How to create your own sharknose Mark II
Japanese Nostalgic Car blog posted two links to great how-to’s showing how to create your own sharkenose Mark II or Skyline C210 Japan!
We already featured the Skyline C210 in a deep dish feature, but the Toyota Mark II GX71 was new to us:
How to create your own sharknosed bosozoku style car
You can find the how-to’s here:
Sharknose how-to Nissan Skyline C210
Sharknose how-to Toyota Mark II GX71
Popular Bosozoku cars: Toyota Mark II platform
Most of you probably already saw a video posted by white_raven in the comments of last weeks rare popular bosozoku cars posting
Well this video is actually the first of a set of 3 videos about the Toyota Mark II platform. It starts with three bosozoku styled Mark IIs (RT72, MX31 and GX71), a clean tuned Mark II (JZX90) and finishes with the Verossa JZ110 drift car.
Part one contains last weeks bosozoku styled Corona Mark II RT72 and the first part of a bosozoku styled Mark II MX31:
Good detail is that this RT72 has the 8R engine and not the 8R-G, so it is not the GSS model.
Part two contains the second part of the Mark II MX31, the bosozoku styled Mark II GX71 and the clean tuned JZX90:
Note that the GX71 did get a 7M swap, so actually it became a MX71.
BTW: I love the way the tsurikawa is dangling behind the MX31 at 0:25 and scraping over the highway: the only correct way to make use of a tsurikawa! Anyone got a spare one for me? 😀
And part 3 contains Hirota’s 2007 JZX110 Verossa drift car:
So a big thanks to white_raven for finding these videos!! 🙂
Hopefully these videos will stay on Youtube for a while, but I’m afraid they will disappear very soon…
by banpei with 1 commentBosozoku lifestyle: cherry blossom Mark II
Eventhough the bosozoku lifestyle should be very rough according to its image there may still be some softness in the bosozoku car stylers. During springtime half of Japan goes crazy for cherry blossoms since it marks the end of the winter and the start of a cycle. Then take for example this zokusha Toyota Mark II RX30 with cherry blossoms at the background:
Cherry blossomed bosozoku styled Toyota Mark II RX30
I can only conclude some bosozoku car stylers still have soft spots. 😉
How deep is your dish?
While browsing auctions.yahoo.co.jp I came across a really nice set of, for me, unknown rims under a bosozoku style Toyota Mark II MX41 Hardtop Grande. I looked it up and found them to be vintage Hart Racing rims:
12.5J wide Hart Racing rims on a Mark II MX41
Eventhough this picture is very blurry the Mark II really looks nice with those Hart Racing rims:
12.5J wide Hart Racing rims on a Mark II MX41
In my search on identifying these rims I found an old advertisement of Hart Racing rims on Japanese Nostalgic Car blog:
Hart Racing rims advertisement
They really are good looking rims, especially when they get a big lip after 10J and more!
Just in case you actually want to buy them:
12.5J Hart Racing rims on auctions.yahoo.co.jp
And how deep is your dish? 😛
by banpei with no comments yetExhaust of the week: sky high tail pipe!
This Toyota Mark II X4 made it as the Exhaust of the Week:
Toyota Mark II X4 with a sky high tail pipe
I hope he actually removes that pipe when he drives! It doesn’t look too comfortable with overpasses!
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