda Luce Rotary gather dust and rust?
(R/D)usty Mazda Luce Rotary (RX4)
Judging from the amount of stuff around the Luce Rotary it must have been there for ages! There is even a pair of hedge shears on top of it! Apparently the owner of this RX4 didn’t have the time to repair or rebuild it, so it is currently gathering great amounts of dust and other junk!
This rusty Sprinter Trueno TE27 is also gathering a lot, but not dust! It is gathering plants:
Rusty Toyota Sprinter Trueno TE27
How can you let such a rare car rust away? The foliage is even growing through the trunk outside! Apparently someone thought it would be fruitful to park his old Trueno in his front yard and hope its 2T-G will grow by itself!
Last but not least, behold the rust on this Daihatsu Mira L70:
Daihatsu Mira L70
There is nothing fancy about this car, but I thought the massive amount of rust looked kind of beautiful!
Found at Toyota80’s and White peach’s photozou.
Time for a few more rustoseums!
Some time ago I proved that it could get worse than just a few sports cars rusting away: a bunch of Skyline C10s is about the worst thing I could find. The second worst rustoseum is absolutely the Mazda Cosmo and this Nissan Skyline 2000 GTE KGC111 is a good third I guess:
Japanese rustoseum: Nissan Skyline 2000 GTE KGC111
The 2000 GT-E KGC111 was the Hardtop version of the C110 range with a fuel injected L20. It superseded the carbed 2000 GT KGC110 and to distinguish the difference between the two the type designation was inceased with one. This Skyline GT-E is definitely beyond repair…
And fourth place would definitely be this Isuzu 117 Coupe:
Japanese rustoseum: Isuzu 117 Coupe
The Isuzu 117 Coupe is one of the most beautiful Japanese cars. Since it has been designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro it shares a lot of design cues with the first Audi 100 (coupe) and IMO that is one of the few beautiful Audis! However this example certainly isn’t the most beautiful 117 anymore… But at least, with some love and care, it looks repairable. ;)
Since posting up a lot of rusty pictures is getting a bit boring, how about some videos of rustoseums? I found a couple of them on Youtube, just like this video of a Mitsubishi Minica A107V Econo:
A complete mess inside and just left somewhere to rot away miserably…
If you like mess and rust this rusty Suzuki Carry van ST20 will certainly cheer you up more:
I haven’t seen so much crap inside a car since at the company I work for one of the office managers quit her job… Her car was definitely just a big a mess as this Carry van, but then of course without the rust! ;)
When I posted part 9 (with the Celica XX, MR2 and Silvia S13) on Facebook I replied to Matti Alasaari that there were even sadder pictures than that. As promised they are going to be posted here: three Nissan Skyline GC10s!
First of all this sad KGC10 coupe is rusting away:
Nissan Skyline 2000 GT-X KGC10
This KGC10 is the coupe version of the Skyline 2000 GT-X, but it does have the tail lights of the KPGC10 GT-R. You can distinguish it from the KPGC10 by looking at the rear arches: they haven’t been cut nor flared. Of course it is a famous upgrade to flare the rear arches and sell it to some foreigner as a GT-R, so there is still potential in this car! ;)
Now it is unclear what trim this GC10 used to be:
http://www.banpei.net/blog/japanese-rustoseums-part-eleven
Nissan Skyline GC10
Way beyond sanity and it will never be restored I guess…
This one is a bit easier:
Nissan Skyline GC10
It has no flared arches, got a zenki grille and headlight surrounding, so unmistakeably this is a Skyline 1500 GC10. :)
Now even putting the lowest grade (1500) of these Skylines on a junkyard is already a shame!