With the recent discovery of black market JNC Stamp stickers, a lot of interest was drummed up about the JNC Stamp logo. The most popular question we’ve received is something along the lines of “Why did you change the sticker dammit, I liked the old one better!” Well, I’m here to provide you with some answers. There’s (a little) method to the madness here at JNC, so I’ll do my best to explain.

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With the release of the Series 3 JNC Stamp sticker and the recent launch of our Facebook Fanpage, we thought now would be a good time to have another contest.  All you have to do is take a picture of your JNC sticker in a cool place or in a cool way.  We’ll periodically choose winners who will receive replacement stickers and if the photo is particularly good, we’ll send the winner something extra special.  Also, the winner’s photo will appear in the photo contest album on our Facebook page.  There’s only two rules:

• Your photo must contain at least one JNC sticker. Series 1-3 are welcome.
• Your photo must be posted in this thread on our forum.

Happy snapping!

The prizes from our JCCS x JNC T-Shirt Contest have shipped. Congrats to the following:

• Yi-Joe K. of Kaneohe, HI
• Bob J. of Troy, MI
• Victor R. of Land O’ Lakes, FL

For those who didn’t win, don’t despair. You can still order your own stylish JCCS T-shirt for only $15 plus shipping! Help support America’s premier J-tin event and show your kyuusha pride!

Hey gang, David from Import Bible has a new T-shirt design with another old school design. This time, its the S30 Fairlady Z, and he is generously offering one free to a lucky JNC reader!

This contest will be a brain-free one, just a simple random drawing. Just email the feedback address at the bottom of this page with the subject “IMPORT BIBLE CONTEST.” The contest will end 11:59pm Pacific Time, Nov. 12, 2009. You can see the rest of the Import Bible line here. Good luck!

Congrats to Daniel and Zeb, who correctly guessed that two of the cars we were photographing for an upcoming issue of JNC were a Datsun 1600 Fairlady Roadster and a Dodge Challenger (aka Mitsubishi Galant Lambda). Actually, Kev’s post was a big clue for the second one . Your mystery box Bow’s Art Puzzle and back issue of Japan’s Kosoku Yuen will be arriving in the mail shortly, along with some JNC stickers.

Thanks to reader “Agent T” for donating the puzzles!

One of the challenges (hoho pun) for the keen internet JDM-hunter who is translating all of those wonderful JDM websites using Altavista Babelfish or Google Translator. But try this, and you’ll see that there are lots of words that don’t translate…but the beauty of the Japanese language is that these untranslatable terms are usually modified versions of the English equivalent. Our good friends at J-Spec Imports have a kooky sense of humour, which might explain this Google-translated offering on their mailing list: http://www.j-spec.com.au/list/index.php?ID=12827

So here’s the contest. once you get past the rather bizarre opening sentence about chocolate and body shaving, the challenge (hehe) is to translate all of the words in caps. For example DATCHICHARENJA = Dodge Challenger and obviously BIKKUBUROKKU = Big Block!

So get translating guys! If anyone gets a lot of the correct answers, we may put up a prize

Wow…this was one popular contest! Just like the Mystery JDM Toy Car contest we received entries from all over the world, but this time I was hoping that the winners would be more “international” unlike the Mystery Car contest where all but one of the prizes went to Aussies.

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In February, we had a contest where we gave away six mystery JDM toy cars. You guys might remember that the lucky winners would receive lucky-dip toy cars which are currently very popular in Japan. Buy a car from the History of Skyline series and you never know if you’ll get an R34 or an S54 Prince Skyline GT-B. So in fact, as I mailed off the prizes, I had no idea what they were either!

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The last JDM Toy giveaway was such a great success that we simply had to do another one. By the way, each competition winner has received their prize and I’ll do a post soon with pics of everyone’s booty.

The prizes this time are dashboard air fresheners in the anatomically-acccurate shape of race queens in Ings (maker of JDM bodykits) livery.
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Wow, we got quite a lot of entries from all around the world, including Poland, Brazil, Netherlands, New Zealand, Canada and the USA but most of the entries came from Australia. Thanks to everyone who participated, and if you didn’t win, don’t worry, I’m sure I’ll think of more giveaways very soon!

Click on to see if you WON!

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