Yearly Archives: 2007
Long Beach USA JDM Classic Car Slideshow
The japanese hold some awesome classic car meets (gotta go to one one-day) but the JDM events in the USA run them pretty close in terms of quality, if not quite quantity. Here’s a sublime slideshow of an event in … Continue reading
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Initial Publica Offering
One of the rarest cars in the US is going up for auction on eBay: a 1965 UP10 Toyota Publica Deluxe. Only four are known to exist here, and according to its current owner, Steve Kopito of TORC, the other … Continue reading
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Minkara – Japan’s CarDomain
It’s one thing to search all the western websites for classic JDM cars, but that usually only leads you to cars that are in the west. Minkara is basically Japan’s version of CarDomain, so it’s a great place to … Continue reading
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Import Bible – JDM Inspired Apparel
As much as we live and breathe classic Japanese cars here at grandJDM, we’ve definitely got no shortage of love for the newer stock. We try not to let it take over the site, but every now and then we … Continue reading
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Featured Car: Jerry’s Mazda RX-3
There are few classic Japanese cars that are instantly recognisable to anyone in the Western world without an intimate knowledge of the genre, but the RX-3 is most surely among them. Experiencing massive sales success all throughout the 70s, it … Continue reading
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JNCM: Pre-Kenmeri Ken and Mary
Although we know the third-gen Skyline as the Hakosuka and its descendant fourth-gen as the Kenmeri, here we can see the happy couple wooing both each other and customers longing for a C10 GT-X Hardtop. Some of the scenes are … Continue reading
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Stylistically, This is JDM Muscle.
While it may technically only be packing a 2ltr engine, stylistically the ’72 GL-6 Laurel has all the looks one expects from an American muscle car – but in that uniquely Japanese way. I’ve been digging these things for … Continue reading
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Randomly Hot: C211 1978 Skyline
Stumbled across these shots a little while ago, and just had to share them. I’d love to feature this car, but the owner’s been hard to get a hold of! Ah well, tough break for us. Gotta share the photos … Continue reading
The Toyota Crown Affair
Yes, we are totally stalking this car. Last night, our friends at Katysnest twisted and mashed potatoed the night away at the city of Torrance, CA’s Rock Around the Block festivities, a celebration of 1950s nostalgia put on by the … Continue reading
Super Heroes: Nostalgic Hero's Top 50 Japanese Classics
Don’t know how we missed this one, but we were going through the forums the other day and discovered member pecx’s post about Nostalgic Hero‘s Best 50 nostalgic cars of all time. It’s always risky ranking things in a formal … Continue reading
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The Most Aptly Named Website, Ever.
The online classic JDM community just keeps on growing and growing. Old Japanese Car – perhaps the most aptly named website in the history of teh intarweb – will soon be launching a full website covering all there is to … Continue reading
The Retro Rides Manifesto
The guys over at the Retro Rides forum have been maintaining a thread devoted to nothing but photos of classic cars. They’re not all JDM, but that’s fine – we do like cars from other countries too, you know! So … Continue reading
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Old Skool in the Olde World
Blimey! There’s a new site on the web about our favorite topic, old Japanese cars, and it’s called Old Japanese Car. Can’t get much more direct that that! The site was started by a couple of chaps who go by … Continue reading
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Samuridin' Dirty
We get so absorbed by cars that we’re often rendered clueless when it comes to those swaths of fabric that drape your body…. what’s the word? Oh right, clothes. Apparently, a greasy t-shirt from the last car show you attended … Continue reading
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Van’s Shot of the Week
Every Wednesday, I’ll post my favourite shot of the week. Click the photo to see the full size version.
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Hunting for Some Classic JDM of Your Own?
JapaneseNostalgicCar have dug up what’ll probably be my favourite link for the week – Love Old Cars. It’s in Japanese – as all the best Classic JDM blogs are – but as with all of them, the magic is in … Continue reading
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Cool JDM Clothing
A cool part of any old school scene are the clothes. If you don’t believe me, go to any western hot rod meet and see how many guys are walking around in shirts with the Iron-Cross/West-Coast Choppers insignia on it! … Continue reading
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Mooneyes Japan Blog (and it’s in English too!)
There are plenty of blogs in Japan about the classic car scene, but almost all are in Japanese only. Still, it’s fun to look at the pretty picture so they’re still worth seeking out. An exception is Shige Suganuma’s blog, … Continue reading
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We Love Love Old Cars
One of the many irrational anxieties that haunt us incessantly is the fear that every day, countless nostalgics are needlessly crushed as a result of Japan’s prohibitive auto registration laws, lack of parking space, and fashions that change by the … Continue reading
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And I Would Walk 500 Miles
Mitsubishi’s fame in the world of motorsport comes mainly from two sources – Lancer Evos hooning it up in the WRC, and Pajeros (Monteros) swallowing sand by the duneful in the Dakar Rally. Successes in these series go down in … Continue reading
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