This morning I received some amazing news from J.P McCarty: Hot wheels will bring us a kaido racer die-cast!
I still haven’t figured out what car this zokusha is based upon: best fit would be the Nissan Laurel C130, but doesn’t feel right looking at the shape of the door. So can anyone guess what Hot Wheels based it upon?
More pictures can be found on the Hot Wheels Collectors site:
Hotwheelscollectors.com
Hattoriworks walked around on the JCCA NYM parkinglot and shot a couple of the kaido racers around there.
The most interesting one is the white pigsbutt Laurel with a 03 number on it. Makes it look like the Japanese counterpart of a wellknown orange Charger with 01 on it. 
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The same idea as yesterday, but then with a Skyline Japan:
Now doesn’t the Skyline C210 look better this way?
Picture found in Ka Ry’s photostream at Flickr. (Do I need to mention it is worth browsing through his streams?)
Some might say it is blasphemy to put the Laurel C130 saloon headlights on a Kenmeri Skyline C110 (especially if it is GT-R styled), but I think it actually might is a fresh way of saying you like best of both worlds.
Picture found in Ka Ry’s photostream at Flickr. (Again: definitely worth browsing through his streams!)
Last week we had footage from the Awaji Island Old Car New Year meeting and this week we got another New Year Meeting: the JCCA New Year Meeting 2012!
Every year the JCCA NYM is a spectacular sight because not only classics but also exotics and kaido racers show up: (more…)