![I happened upon this unlikely trio of last week, as I meandered in a part of the city I thought I knew. Talk about a trifecta! Tokyo’s full of surprises. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_20200611_094237-copy.jpg "Junkyard Classics: 1974 Isuzu Florian TS, 1975 Isuzu 117 XT & 1979 Isuzu 117 – The Good, The Bad And The Ugly")
![When trawling for CCs out in the mystic East, one does not often catch American metal. But Japan has a stronger connection with the US than places I’ve lived in […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_20200421_151514-copy.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1977 Chevrolet Blazer – Just Call Me “Blasé”")
![In the eternal struggle between the two Japanese automotive giants that are Toyota and Nissan, few cases of oneupmanship were as symbolic and as the protracted Battle of the Barges […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_20200527_171105-copy.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1999 Nissan President (PHG50) Sovereign – Losing The Battle")
![These Jeeps Cherokees were very popular in Europe, back in the day. One of the few American cars that you would see pretty frequently, at least in my corner of […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/IMG_20200513_102238-copy.jpg "CC Outtakes: T87’s Singles Collection (May 2020) – Part 2: Foreign Cars")
![Here we go again for another round of CCs caught in Tokyo. This month was the lockdown, but the government and police here decided they had no legal means to […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/IMG_20200509_181332-copy.jpg "CC Outtakes: T87’s Singles Collection (May 2020) – Part 1: Japanese Cars")
![It was one of those time when you do a genuine double take. I saw this car go past me – didn’t notice anything articular about it, just another 2002-08 […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/IMG_20200410_105618-copy.jpg "CC Capsule: 2005 “BSW 306i” (Suzuki Lapin) – Frankenrabbit")
![Woah! This gave me a bit of a start when I saw it. Well, that’s not something you’d expect to just appear in a small Tokyo side street, now, is […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/IMG_20200520_151442-copy.jpg "CC Capsule: 1956 Ford F-100 Panel Truck – Feeling Kinda Low, Are We?")
![You don’t come across many Japanese cars from the early ‘60s around Tokyo. Foreign ones from that period are much more sought after, it seems – and always immaculately (or […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/IMG_20200326_110037-copy.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1962 Datsun Bluebird (P312) 1200 Deluxe – Still Looking Chirpy")
![Meeting a legend is a strange experience. If you’re an admirer, there can be too many things that pop up in your head at once, which you then try not […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/IMG_20200504_172027-copy.jpg "CC Capsule: 1988 Audi Quattro – Stumped")
![In the long story of the Gloria, the late ‘90s were probably the most interesting for a number of reasons. As we’ve seen before, the Gloria wagon stayed in production […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/IMG_20200228_170623-copy.jpg "CC Twofer: 1998 Nissan Gloria (Y33) Gran Turismo Ultima & Gloria (Y30) Wagon – Dr Nissan and Ms Gloria")
![For such a recently-departed maker, there are not many Saabs about the streets of Tokyo. Even later models than this one are rare sightings. Not sure how to explain that, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/IMG_20200426_115146-copy.jpg "CC Outtakes: T87’s Singles Collection (April 2020) – Part 2: Foreign Cars")
![The COVID-19 lockdown has been rather soft, in Japan – more fishnet than mosquito net, in a way. Just ask this late ‘60s Toyota Crown S50 wagon. Since the second […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/IMG_20200410_092903-copy.jpg "CC Outtakes: T87’s Singles Collection (April 2020) – Part 1: Japanese Cars")
![Have you ever felt, when re-experiencing something you thought you knew, that it was somehow nowhere near as good as you remembered it? Could be anything – a work of […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/IMG_20200318_103609-copy.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1969 Mercedes-Benz 280 SL (W113) – A Fish In The Percolator")
![A damp and moonless night in downtown Tokyo. I must have taken a wrong turn. I’m trying to reach the metro station on the other side of this block, but […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/IMG_20191025_214955-copy.jpg "CC Capsule: 1997 Mitsuoka Galue – Real Horrorshow")
![The Supra may have caught the imagination of some latter-day JDM sports coupé idolaters, but back in the ‘80s, Toyota’s range had many other choices on offer. The bottom rung […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/IMG_20200410_105100-copy.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1987 Toyota Soarer (Z20) 2.0 GT Twin Turbo – Proto-Lexus PLC")
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