Author Archives: Ben Hsu
FEATURES: 1986 Toyota Cressida Wagon
New article here, about the recent trip taken to attend the Monterey Historics.
Contacted Sports
Who knows what Toyotas lurk in the hearts of barns? The Toyotageek knows! The world is big. Cars are small. You just never know what’s out there, waiting for a Nostalgia Jones to unearth it, and with a length of … Continue reading
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Random Pic Onslaught, Part 2
Heading towards Laguna Seca for the Monterey Historics, you get to share the highway with some pretty choice machinery. An aggressively-driven Aston Martin DB9 came up fast from behind, but moments later this green 510 absolutely ripped past everyone and … Continue reading
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Peace Accord
Here’s a scanned photo from waaay back (as in, before the days of digital photography) from Dutch member honda-ronny at 1stgencivic.org that shows just what happens when law enforcement receives a contact high from nearby Amsterdam, or when they’re not … Continue reading
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Hardy Laurel
Three chaps from the Uke bought a 1982 Nissan Laurel for a hundred pounds sterling, or just under 200 US dollars. That may not seem like breaking news, but these gents intend to drive their banger saloon from Calais, France … Continue reading
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Daihatsu 100th Anniversary Editions
Europe’s acceptance of minicars has allowed Daihatsu, Japan’s specialist of small, to thrive. Whereas they packed up their subcompacts (possibly in suitcases) and left the US and Australian markets in 1992 and 2006, the Old World still gets the new … Continue reading
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Gift Box
While looking through the photos from the UK’s recent Retro Rides Show on Old Japanese Car, this hakosuka Skyline GT-R done up in the paint scheme of the legendary Grand Champion series car that took the checkered flag at Fuji … Continue reading
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Cosmo Crammer
As part of Mazda’s 40th anniversary tribute to the rotary engine, the Zoom-Zoomers invited a group of renowned journalists to stuff the very cars the company would display at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca up the California coast, just in time … Continue reading
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Dark Continent Datsun
Old pros Jayant Shah and HW “Lofty” Drews ran their Datsun 260Z in the Tanzanite One Arusha Rally recently, which served only as a warmup to the upcoming Kenya Airways East Africa Safari Classic Rally in November. You might remember … Continue reading
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Bridgeport Toyota Meet
Our Forum member QuasiMondo posted this thread about a classic Toyota meet that happened recently in Bridgeport, Connecticut. As you can see from these Photobucket galleries here and here, nostalgics from all Japanese marques showed up for what appears to … Continue reading
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EVENTS: Monterey Historics Presented by Toyota
Here it is, more 2000GTs than you can shake a camshaft at. [LINK]
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Civic Minded
We love it whenever a manufacturer celebrates its heritage. Just a few years ago, one would be hard pressed to find official information about models not currently sold. Recently though, many Japanese marques have begun to recognize the importance of … Continue reading
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Mazda Releases 40th Anniv RX-8 for the US
A couple of weeks ago, Mazda released a special edition RX-8 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the rotary engine. The only hitch was, the car had to be purchased in Japan. Well, now we Americans can get our hands … Continue reading
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Monterey Historics, Part 1
Toyota was the headline presenter of the 34th Annual Rolex Monterey Historic Automobile Races, coinciding with their 50th anniversary both in motorsports and sales in the US. Appropriately, they’ve gathered the biggest assembly of the legendary 2000GTs ever to be … Continue reading
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I-5 Drive/Monterey Historics
In case you were wondering what’s been happening with the blog, Ben is at the Monterey Historics in California. Only, there’s a catch. The reason it’s taking him three days to get there is because he’s driving down from Seattle … Continue reading
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Once Upon a Time Machine
“If you’re gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?” says Doc Brown. Words to live by, except that a brushed stainless bird tainted by cocaine money and a Renault engine isn’t really … Continue reading
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The Suzuki Method
Here’s a post about a marque not often discussed in the nostalgic world, Suzuki. Like Toyota, the company started out making automatic looms. Like Honda, their first vehicles were motorized bicycles. And like Mazda, their first mass produced car heeded … Continue reading
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Retro Active
Hirst from Old Japanese Car attended the Retro Rides Show in Kirby Mallory in the UK over the weekend and posted in our forum this fantastic shot of his Daihatsu Charmant parked beside what appears to be a replica of … Continue reading
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Ready to Wear
Speaking of clothing, we had the chance to meet Antonio Alvendia of Cipher Media Group while he was MC-ing at Motoring J Style. Antonio is a super cool guy who has an encyclopedic knowledge of all things nostalgic and drift. … Continue reading
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