Land Cruisers You Can Wear

Someone over at this T-shirt site must love Land Cruisers because they have at least 3 shirts dedicated to the old Toyota workhorse. Our favorite one is this one pictured, even though we’re not really sure what it says. The second of the big words on top is “kuruiseru” (though the actual Japanese should read クルーザー) but we’re at a loss for the others. We were simply sold by the tag line “Which way to Mt. Fuji?” The creator sure knows his Cruisers, which in 1951, were the first vehicles ever to reach the sixth stage of the famous Japanese mountain.

UPDATE: We got an email from the T-shirt’s maker, Tim McGrath, who writes that the shirt is meant to say “Fuji Cruiser” and “Japan” but found out later that the Japanese was wrong. He laughs it off, though, telling us, “Oh well. I thought it was kinda funny like those bad English shirts you would see in Japan.” There’s more coming too, including the FJ45 short bed, and FJ43. Thanks, Tim!

[Source: Sackwear]

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Random House III: M Yokota Collection

You may remember the M. Yokota Collection, which has been mentioned on our blog before. Essentially, a super rich old dude built a museum around a massive collection of his diverse interests, one of which happens to be old Japanese cars. Others happen to be squirrels, wine, teddy bears and other assorted toys. Our intrepid reporter Toyotageek infiltrated the magical mansion/squirrel zoo recently and took a bunch of pics for your viewing pleasure before the Oompa-Loompas kicked him out. Yokota-san also organizes a vintage rally every year. Thanks for the tip, TG!

[Source: Toyotageek]

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JNC Superdeformed Launch Contest

To celebrate our recent magazine launch, we’re giving away a few little trinkets that we picked up from our trip to Japan. Nothing special, just a few super deformed pullback cars that fly across your kitchen floor like a startled roach. Those who have subscribed to the magazine will see another contest in the pages of the first issue whose prizes are valued at $100 😉

The three larger ones are mystery boxes from the History of Celica & Supra collection, and their unknown contents can range anywhere from a TA22 Celica to a JZA80 Supra. The three smaller cars are Choro-Qs, a white Datsun Cherry Coupe X1-R, beige Toyota A40 Supra Liftback, and gold Honda N360.

Just send us an email to the feedback address at the bottom of this page with “CONTEST” as the subject and your name and address where you’d like the prize to be sent (which will be kept strictly confidential). On Friday, April 18 at 11:59pm US Eastern Time, we will randomly pick the winners and send out the prizes on Saturday, April 19. If you have a preference as to which car you’d like, put it in the email but the first winner will have first choice. Thanks and good luck!

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Jimny Cricket! Suzuki LJ20 on Ebay

In these days of skyrocketing gas prices where you have to take out a mortgage just to fill up your Escalade, how about a 4×4 with two-speed transfer case that gets 50mpg? If you don’t mind putting up with a 358cc two-stroke engine, here’s the SUV for you, a 1972 Suzuki LJ20. At least its 1300lb curb weight won’t hold back the trucklet’s 32hp for a top speed of 55mph. It was never officially imported into the US, but its descendants, the Samurai/Jimny, were until Consumer Reports deemed it rollover prone.

Anyhow, this LJ20 is for sale on eBay right now and has only 25,300 miles on the clock. According to the owner, it’s got no rust, no bondo, and has been kept in a heated garage. Everything works, even the dome light and it’s still wearing shiny, original paint. This baby might be mint, but for some reason we have a sudden craving for mustard.

[Source: eBay via Winding Road]

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Datsun 510 Futures Looking Bullish

First it appeared on album covers, now there’s a casting call from Hollywood. Is the Datsun 510 the next big thing? It seems that whenever a classic Japanese car is called for, the 510 is becoming quite the sizzling ticket. Better grab ’em while you can, guys and gals.

Here’s our on-again-off-again thread about J-tin on film. Here’s some more screenshots from various movies on IMCDB, including the flipping 510 pictured from A Special Magnum for Tony Saitta.

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JNC Magazine Shipping Now


We’re posting this random photo of a vintage Japanese mail truck based on the Honda Step Van because JNC magazine has finished printing and will be mailed out tomorrow! They’re coming straight from the printer so we haven’t even seen it ourselves. We’re so excited that we just can’t hide it! Thanks to all those who subscribed and were so patient with us as we burned the midnight oil putting it together. We weren’t even really sure if were going to make the deadline but it happened. We love ya! Now excuse us as we pass out.

[Image: Corism]

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Mazda Rotary Endurance Racers, Then and Now


In 1968, Mazda took the world’s first ever rotary-powered race car, its brand new Cosmo Sports, racing at one of Europe’s toughest enduros, the Marathon de la Route 84 Hours at Germany’s Nürburgring. It finished fourth, behind a pair of Porsche 911s and a Lancia.

Forty years later, Mazda is still fielding pistonless endurance machines, most recently at the 2008 Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona where it took the GT Class championship amidst a grid of Ferraris, a Corvette, a BMW M6 and yes, Porsches. In honor of this victory, Mazda Japan has created a website chronicling the race. Mazdafarians might want to take a look even though the site is in Japanese; the interviews are in English. Congrats to the Speedsource RX-8 team of Sylvain Tremblay, David Haskell, Nick Ham, and Raphael Matos.

[Source: Mazda]

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Hot Rod Datsun

We’ve seen Toyota and Mazda-powered hot rods, but here’s a totally bitchin’ speedster pushing Datsun power. A 260Z inline 6 to be exact, and it’s even made to resemble a Miller/Offy from back in the day. Blasphemy to some, perhaps, but not us.

[Jalopnik]

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Rotaries Are Blinding Us with Science

On April 27th, the National Science Museum in Japan will be holding a special exhibition celebrating 40 years of Mazda’s rotary engine. The exhibit, called “Showa Rotary Engine Vehicles,” will look at the history and future of rotary engines. The National Science Museum is located in Ueno Park, Tokyo and will be open from 11:00 am to 9:00 pm.

[Source: Mazda]

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Ice Cold Sapporos

It’s hard to believe that in all the talk about Sapporos in our forums, no one has ever mentioned this site, msapporo.com, where you can find entire brochures and owners manuals scanned, posted and categorized for your viewing pleasure. Fans of all its variants – Dodge Challenger, Plymouth Sapporo, Mitsubishi Galant and Chrysler Scorpion – are welcome too.

[MSapporo via Jalopnik]

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Toyota-Subaru RWD Confirmed


It’s true, it’s all true! Soylent Green is people, the apes were on Earth all along, and the Toyota-Subaru joint rear wheel drive coupe is real. Last week, Toyota upped its stake in Subaru parent company Fuji Heavy Industries from the 8.7%, purchased from GM in 2005, to 16.5%. Now, the news of the coupe comes straight from the CEO’s mouth. Toyota CEO Katsuaki Watanabe: “The compact rear-wheel drive sports car is envisioned to offer a new ‘fun to drive’ experience based on an all-new vehicle platform.” He also says the cars will be powered by Subaru’s flat four, with the Subaru going on sale in late 2010 and the Toyota version in early 2011. The only question now is, Corolla, Celica, or something else? If the rumors of the Celica revival are true, we would sacrifice our first borns if a retro-styled Cellie was in the works, unlikely as that may be. After all, they need something to differentiate the Toyota from the Subaru.

[Source: AutoCar, MotorAuthority, Automotive News, Jalopnik]

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Starlet Baja Racing, Presence of Popeye Inexplicable

The title really says it all.

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Aaargh! We’ve been hacked!

Some of you will be able to see this huge block of spam just below the banner above.  It seems we’ve been hacked, and Van will try to clean up the source code later to remove it.

Apparently it’s not visible to everyone (count yourself lucky if that’s the case!) but don’t click on any of it…..we didn’t put it there.  Dark forces of evil did, and like all spammers they will be rewarded in the next life by being reincarnated as dung beetles.

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Project Hakosuka: Yes. We are Ready.

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When we left things at the last instalment, we only had a few little things to do, and the major part was waiting for the front suspension to come back. Well….it’s come back.

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More Subaru Goodies


Hot on the tails of yesterday’s Subie surprise, Subaru Japan dealerships have just announced a “customer appreciation day” campaign taking place this weekend, April 12-13. Just stroll on in and enter a drawing for either a 360 mouse or a set of Subaru pins featuring the 360, 1000, Legacy Wagon and Impreza.

[Source: Subaru]

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Subaru 360 Mouse


Our JDM friend and Mitsubishi Delica Space Gear Super Exceed 24-Valve V6 3000 with Crystal Lite Roof helmsman was in town for a few days and he brought us this rad present. It’s a surprisingly comfortable USB optical mouse in the shape of a Subaru 360. Last month was Subaru’s 50th anniversary and the company came up with a bunch of spiffy little trinkets like this for its loyal fans and customers. Come on, Nissan USA, how about some love for the fans?

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Fragrant Women WINNERS!!

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Wow…this was one popular contest! Just like the Mystery JDM Toy Car contest we received entries from all over the world, but this time I was hoping that the winners would be more “international” unlike the Mystery Car contest where all but one of the prizes went to Aussies.

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Vintage Racing Hart and Bilbo Ads


Just came across these vintage JDM wheel ads from Racing Hart and your favorite JDM wheel named after a Tolkien character, Bilbo. Follow the jump to see more ads.
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We’re Big In Japan

We get a lot of emails here at grandJDM – especially when Kev has one of his ridiculous giveaways (when are you people gonna start working for your prizes eh? Bloody slackers!) – but I think the one I received today from a Japanese native named Makoto would surely have to be my new favourite.

Hello, I live in Japan, and there is it. I get into an old car with a couple.

The favorite car of the wife is Nissan Fairlady Z / S30Z. My favorite car is NISSAN-SKYLINE / HAKOSUKA.

Please introduce it in your site that puts an animation on youtube.

How could I possibly refuse! Makoto and I are both obviously big fans of Google Translate, haha. With such strong common interests, I feel compelled to do as the guy requests.

Without further ado, I present you with Makoto’s YouTube Japan channel. There’s some sweet, sweet classic JDM in motion over there, so be sure and take a looksee.

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Japanese Nostalgic Car Magazine, Coming in April!

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What the hell’s this, spamming for the competition? Or perhaps the JNC boys have hacked grandJDM, posting their own content?!

Not quite!

For the past few months, Kev and I have been working hard alongside Ben and Dan at JapaneseNostalgicCar.com to get their magazine out. Why are we helping the competition? Frankly, we just don’t think of them that way! In such a small community of lovers of classic japanese cars, we’ve always thought it important to maintain close ties rather than to work against each other.

So, in the interests of bettering the community’s position in the greater automotive enthusiast picture, we decided it’d be a hot idea to team up with them on their magazine. So Kev contributed a simply brilliant feature article on the history of the Skyline, and I helped them put together the visual design of the mag. We’re all really proud of our efforts, and we hope you’ll support JNC by picking up a copy or grabbing an extremely well priced subscription!

Head over to JNC to get a look at what to expect inside the magazine.

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