Meeting Monday
Ky Ra also posted up a video of the JCCA NYM 2012 on Flickr with lots of old kyusha kai, shakotan and kaido racer goodness! Enjoy 1:21 of JDM classic traffic jam! (Video on the next page!) (more…)
by banpei with no comments yetMeeting Monday
Last week we had footage from the Awaji Island Old Car New Year meeting and this week we got another New Year Meeting: the JCCA New Year Meeting 2012!
Every year the JCCA NYM is a spectacular sight because not only classics but also exotics and kaido racers show up: (more…)
by banpei with 1 commentMeeting Monday
Shakotanbugi was this week present at the Old Car New Year 2012 meeting in Awaji Island (near Kobe) and he shared a lot of videos on Youtube!
Various kaido racers were present. Take for instance this Cresta GX71 with Falken livery:
Or this Kenmeri Skyline:
Also watch this overview video:
Note the car at 0:30. Is that a real 2000GT convertible or just a beheaded one?
Direct links to videos: Cresta GX71, Kenmeri Skyline and Overview
by banpei with 2 commentsMeeting Monday
Since the meeting in the parkinglot of the last day of the Tokyo Auto Salon is held on a Sunday it should actually say Meeting Sunday! 😉
I just took a screenshot of my favorite: this Mark II which is around 3:05 of the video. (more…)
Meeting Monday
According to the poster somewhere in 1981 at the Fuji Grand Championship these photos were shot outside in the parkinglot. Now thirtyone years later they emerge on Youtube as a video with suitable late 70s/early 80s disco track underneath it!
Looking at the Celica XX makes me believe either a brand new one was treated the kaido racer style or it should rather have been a bit later in the 80s.
Anyway, that doesn’t stop us from having fun with the video: (video on the next page!) (more…)
by banpei with 2 comments