JCCA 2012 Part 5

Moving to the other parking lot i was greeted with the site of a troop of skylines and sunnys leaving. It was only 11:30 in the morning and the show just started but a lot of cars were already rolling out

 I like this shot below, you can see a rusted out 4 door hako in the corner

I love the blacked out headlight covers, they always make the hakosuka look complete business but i guess you`d be screwed if you drove at night
Check out this old Carina (i think it`s a Carina?) on what look like Racing Forge rims... If anyone can confirm the car and rims that would be great

Old SA22C given the works treatment, i think it would look awesome if the owner applied the `renown` graphics from the 787... the car is already orange, just needs some green diamonds. I saw this car driving off while i was eating lunch and loud would be an understatement... more like i went completely deaf for 20 seconds

 4 Door Hakosuku sitting pretty on SSR MK3s... I personally like the 4 doors better than the coupes

A nice teaser of what`s to come

JCCA 2012 Part 4

The great thing about JCCA is there is a wide variety of styling, take for example this Crown it looks straight out of Chip Foose`s design studio. I usually prefer deep dish small wheels on classics but this one just works.

from Big rims on old cars to small rims on newer cars like this  JZX90 Mark II running 16 inch Watanabe rims. This combo also works really well

Mitsumori-san from Spirant was also there in his new corolla... yes those are xxr/sportmax rims. Mitsumori-san seems to dig the usdm styling. I guess it is a case of `the grass is always greener on the otherside of the fence`. If you look carefully at the rear window he has a canibeat, illest, and fatlace sticker. He also has a set of Panasport C8s... i really hope he puts them back on.

Here is a text book KPGC110 running Hayashi rims... it doesn`t get much simpler or cleaner than this

One of the many Celicas at the event... I love the fender mirrors

Last shot from the first parking lot is this shot of the 3 cars i featured in the first post. I love the atmosphere in this shot

next episode: the second lot

JCCA 2012 Part 3

Continuing on with the coverage, i saw this sweet olive green KE70 when i was pulling in. It features the timeless Watanabe Type Rs running a good amount of stretch. I also has custom fender work, the owner removed the rear bumper for a nice racing inspired touch. I have seen this car on Minkara before and he tracks it regularly. 

Parked a couple spaces down was another Corolla, this one with the old rally look with the roof mounted yellow fogs and a bit dinged up

Then there was this sweet 4 door 510 sporting SSR Star Sharks, i owned a set in the past and i regret selling them 

 Lastly here are 2 GX71s parked side by side, the first is sporting MK1s and the second has a set of ultra deep Focus Racing fins

Back with part 4 tonight

JCCA 2012 Part 2

I think the reason i liked walking the parking lot rather than going to the actual show was because there are a lot less people to get in the way of a shot and there is more room to take different angles. In the show they cram the cars in like sardines, a lot of times it even rules out a 3/4ths shot let alone a full side shot. At the back of the lot a bunch of Celica XXs were gathered from early in the morning... this red one was doing the hipari act very well. When it hits a bump it looks like the tire goes on the inside of the fender and the rim on the outside..

This white one on Formula Meshes looked like it just rolled off the dealer floor... ultra clean!

Celica XX owners take meets seriously...

 This Bluebird 510 below made me stop for a good 5-10 minutes to admire how well it was built and how rust free it was...

Check out the fender work and the Watanabes! It looks like it was photoshoped but I can assure you it was 100% legit.

Here is one last shot from the other lot which had even more sickness than the first lot... i`ll get to the second lot after a few more installments

JCCA 2012 Part 1

This makes the 3rd time i have attended the Japanese Classic Car Association New Years Meet in Odaiba. I did something different this year, instead of focusing on the show itself i spent 90% of my time in the parking lots. If you have never been to the show it is an experience of a lifetime. However, every year it is mostly the same cars. A lot of people enter as clubs so there isn`t much variation from year to year. Knowing this i woke up at the crack of dawn, jumped in the S15 and made the 66km trek to Funenokagakukan. Getting there early is important, many of the sickest rides also come very early and leave the by around 11.
As i arrived the main dirt lot had already been filled up so i rerouted into the second and right in front of me was the Goldrush GX71!

 He came rolling on his gold SSR Star Sharks with some of his friends

Check out this old Chaser (cressida) on deep SSR MK2s and pink heart tsurikawas... 100% Gurachan styling

Very nice GX61 Mark II on Long Champs, a lot of these cars sport the old patrol car stick-on-roof light but they come in funky colors and they put them on the rear speaker deck.
Right behind these guys was a text book KPGC10 Hakosuka, running black Watanabes. What i like most is how cleanly he installed the oil cooler... many guys just zip tie them on but the owner went through the effort to make it look amazing

Back with part 2 soon

Its a CELICA GUNDAM! JCCA New Years Meeting in Odaiba

I just got back from the JCCA New Years Meeting in Odaiba... got a bunch of pics i`ll be posting up, here is a nice teaser

326 POWER & ROCKET DANCER!

Test fitted everything together so I can get an idea of the final shape... I am pretty happy with how it is looking so far

Doriten R32 and Roadster snow plowing

Check out this image from jdm.in.ua of the Drift Tengoku Skyline and Roadster in the snow... doesn`t get much more sick than this... The Enkei Barrels and Arios aero make that Roadster

goodies from 326 power!!!!!!!

So i picked up a LS 3.26 Power roof spoiler, i ran out in the dark and test fitted it, i am glad to say that it fits great (unlike the POS D-max side skirts) also got some stickers...gold for the hunnies. i ordered the small and medium `326 power` ones but they are awesome they threw in the Oukan `crown` version one for free! that's a Y1050 value!  i really wish they would remake the old red and blue ones too.

Crash the Gazoo Racing IS-F infront thousands of people? no problem

Driver Satou Kumi probably felt like shit after this happened at the Tokyo Auto Salon Demo Run of the Gazoo Racing IS-F. She decided to take the Nurburgring IS-F spec race car for a date with some concrete pylons

 

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here is another angle

 

translation: Yacchimattana! `you fucked it up!`

Satou Kumi

2011 summer

TAS: Celsior and Previa