SPEED HERO Blog — japanese

There was a group of cars designed by Shoji Takahashi for Nissan as a 'Back to the Future' project in the late 80's. Bringing vintage styling to a then, modern times. In my mind it was very successful, enough to have imported one myself. The Nissan Figaro, Pao, BE-1, and S-Cargo were all vintage styled models with modern mechanicals. I was curious to where he got some of his inspiration, and while browsing today, came across accidentally one of those influences. As you can see the Gutbrod Superior, the world first fuel injected car, is a striking resemblance to the...

I can't say my work is quality, but I do proclaim to be one of the biggest fans of truck conversions. Car based trucks has always been a curiosity of mine, as a mix of rarity and obscurity, function and form the 'ute' is a concept that is uncommonly embraced for it's logical approach. The idea is simple and although Japan and many other countries received the ever so perfect Kei-trucks we were not as lucky. The next best thing is to achieve this...

Man, I fucking hate that song. Shit beat Corollas, a Cefiro pickup and an S14 with positive camber. Good video from the infamous New Zealand manji pad. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuS4GsnW86s]

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Because I wasn't there, obviously. Everyone was mad, had diarrhea and wished they were at home playing Sega. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="Darryl is feeling a bit Downey after walltapping and having his bumper stay on."][/caption]

Thanks you Shandy Sanderson for taking some snaps of the event for me, while I was away, cowering in my turtle shell.

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