Japanese Nostalgic Car Vol. 04 is Here
We got ours in the mail on Monday, hot off the presses. Yours should be either sitting in your mailboxes or in transit!
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JCCA Classic Car Festival at Tsukuba
The month of July finds Japan sliding into the midst of a lazy Summer, but it also marks one of the big track events for the JCCA (Japan Classic Car Association). Open to both Japanese and foreign classic cars, there are racing classes that range from mildly modified road cars to wild racers. It’s a [...]
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Join JCCS, TORC and JNC as we represent the original sport compacts at SpoCom 2010 in Long Beach, California. Today is the last day to register, and you can. follow this link for a coupon code good for $10 off registration. See you there!
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Friday Video: C210 Skyline Turbo vs. Bomb
We’ve seen what happens in West Tokyo when there’s a bomb on a bus, but pop quiz, hotshot: what do you do when there’s a ticker inside Seibu Keisatsu HQ itself? You throw that sucker into your C210 Skyline Turbo and full throttle your way out of town using a GPS unit the size of [...]
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Toyota Registers “86″ Trademark
Well this is interesting. Toyota registered the name “86” as a trademark on June 18. Hmmm… While t’d be nice to be able to say the word hachiroku in reference to an official Toyota RWD compact, this is only one of several names that may appear on the rump of the Big T’s 2011 sport [...]
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Russian Toyota AA Surfaces in The Netherlands
Last December a car surfaced in Russia, one that the owner claimed to be a long-lost Toyoda AA. This was Toyota’s first production automobile, first built in 1936, and is so rare that the Toyota Automobile Museum in Japan doesn’t even own one. They had to construct a replica for display, and while records show [...]
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Did Barack Obama’s Family Own a Toyota Corona?
Since we’re coming off the Fourth of July weekend, let’s talk about another presidential nostalgic. There’s a new Indonesian movie coming out about our current Prez called Little Obama, and it clearly shows young Barack riding to his new home in the back seat of a RT40 Toyota Corona. Now we all know that producers [...]
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Happy Fourth of July from JNC
Yes, we know, My Name is Earl has been canceled, but where else are you going to find a nostalgic car painted in the Stars and Bars? Sure, it seems a bit incongruous, but this surely remains the most famous Subaru BRAT ever made — even more so than Ronald Reagan’s. And can you really [...]
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Friday Video: Quite Possibly the Only Car Chase Ever Filmed Involving a Nissan Sunny Cab
Just when we thought we’d seen it all, here’s an episode of Seibu Keistatsu in which a standard police issue Cedric 330 unmarked does battle with a Datsun Sunny Cab… and loses! Maybe the rare cab-over trucklet was cool enough that the producers didn’t couldn’t bear to see it destroyed. There are also glimpses of [...]
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Event Horizon for the Weekend of July 2, 2010
If you know of or would like to publicize an event, send us a tip at the feedback address at the bottom of this page. This week: Friday, July 2 / Torrance, CA: SoCal Japanese Classic Car Meet Sunday, July 4 / Conyers, GA: OSJC Meet Future events: Friday, July 9 – Sunday, July 11 / [...]
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SPOCOM Show Adds Old School Category
As the nostalgic car movement gains speed, we are making in-roads into mainstream tuner shows. Case in point: the SpoCom Super Show that takes place every summer at Long Beach has added an Old School category for the first time ever. It used to be that the only Old School categories were for the Big [...]
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JNC 04 Is On The Way!
We know you’ve been waiting patiently, and it’s finally here! JNC 04 has been sent to the printers and proofed and is being rolling off the presses as you read this. Here’s a behind-the-scenes peek at the layout process. We print each page on high-quality paper and put it up on the wall so we [...]
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