Popular Bosozoku cars: Toyota Celica XX
As promised: this week we feature the Celica XX in the Popular Bosozoku Cars. 🙂
We kick off with a subtle Kyusha styled example:
Kyusha styled Toyota Celica XX
The kouki Celica XX (facelifted second version) already featured fender flares on its own, but this car above has extended those flares extremely and added some sideskirts to it. Nice example of Kyusha style on the more modern cars if there were no fins on the hood and a large exhaust.
Shakotan styled Toyota Celica XX
This Shakotan styled Toyota Celica XX had it all: extremely lowered to the ground, deep dish wheels still fitting in the original fenders and a big pipe sticking out from under the rear bumper! Note that the wing on the hatch is the factory spec upper spoiler for some of the zenki Celica XX (pre-facelift) models.
Bosozoku styled Toyota Celica XX
Everything is boso on this Bosozoku styled Toyota Celica XX: big lip on the front, single windshield wiper, wacky color, racing mirrors, extremely wide fenders and some diy sideskirts to stand on while parading through town!
Funny enough I could not find any racing replicas through all pictures I have of Bosozoku styled Celcia XXs. Eventhough the Celica XX did not feature the Super Silhouette formula, there were a lot of them racing around the world back in the early 80s and definitely it must have inspired some people to make replicas of them, just like the Granchan styling were replicas of the old Super Silhouette racers.
Factory stock kouki Toyota Celica XX
The first generation Celica XX (pronounced as “double X”) was a lengthened Celica A4 to fit the 2.6 liter 4M or the 2.0 liter 1M into the Celica. Basically the first generation Celica XX did not look much different from the normal Celica except it had a very long bonnet. Later spec Celica XX did receive the more powerful 2.8 liter 5M-E and IRS, which was top of the range.
The second generation Celica XX succeeded the first generation and featured a 2.0 liter 1M-T turbo as the basic engine, a naturally aspired 2.8 liter 5M-GE as the midrange with lots of torque and a high revving naturally aspired 2.0 liter 1G-GEU as top of the range. At the same time Toyota was also working together with Lotus on the MR2 and had a good idea: have Lotus do the suspension on the Supra and in exchange have Lotus reuse some of the parts for their own car lineup! (the Lotus Excel for instance shares the rims and gearbox)
Factory stock zenki Toyota Celica XX
As stated before: the major difference between the zenki and the kouki models were the extended fenders with the wellknown fender flares. This resulted in the second generation having smaller diameter rims: 14 inch instead of 15 inch!
After the second generation Celica XX it became renamed to Supra, which was the overseas name for the Celica XX, so it could be split from the newer FWD Celica range. The Supra (mk. III) remained the A platform and got the designation A7.
by banpei with no comments yetRare Bosozoku cars: Mazda RX7 FC
This week we have another unpopular Bosozoku styled car: I initially planned to do a popular bosozoky styled car with the Celica XX but then I realized I already did the Corona RT40 last week, so the Celica XX feature will have to wait a few weeks I guess.
Anyway, I did see a lot of RX7 SA/FB Bosozoku styled cars but that is quite natural since the SA/FB raced in the Super Silhouette races. However I only found one Bosozoku styled RX7 FC:
Bosozoku styled Mazda RX7 FC
You could consider this FC a bit of a mix between racing style and Kyusha style, but the huge lip and oil cooler in front makes it Bosozoku styled!
Bosozoku styled Mazda RX7 FC
I have no idea why the RX7 FC would be an unpopular Bosozoku car: it is Mazda, it is rotary and it looks like a Porsche 928/944… Maybe it is too modern?
Factory stock Mazda RX7 FC
Back in 1986 the FC replaced the SA/FB and was produced till 1992 when it was replaced by the FD. The SA/FB was a more popular than the FC: the FC only sold half of the SA/FB in numbers.
But the FC was actually a better car than the SA/FC: it was very modern, had a better engine, featured ABS, adjustable suspension and even featured a convertible!
Factory stock Mazda RX7 FC
The FC only featured the 13B engine which was available naturally aspired and turbocharged. The power ranged from 146hp to 200hp.
Ryosuke Takahashi and his white FC
Lately the FC became very popular after Initial D featured a white FC driven by Ryosuke Takahashi. He is one of the most charismatic persons in that series and his FC is styled very subtile so it is actually the opposite of the Bosozoku styled FC at the top of this article. 😉
Bosozoku music
Not anything car related but I was looking for a video with bosozoku cars with high pitch revving. I did not succeed in finding that, however I did find this great video of a bosozoku member revving some tunes on his bike:
I couldn’t detect any known tune from that, but I surely think that he actually just played some well known Japanese rock and roll songs. 😉
How deep is your dish?
Remember the deep dish steelies I posted some time ago? Well, they are deep compared to these 15 inch 14J ET -74 steel rims I found on Auctions Yahoo!
Deep dish steel rims (15 inch 14J ET -74)
These rims don’t look that deep, eventhough they are more than double in width than the average rim on any car!
Deep dish steel rims (15 inch 14J ET -74)
Only 500 dollars and they are yours! Offset is 114.3×4, so they should fit on most older Japanese cars. They would even fit easily on my Toyota Carina or on any hachiroku! 😛
BTW: Nice car collection on the background! I see three 240K Skylines on the foreground and a Gloria (or Laurel) in the background.
Deep dish steel rims (15 inch 14J ET -74)
Tires are supposed to be 285/40 and look quite stretched. Amazing how round these tires become when stretched this much!
And who cares if stretched tires have less grip: 285 width stretched tires should give me more grip than my 185 unstretched tires! 😉
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