Category Archives: nissan
10 "Cheap Fun Rising Sun" Cars from Hemmings
Hemmings once again turns their gaze to J-tin, this time choosing 10 cars that provide “Cheap Fun under the Rising Sun” (subscription required). The bravest pick is a tie between the Isuzu Impulse (shown above) and the Nissan NX2000, which … Continue reading
Torrance Old School Japanese Car Meet
Oh look, here are some photos from a jam-packed weekend for J-tin enthusiasts. We hit up the Torrance Old School Japanese Car Meet last night and witnessed this sexy party of nostalgics going on. As much as we’d like to … Continue reading
Friday Video: Seibu Keisatsu Pursuit Car Bonanza
If there was one video, one single clip, with the Skyline Japan Machine-X, the 280ZX Super-Z, and not one but three DR30 Skyline Machine-RS pursuit cars in it, would Youtube… nay, would the fabric of the internet itself be able … Continue reading
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Silhouette Racing Glory Days
Let’s see, we’ve covered the Japan Grand Prixs of the 60s and the Touring Sedan Cup battles of the 70s. How about we finish off our racing vids series with some 80s-tastic silhouette racing? Kev has written about Group 5 … Continue reading
Japan Grand Prix, The Early Days
Continuing on the motorsports theme, our next stop is at the Japan Grand Prix. This one comes by way of banpei and appears to be a DVD about the race. Unfortunately embedding was disabled so you’ll have to click on … Continue reading
TS Class Warfare: Civics, Sunnys, Starlets, RX-3s
Here is the first of a series of vintage race videos that we’ll be posting this week. We stumbled upon this while catching up with beoneoneoh, who can always be counted on to unearth the Sunny-related. This is footage from … Continue reading
Posted in datsun, honda, mazda, motorsports, nissan, toyota
Tagged datsun 1200, honda civic sb1, mazda rx-3, mazda savanna rx-3, nissan sunny, nissan sunny 1200gx, toyota starlet, ts class, ts cup
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New Nissan Heritage Collection Website
Ready to kill off a few hours? Nissan has created a user-friendly, navigable catalogue of their legendary Heritage Collection (see coverage in JNC #3), simply called Nissan-Heritage-Collection.com. The Zama warehouse is still not open to the public, but here’s the … Continue reading
Hot Wheels Datsun 510, Now in Brown
First it came in metallic blue, which was so scarce we never actually found it in stores. Then you could buy one in whatever color you wanted, as long as it was black. Now Hot Wheels is releasing what I … Continue reading
Mazdafarians Get Down at MazFest 2009
We’ve been so hung up on the Mazda T2000 that we almost forgot that today was MazFest 2009! Imagine rolling into the car show with that behemoth. Or better yet, taking it on the road course at Fontana’s Auto Club … Continue reading
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Friday Video: Nissan President Getaway
This video has all the signs of Seibu Keisatsu, such as a fleet of Nissan Cedric police cars led by an S30 Z, but it’s not: Daimon doesn’t make a heroic appearance at the end to dispatch the enemy with … Continue reading
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Texas Nissans Meet, June 6
For those of you in the Lone Star State, Texas Nissans is having a meet in Austin on June 6. It’s a Nissan meet but they want some Datsuns to represent old school! The car show will start at 10am … Continue reading
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Mysteries of the Datsun 810 Maxima Voice Box Revealed
In the early 80s, the dawn of the personal computer age, no form of electronic gimmickry was considered too pointless. The family coach for a friend of mine was none other than a 1982 Datsun 810 Maxima wagon, nearly identical … Continue reading
Z-Car Club of Inland Valley Show
While Matt was down at the imG Old Skewl Meet in San Diego yesterday yours truly was at the Z-Car Club of Inland Valley‘s annual car show at Quality Nissan in Temecula. Despite the name of the club all manner … Continue reading
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JNCer's Datsun 510 Rant Makes Us LOL
We get a lot of strange letters in our inbox here at JNC headquarters and most of them just leave us scratching our heads. But once in a while a shining gem rises above the chaff to make our bellies … Continue reading
EVENTS: Z Car West Coast Nationals
More Zs than a week’s worth of transcripts from a beehive.
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Tagged datsun 240z, nissan fairlady z, z-car west coast nationals
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Happy 510 Day 2009!
This Sunday we celebrate the one without which we would not exist, the one who brought us into the world…
Friday Video: Mazda Luce Legato Smash!
Who knew that Mazdas could slice open a Nissan like a knife through hot butter? We have absolutely no idea what movie or TV show this is from, nor what is going on here, but it sure is zany! However, … Continue reading
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Tagged japanese car chase, japanese tv, mazda luce legato, nissan, nissan cedric, nissan gloria, toyota crown
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EVENTS: Solvang Datsun Roadster Classic
And now for your viewing pleasure, photos from the 2009 Solvang Datsun Roadster Classic.
EVENTS: Time Machine Festival
We hope this event coverage is worth the wait. We gave you a sneak peek of the Time Machine Festival before, now here’s the real deal.
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