Category Archives: toyota
Norwegian Toyota Crown Farm
NOTE: please DO NOT contact us requesting the address, email or phone # for this farm! Southern Norway that attracts tourists year round with its scenic hills, valleys and waterways: However, deep in the backwoods rests an improbable Toyota Crown … Continue reading
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MX41 Toyota Chaser Meets Crusher
Here, have a sad. This is what happens at Japanese junkyards every day. In this case, a perfectly decent-looking MX41 Toyota Chaser, a 2-door version of the Cressida that we never got, is introduced to the Grim Crusher. It was … Continue reading
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Toyota Crown on Crown Violence
It’s Friday, so here’s your weekend video. This video clip causes me actual physical pain because it combines three of my deepest loves – the kujira Crown, wagons, and vintage work vehicle paint schemes – and blows them all to … Continue reading
Posted in toyota, Video Games, wagons
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Toyotafest 2009
Good news, guys! The 14th annual All Toyotafest is moving back to the Queen Mary for 2009! It’s the preferred venue of fans, and few can argue with the neatly trimmed lawn and cool ocean breeze we’ve come to know and … Continue reading
Slidin' Sunnys and Coastin' Corollas
We know not all JNC readers baby their nostalgics, so here’s some examples of nostalgics behaving badly from a couple of blogs we like. Nori Yaro‘s gallery of drifting remind us of the guys from the Japanese KE70 drift team … Continue reading
Posted in datsun, nissan, toyota
Tagged datsun sunny, drifting, ke70 corolla, nissan sunny, toyota corolla
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Famous Toyota and Mazda Racers, JNC Issue 3 Sneak Peek
Time to check in with our friends at Speedhunters, who have had the fortune to see the famous yellow and green Toyota 2000GT land speed record car in person. If you’ve read Lifelong Pursuit, our profile about Shunichi Kasai’s Toyota … Continue reading
Posted in mazda, motorsports, toyota
Tagged imsa gtu mazda, mazda, mazda rx-7, mazda rx7, rx-7, rx7, toyota 2000gt, toyota 2000gt land speed record, yatabe, yatabe 2000gt
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Car Chase Combat: Toyota Corona vs. Mazda RX-3
If Tuesday’s Subaru-on-Subaru action left you wanting more nostalgic car chase excitement, you’re in luck. Most Japanese films had a manufacturer sponsor that supplied them with cars, so all the main cars – and sometimes even the chase fodder – … Continue reading
Posted in mazda, toyota, Video Games
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Kidney, Anyone? 22,800-mile Celica Liftback
We thought we’d seen all the clean California Celicas at JCCS and Toyotafest, but here’s an amazing 1977 Liftback that only has 22,800 miles on the clock. Apparently it came from a Texas dealership showroom last year and, according to … Continue reading
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Goertz Myths Will Never Die, Part II
Oh, snap! Sound Classics has responded to our post titled “Goertz Myths Will Never Die” in which we took issue with the supposed designer of the Toyota 2000GT. Nissan/Datsun fans, you’ll want to stick around for this too. The question … Continue reading
Super Bad Slammed ’73 Toyota Stout
We’re back from the SEMA MPMC conference, in one piece no less. So why not close off the week with something really cool, like this slammed Stout pickup? Once in a while the folks at Mini Truckin’ unearth a gem … Continue reading
Goertz Myths Will Never Die
The Sound Classics Classically-Tough Trivia Challenge began in 2002. Every New Year, it asks car collectors obscure auto related questions to test their knowledge of classic cars. Some questions are easy, some our tough. We have no hope of winning … Continue reading
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More from the Tokyo Auto Salon
Speedhunters was at the Tokyo Auto Salon last weekend, and one of the many galleries they’ve assembled happens to cover the old school cars that were there. Perfect! The biggest concentration of classics came from the G-Works booth, like this … Continue reading
Toyota Corolla, Nefarious Nepali Taxi
Bura’s post last week about Datsun B110 Sunnys still cranking away as taxis in Pakistan reminded me of this story about an E20 Corolla used as a taxi in Nepal. The versatility of old Japanese cars never ceases to astound … Continue reading
Kidney, Anyone? 1958 Toyota Corona on YJA
Chances are, when you think of Toyota Corona, one of these pops into your head. It’s the first model Toyota designed specifically to suit US tastes and what really got the company moving in the US market. Or you might … Continue reading
Weird and Wild at the Tokyo Auto Salon
It’s Tokyo Auto Salon time again, and you know what that means. All the weird and wacky custom cars of Japan come to Makuhari Messe in Chiba to show their stuff. Reports are filtering in all over the web, but … Continue reading
Posted in honda, nissan, tokyo auto salon, toyota
Tagged 2009 tokyo auto salon, honda civic, honda civic ef, mugen, nissan, nissan skyline, nissan skyline r30, tokyo auto salon, toyota, toyota 2000gt
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Nostalgic Drift!
Alexi, a good friend of mine runs the excellent Nori Yaro – Japan Car Life Blog. An expat Australian in Japan, Alexi’s living the life drifting and immersing himself in grassroots car culture over there. Last weekend, he spotted this … Continue reading
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Dang… and Too Late for Christmas Too
One of the cool things about going to Japan is just walking into a suburban toystore and spending a few hours discovering all the cool JDM toys (and also rediscovering the fact that you may not be as grown-up as … Continue reading
