More news about the Japanese Nostalgic Car magazine subscription.

• All content in the magazine will be new and unique, not reprints of articles on the website.
• The only way to get JNC is to subscribe. It won’t be available on newsstands just yet. If we went into detail about how difficult it is to get an unheard-of title onto the shelf at your local bookstore, your head would probably explode. Ours did, and it hurts! If you’re interested in seeing it there, please ask them to carry it!
• We’ve extended subscriptions to 4 (four) quarterly issues for the same low price of $9.99, or 50% off the cover price! If you’ve already subscribed, don’t worry - we’ll automatically give you the extra issue at no cost and you don’t even have to lift a finger.
• International subscriptions are now open! Sorry for the increase in price, but it’s all due to shipping costs. We think it’ll still be worth your while, though!
• JNC will be a collectible, high-quality publication designed for your library. It’s printed on thick, glossy paper that’s made to last.

And as always, thank you for your support! We would not be here without it, so please help us spread the word. The time has come for a magazine about Japanese Nostalgic Cars!  Subscribe here.

Here’s a prime example of why Japan rocks the casbah. From January 8 - 31, Japanese Nissan owners can get this bitchin’ re-issue of the Ken & Mary T-shirts from the famous old ad campaign of 1972. WANT. Yeah, it’s a marketing gimmick, but we’re biting it hook, line, sinker, and rowboat. We’ve lamented the fact that the US branches of our favorite Rising Sun automakers don’t really do the whole enthusiast pandering thing already, and just check out how much the original shirts are going for, despite being faded, worn, and quite frankly, disgusting. That’s $70 American for a used T-shirt, people!

In last week’s Tokyo Autosalon report. we made mention of a supercool Mazda Carol-based hot rod. Well, we have some more details on it now, it was built by students at the…*deep breath*…Shizuoka Professional College of Automobile Technology. Especially notable is the fact that the original Carol is rear-engined, but the hot rod was built on a Suzuki jeep ladder chassis, which sited the 550cc two-stroke up the front for a more authentic hot rod style.

More info here…click on the links (and scroll down!) on the side to see more pics. Extremely cool!

Yank yer Toyoglide out of its peaceful neutral state and slam it into drive, cause Toyotas are invading Switzerland! The Swiss Toyota Museum, located in the unpronounceable municipality of Murschetg, Laax, has enough nostalgic Toyotas to drain an unmarked bank account, yet amazingly, has no affiliation with the Big T itself. All 80 cars are the work of a few independent but incredibly dedicated collectors, whom we salute, big time! Many of the cars are still in the restoration process, but we’re sure they’ll have them ticking like Swiss watches in no time. There even appears to be some Australian spec cars in the in the mix, on one long-ass walkabout. The museum itself, if the online translation is to be believed, was either an abandoned power plant or bat cave. Possibly both. It looks like it’s scheduled to open in summer of 2008, but perhaps our German-speaking readers can succeed where translation software fails. Thanks to Rich at Classic Toyota Town for the tip!

A few weeks ago we profiled Tokyo Hakosuka tuner Victory50. But Japan has quite a few Hakosuka/Old Nissan tuners as you would expect, and a particularly notable one is Auto Classica.

Located in Yokohama, Auto Classica is decked out like a high-end home stereo store, complete with cafe.

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One of the cool things we saw in Japan during Autosalon is the I Rev Car Series. It’s a box set, which includes a 1/24th scale car model kit, a DVD featuring the car, a booklet reproducing some original brochure material, and a small 60-page magazine, courtesy of JDM-classic-car-ubermag, Nostalgic Hero.

Cost is Y3300 (about A$35).

And the first model in the series is the KPGC10 Hakosuka Skyline 2000GT-R.

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A couple of days ago we posted a link to classic JDM dealer Harfees’s. But today, we seem to have hit the jackpot with FlexAuto, which has many, many more interesting used cars in stock. Check out their stock, you can click and view pics and details on each car, even the “Sold Out” ones..