Popular Bosozoku cars: Nissan Gloria / Cedric C330
This week I wanted to highlight the Nissan Gloria / Cedric C330. 🙂
Nissan Gloria C330 Bosozoku style
The mid 70s cokebottle styled Gloria and Cedric and pilarless doors are excellent bodyshapes for a bosozoku styled car! It looks really wild in its shape, it’s got the big bad attitude of the early VIP cars and with the big flared fenders it looks even more wicked!
Nissan Gloria C330 Yanky style
These yanky styled Gloria C330s really looks a bit more like an American hotrod than a Bosozoku styled car. Only the exhaust gives away these cars. 😉
Bosozoku styled Nissan Gloria C330
The differences between the Gloria and Cedric are so minor that with a Bosozoku style makeover you can’t even tell if it is a Gloria or Cedric anymore! But this should be a Gloria
Both Cedric and Gloria were rivals of the Toyota Crown. Apart from the outragous President both vehicles were the flagships of the company.
The Gloria joined the Nissan lineup after Price merged with Nissan. From what I understood the Gloria was the upmarket car and the Cedric more or less the downsized car. In the previous generation of both vehicles this was even more clear: the Cedric featured less chrome and an hood ornament!
Just like its predecessor, the C230, the C330 features pilarless rear door, so there is no B post between the front and rear door. This to mimic late 60s and early 70s American cars even more.
Most cars feature the L26 engine but the L20 engine was also available but mainly used in the taxi variant of this car.
Almost factory stock Nissan Gloria C330
On this picture with almost factory stock Glorias you can clearly see how beautifully styled these C330s actually were! If I were to find one of these beauties in the Netherlands (they were sold here!) I doubt whether I would keep them stock or slam them to the ground Shakotan style!
Count the bosozoku styled cars!
How many Bosozoku styled cars did you count in this video?
Read more to see my count…
I counted 36 but did not count the VIP styled cars, the Celica, but did count the small minivan.
My personal favorite was the Ken-meri Nissan Skyline with the big 210 number on it. 😉
by banpei with no comments yetDaijiro Inada having fun with a Bosozoku styled Nissan Cedric
Option Video founder Daijiro Inada is having a lot of fun with this Bosozoku styled Nissan Cedric K230:
Especially the horn draws his attention and he uses it very often through town, even when passing traffic cops. 😉
Popular Bosozoku cars: Toyota Soarer
This is going to be a regular here: it would be nice to see some really mild to really wild examples of the Bosozoku style cars and then read how they came out of the factory. 😉
This week we’ll kick off with the Toyota Soarer:
Two Bosozoku styled Soarers
As you probably have read in the introduction an extremely lowered Soarer featured Shakotan Boogie. This most probably helped its popularity among Bosozoku stylers and most Toyota Soarers you see on Bosozoku car meetings are Shakotan Boogie look-a-likes.
Lengthened hood and overfenders on this Soarer
This milder styled car is of course an exception: it has a lengthened hood and overfenders as well. But apart from that it looks quite stock.
Read on for more pictures…
Someone has really gone wild on this Toyota Soarer
Big wing, deep dish wheels with huge overfenders and sideskirts wide enough to have somebody stand on!
The Z10 is the most popular Bosozoku styled Toyota Soarer, probably because of its boxy shape and because it is quite cheap to buy. Z20 Soarers are hardly seen and I’ve never seen any Bosozoku styled Z30 and Z40 Soarers, but never say never. 😉
How did it come out of the factory then?
Factory stock Toyota Soarer Z10
The Soarer itself was a successor to the Toyota Crown Coupe, which was a 2 door version of the Crown with a bit more sporty suspension. The Soarer itself did just as well as the Crown Coupe. The Soarer shared the same engines as the Crown and the CelicaXX.
Factory stock Toyota Soarer Z10
Because it shared the same engines as the CelicaXX it is often confused to be the same platform with a different bodyshape, like the Celica and the Carina have. However there is a Supra JZA70 with a Soarer Z20 frontend which makes the confusion even bigger.
Factory stock Toyota Soarer Z10 interior
To confuse it even more: a lot of the interior components of the Soarer look like the interior of the CelicaXX. True, but the CelicaXX also shared a lot of components with the Corolla AE86.
Tiptronic climate control
The Soarer was the most luxurious car in the Toyota lineup (apart from the Toyota Century of course!) and featured all the state of the art technology! In the picture above you can see the climate control of the Soarer is featuring tiptronic controls, other buttons were normal but about everything is electronically adjustable. The Soarer also featured a digital dashboard, state of the art 4 speed automatic (with sports setting!) and the passenger door had a seperate doorhandle for the passengers in the rear!
I hope you can see now why a Bosozoku styler would choose for the Soarer Z10: it is an incredible car with a lot of comfort which can’t even be found in cars from the 90s! Besides that: it is a very cool car itself.
by banpei with no comments yetIs this policecar a Crown or a Gloria?
Is it a Toyota Crown Policecar?
Some may already have seen a picture of this car on the posting Alexi of Nori Yaro made at the Daisuke Shouten photoshoot.
Read on for more pictures…
Or is it a Nissan Gloria policecar?
Here you can see how the car used to be in its full glory back in 2006 at the Tokyo Auto Salon.
No, it is both a Gloria and Crown policecar!
I think it is an excellent example of what Daisuke is capable of! We’ve seen several examples at his workshop photographed by Alexi of Nori Yaro and seeing this at the Tokyo Auto Salon meeting is an absolute sign of his geniality!
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