Exhaust of the week: Laurel 17 years ago
Sometimes you find a little gem between all those old pictures you collected through those years… Well, I did with this Nissan Laurel C230:
Nissan Laurel C230 in the nineties
As you can see, it was taken exactly 17 years ago!
Lovely exhausts btw! 😉
by banpei with no comments yetSearch for the baddest of the toughboys!
I admit: it was a bit inevitable…
Nissan Cedric C230 #1
Yep. The Cedric won! Could it be the fact that Daijiro Inada featured this car??
Winners so far are:
1. 
Nissan Laurel C130 #1
2. 
Nissan Skyline C110
3.
Nissan Cedric C230 #1
This week we have another Mark II versus another Laurel:
Toyota Mark II MX30 #2
This Mark II MX30 has some beetle eye lids, a chin spoiler, an oil cooler and a tail light swap with an old Cedric.
Versus
Nissan Laurel C130 #2
If you guessed Purple, then you are right: this is the Purple Laurel! The Purple Laurel actually did not have that many changes when these pictures were made: it only had a headlight swap, some deep dish rims, massive camber and of course its flakey Purple paint!
Later on a lot did change on the Laurel: big wide fenders, oil coolers, etc. See also the video for that.
Search for the baddest of the toughboys!
Finally we managed to kick off the search for the baddest of the toughboy zokushas! With a toughboy zokusha we mean the pre 80s ride with big loud pipes, extreme wide wheels and scraping to the ground on every bump. Only to be driven by the toughest guys!
7M Kev suggested to do a poll on this. It will be the same as the sudden death series when we searched for the most iconic zokusha: we take two toughboy zokushas and you take your pick! After a week we will look at the results and put up a next pair for you! 😉
In total we have selected 16 cars, from which 3 were selected by others. You can still send in your nominations and we’ll see if we can still fit them in the lineup.
So, this week we start with:
Nissan Laurel C130 #1
As you can see: the Laurel has a headlight swap and you can’t hardly see the road beneath it. With the 70s lip and paintscheme this Laurel looks even tougher than any extended fender would have!
versus
Nissan Fairlady Z S30 #1
With its immitation G-nose this Fairlady Z S30 looks really tough! It also has a first generation Celica liftback taillight swap and the tsurikawa hints the car won’t be able to take speedbumps in a normal fashion anymore.
Video: Purple Laurel c130
I just love the looks of this purple Nissan Laurel C130 hardtop:
Bosozoku car feature: Double V exhaust Laurel C130
Remember the Double U shaped exhausts of the week? When I posted the first car I was convinced the car was a Celica due to the rear lights.
Double V shaped exhaust
It was a bit hard to tell but the picture only showed the rearend of the car. The picture with the second car showed it wasn’t a Celica but I couldn’t tell what it was after all. Lucky enough I finally found a couple of pictures of the side and front of the car:
Read on for more info and pictures…
Remember the Double U shaped exhausts of the week? When I posted the first car I was convinced the car was a Celica due to the rear lights.
Double V shaped exhaust
It was a bit hard to tell but the picture only showed the rearend of the car. The picture with the second car showed it wasn’t a Celica but I couldn’t tell what it was after all. Lucky enough I finally found a couple of pictures of the side and front of the car:
Nissan Laurel C130 with swapped headlights
As you can see: it is a Laurel C130! ?(???;)
Bosozoku style Nissan Laurel C130
Not only did it have its rear lights swapped for a set of Celica’s but also the headlights of a Laurel C230 and bumper mixed from, what I think, a Toyota Mark II (midsection) and a Corona T130 (extensions).
Bosozoku style Nissan Laurel C130 2 door hardtop
In this picture you can see really well that the Laurel is a 2 door hardtop. IMO the best looking Laurel of them all! 🙂