Auto displays are like a magical time travel device. Not only do you get to see cars of the era, but also its prevailing fashion, colors and architecture. Like the old Tokyo street scenes we showed you a few months ago, here are some JNCs in their natural environment.
Flying Feather (1954), author unknown.
Nissan display, Tokyo Motor Show (1969) by Alan T.
Fairlady 240ZG, Nissan Ginza Gallery (1971), author unknown.
Cony 360 Wide Van (1966), author unknown.
Toyota Corolla, Tokyo Motor Show (1966), author unknown.
Toyota Sports 800 (1966), author unknown.
Toyota display, Tokyo Motor Show (1965), postcard image.
Toyota display, Tokyo Motor Show (1969), author unknown.
Toyota display, Tokyo Motor Show (1969) by Alden Jewell.
they can’t invent a time machine soon enough for me
Big Surpise @ ’71 Tokyo Motor Show
Crowd murmurs: “Hmm, looks awful familiar”
What happens to all these old concept cars?
I’d love to see that SV-1 in person.
I grew up in Yokohama in the sixties & remember my parents taking me to the Tokyo Auto Show in our mid sixties Nissan Cedric. My mom had a Toyopet. i was fascinated more by design back then as the driving age was a very distant 18. Wrenching came suddenly when I moved to the US when I was enrolled in Driver’s Ed at 15! My first “Japan Export Model” was a mid 70’s Chevy LUV manufactured by Isuzu (early model with the quad headlights). Anyway, my Okaasan has passed away but your pictures brought many fond memories. Thank you very much…
I don’ t know if anyone can solve a mystery I have had to this day. On the school bus ride, i saw on a number of occasions, unfinished body shells for what I can best recall as Ford Panteras loaded on trucks. Did one of the manufacturers do this contract work?
1970 Tokyo Motor Show!
I have a Cony wide van. 1967. Brought to America after it was used in 1997 in the movie Red Corner with richard Gere. Still has the same yellow taxi color from the movie with some advertisement painting on it from an amusement facility. It still runs and looks great.. Ask for pics and I will send them. Its amazing to have such a machine to have