The Jokers were one of Japan’s biggest bosozoku gangs in the ’70s and ’80s. What’s that? The Mazda Cosmo AP looks too close to the pageant winner of Japan’s 1976 Car of the Year? How about one with garuchan headlight covers, nosasu (no suspension), and five trumpet horns protruding below the bumper?
JNC would like to thank the JCCS and TORC crews, and all the old schoolers that came to the Spocom show in Long Beach this weekend. We set up our own little section of nostalgics and rocked the house. But as we all agreed on the way there, it’s just not an old school cruise [...]
A black police-spec Cedric 230 on steelies sure looks like a mean machine. Too bad it, along with several other rarities, bites the dust in yet another car chase in Seibu Keisatsu. Video below the fold. Hat tip to kev84.
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 16 – 18 / Atco, NJ: 16th Annual Pan American Nationals Sunday, July 18 / Long Beach, CA: SpoCom Super Show Sunday, July 18 / The [...]
Fingerpori by Pertti Jarla is a popular comic strip that appears in Finland’s largest newspaper. Today’s comic happens to have one of our favorites, a B110 Coupe! Translation below the fold. 1. “Nice car!” 2. “How fast does it go? From 0 to 100?” 3. “I would give it full 100” Hat tip to Mikko. [...]
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There are many reasons why Michael Bay’s entire Transformers franchise should be buried under a volcano and ignored for a million years, but perhaps there is one glimmer of hope for JNCers looking for an excuse to watch this, uh, movie. A photographer has caught Shia LaBeouf with a lowered Datsun 510 on the set [...]
Thankfully, Kev did not see quite this much action at his recent outing to the JCCA Classic Car Festival at Tsukuba Circuit. But in 1984, Honda, a long-time sponsor of one-make races, chose its Honda City Turbo II for its latest incarnation of same-spec motorsports. How could you not love a car like this? As if [...]
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 [...]
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!
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 / [...]
Registration for the 2010 Japanese Classic Car Show is now open! By popular demand, the 6th annual JCCS will be back at the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California and will take place on Sunday, September 12, 2010. If you are new to the nostalgic scene or have been living in a cave for the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]