Japanese Nostalgic Car

We thought it might be a neat idea to provide weekly links to some Japanese blogs. After all, blogging is not a phenomenon to be found strictly in the west! And with so many excellent English language blogs devoted to Japanese cars, it only makes sense that there’d be just as many excellent Japanese language blogs about classic JDM!

However, we don’t speak Japanese (oh the agony!), so you’ll have to bear with us while we use Google’s translator tool to figure out what’s going on with each of these blogs.

This week’s blog belongs to Private Tune / Murata Team, and frankly we can’t quite figure out the specific aim of the blog. What we can tell you though, is that there’s a fantastic selection of photos in many of the posts, so head on over and a bit of a browse through the pages of Private Tune’s blog!

Original link | Translated version

grandJDM now has a Flickr group, so if you’ve got a Flickr account and you’re known to fill it with classic JDM – or even if you’ve only got a few shots in your album – go ahead and join our group!

G’Day blokes and Sheilas, welcome to part two of our news from Australia. This time, we’re here to inform you of a new site called grandJDM, a new Aussie site about – what else – vintage Japanese cars!

Enthusiasm for nostalgics is growing worldwide and will soon become an unstoppable force, like an 18-wheel tanker full of sand barreling down on a leather clad, post-apocalyptic biker gang. The site has pictures and posts about the rare classic stuff one can find in the southern hemisphere. Of course, this does absolutely nothing to stem our coveting of a place where, not only do women glow and men plunder, but old J-tin pops out like koalas from a eucalyptus tree everywhere you look. Proximity to Japan and driving on the right helped them land the big catch, and they’re not sharing! Well, at least we can read about them now.

Check out grandJDM here.

grandJDM has so far been one of those things that you do because you have this massive urge to do it.  The kind of urge that strikes you suddenly, from out of nowhere.  Our plan at this point is to merely post images of sexy classic JDM, with the odd in-depth post thrown in here and there (case in point).

But we thought it’d be a good idea to ask you what you’d like to see here at grandJDM. So if you have any ideas or requests, feel free to squirt an email in our general direction, and hopefully we’ll be able to build up a good list of features and content as suggested by our readers!