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09-21-2008 07:55 PM Purists may balk, but like it or not, Top Gear USA is coming. One of the hosts was revealed to be Adam Carolla, a comic who built his career on making jokes about STDs and hosting shows whose main feature was girls jumping on trampolines. We’re not sure how bodes for the Top Gear franchise, but at least we now know that at least two Top Gear hosts own Datsuns. Carolla owns a BRE replica 510, a race-modified Fairlady Roadster, and his latest acquisition, a ‘72 Bob Sharp 610, as reported by Motor Trend. The article also mentions the rest of Carolla’s collection, which consists mostly of high-dollar Euro exotica, and discusses his hatred for his Mazda …
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09-23-2008 10:42 PM More T-shirts featuring old Japanese cars are popping up all over the place. Normally they’re all the popular models from Nissan and Toyota, leaving kei car fans a bit left out. But thanks to JNCer xemoto, here’s one of a Honda N600! It’s part of a series that also features a Subaru 360, BRE Datsun 510 leading an Alfa Romeo, and a whole host of other European microcars. More...
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09-23-2008 10:32 PM Just a quick reminder for JNCers near Victoria, Australia. The Nissan Datsun Sports Owners Club is having their 40th Anniversary event at Sandown Raceway this Saturday, September 27. Check this post for more details or visit the NDSOC website. More...
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09-22-2008 08:34 PM Listen up, Mazdafarians! It’s time once again for SevenStock, the yearly gathering for rotary heads at Mazda USA headquarters in Irvine, CA. Doors open at 9am. This is the 11th SevenStock and fans will not be disappointed.* See the official flyer or the SevenStock website for more details. More...
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09-19-2008 05:02 AM W-W-W-Welcome baaack to WJNC, bringin’ you the best nostalgic tunes and old school jams! Hope you’re enjoying your Fridaaaay! Put on your dancing shoes and crank up the volume, because coming up next we have back-to-back tracks from the Crazy Ken Band! Here’s “Bellet 1600GT”: Thanks to JNCer JT191 for tipping us off to these videos of the Crazy Ken Band, a Japanese music ensemble that completely rocks the house when signing about old cars. The video above is a live performance of “Bellet 1600GT,” named after Isuzu’s 60s coupe. Their jazzy beats and funky rhythms make us wish Isuzu actually sold the car here in the US so we could jam to this while cr…
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09-16-2008 11:38 PM Another great ad from 60s Japan, this time for the Datsun Bluebird Coupe. While the song is not as catchy and seemingly of a different era as the Maruzen Oil ad, it gets the point across: “Big power, dynamic power, after your heart!” More...
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09-15-2008 11:45 PM We were browsing the web for images of nostalgics and stumbled upon this great series of T-shirts with pictures of our favorite cars on them. Then we realized that they were drawn by a JNCer who goes by the name lisasdecals! Check them out on Zazzle. More...
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09-11-2008 11:34 PM A Japanese credit researching company is reported yesterday that mega Japanese tuning firm and a mainstay of the import scene Trust has filed for bankruptcy at a Tokyo District Court. You may know them by their US brand name, GReddy, makers of all manner of suspension, engine, brake and turbo kits. Apparently, the company was $60 million in debt, citing declined annual sales of $53 million in February 2008, the culmination of a steady decline since 1998 when sales were at a high of $80 million. Trust was founded in 1977 and has been an active part of the Japanese tuning and racing scene for over three decades. There are a whole host of reasons …
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09-14-2008 11:51 PM An excellent new article about a bad-arse KA Turbo Datsun 510, by our very own Datsunfreak! More...
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09-08-2008 11:40 PM This is the news we’ve been waiting for and we couldn’t be happier to report it. The Datsun Heritage Museum will officially hold its grand opening on September 12-14 in Murrieta, CA! Excuse us as we jump for joy, do some cartwheels and pop open a bottle of champagne. Finally, a museum that honors a nostalgic marque, right here on US soil! Yeah, we know, there are other collections. Toyota, Honda and Mazda have a bunch of classics, but they’re just sitting on them, occasionally taking them out to a car show or two. To be clear though, this is not an official Nissan USA project. Ever since Mr. Bean uprooted the company’s US headquarters from Torran…
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09-14-2008 11:38 PM The grand opening of the Datsun Heritage Museum was this weekend. Koji Yamaguchi of the Japanese Classic Car Show was kind enough to cover it for us. More...
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09-09-2008 11:08 PM Today we’re going to take a rare detour from news on nostalgics to comment on some things we’d like to see happen with Japanese cars. First up, a 1978 VW Golf has appeared on eBay with the selling price of $30,000. What makes this Vee-Dub so special? It’s an unrestored one-owner example with only 8600 miles on the odometer! This guy is so confident that he will even arrange for shipping anywhere from its current location in Berlin, Germany. There is no doubt that the Mk1 in an icon, but it didn’t start out that way and that’s what makes it so great. Like many Japanese cars, it was designed purely for cheap, practical transportation but became so m…
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