We’ve been on a new car tear, reporting on neo-hachirokus, retro Honda kei cars, and even classic bikes from the Tokyo Motor Show. And that’s left you handcuffed to a bedpost with the shakes, hankering for some old school smack. Well this lavender hako flies in the face of all that modern nonsense, washing away that new car smell like a dunk tank full of industrial-grade bleach. And look, there’s the sublime Celica in the background that we posted on a few weeks back, so let’s once again enumerate the ways this Skyline epitomizes vintage Japan.
- giant bubble flares
- racing mirrors
- oil cooler hanging off the front end
- angled rectangular headlight conversion asymmetrically adorned with racing tape and an aero cover with a serif-font decal over it
- a feminine color that scares gaijin but oozes testosterone in context
- barrels so deep you could drown a small animal in them
- and obnoxiously skewed number decals
Bam, your hair is now instantly pompadour’ed. You’re welcome.
Love them box Skylines.
Very cool. It’s nice to see this thing in another colour than white.
Speaking of white, is that car way back there a cosmo? If not what the heck is it?
Lotus.
PowerTryp, that’s a Lotus Europa.
It appeares you’re right. My mind was on classic Japanese cars so I completely left out any european vehicles.
They seem to be quite popular in Japan. And I LOVE what they do with them… 🙂
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Now this I like.
I like a clean hako, but when they’re built dirty like this, I’m in love…
The color reminds me of purple kool aid or children’s cough syrup, but this hako is exponentially more delicious..
i love the racing-taped headlights 😀
just keep it simple.
I’m pretty sure that people are really starting to re-consider bosozoku build on such classics nowadays.
I’m willing to bet that 95% of the bosozoku Skylines were built in bosozoku style way back in the 80’s and simply well kept.