Bosozoku style exhaust of the week
Bosozoku style exhaust of the week is a regular feature by me. I will try to keep my eyes open for bizarre exhausts.
This week the first edition:
This tree like exhaust looks really wild in that cold January weather at the Tokyo Auto Saloon 2009.
Daijiro Inada having fun with a Bosozoku styled Nissan Cedric
Option Video founder Daijiro Inada is having a lot of fun with this Bosozoku styled Nissan Cedric K230:
Especially the horn draws his attention and he uses it very often through town, even when passing traffic cops. 😉
Popular Bosozoku cars: Toyota Soarer
This is going to be a regular here: it would be nice to see some really mild to really wild examples of the Bosozoku style cars and then read how they came out of the factory. 😉
This week we’ll kick off with the Toyota Soarer:
Two Bosozoku styled Soarers
As you probably have read in the introduction an extremely lowered Soarer featured Shakotan Boogie. This most probably helped its popularity among Bosozoku stylers and most Toyota Soarers you see on Bosozoku car meetings are Shakotan Boogie look-a-likes.
Lengthened hood and overfenders on this Soarer
This milder styled car is of course an exception: it has a lengthened hood and overfenders as well. But apart from that it looks quite stock.
Read on for more pictures…
Someone has really gone wild on this Toyota Soarer
Big wing, deep dish wheels with huge overfenders and sideskirts wide enough to have somebody stand on!
The Z10 is the most popular Bosozoku styled Toyota Soarer, probably because of its boxy shape and because it is quite cheap to buy. Z20 Soarers are hardly seen and I’ve never seen any Bosozoku styled Z30 and Z40 Soarers, but never say never. 😉
How did it come out of the factory then?
Factory stock Toyota Soarer Z10
The Soarer itself was a successor to the Toyota Crown Coupe, which was a 2 door version of the Crown with a bit more sporty suspension. The Soarer itself did just as well as the Crown Coupe. The Soarer shared the same engines as the Crown and the CelicaXX.
Factory stock Toyota Soarer Z10
Because it shared the same engines as the CelicaXX it is often confused to be the same platform with a different bodyshape, like the Celica and the Carina have. However there is a Supra JZA70 with a Soarer Z20 frontend which makes the confusion even bigger.
Factory stock Toyota Soarer Z10 interior
To confuse it even more: a lot of the interior components of the Soarer look like the interior of the CelicaXX. True, but the CelicaXX also shared a lot of components with the Corolla AE86.
Tiptronic climate control
The Soarer was the most luxurious car in the Toyota lineup (apart from the Toyota Century of course!) and featured all the state of the art technology! In the picture above you can see the climate control of the Soarer is featuring tiptronic controls, other buttons were normal but about everything is electronically adjustable. The Soarer also featured a digital dashboard, state of the art 4 speed automatic (with sports setting!) and the passenger door had a seperate doorhandle for the passengers in the rear!
I hope you can see now why a Bosozoku styler would choose for the Soarer Z10: it is an incredible car with a lot of comfort which can’t even be found in cars from the 90s! Besides that: it is a very cool car itself.
by banpei with no comments yetNori Yaro at Daisuke Shouten
Alexi from Nori Yaro visited Daisuke’s shop:
If you’re a fan of Option videos, you may have noticed that whenever they feature a bosozoku-style car, like in the Go Go Daijiro segments, there’s always this one guy named Daisuke who keeps showing up with one or two of the cars. After a relatively difficult time tracking down his workshop (I eventually found an ad of his in a slightly obscure magazine and called the number) I took a drive out to visit it.
Wild bosozoku styled Gloria Y30
I think pictures say more than words here… They guy Daisuke does modify a lot of cars and has a giantic stockpile of cars in his backyard ready for modification!
Read on for more pics…
Of all cars in his backyard this is my personal favorite:
Widest rims I ever saw on a Nissan Laurel!
If you want to see what more there is in Daisuke’s backyard, you can find Nori Yaro’s blogpostings here and here.
by banpei with no comments yetHow do I get in this bosozoku style Bluebird 910?
How to get in this bosozoku style Nissan Bluebird 910?
Well that is a good question: it’s got no doorhandles!
Read on for more pics…
From the side you can see no hidden handles either
The only car that I know of that’s got no doorhandles is the General Lee of the Dukes of Hazard, but I doubt these Japanese will also enter the car through its windows!
If you are interested in how they removed the handles, you can see it all here.
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