Car 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: Two tone Chaser MX41
I just happened to stumble upon this great looking two-tone Toyota Chaser MX41 hardtop coupe on Auctions Yahoo: and it has got it all!
Featured: Toyota Chaser MX41 hardtop coupe
Apart from the oil cooler between the front bumper and chins spoiler the car also has a great early 80s two tone paint scheme, a set of Techno Phantom rims and (invisible here) a cucaracha horn behind the grille!
The car also comes with a big ducktail and a tsurikawa dangling below the rear bumper.
Featured: Toyota Chaser MX41 hardtop coupe
The SG is one of the highest grades of the Chaser: it has IRS and is powered by the 1M-EU engine. This low mileage example has been garaged in the past 10 years so there hardly any rust on it!
And what is a zokusha without some pimp blue interior?
Featured: Toyota Chaser MX41 hardtop coupe
The seller describes even hauling his children to the nursery with this car daily. How awesome is that?
The buy-me-now price of 950,000 yen (11,000 US dollar) may sound a bit steep, but it is definitely one of the best looking MX41s I’ve seen so far.
You can find the auction link here
by banpei with no comments yetButaketsu Laurel on the highway
I like the looks of the Butaketsu (????) Laurel (Nissan Laurel C130), especially if it sticks up its pigs butt on the highway like this one:
These two videos were shot by Zeppann13J. Hopefully more to come! 🙂
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? 😛