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10-09-2008 12:11 AM Yesterday we were down at the local pick-a-part scavenging some parts for the JNC Wagon. Nothing major, just some trim and a turn signal lens. It’s supposed to be at the JCCS this Sunday, so it has to look good! As we left, one of the Cressida’s front wheels made a god-awful screech, like 10,000 forks simultaneously dragged across a chalkboard, followed by a loud pop. The parking lot of a junkyard is the best place in the world to have a breakdown, but stupidly, we continued driving in an effort to diagnose it. Grinding noises ensued. Then pinging. Suddenly, after a loud snap, we lost braking and steering. Gah! We limped the wagon back to the jun…
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10-08-2008 08:19 AM For any of you even remotely close to SoCal this weekend, be sure to attend the Japanese Classic Car Show! Remember, the show is in a new location this year, at Hidden Valley Park in Irvine, California. With hundreds of nostalgic Datsuns, Toyotas, Hondas, Mazdas, Mitsus and more, you won’t want to miss it. Doors open at 9am on Sunday, October 12. P.S. Stop by the JNC booth and say hi! More...
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The table of contents for the Fall 2008 issue is now online as well as the cover! This is hands-down our best issue, loaded with compelling stories and rich history. With interviews of many of the major players from back in the Datsun heyday, we cover 50 incredible years of Nissan in the USA. We also spotlight a number of cover car submissions—the best, the worst, and the most unusual. There’s event coverage of the Datsun Heritage Museum grand opening, Blackhawk, Behind the Wheel on a 1992 300ZX, product reviews on Turbo Wax and holiday gifts for auto enthusiasts. To order your subscription, call 505-771-2374 or go to: www.nissansportmag.com. Subscribe by October 9 to…
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10-06-2008 01:59 PM Article and photo gallery from last week’s Seven Stock XI are up. Wankelers, enjoy! More...
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10-03-2008 10:52 AM Let’s close off the week with a sneak peek of JNC Issue 2. It should be in your mailboxes shortly. Have a good weekend, everybody! More...
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10-03-2008 06:50 AM Now here’s something interesting…a classic car bodyshop in JDMland that keeps a pictorial blog of all the interesting cars they do. The shop in question is Auto Service Machinaga, in Kobe. Check out their blog for more detailed step by step pictorials of their bigger jobs (click on the Toyota category for a start) but after the jump, you’ll find some cool vids of a TE27 Levin and a TA22 Celica GTV that they did pretty thorough repaints on in classic army green. Click here to view the embedded video. Click here to view the embedded video. That Levin and Celica looked to be pretty good (ie rare!) examples to start with, so it’s great to see them…
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10-02-2008 02:29 AM So. You are aware of Yahoo Auctions and you know of a few classic car dealership websites in Japan. But what if you want to cast your net even wider? What if there was a website, that was in English, that allowed you access to for-sale ads for hundreds of thousands of cars in Japan? Well there is such a thing. It’s called Goo-Net. First you click on the “English” link: Then select the make, and then the area of Japan you want to search, and presto! You can now narrow your search into specific models. Goo-net is a great resource for tracking down a classic car, since lots of JDM classic dealers will advertise on it. The database is …
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10-01-2008 01:45 AM As a followup to Ben’s post a few days ago on Paul Newman’s passing, here’s more on his association with the Skyline.* Check out Youtube (do a search for “skyline CM”) and Newman would be most visibly linked with the*R30 series, having done quite a lot of commercials for that generation of Skyline. In fact, Newman was asked to be the spokesperson for the new Skyline range when the R30 replaced the C211 series.* The C211 was beginning to falter in the Japanese market, and so Nissan felt that a return to the Skyline marque’s sporting roots was in order.**This necessitated a change in image too, and Newman’s distinguished and athletic visage fit …
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09-27-2008 07:02 PM We just got back from SevenStock XI. We’ll have our full gallery up later this week, but in the meantime here’s a teaser shot. More...
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09-12-2008 07:23 PM If you haven’t been following the giant mudslinging contest known as the 2008 presidential campaign, consider yourself smart, as banging one’s head against a wall repeatedly does tend to kill off brain cells. However, we at JNC feel that its our duty to keep you informed, and at least one important fact has emerged from the current political season that we’re sure will prove vital when it comes time to elect our next leader: Cindy McCain, wife of candidate John McCain, not only owns a Nissan 240SX - which is totally foxy in and of itself - but she also takes it to the track. To drift. According to this ESPN article and video, the 54-year-old heires…
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09-25-2008 08:32 PM View Larger Map I used to live in El Paso, Texas, which is located precisely in the middle of nowhere. The only interesting things within a 500-mile radius are 1.) the site of the first atom bomb explosion in White Sands National Park and 2.) Roswell, New Mexico, where locals believe a UFO landed in 1947. Perhaps these strange nearby happenings stem from the fact that El Paso is the nexus of the universe. How else can you explain the presence of Datsun Drive and Toyota Road, which just happen to intersect with each other? And Not too far away is Yamaha Drive and Yamaha Road. It would probably be a great place for a nostalgic car meet if you didn’t have…
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09-24-2008 06:23 PM We now go to the next event, synchronized electronic spoiler activation. Here comes the Japanese team, a quartet of Nissan Skyline GTS sports coupes. Good formation, terrific execution. Interesting musical selection, though. Judges give this one an 8.75. Ah, the excesses of 80s Japanese cars. More...
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