Hi, not sure if you’re going to read this but I just wanted to drop by and personally thank you and everyone involved in preventing overnight sub-blog shutdown.

Beauty is in the eye of beholder but this is better list than the author’s. Personally I would put Red Bull 3rd, drop Renault to 4th and Haas to replace RBR as 6th.

If Youtube videos from Gran Turismo are anything to go by both double as running and brake lights. Kinda poor setup considering the visibility of brake lights.

Nope I did not just start googling frenzy and copy pasting the cyrillic writing using wikipedia’s cyrillic alphabet list, nuh uh.

It’s made by a company called Vlene.

I think those only had window frameless doors, so they weren’t full on b-pillarless hardtops.

Oh yeah, how could I totally miss that. Finding info about Yulon’s production is pretty hard I only managed to find this page that seems to contain specs and photos of some of the Nissans they built.

Actually, according to the Japanese Wikipedia the ST180 Carina ED/Corona EXiV would get that honor as they were in the dealerships starting from September 1989 and ending in October 1993. Meanwhile C33 Laurel was available starting from January 1989 until January of 1993. Unless they made the hardtop C33 in Taiwan…

I think I’ve seen some photos of newish Japanese cars equipped with hydros but those aren’t usually built for hopping to my knowledge. For example here’s a USDM Accord coupe for sale on goo-net.

Waiting for a bank transfer of around 30k us-dollars...

Toyota Sports 800

Mark II Blit actually.

Nissan made factory lhd Skylines from C10 up to C210. You couldn’t get them as GT-R but you could get them all with L24.

I’m not 100% sure but I think they are there to guide airflow over the rather unaerodynamic lightbars.

According to Wikipedia those plates weren’t available with four numbers so that was the closest they could do while still retaining real life style plate.

THX 1138. Car action starts at 1:45.

M2 was Mazda’s skunkworks operation during the bubble economy era. They built lots of different stuff most of which didn’t go into production (V6 Miata, Miata for disabled people etc.). The production M2 models were pretty basic modified Miatas with some exterior, interior, suspension and engine mods IIRC.

The FJ40 badge is a good one. So are the early squarebody Chevy/GMC badges.

Looks like a pair of Vespa 400’s.

UAZ 469.