Let’s say you got your hands on a flux capacitor and had the nuclear scientist know-how of Doc Brown to attach it to any vehicle you want. You know the rest — hit 88 mph, get instantly zapped into the time of your choosing, and let the antics commence. The obvious choice would be to get that sports almanac, but let’s say for the purposes of this question that whatever you do has to be automotive related.
If you could travel to one moment in time, when would it be and what would you do?
The most entertaining comment by next week will receive a prize. Scroll down to see the winner of last week’s QotW, “Which movie scene forever seared a Japanese car into your brain?“.
The answers this week introduced us to some titles we’ve never seen, like dankan‘s pick of Full Throttle for a variety of 250cc bikes, or Tomas‘ Kyōryū Kaichō no Densetsu (Legends of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds) for the presence of a very old Toyota Land Cruiser, or Alan‘s Sonatine with its S130 Toyota Crown.
There were also old favorites, such as Ian G.‘s Cannonball Run series for the presence of a Subaru GL and Mitsubishi Starion, or Rotor Nutcase‘s You Only Live Twice for its Toyota 2000GT convertible.
Famous Japanese series had a big influence, like Ray Denison‘s Ultraman and the Mazda Cosmo Sport, or Kyuusha Corner‘s Devil Z. The winner this week is エーイダン for his inspirational story on the gateway drug that led to a lifelong passion for Japanese cars.
The opening scene to the first episode of Initial D. I found out via my Hot Wheels collection and related websites and once I heard that the Toyota AE-86 was featured in an anime I tracked down a few pirated episodes on YouTube (this was 2016). I was Just turned 17 when I started watching it after having read Death Note in Manga form and seen almost all of Sword Art Online (SAO). When I learned that there was a street racing anime, I hunted down episodes and watched some in English sub and others in English dub. That opening scene with the song ‘Space Boy’ was the spark that turned into an obsession with Japanese cars and culture.
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