A month ago I posted a R31 Silhouette in the exhaust of the week. Last week All Japan Express blog posted some more pictures of it:

Exhaust of the week: R31 silhouette
These night shots make the flakey paint come out much nicer than the shots from the Nagoya Classic Car Show!

Backlit Silhouettes rule:

Exhaust of the week: R31 silhouette
Yum yum yum!

This Heros 79 Crown is one of the best looking Crowns I've seen so far! Its wicked styling includes everything: big lip, oil cooler, hood fins, ultra wide boxy Super Silhouette fenders with deep dish SSR Mk 1s in them, big double spoiler and of course four skyscraping exhaust pipes at the rear!

The image may not be meant for widescreens, but it is surely a great wallpaper for your desktop if you center it!

Bosozoku style wallpaper: Heros 79 Crown Number One MS125

Right-click here to download or set it as your wallpaper!

Back in the late 70s and early 80s the Super Silhouette race cars featured big wide fenders, big wings to create more downforce and wild paintschemes to attract attention. Of course this influenced the people on the streets as well, applying the same wild modifications on their cars themselves.

More interesting is this video from 1984 on Tsukuba where another Grand Championship race is preceded by a stock car race: most cars look like the bosozoku styled cars of that era!

Especially the Cedric 430 (fighting the big Pontiac Firebird) and the Mazda Luce Legato are very typical examples here. Naturally they were modified in the same manner as the Super Silhouette to squeeze more grip out of that bulky stock car body!

I had a good laugh when I watched this stop motion animation of two bosozoku style cars being chased by the Japanese police:

The video is called Tomica "Brothers race shop". The two brothers drive a Nissan Skyline KPGC10 and a Nissan Skyline KDR30 Super Silhouette (replica) and even manage to get the military involved... The video was made by CARBOY0604 and his son. Love the way the music shifts from scene to scene. ;)

[ This is a crosspost between two of my blogs ]

This Skyline R31 Silhouette was shot at the Classic Car Show in Nagoya last weekend:

Exhaust of the week: R31 silhouette
The car is a great homage to the Super Silhouette racers! Of course the Super Silhouette racers didn't feature those huge pipes sticking out of the bonnet, but in looks they were equally great! ;)