Author Archives: Ben Hsu
Classic CM: Nissan Sunny Lexprix to the rescue!
The 1982 B11 Nissan Sentra was, even by the most generous metric, not a beloved car. Like most automakers Nissan had emerged from the Decade of Disco bruised, battered and choked with performance-sapping emissions equipment. The early Eighties were known for … Continue reading
Friday Video: 1972 Japan Grand Prix Touring Car Race
It’s a sweltering day at Fuji Speedway and the grid is packed with TE27 Corolla Levins and Nissan Sunnys and (front-wheel-drive!) Cherrys. Watch Nobuhide Tachi win this round of the 1972 Japan Grand Prix Touring Car championships in his famous orange-on-white Toyota Celica 1600GT. … Continue reading
Posted in Friday Video, motorsports, toyota
Tagged 1600gt, celica, fuji speedway, ta22, toyota
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What would you buy if the US changed its import ban from 25 years to 15?
Here’s a cause we can get behind. There’s a petition at the White House website asking for two things. 1.) That the Department of Homeland Security stop wasting tax dollars seizing grey market imports, and 2.) that the DOT and EPA lower … Continue reading
Green Bosozoku Celica is simply sublime
Celica fans usually prefer zenki models with the smiley-er smileys and hood flutes, but this is one post-facelift daruma that makes us green with envy. Let’s see if we can name all the zokusha traits this fine specimen exhibits. garish color … Continue reading
2011 Tokyo Motor Show Preview: Retro-electric Honda motorcycle concepts
The Tokyo Motor Show is widely known as a place where Japan’s auto industry cuts loose with the funkiest concepts their engineers can conjure. At the last biennial show in 2009, Honda showcased its future electric tech under a nostalgic, … Continue reading
Posted in Motorcycles
Tagged beat, honda, motocompo, motor compo, rc162, rc163, takahashi kunimitsu
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Friday Video: Return of Seibu Keisatsu
It’s been a long while since we’ve seen a car chase from the most famous Japanese cop show of all time, Seibu Keisatsu. The plot is simple — actually, who needs plot? This funk-era free-for-all is all about C210 Skyline Turbo … Continue reading
Posted in nissan, Video Games
Tagged 330, c210, car chase, cedric, datsun, gloria, japanese cop show, nissan, prince, seibu keisatsu, skyline, skyline japan
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JNC 787B Le Mans Anniversary Shirts now Available!
Our “no outline” Mazda 787B Anniversary Tribute shirts are now available for purchase in the JNC Shop. Sorry for the wait, but many of the most popular sizes sold out at SevenStock. Our most complex shirt yet proudly features the … Continue reading
Save the planet in style with the JFE Fairlady SR311 EV
Being environmentally friendly doesn’t mean you need to drive a car shaped like a lozenge. The JFE Engineering Corporation in Japan has converted a Datsun Fairlady Roadster to run on electrons. Here it is taking part in an EV car challenge at … Continue reading
Posted in nissan
Tagged datsun, electric car, fairlady roadster, jfe, nissan, sr311, srl311
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SEMA 2011 Part 01: Old School Modified
SEMA is all about the vast automotive aftermarket, from the tallest donk to the lowest drift machine. One category that has been notably absent is the Japanese nostalgic car, but things are moving in the right direction. One of the … Continue reading
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
Posted in mazda
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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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