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Group A Division 1: Racing the Shopping Trolleys
A few weeks ago, we had an article on Group 5 racing (here). And while that era gave us some wonderfully flamboyant racing cars, everyone could agree that Group 5 didn’t quite achieve its goals. It had originally been intended … Continue reading
Happy Anniversary, Toyota
Today is a momentous occasion. Exactly half a century ago, on Halloween Day, an upstart Japanese company set up shop in Hollywood, California with the intent of selling cars in the US. A task of such ambition had never been … Continue reading
Return of Nissan's Own GT-R
Unless you’ve spent the last two years being probed in an alien mothership, you know of the triumphant return of Nissan’s GT-R, which (finally!) debuted at the Tokyo Motor Show this week. But at the recent Motorsport Japan 2007 festival, … Continue reading
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Looming Issue
Although we’ve been harping about Toyota USA’s upcoming 50th birthday, this year is actually Toyota Motor Corporation’s 70th anniversary, established as a spinoff of Toyoda Automatic Loom in 1937. There’s a new book coming out in November called How Toyota … Continue reading
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CNN Money on Toyota
The onslaught of media attention to Japanese classics continues towards crescendo. This time around, it’s CNN Money with their slideshow recalling significant Toyotas from the past half century. Toyota otaku will surely be able to find a few mistakes in … Continue reading
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Nothin’ Silly About This Celica
We approached Brian months ago to see if he’d be interested in having his stunning RA29 Celica featured here at grandJDM, but he mentioned that he’d just contracted to have it featured in Super Street magazine, and that exclusivity was … Continue reading
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Orange Crush Celica
If you’ve seen our coverage of TORC’s All-Toyotafest or the JCCS, you’ve no doubt noticed a super-clean ’77 Celica Liftback reflecting rays of pure orange light directly into your pupils. The owner of this beautiful machine is Brian Karasawa, who … Continue reading
Featured Car: Ryley Fry’s MkII Supra
Known in the motherland by the far less exciting (and one X short of pornstat status) moniker Celica XX, the MkII MA61 Celica Supra is a front runner in the next generation of cars from the 80s gunning for “classic” … Continue reading
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2000GT: When Shelby raced the Toyotas
With the recent flurry of articles on the Toyota 2000GT (here, here and here), it got us to thinking about the great car’s racing history. Oh sure; it had the usual smattering of victories in JDM races at home, but … Continue reading
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Toyota 2000GT: Bond. James Bond.
Here at GrandJDM, we’re great fans of the Toyota 2000GT, which is pretty well covered in our past articles here and here. Japan’s very first high-end sports car, it has an aura that belies its production numbers of only a … Continue reading
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Paint It, Black
One of the things we love about vintage Japanese cars (although this tends to apply to all vintage cars) is the wild colors that adorned their sheetmetal. In contrast, everything on the road today is “champagne” or some hue between … Continue reading
Koich’s F20C-powered TA22
I mentioned Koich’s F20C-powered TA22 (an engine normally found humming away inside the Honda S2000) way back here, but today I came across his Flickr gallery for the car. It nicely chronicles in a massive set of photos the path … Continue reading
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Sometimes, Sometimes, Virtual Reality is Okay
Hell, if you can’t own it in out here in the real world, you may as well own it online. And for the cost of a 360 and a few hours behind the wheel—so to speak—it’s a lot cheaper than … Continue reading
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Did You Know?
Here’s a new feature on grandJDM for you; the “Did You Know?” post! Exciting stuff, huh? Alright, probably not, but let’s move on! Here’s a little Toyota trivia that I stumbled across earlier today. Toyota used variations of the name … Continue reading
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Catalogued Forever
As most old-car fans will agree, nostalgic literature and accessories are half the fun of owning a classic. Whether it’s an original dealership Toyota 2000GT ash tray or a Datsun deck-chair, these little trinkets bring endless amounts of joy to … Continue reading
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Here He Comes…
He’s a demon on wheeeels. Alright, so the picture to the left of this paragraph isn’t Speed Racer, but Takumi just doesn’t have a catchy theme song. Motivemag.com have posted their top 10 cartoon cars of all time, and while … Continue reading
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Cruiserspotting
The Toyota Land Cruiser has long been the off-roader of choice for those intent on spotting animals in their natural habitat. But what if you want to spot Land Cruisers in their natural habitat? Well Toyota’s Open Road blog has … Continue reading
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Sports 800: Toyota’s forgotten sporting roots
The 1965 Sports 800 isn’t Japan’s first production sports car (the Honda S600 predates it by a couple of years) but it is definitely Toyota’s first foray into a sporting vehicle. With a compact 45hp, twin carbed, pushrod boxer-twin 790cc … Continue reading
SuperStreet Features a 1974 Levin
SuperStreet have today thrown up a great little feature on a gorgeous green 190hp TE27 Levin (known as the SR5 in the US), so head over there and check it out. With so much focus on the better known classic … Continue reading
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