Category Archives: toyota
Crazy Ken Band’s Isuzu Bellett 1600GT
W-W-W-Welcome baaack to WJNC, bringin’ you the best nostalgic tunes and old school jams! Hope you’re enjoying your Fridaaaay! Put on your dancing shoes and crank up the volume, because coming up next we have back-to-back tracks from the Crazy … Continue reading
Reminder: Team Toyminator Show Aug. 31 in NJ
Just a quick reminder for you east coasters, the 8th Team Toyminator show drops next Sunday, August 31. It’s located in South Plainfield, NJ and admission is free! For more information, check this thread or visit TeamToyminator.org.
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What Did You Do This Weekend?
Don’t cha just love it when you manage to get some free time over the weekend to spend with your car? While the JNC workhorse wagon is not exactly slammed like a mamma jamma, it is somewhat lower thanks to … Continue reading
Non-Lohan Starlet Burning Out
Well, it’s Monday. We know everyone hates them and feel sluggish when it rolls around. So to start your week off right here’s a 3S-GTE Starlet with an intercooler bigger than its entire frontal surface area doing one massive burnout. … Continue reading
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Rad Retro Rags from NoCarNoLife
Being the graphic designer type, Van runs in some pretty creative circles. That’s how he spotted this series of positively righteous artwork from NoCarNoLife. However, we’ve locked the Vanster in a dungeon until he finishes the layout for JNC Issue … Continue reading
Posted in datsun, mazda, mitsubishi, nissan, nostalgic gear, toyota
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Toyopet Crown Comes to America, 1956 or '57?
Loyal JNCers will know that Toyopet Crown came ashore in 1957, making it the first Toyota and first Japanese car to arrive in the US. If not, then you need to read our premiere issue, which looks back at the … Continue reading
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Goodwood Festival of Speed Begins July 11
One of the greatest gearhead events on the planet will commence this Friday. The Goodwood Festival of Speed is exactly what all of us would be doing if we were so stinking rich that we could invite manufacturers, car collectors … Continue reading
Show Some Love for Ove at the Toyota Museum
As you know, the recent passing of Ove Andersson really hit the world of motorsports hard. If you’re in the Los Angeles area this weekend, please consider stopping by the Toyota USA Museum, where a tribute to the rally racer … Continue reading
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Sideways Sliding Celica
This has always been a dream of ours, to take one bad ass nostalgic and go drifting, one of the few motorsports where style matters just as much as speed. The problem is, we’d never have the nerve to actually … Continue reading
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Show Some Love for Ove
We all know of the recent untimely passing of rally legend and Toyota Team Europe founder Ove Andersson. If you would like to express your thoughts about this tragic loss, you can do so by signing a memorial book at … Continue reading
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Ove Andersson, 1938-2008
Last week the world of motorsports lost one of its greats, Ove Andersson, Swedish rally driver and a key figure in Toyota’s worldwide racing endeavors. He started out with his native Saab but went on to race Lancias and Renault … Continue reading
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55,000-Mile Toyota Celica Liftback
As Keanu Reeves would say, “Whoa.” Here’s a California blue plate special, a 1976 Toyota Celica Liftback with just 55,000 original miles and one owner. The asking price from Old Town Classics in San Diego is $12,500, which, while not … Continue reading
Toyota Museum Shout Out on NPR
We were flipping through the radio dials when suddenly our ears perked up to the phrase “Toyota Museum” on American Public Media’s Marketplace. It was part of a segment on how corporations are recognizing their heritage. Those who have been … Continue reading
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Toyotas Rally in Barbados, Mon
We’ve been browsing through the back entries on this new Speedhunters site and came across this awesome image of a KP61 Toyota Starlet leaving the terra firma. This rear-wheel romper was part of the recent Sol Rally Barbados 2008 held … Continue reading
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Toyota Reminisces About Its Own Catalogs
We often harp on Toyota for not doing much to celebrate it’s 50th birthday here in the US of A, but we kid out of love. Also out of the realization that it’s possible to do even less (we’re lookin’ … Continue reading
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WANT: 28,700-Mile '69 Corona on eBay
Once in a blue moon, something comes along that makes you want to sell your organs to black marketeers. In 2007, we saw a 1966 Toyota Corona sedan with 8700 original miles sell at auction for $16,740. Now, a similarly … Continue reading
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Front Drive Toyota Defies Convention, Gravity
Why yes, that is an airborne 1980 Toyota Tercel leaping over a herd of the now-extinct species Compactus domesticus. Plus a Honda. Though it began life in Japan in 1978, the Tercel arrived on our shores for the 1980 model … Continue reading
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EVENTS: TORC All-Toyotafest 2008
TORC’s 13th annual All-Toyotafest. [LINK]
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