Category Archives: nissan
FEATURES: LA Auto Show
New article up. A couple of classics showed up at the ongoing LA Auto Show. [LINK]
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Massive Z-Car Drag Race
Sorry about the lack of updates. Our computer suffered a catastrophic hard drive failure that we’ll be slowly recovering from. In the meantime, enjoy this video, in which Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson lines up almost every iteration of a Z-car … Continue reading
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Welcome back to grandNissan
Hot damn. I swear on your ma, we’re not as biased toward Nissan as you’d think—There’s just a frightening lack of happenings out there for the other marques that are worth mentioning. And as I always say, if we’re missing … Continue reading
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My Name is Hakosuka, and I’ve just been Overhauled!
Ever dreamed about finding a basket-case C10 Skyline in a barn, and then restoring it to perfection? Is it a recurring dream? You and me both, brother. But the reality of old-car restoration is a lot less romantic than we’d … Continue reading
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The Z to end all Zs
Where do you reckon would be home to the most ridiculously awesome S30Z in the world? You might think it’d have to be Japan, with their crazy big turbos and ability to turn anything old and Japanese into a masterpiece… … Continue reading
Now For Something A Little More Relevant
As cool as a wood-fuel-powered truck may be, that example in my previous post is a little less classic and a little more ancient than we generally like to cover here. So here’s something a little more up our alley. … Continue reading
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Truck Turner
Back in August, Mini Truckin’ published an top-notch retrospective of all the small Japanese pickups that have basically created the segment that gives the magazine its namesake. A flat-green Datsun NL320 headlined that piece. Now, another one of the diminutive … Continue reading
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Did you Know: Skyline, Ken and Mary
The C10 Skyline is commonly known as Hakosuka, and you think it might mean “Deadly Wind” or “Shark” or something like that because the word sounds tough….but actually it just means Box-Skyline, Hako means Box and Suka is just a … Continue reading
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The Hottest of Hot Hatches
Well before the likes of the MazdaSpeed 3 and the Civic Type R, crazy little funoboxes (hah, I totally just made that up) like the Starlet and the 310 were kicking around. I still see quite a few modified Starlets … Continue reading
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Wagons, Ho!
Last week, we told you about a new Japanese magazine that just hit the stands, called Street Van and Wagon, with a longback S50 Crown and C10 Skyline gracing the cover. Being the wagon whores we are, we had to … Continue reading
240Z owners rejoice! You now have a theme song
Alrighty then. I have absolutely no idea what this is. Just going by the Youtube comments, I think it’s got something to do with food… Anyway, grandJDM takes no responsibility if this tune gets stuck in your head for the … Continue reading
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Enjoy the Ride
After we reminisced about the awesomeness that was the Dream Garage Nissan commercial, reader Dennis Currington notified us of a copy of said awesomeness on his website. Thanks for the memories, Dennis.
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I Just Saved A Ton of Money on Giken!
If you’re anything like me, your obsession with cars—classic or new—is more about the style and the driving pleasure than what’s happening inside the engine, behind the wheels, or in that long steel thing between the front seats. Every now … Continue reading
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More March Madness
Last month we told you about the 25th anniversary of the Nissan March and the three limited edition cars going on sale to commemorate the occasion. In the consumerist-crazed culture of Japan, however, that’s not nearly enough, and Nissan has … Continue reading
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Nissan's Real Life Dream Garage
Remember those 90s Nissan commercials starring Mr. K as a magical Willy Wonka-like figure holding the golden ticket to an automotive wonderland? For young car nuts like us, those ads expressed, in full cinematic color, the entirety of what was … Continue reading
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If I Were Ever Going to Break and Enter…
…This would be the place. I don’t know too much about this, but it looks like the owner of these photos took a trip to some sort of Nissan warehouse slash museum, and promptly wet himself. Well alright, he didn’t … Continue reading
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The Skyline Supremacy: C10 GT-R Hakosuka
Hakosuka. What more can you say. We all know that’s it’s cool and we all definitely want one….but what IS a C10 GT-R, and where did it come from? That’s a good question for a great many Skyline fans. For … Continue reading
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VQ? Why, that’d be Very Quick.
I first mentioned Austin Hoke’s S30Z way back in September (I remember it like it was just over a month ago), but I discovered this week—I’m a bit slow sometimes—that he’s in the process of slotting a VQ35DE into it. … Continue reading
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Featured Car: Arnel’s C10 GT-R Replica
It might be safe to say that Arnel Ilog has something of an obsession with classic Japanese steel. When most of us determine that it’s time to buy a new classic, we’re forced to sit down and decide for how … Continue reading
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