![Enough of the fully-restored, expertly-curated and secretly-modded showroom queens of Central Tokyo. Well away from the beaten path, in the never-ending maze of side streets that lay west and south […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/IMG_20230421_111103-copy.jpg "CC Capsule: 1977 Toyota Publica (KP50) Van Deluxe – A Bit Of Grime For A Change")
![I know what you’re thinking: this again? Have we not been Challengered enough? Well, what can I do? We’ve covered these many a time on CC and this is the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/IMG_20221030_144231-copy.jpg "In-Motion Classic: 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T – Wide In Japan")
![The first-gen Mazda Cosmo has had pride of place in my fantasy garage for quite a while now, but thus far, I had only seen a couple as museum exhibits. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/IMG_20230423_105042-copy.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1968 Mazda Cosmo Sports – The Rotary That Makes Heads Turn")
![(first posted 7/9/2017) It was a hot day to be out and about in Shibuya, one of Tokyo’s trendier districts. And it seems whoever owned this Corniche was so […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/IMG_20170708_102401.jpg "CC Capsule: 1991 Rolls-Royce Corniche III – Dark Suit And White Gloves Compulsory")
![Temperatures are now reaching their usual uncomfortable summer peaks in Tokyo. It’s nothing compared to what some of you over in the southern US have had to endure in recent […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/IMG_20230219_113106-copy.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1961 Porsche 356 B 1600 Super Roadster – Ice-Cold And Air-Cooled")
![The name Century has been attached to two very different things on either end of the Pacific. Likewise, Caravan can refer to both Mopar minivans and the Nissan not-so-mini van […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG_20230528_125428-copy.jpg "CC Capsule: 1982 Nissan Caravan (E23) SGL – Wassup, Homy?")
![The ‘80s may now be regarded as the decade of square car design par excellence, but it was arguably the third such era in automotive history. Back in the ‘20s, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG_20230416_102918-copy.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1965 Simca 1000 GLS – Cute Cubic CC")
![Station wagons may have gone out of fashion in North America, but many other places are still infatuated with them. If the Japanese internet is to be believed, Japan’s fairly […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG_20230618_152415-copy.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1993 Subaru Legacy Touring Wagon (BF) Mi Super Select – Long Live The Long Roof")
![Maserati are doing pretty well these days. That’s an outlier in the marque’s history though: for most of the 20th Century, Maserati were either about to go under or trying […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG_20230228_142721-copy.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1992 Maserati 430 4v (AM332) – The Better Biturbo")
![White doesn’t rank very high in my personal car colour chart. Which is unfortunate, because Asians in general and the Japanese in particular tend to like white cars, so there […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG_20230227_115456-copy.jpg "CC Capsule: 1984 Toyota Century (VG40) – Albino? Why, Albi-yes!")
![I can’t quite put my finger on why most Mitsubishis just leave me cold. One thing was their insistence on naming all their cars (or their overseas clones) some combination […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG_20220911_111917-copy.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1982 Mitsubishi Galant Sigma (A160) Super Saloon – Even A Stopped Clock…")
![In the aftermath of the Second World War, the “Export or die” era of the British motoring industry, when steel was only allocated to carmakers who sold ¾ths of their […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG_20230319_143357-copy.jpg "In-Motion / Car Show Classic: 1950 Austin A90 Atlantic – Missed The Boat")
![(first posted 6/20/2017) Full disclosure, right from the top: this used to be our ride in Yangon. But I cannot write a COAL post really, as I’ve never […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/ToyoCrown-3.jpg "Curbside Classic: 2002 Toyota Crown Comfort Super Deluxe G – Time For A Change")
![I will readily admit that the 1961-62 Cadillacs were never really on my radar. I always felt the outrageous 1959-’60s outshone them completely, and the 1963-’64s seemed more dignified and […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG_20230401_113022-copy.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1962 Cadillac Fleetwood Sixty Special – Very Sixty And Very Special")
![As mentioned in my previous post, I had my first Japanese car show experience back in April, and the overwhelming majority of the cars I saw there (admittedly in Central […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG_20230402_142650-copy.jpg "Car Show Capsule: 1936 Datsun Type 15 Roadster – JDM Archeological Artefact")
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