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Feb
08
2010
FOUR DOOR WAITING: JZXs at UmihotaruPosted by: Alexi in Parking lot パーキング, tags: Chaser, JZX100, Mark II, Toyota, Umihotaru
Some of you have been asking if I have picked winners for January’s competitions yet. I haven’t picked the exact winners yet, but I’ll announce it on here when I do. In the meantime, here’s some pics of a bunch of JZX owners who met up at the Tokyo Aqualine Umihotaru parking area recently.
Feb
04
2010
THE LEGEND OF THE OSAKA ONEVIA: Atsushi Kuroi memorial galleryPosted by: Alexi in Profiles プロフィル
I heard a rumour the day before yesterday from a friend who lives down in Kansai that drifting pioneer Atsushi Kuroi had somehow died. I didn’t want to say anything on here just in case it wasn’t true. Unfortunately, the news was confirmed yesterday on Kuroi’s Mixi (Japanese Facebook) by his wife. He had died from massive injury after a scooter accident. Rather than just post a single pic with a few standard words of condolence below it, I thought I’d go back through my archives and post up the best Kuroi photos I had as a tribute. 日本の偉大なドライバー黒井敦史さんがなくなりました。とてもざんねんです。ここに彼の思い出を連ねます。ご冥福を祈ります。
Feb
03
2010
THINK I’LL STAY HOME TONIGHT: Tokyo’s first snowfall of winterPosted by: Alexi in Alexi アレクシ
Tokyo had its first decent snowfall of the season the other night. Here’s how the Mark II looked at about midnight. By this afternoon, most of the snow had disappeared. It’s still really cold though! Hurry up and be summer…
Feb
02
2010
WHAT THE HELL IS A HOLDEN DOING HERE: Mazda RoadpacerPosted by: Alexi in Feature Cars 車の取材, tags: Holden, Mazda, Roadpacer
I’m mainly putting this in its own post because as an Australian and a former rotary owner, I find this car absolutely hilarious. It’s a Mazda Roadpacer AP, which is Mazda Japan’s version of one of the most Australian cars there is, the Holden HJ Premier. The funny thing is, if you tried putting a rotary in a Holden in Australia, you’d probably receive horrible death threats at best.
Feb
01
2010
FASHIONABLY LATE: JCCA New Year Meeting 2010Posted by: Alexi in Nostalgic ノスタルジック, tags: Datsun, Fairlady, Hakosuka, Kenmeri, Nissan, q-sha, Skyline, Sunny, Yonmeri
Once again, just like last year (part one here and part two here), I turned up right at the end of the day when everyone was leaving. I suppose you want an excuse? Well, I had a very big Friday night which led into a very big Saturday night which finally ended at a club at 6:00AM on the Sunday morning of the show. The club is actually only about fifteen minutes by train from the Odaiba parking lot, but I didn’t have my equipment on me, and I also really needed some sleep and a change of clothes. If it’s any consolation, I had a great time, thanks. Enjoy the pics I did actually take. やばい！遅くなった！今日の取材はＪＣＣＡの２０１０お台場ミーティングだけど、そんなにたくさん写真がないです。イベントは１６：００で終わりました。１６：１４で到着しました！金曜日から日曜日の朝までは新宿と歌舞伎町と池袋で遊んだ。ちょっとやりすぎた！ごめんなさい旧車會のみんなさん！
Jan
30
2010
TOYOTA HISTORY GARAGE: AE86 displayPosted by: Alexi in Random その他, tags: AE86, Initial D, Levin, Toyohisa Matsuda, Toyota, Trueno
As I mentioned a couple of posts ago, Autosalon week meant visiting a lot of different places around Tokyo. Since the majority of the people I was with had never been to Tokyo, I thought the Toyota Megaweb and Toyota History Garage in Odaiba might be a good place to visit. Nice little display eh? A mint red Levin they used to display beside the FT-86 a couple of months ago, Toyohisa Matsuda’s old competition car and Takumi’s toufu-ten replica, complete with tofu shop! I think there was a mint Hakosuka off to the left as well. The Toyota History Garage is always fun.
Jan
28
2010
BREAK ITOH STYLE: Drift and shredPosted by: Alexi in Random その他, tags: Akinori Itoh, Team Break
I can think of at least a couple of people I know who will think this is the most awesome thing ever. If you don’t know who Akinori Itoh is, get on Youtube and learn something.
Jan
27
2010
I WANT WHAT’S MINE’S: Workshop visitPosted by: Alexi in Workshops ワークショップ, tags: GT-R, Mine's, Nissan, R32, R34, R35, SkylineIn the week following the Tokyo Auto Salon, I worked as a driver, translator and phone-call-making guy for the Autosalon magazine guys as they toured and reported on a bunch of workshops and aftermarket parts factories. The one that stands out most to me was the final one we visited: Mine’s.
Jan
25
2010
D1 BACK: Rear ends from 2007Posted by: Alexi in Random その他, tags: Daigo Saito, Kenji Takayama, Tsuyoshi Tezuka
Here’s a few pics from the 2007 D1 season. Do you know who this is? Pretty easy, really. No cheating by looking at the post tags.
Jan
24
2010
PINKY NEW YEAR: Garage LFW’s S14Posted by: Alexi in Profiles プロフィル, tags: Garage LFW, Nissan, S14, Seimi Tanaka, Silvia
I thought Australians were good at finding excuses to slack off and go drinking. Late last year, I attended quite a few bounenkai or “year end parties”. The word literally means “forget the year meeting”, which with the aid of lots of alcohol, isn’t hard to do. Not only that, less than a month later, everyone is having a shinnenkai or “new year party”, in which everyone gets together and talks about how good the coming year will be, and what they’re planning to do. Last night, I attended the Garage LFW shinnenkai, who have recently announced their D1 Street Legal campaign team, headed by last year’s third-ranked Seimi Tanaka. Garage LFW’s boss, Satoshi Nakatani, said that I don’t put enough of his stuff on Noriyaro, so here’s a shot of his S14 at engine builders STF from the other day. |
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