Bosozoku car feature: My Road Celica XX
I have no idea what made the difference, but this bosozoku styled Celica XX just looks perfect to me:
My Road Toyota Celica XX
My Road did a great job on it and I could not think of anything I’d like to see changed on this Celica XX. Even a headlightswap would be out of the question here: it simply would not suit the Celica XX popup lights.
My Road Toyota Celica XX with deep dish SSR Mk 2
The deep dish SSR Mk 2 rims are hidden well in those really wide fenders and the side exhaust looks just spot on: not too flashy or long while at the same time really noticeable!
I’d say it is perfectly balanced! 🙂
Last weeks poll results
It was very close this week, but the Nissan Gloria C330 managed to win!
Winners so far:
Bosozoku style Skyline C210
Bosozoku style Fairlady 280ZX
Toyota Crown S130 with spread winged exhaust
Nissan Gloria C330 Bosozoku style
This week we have two new entries:
Kyusha styled Toyota Celica XX
Versus
Kyusha styled Nissan Skyline C210 Japan
Meeting monday
This meeting featuring in Meeting Monday is a bit long ago: 1986!
Of course there were meetings back then, but what we did not expect was that such modern cars already were used for modification!
The Celica XX is one of the most remarkable examples we ever saw! And some of the GX61 Mark IIs are done really well too! We also saw some second generation Honda Preludes, so the real Bosozoku style did not limit itself to mostly RWD cars back then.
You can see not much has changes since 1986: big exhaust pipes, deep dish wheels, fender extenders and big spoilers…
Popular Bosozoku cars: Toyota Celica XX
As promised: this week we feature the Celica XX in the Popular Bosozoku Cars. 🙂
We kick off with a subtle Kyusha styled example:
Kyusha styled Toyota Celica XX
The kouki Celica XX (facelifted second version) already featured fender flares on its own, but this car above has extended those flares extremely and added some sideskirts to it. Nice example of Kyusha style on the more modern cars if there were no fins on the hood and a large exhaust.
Shakotan styled Toyota Celica XX
This Shakotan styled Toyota Celica XX had it all: extremely lowered to the ground, deep dish wheels still fitting in the original fenders and a big pipe sticking out from under the rear bumper! Note that the wing on the hatch is the factory spec upper spoiler for some of the zenki Celica XX (pre-facelift) models.
Bosozoku styled Toyota Celica XX
Everything is boso on this Bosozoku styled Toyota Celica XX: big lip on the front, single windshield wiper, wacky color, racing mirrors, extremely wide fenders and some diy sideskirts to stand on while parading through town!
Funny enough I could not find any racing replicas through all pictures I have of Bosozoku styled Celcia XXs. Eventhough the Celica XX did not feature the Super Silhouette formula, there were a lot of them racing around the world back in the early 80s and definitely it must have inspired some people to make replicas of them, just like the Granchan styling were replicas of the old Super Silhouette racers.
Factory stock kouki Toyota Celica XX
The first generation Celica XX (pronounced as “double X”) was a lengthened Celica A4 to fit the 2.6 liter 4M or the 2.0 liter 1M into the Celica. Basically the first generation Celica XX did not look much different from the normal Celica except it had a very long bonnet. Later spec Celica XX did receive the more powerful 2.8 liter 5M-E and IRS, which was top of the range.
The second generation Celica XX succeeded the first generation and featured a 2.0 liter 1M-T turbo as the basic engine, a naturally aspired 2.8 liter 5M-GE as the midrange with lots of torque and a high revving naturally aspired 2.0 liter 1G-GEU as top of the range. At the same time Toyota was also working together with Lotus on the MR2 and had a good idea: have Lotus do the suspension on the Supra and in exchange have Lotus reuse some of the parts for their own car lineup! (the Lotus Excel for instance shares the rims and gearbox)
Factory stock zenki Toyota Celica XX
As stated before: the major difference between the zenki and the kouki models were the extended fenders with the wellknown fender flares. This resulted in the second generation having smaller diameter rims: 14 inch instead of 15 inch!
After the second generation Celica XX it became renamed to Supra, which was the overseas name for the Celica XX, so it could be split from the newer FWD Celica range. The Supra (mk. III) remained the A platform and got the designation A7.
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