Monthly Archives: October 2011
Friday Video: Mazda 787B at the 1991 24 Hours of Le Mans
As we get ready for SevenStock tomorrow let’s round out Mazda Week with a Japanese documentary chronicling the Mazda 787B‘s historic siege on Le Mans. We are so completely obsessed with this machine that we made a shirt. The film hails from … Continue reading
SevenStock Preview: JNC Mazda 787B Anniversary Shirt
Orange and green. For Mazdafarians, the colors instantly evoke the livery of the Mazda 787B. You know the history — the 700-horse monster was the first and only Japanese car to win outright at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and the only … Continue reading
Wednesday Wall: Mazda Cosmo Sport & Familia Rotary Coupe
Are you enjoying Mazda Week here at JNC? As we approach SevenStock 14 this Saturday, October 29, we wanted to give you this beautiful wallpaper to decorate your desktop. This is probably the single most famous photo ever taken of Mazda‘s … Continue reading
Posted in mazda, Wednesday Wall
Tagged 110s, cosmo, cosmo sport, familia, familia rotary coupe, mazda, r100, Wednesday Wall
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This Mazda Familia is a Korean Nostalgic Car
Guess what kind of car this is. Go on, guess. If you said Mazda Familia you’d be only sort of right. Mechanically, its a second-generation Familia with a cheap eggcrate grille, quad headlamps, and either a 1.0 or 1.3 liter … Continue reading
What’s in a Name? Mazda Savanna RX-3 and RX-7
Mazda knew it had something special when it created the RX-3. Back in the early Seventies Mazda was dropping rotaries in everything it could get its hands on. The Familia Rotary (R100) was getting on in age and had been named … Continue reading
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Friday Video: No Honor Among Stop-Motion Diecast Thieves
Our friend Luxe37 is back with another brain-churningly awesome action short, creating with stop motion animation what was really going on in our childhood minds as we made vroom-vroom noises across the kitchen floor. Well, actually this is quite a … Continue reading
Posted in minicars, mitsubishi, nissan, toyota
Tagged 810, bluebird, crown, datsun, galant, laurel, minicars, mitsubishi, nissan, tomica, tomica limited vintage, toyota
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Flared Toyota Corona T100 is nobody’s pet
The Toyopet name lasted a lot longer in Japan than the US. That’s the badge on the back of this purple people eater, but it ain’t no pet. Looks more like a wild animal.
Somebody Buy this 1971 Toyota Corona RT90 Coupe for $1200!
Listen up, Toyotaku. There’s an extremely rare RT90 Toyota Corona coupe for sale in Fresno. The Corona is kind of Toyota’s red-headed stepchild, having continued on with a leaf sprung rear long after the rest of the line from Corolla … Continue reading
Wagon Want: KP37V Toyota Publica Van
Show of hands, who would rock this? “This” being a Toyota Publica Van that is the exact reason why we love old Japanese cars. Look, it’s barely larger than an OG Mini but has funky-sleek lines, looks totally bitchin’ on SSR MkIIs no … Continue reading
Hot Wheels Datsun Bluebird 510 is “Faster Than Ever”
Are you tired of seeing yellow 510s and a billion different Mustang variations at your local Hot Wheels rack? Soon this mean red and black Datsun Bluebird 510 will be showing up at your local toy store in the “Faster Than … Continue reading
Friday Video (sort of): S40 Crown in Reborn Toyota campaign promising “Fun to Drive, Again”
Toyota has launched a mysterious website called Reborn-Toyota for the Japanese market. The sparse page has nothing but a slideshow depicting actor “Beat” Takeshi Kitano and singer Takuya Kimura dressed as 16th century daimyo warriors looking gangster behind the wheel of a piano black S40 … Continue reading
Posted in cm, toyota
Tagged beat takeshi, cm, crown, hideyoshi toyotomi, ms41, nobunaga oda, reborn, s40, shuto, takeshi kitano, takuya kimura, toyota
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Kidney, Anyone? Vintage TE27 Toyota Corolla Levin Rally Car
Here’s something we wish we saw more of in the States — a vintage Japanese race car with well-documented motorsports provenance. According to the auction, this TE27 Toyota Corolla Levin is one of three imported to New Zealand in 1973 to … Continue reading
Join JNC at the 2011 Art Center Car Classic
The Art Center College of Design in Pasadena is among the most influential transportation design schools in the world. Noted graduates include Chip Foose, Ford VP of design J Mays, head of Nissan design Shiro Nakamura, former head of Pininfarina … Continue reading
Posted in events
Tagged art center car classic, art center college of design, datsun, events, nissan, toyota
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Bosozoku Toyota 2000GT answers the question no one asked
The Toyota 2000GT was a little too early for the golden age of the Fuji GC series, and for that we are thankful. But in an alternate universe here’s what a gurachan MF10 might look like.
Posted in minicars, toyota
Tagged 2000gt, bosozoku, gurachan, longchamp xr-4, longchamps, mf10, toyota
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Behold the bridge of the USS Mazda Cosmo
This is the interior of a third-generation Mazda Cosmo. The first generation 1967-72 Cosmo Sport had space-age styling on the outside. Then Mazda brought back the Cosmo name in 1975 for the Mazda RX-5, and the only thing spacey about … Continue reading
Friday Video: Japanese Demolition Derby Circa 1976
We have absolutely no idea where this video is from, what is going in it, and why it is happening. All we can say is that it’s from approximately 1976 and shows the senseless wreckage of many rare vintage Japanese … Continue reading
Rumors of Datsun comeback comes back
It seems like every few months now a new article is published claiming the return of the Datsun brand. It’s the same old story. It would be Nissan’s bargain-price brand, likely for developing markets, and not in the US. The last … Continue reading
Vintage Toyota Land Cruisers are in advertisements everywhere
There’s an adage that says once is a fluke, twice is a coincidence, three times is a trend. If that’s the case, then old Toyota Land Cruisers are about to become fashion icons. Just in the last month alone, we’ve … Continue reading
