Tag: Skyline C210 (Page 2 of 4)

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

Commercial time: I love Skyline Japan

February 14, 2014 / banpei / 0 Comments

Since today is Valentine’s-day it is the perfect opportunity to show some love to the JDM cars, with the Nissan Skyline Japan C211 in particular:

Watch the complete series of the I love Japan commercials here: Continue reading

Family Album Treasures: my life, my skyline

September 17, 2013 / banpei / 0 Comments

Nissan opened up a website called Drive where they created a questionnaire for Skyline owners to share their thoughts, ideas, pictures or anything related to their Skylines. They called it My Life, My Skyline. If you have a few minutes (or rather more hours) to spare you can browse all the comments by all these proud Skyline owners and sometimes you can even find a rare gem between them, like this Family Album Treasure:

True Carboy style with your friends somewhere in the mid eighties. Don Johnson is playing Sonny Crockett in Miami Vice in a white suit and pink shirt. The pictures description by its uploader is “Together youth…” and there is not a better fitting description I guess. ;)

Found at: My life, My Skyline

Commercial time: I love Japan!

February 14, 2012 / banpei / 0 Comments

I couldn’t figure anything more suitable for valentine’s day than this mix and match of the fifth generation Skyline commercials with the punchline I love Japan.

Obviously this punchline gave the C210/C211 the nickname Skyline Japan. (Video can be found on the next page) Continue reading

Auto Holiday: Let’s have a ball!

December 20, 2011 / banpei / 1 Comment

The cover of the March 1983 issue of Auto Holiday magazine looks like a great deal of fun!

The magazine for car and leasure for youngs in the early 80s is clearly promising their readers to have a ball. ;)

Especially if you look at the kaido racer contents on the inside: Continue reading

Commercial time: jumping Skyline Japan

October 24, 2011 / banpei / 0 Comments

I think I’ve posted up this fifth generation Skyline commercial before, but I’m not sure about it… What I’m positive about is that I never posted up the small Nissan Langley commercial after it!

This first generation Langley looks awfully similar to its bigger Skyline Japan brother!