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Toyota iQ with some remodelling
SEMA is the US’s biggest tuner show. 3 remodelled or ‘tweaked’ iQs made their appearance.
Remember the iQ? It was the small car that retired granny would choose to economically do her shopping or visit her grand kids in. Great modern piece of conservative creation by Toyota. Here is the stock standard iQ found in the Toyota showrooms and also found in the auctions in Japan:
Quaint stock standard iQ
Now the inside
And the lovely inside (American version)
Now you have a clear image of what the iQ is and who it is for. Rethink, think iQ as well as EVO, as well as RS, GTR, turbo, .. can you image anything?
How about this:
iQ tuned
iQ wild, inside
Toyota iQ wilder
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Uncategorized, funny, toyota, used cars
World Rugby Cup …. Car parts? Related??
There is a sport called rugby, as most British commonwealth countries know, and it has a World Cup challenge, and that started today. Now to keep peace and order, as most countries want to do, you create rules of behavior, so everything goes to plan. The last thing you would want at a Rugby World Cup is anarchy, so the anti-venom to anarchy is … a new set of rules.
So we have the Rugby World Cup, starting today, the 9th of September. Fans want to come to watch the games. Chance for anarchy? You bet! New rules? You bet! Let’s start with what can be brought into the stadiums, and what can not. First of all there is the obvious: nuclear bombs or fission materials: NO. Then there is the less obvious, but perhaps logical: no gang patches, furniture, umbrellas and flags with sticks longer than 80cm, and … car parts! NO CAR PARTS!!
What if you are on a date with your Honda Accord left door! Sorry, not allowed, you must leave it at the gate and enter ALONE! OK, true, a door is actually not a very unassuming date to a rugby outing, rather large to be exact. Well how about a power window switch? Sits in your pocket, no one can see it, no one can be offended, surely?? NO CAR PARTS. Either you part with your power window switch at the gate or NO ENTRY into this Rugby World Cup! Or how about your car battery? She is like none other. You left the interior car light on all night and … the car still started the next day. You completely ignored her need for some nice clean water (that is all she wanted!), but still she honours you, starts your car for you every day. What more honourable thing could you do for such a faithful battery than to shout her to a World Cup Rugby game, albeit Russia versus America (Rocky IV?). Again, at the gate, after unloading your car door, your power window switch, the security EVEN demands that you set your beloved battery down. You protest: “But she “Lights up my life, she gives me hope, to carry on….”" but no! Set her down here. Go no further. NO CAR PART is allowed to watch ANY RUGBY WORLD CUP GAME.
(Just to make this clear, this applies to all makers, Nissan, Toyota, Honda, Mazda, even Ford or Holden …. NO CAR PARTS)
What has the world come to! Can we continue on with such prejudice!
PS. (What about a spare key to your car that you parked close to the park where you are going to watch the game. By definition, that is a car part!!)
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Uncategorized, funny
Japanese License Plates / Regsitration Plates
For some reason I have had a couple of people ask me independently over the last few days whether we could help them get authentic Japanese license plates for their cars to give them that real JDM look. Anyway, I thought this would be of interest to others, so this is the story:
You can sometimes find real Japanese plates on sale on eBay. I would say that at best these are in a legal gray area, and at worst their sale is illegal. Basically, when a car is exported or (I believe) when it is recycled here, the original license plates have to be returned to the Rikuun Kyoku (the Department of Transportation). We have had some plates hanging around a few years ago, but that was when someone had sent them to us in error and we could not figure out who to return them to. Even with these, we passed them on to the Department of Transportation anyway as we knew that would be where they were supposed to end up.
So the only ways you could get your hands on authentic plates in Japan would be to either steal them from a parked car, or to remove them from an abandoned vehicle. The latter may or may not be technically illegal, but the former definitely would be.
If you want a sort-of authentic-looking plate, you can order one from this site. The thing is, any real Japanese person will immediately be able to spot it as a fake, as the kanji at the top are clearly supposed to be “Nagano”, but they are written in the reverse order.
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funny
Auction Find: Pushmi-Pullyu Rover Mini
This Pushmi-Pullyu Mini is a hot tip from one of our friends. It’s not in the Japanese car auctions here, but you can pick it up on eBay where it is available until September 8th, 2009. Someone really had Minsanity, and spent about 40,000 Pounds (and, I am sure) countless hours creating this amazing machine. Apparently the creator wants to export it out of the UK to make sure his next (presumably even more bonkers creation) does not have to go head-to-head-to…. errr…-head with this piece of craziness.
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auction finds, custom cars, funny, rover
Literally 2WD Minitruck
Not sure I recognize the exact model here (Suzuki Carry? Honda Acty?), but it certainly is a 2WD model, as you can see:
(Don’t worry! We will make sure you never end up with a truck like this if you buy from the Japanese car auctions through us. We always translate the auction inspectors’ reports for the vehicles you bid on so you have all the information you need to make the final decision to go ahead or not.)
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