Car feature: Suzuki Carry kaido racer
Kei trucks make excellent kaido racers: they are easy to change and they definitely look different from other kaido racers.
This Suzuki Carry is nicely done with some two-tone vinyl and SSR Mk II wheels:
At the rear of the truck a simple ducktail spoiler: (more…)
by banpei with 2 commentsCar feature: perfect Tomica Skyline RS immitation
Last friday we featured a video of an almost perfect Tomica Skyline RS Super Silhouette immitation. After a wild goose chase I managed to find some pictures of this wonder:
Perfect Tomica Skyline RS immitation
And believe it or not, this picture was actually taken at a Porsche meeting in Nagashima!!
On this picture while unloading the car you can see its profile a bit better:
Perfect Tomica Skyline RS immitation
If you pay good attention and compare it to this picture of the real car (posted before here) you can see that my remark was a bit off:
The real Hashemi Tomica Skyline RS Super Silhouette
I remarked that the wheels were too small, but that is not the case: the real one appears to have a much higher roofline. This was done to comply to the rules of Group 5 which required to retain the roofline of the car. Other parts were allowed to be altered as long as the silhouette remained the same. Hence the lowered bonnet, fenders and trunk.
Another difference are obviously the headlights and lack of hoodfins:
Perfect Tomica Skyline RS immitation
This picture was taken inside Hide’s garage.
The rear is a copy of the early model:
Perfect Tomica Skyline RS immitation
But since there are so little pictures of the rear of the car it can only be guessed that it is correct…
I have no idea what is under its hood, but I don’t think you will find a LZ20R under it. Most probably a FJ20ET…
I said it is a perfect copy in the title, but that is obviously not entirely correct. However it is definitely the closest to the real thing!
Found at [No custom no life]
(If you continue to read there you will find he is creating a RX7 SA22 super silhouette copy!)
Bosozoku car feature: QareeMz sharknose Rolla
QareeMz sent me some pictures of his sharknosed Toyota Corolla AE70 a few weeks ago. This week he sent me the updated pictures, including a Victory Exhaust!
QareeMz sharknose Rolla AE70
In Japan the zokushas are either very large vehicles (Cedrics, Crowns, etc) or very small kei cars. It is great to see a car between those two classes!
The oil-cooler and sharknose give the car a great face:
QareeMz sharknose Rolla AE70
And the Hoshino Impuls complement the side!
And the victory exhaust finishes off the rear!
QareeMz sharknose Rolla AE70
QareeMz also wrote he is starting a Malaysian Bosozoku club himself. How cool is that!
Car feature: Boso?SoCal Civic
Facebook fan Alexander Veit from Austria posted this tri-continent Bosozoku-SoCal-ratlook crossover on our wall:
BOSO?SOCAL CIVIC
Yup, definitely bosozoku at the rear!
But at the front you can see the whole mix between the three styles:
BOSO?SOCAL CIVIC
Oil Cooler meets rusty fenders meets bonnetless front meets polished Ronals meets roofrack. This weeks Fronte still got to do some stuff if they want to compete with this mashup!
And I love the design of this boso?socal sticker:
BOSO?SOCAL CIVIC
Alexander, can we copy those designs? 😛
Bosozoku car feature: Sexy Bistro
Some time ago Alexi Smith posted a Nissan Skyline R32 drift missile with some random tail light replacements. I did remember from what car one of them used to be, to be exact: from the Subaru Vivio Bistro. The car itself is a quite dull retro-look spin off kei car, but of course you can make it look great by doing this to it:
Sexy Bistro (Subaru Vivio)
Slap a set of Hayashi Streets on it, some fender extenders, a big lip, an oilcooler on the bumper and suddenly it doesn’t look that boring anymore! 😉
The tsurikawa is supposed to be a Hello Kitty item, but I can’t really judge from the pictures whether that is actually the case or not…
Sexy Bistro (Subaru Vivio)
Wheels are 13 inch 6J Hayashi Street (ET+13 front, ET+7 rear) with 155/65 R13 tires ballooning around them.
Sexy Bistro (Subaru Vivio)
And here you can see how far these not so wide wheels stick out of a Bistro without the fender extenders… Imagine how wide a 9J rims would be! 😀
I really love the tiny details they put on this car like the star shaped stickers on the headlights. Too bad there weren’t any pictures of the rear of the car yet…
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