Car feature: perfect Tomica Skyline RS immitation
Last friday we featured a video of an almost perfect Tomica Skyline RS Super Silhouette immitation. After a wild goose chase I managed to find some pictures of this wonder:
Perfect Tomica Skyline RS immitation
And believe it or not, this picture was actually taken at a Porsche meeting in Nagashima!!
On this picture while unloading the car you can see its profile a bit better:
Perfect Tomica Skyline RS immitation
If you pay good attention and compare it to this picture of the real car (posted before here) you can see that my remark was a bit off:
The real Hashemi Tomica Skyline RS Super Silhouette
I remarked that the wheels were too small, but that is not the case: the real one appears to have a much higher roofline. This was done to comply to the rules of Group 5 which required to retain the roofline of the car. Other parts were allowed to be altered as long as the silhouette remained the same. Hence the lowered bonnet, fenders and trunk.
Another difference are obviously the headlights and lack of hoodfins:
Perfect Tomica Skyline RS immitation
This picture was taken inside Hide’s garage.
The rear is a copy of the early model:
Perfect Tomica Skyline RS immitation
But since there are so little pictures of the rear of the car it can only be guessed that it is correct…
I have no idea what is under its hood, but I don’t think you will find a LZ20R under it. Most probably a FJ20ET…
I said it is a perfect copy in the title, but that is obviously not entirely correct. However it is definitely the closest to the real thing!
Found at [No custom no life]
(If you continue to read there you will find he is creating a RX7 SA22 super silhouette copy!)
Meeting Monday
Not a very recent meeting, but nevertheless a very special meeting: this video was shot in 1986 (Showa 61) and gives a good insight in the taste they had back in the 80s!
You can mostly see old Laurels C130, Skyline C10s and C110s, Fairlady 240Zs and occasionally a bit more modern zokusha like the RX7 SA22. 🙂
In this second video the crowd gets a small visit by the police:
And in the final part involves a lot of window sitting and flag waving:
Picture of the week: Renown Savanna SA22
No idea if this RX7 SA22 facelift model actually is a real racer or not, but it surely does catch that 80s bosozoku style:
Renown Mazda Savanna SA22
The deep dish SSR Mk 1 rims complement the wide fenders just as much as the surrounding cars complement the whole car! Brilliant!
BTW: Renown was the main sponsor for the Mazda 787B
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