Latest Classic Japanese Car News

With the release of the Series 3 JNC Stamp sticker and the recent launch of our Facebook Fanpage, we thought now would be a good time to have another contest.  All you have to do is take a picture of your JNC sticker in a cool place or in a cool way.  We’ll periodically choose [...]

Mitsubishi announced today that they were all but killing off their Ralliart division due to the global economic slump. In honor of that once great performance arm, let’s take a look at the triple diamond mafia’s flagship nostalgic, the Galant GTO. Mitsubishi actually exported it officially to the UK of all places, and JNC reader [...]

If you know of or would like to publicize an event, send us a tip at feedback(at)japanesenostalgiccar(dot)com This week: Sunday, March 14 / Cypress, CA: REPU/RX Meet Future events: Saturday, March 20 – Sunday March 21 / Victoria, Australia Phillip Island Classic Saturday, March 20 / Pleasanton, CA: NorCal Japanese Classic Car Meet Sunday, March 28 / Los Angeles, CA: Datsun [...]

Scouting locations for a photo shoot can be difficult.  When it comes to privately owned cars, how far you go to find that perfect spot is often limited by the owner’s unwillingness to travel, but with a nostalgic it’s sometimes the car itself that is stubborn.  On this particular day though, neither was a problem.  [...]

The 1970 Nissan Fairlady Z432 is a beguiling blend combination of the twin-cam S20 six (shared with the hakosuka 2000GT-R) and sexy S30 Fairlady Z looks, making it a blue-chip Japanese collector car of the highest order.  And now Jeweler Ginza Tanaka has made a one-off replica of the Tomica Z432 model in platinum!  It’s 7cm long, weighs [...]

It’s really amazing how Japanese automakers are suddenly all about their heritage. When the JNC Blog started two years ago, we basically bitched non-stop about how they were sitting on an untapped gold mine of good will. Though we would like to, I don’t think we can take credit for this change of heart. But [...]

The first-gen Mazda RX-7 has competed in many forms of motorsport, from IMSA enduros to drag racing to touring car challenges. Here it is on dirt, with gratuitous helicopter tracking shots.  Video after the jump. Hat tip to Andrew P.

If a Tree Falls on a Nissan…: Today’s zen koan comes from Australia, where, as Kev informs us, there are indeed trees. And sometimes they upend themselves on some poor sheila’s newly restored Datsun 610. Zoe Michalski had just purchased her “pride and joy” a three months ago and finished some paint and body work. [...]

At long last, Toyota is bringing out the nostalgic guns. Accompanying the Toyota FT-86 Concept’s arrival at the Geneva Motor Show last week comes these official images. Unless you’re steeped in Toyota history you might have missed the significance of the concept’s 86 designation, but here’s visual proof of where Toyota is going with this. [...]

If you’re on the road a lot like we are here at JNC, you can get your daily fix of nostalgic car news right on your iPhone or iPod Touch.  Best of all, you can have the JNC stamp logo adorn your iGadget’s home screen by following these easy steps: Step 1: Launch you Safari internet [...]

The streaks of sunlight are a perfect compliment to the angular 80s design of the R30 Skyline.  This pic was taken during the closing minutes of the 2008 JCCA New Year Meeting in Odaiba, Tokyo.

Poor Sgt. Daimon. It seems that no matter what TV series he’s in, he is always called upon to dispatch a ridiculously over-armed bad guy with a single shot worthy of Vasily Zaytsev, after which he must solemnly watch their last gasps from behind his aviator shades. Of course this isn’t really Seibu Keisatsu’s Daimon, [...]

If you know of or would like to publicize an event, send us a tip at feedback(at)japanesenostalgiccar(dot)com This week: Friday, March 5 / Torrance, CA: South Bay Monthly Meet Saturday, March 6 / Winder, GA: OSJC Meet Saturday, March 6 / Fullerton, CA: Datsun Meet – ****changed to April 3rd due to rain**** Weekly Events: Thursday Nights / San Diego, CA: Old School [...]

The license plate on this Datsun 1600 says it all. If you have a penchant for Simmons wheels, oddball two-door wagons, and rear window blinds, then head to the JNC forums for photos from South Australia’s All Japan Day. Ta to JNC readers B1500boy and jdmrx2 for posting their images from this incredible event last [...]

This is going to be an expensive week for endocrine organs because this 1974 Mazda RX-4 is as mint as they come. The pre-facelift RX-4 is arguably the prettiest of all the early rotaries, and it’s hard enough finding an example in any condition. This one has an interior as white as the clean fallen snow [...]

Datsun 1200s of any condition are rare enough, but gaze upon the minty freshness of this 1972 example of the USDM Sunny B110 on craigslist. According to the seller, the previous owner worked at a Datsun/Nissan dealership for 33 years. Everything is in supposed perfect working order like it was on Day One. This Florida [...]

The Honda CR-Z went on sale in Japan last week. It may not be the long-awaited reincarnation of the CR-X, but the accompanying commercial gives us glimpses of past greats like the Super Cub, T360, S600s both roadster and coupe, and Civic. There’s even a shot of the original bullet train, the 0 Series Shinkansen. [...]

The dramatic-looking Shinkansen 500-series was the very first train in the world to break 300km/h on its regular route (between Tokyo and Osaka), and after 13yrs blasting flat-out across the Japanese countryside, it was retired from ultra-high speed service on the weekend.  As reported on the Muza-Chan blog, lots of fans gathered in Tokyo and Osaka [...]

Mark your calendars, Toyotaku — Toyotafest 2010 is open for registration. Come gather at the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California for the biggest Toyota show in the US! Meet your fellow Toyota enthusiasts! You will not see a bigger collection of Toyota’s history anywhere else in this hemisphere. It all starts on Saturday, May [...]

Look what we spotted on our Facebook page – someone tagged JNC in a pic of a car sporting a fake series 1 JNC sticker!  The picture hails from Indonesia, so we don’t have any solid info on the counterfeit piece but the most popular theory here at JNC is that an underground Indonesian crime [...]