Last weeks poll results
It has been decided: the Bosozoku Style Skyline C210 made it into the quarter finals!
Bosozoku style Skyline C210
Winners of the second round so far is:
1. Bosozoku style Skyline C210
All winners will advance to the quarter finals! 🙂
This week we will have the sudden death between an exhaust champion and a popular bosozoku style feature:
Toyota Crown S130 with spread winged exhaust
versus
Nissan Gloria C330 Bosozoku style
Last weeks poll results
We kind of expected this outcome: the Toyota Crown S130 with spread winged exhaust won last weeks sudden death
Winners so far:
Bosozoku style Skyline C210
Bosozoku style Fairlady 280ZX
Toyota Crown S130 with spread winged exhaust
This weeks we try to keep it in the same era and in the same styling:
Nissan Gloria C330 Bosozoku style
Versus
Bosozoku style Toyota Mark II X3
Rare Bosozoku cars: Nissan Cedric 230
This week we feature the Nissan Cedric (and Gloria) 230. In contrary of the Cedric/Gloria 330 it is a rare bosozoku car and we had a very hard time to find more than one picture!
Some time ago we featured a video of it already:
This full version shows everything about this great Cedric: it is spacious, it looks bad, got a great horn and this hardtop version doesn’t have a B pilar!
We even managed to find a picture of this beauty:
#23 Bosozoku style Nissan Cedric 230
You see, it even got the stance right!
Compared to that this kyusha styled Cedric suddenly doesn’t look that stunning anymore:
Kyusha styled Nissan Cedric 230
The Cedric and Gloria 230 did share the same floorpan and body, but in contrary of the 330 they did not share the same face: they still had their individual front ends. Only starting with the 330 Nissan finally merged the two cars fully!
Factory stock Nissan Cedric 230
Both cars were featuring several L series inline 4 and inline 6 engines, so the L20, L24 and L26 were all available.
Factory stock Nissan Cedric 230
The Nissan Cedric/Gloria 230 is a rare sight at the bosozoku meetings and we do have an idea why. First reason:
Many 70s and 80s Japanese police series used/abused the Nissan Cedrics and Glorias to make spectacular car chases. It was not uncommon to wreck up to 15 or 20 cars per chase! And the biggest problem was that the Cedric and Gloria were mostly used as policecars, so they were wrecked in masses!
Second reason: the image of a policecar is not really appealing to a bosozoku!
And the third reason: rust! There are not many Cedrics and Glorias left.
Personally I do prefer the Cedric/Gloria 330 over the 230 and that’s probably just like every bosozoku boss would!
by banpei with no comments yetExhaust of the week: Little brother spread your wings
This week the little brother of the spread winged Crown Century:
Little brother: Nissan Gloria 430
Funny to see the “little brother” standing next to the “big brother”!
by bosozoku with no comments yetBosozoku style car on Failblog
I follow Failblog daily and imagine the surprise I had this morning:
Bosozoku style Nissan Gloria 430 on Failblog
So naturally my reaction would be to post an url to Bosozoku style blog but apparently someone called Drew already did that. Thanks Drew! 😉
Anyway, here is the link to the failblog article:
Spoiler Fail on Failblog
BTW: what do you think? Should we have a grudge against Failblog or do you think it is a good thing they spread the word?