![It’s all well and good to unearth obscure JDM models and occasionally find American or European classics, but what about something truly novel for a change? Tokyo has that, sometimes. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/IMG_20210128_090115-copy.jpg "CC Capsule: 2017 Sazgar Tempo Van – Bollywoodie Wagon")
![Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be. Once upon a time, seeing a black 3rd generation Trans Am, even one with a nose job like this one, would have brought […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/t87.jpg "CC Capsule: 1992 Pontiac Trans Am GTA – Kitt and Caboodle")
![Let’s kick off with the French stuff, for once. Saw this lovely little Peugeot 205 last Sunday (what a day that was) near the Meguro area. I’m going to try […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/IMG_20210131_131235-copy.jpg "CC Outtakes: T87’s Singles Collection (January 2021) – Part 2: Foreign Cars")
![Hey, time for a recap again. Truth be told, I thought I would give this one a miss, as I spent about half the month at home in quarantine and […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/IMG_20210131_154902-copy.jpg "CC Outtakes: T87’s Singles Collection (January 2021) – Part 1: Japanese Cars")
![It’s the first Mitsuoka of the year, and boy is it a whopper. Looks like this was fished out of the Marianna Trench, underwent some sort of explosive decompression along […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/IMG_20210117_154303-copy.jpg "Curbside Classic: 2008 Mitsuoka Orochi – Kill It Before It Spreads")
![Twentieth Century Minis are a yen a dozen in this country, as I’ve documented in many of my monthly singles posts. Several have included a Mini, because I see them […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/IMG_20201211_085427-copy.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1980 Austin / BL Mini 95 Van – Just More Of It To Love")
![In the long history of the Cedric / Gloria, the Y32 (i.e. the 8th generation for the Cedric, 9th for the Gloria) is the anti-climax of the saga. At this […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/IMG_20201105_155641-copy.jpg "CC Capsule: 1994 Nissan Cedric (Y32) Brougham J – The Unravelling Beckons")
![Tokyo is 9400km away from Stuttgart and 10,300km away from Detroit, so both of these big beauties traveled about the same distance to end up next to each other. From […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/IMG_20201129_164712-copy.jpg "CC Twofer: 1990 Chevrolet Caprice Brougham LS & Mercedes-Benz 560 SEL (W126) – Blue Collar Meets Blue Blood")
![Enough with all those weird parallel-universe JDM-only cars! For once, here’s one we can all remember – the Toyota saloon that the whole world knows and, presumably, loves. But even […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/IMG_20201202_090513-copy.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1991 Toyota Corolla (E90) 1.5 SE Limited – White Rice Deluxe")
![There are flat-4 devotees everywhere and Japan is just as crazy about classic Volkswagens as any place. Plenty of Beetles about, running the gamut from older cars to relatively more […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/IMG_20210112_085654-copy.jpg "CC Capsule: 1965 Volkswagen 1500 S (Type 3) Notchback – The Five Percenter")
![Since I moved to Japan 18 months ago, we’ve been through almost each of the Gloria generations of the ‘80s and ‘90s. In other words, the low-hanging fruit have been […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/IMG_20201215_161914-copy.jpg "CC Capsule: 1976 Nissan Gloria 330 SGL-E Hardtop Sedan – I Will Survive")
![I’ve been writing for CC for nigh on five years now and authored over 350 posts. I realize that’s peanuts compared to many distinguished CContributors (not to mention our dear […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/IMG_20201217_094520-copy.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1989 Saab 900 Turbo Four-Door Saloon – The Sweetest Swede")
![Well, now that this brief French interlude is over and done with and that Japan is closing its borders, looks like it’s back to our regular JDM finds for the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/IMG_20201207_154607-copy.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1975 Isuzu 117 XC Coupé (Series 2) – Quite XC-Looking, For An Isuzu")
![I’m no fan of the XJ40, but when this one showed up, on an highway service area in France about three weeks ago, I perked up. For one thing, it […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/IMG_20201220_132525-copy.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1989 Daimler Six (XJ40) – Dead Cat Bounce")
![I’m not sure this really still exists, but there used to be a time when a car could be typically French – or indeed, typically British, American or Japanese. It’s […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/IMG_20201227_103408-copy.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1967 Simca 1501 – The Least Gallic Of All Sixties French Cars")
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