Abandoned cars and barn finds picture thread!!!!!
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Its worth pointing out that cars tend to be a bit more cleaner over here than the rest of the gulf states due to the island being so small and everything like buildings...etc cramped rather than open and wide like UAE or Saudi Arabia. It doesn't mean it won't get dusty like that but it usually wouldn't be that extreme.
This place on the other hand is literally facing a field of sand and it must been sitting there for a lot of time without getting cleaned and washed in the open air. Pretty much all other cars around it looks in a much better condition visual wise.
So...
1. Why it's sitting there dirty?
2. Why would you not cover it up?
3. Why would you keep a supra outside and exposed?
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The owner haven't came back in a while from what I have heard.
While you're probably right about the whole not being that expensive or valuable of a car, Supra's aren't that common and it's almost impossible to import one thanks to the whole "5 years or less" laws. Meaning anything prior to 2012 would be prohibited.
Would love to know about this more, any info?
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RocZX
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There no info on them. They were posted on social media with no info other then they are in France. People are speculated they are replicas or display models.
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That Coloni concept is insane looking (as you'd expect from Coloni) wonder if it was ever anything other than a static show car?
There's no way that 250 GTO is anything other than a kit car or a 240Z-based replica.
There's no way that 250 GTO is anything other than a kit car or a 240Z-based replica.
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Definitely - there were only a few RHD 250 GTOs and I believe they're all accounted for due to their incredible comparative value.
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It seems you may be right - the picture is over 30 years old
There is some debate about the original colour and if it's RHD or LHD, I suspect that this source is wrong and the car was always RHD. Here's a bit more on the history.
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- a baby, candy, it's like taking.
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If it's anything like the overwhelming majority of Colani creations*, it's unlikely it was.
*The one exception that comes to mind is the Ford Ka Colani, as a bodykit was marketed, though the original from which the kit was developed, probably the only one fitted with 255/35R14 Fuldas in the rear, was likely not either.
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Mitsuru Haraguchi's FC3S RX7
I wish this was just left how it was. Haraguchi himself didn't even know it was still in circulation, thinking it was crushed years ago. What they're doing to it now is a disgrace- the concept liveries have the wrong flag, and have stupid Zestino and Low Style Hero logos all over it. If you were going to remove it, keep it as is. The 'inspiration of teen' comment is null and void because now it's not the car that every one looked up to. It's a butcher of it.
/rant
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Can you gather some good comparison shots? Before its abandonment and now? And why did he allow it to be crushed?
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Progress shots are all on Low Style Hero's Instagram- the livery comments originated from their Instagram story where they had a preview of what was going on.
And he allowed it to be crushed because it's just another car to him. He doesn't care about it.
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It was a very popular car in the early D1GP days some 18 years ago, and the car's owner left it in a field to rot since about 2002-2003 I'd say. Old school D1/Drift fans in general regard that car as a bit of a deity because of just how "cool" it was, even if it couldn't really drift all that well. That was before drift cars were built like drag cars made to go sideways, a much simpler, affordable and accessible era, where style was a more important thing than having 90 degrees of angle and 900hp.
Either way, someone found it in that field and decided to raise some funds to bring it back to life and make it look exactly like it did back in the day, but that's apparently not the case anymore.
So it's supposed to look like this:
But probably never will ever again.
Funilly enough, most of the "famous" drift cars from the early D1GP era are still alive and kicking in some way or other. The HKS Silvia that Taniguchi used to drive is now one of the Falken demo cars, Kazama's S15 resides in Norway somewhere, Kumakubo and Tanaka's S15s are still at Ebisu and have been converted to rally cars, Ueno's Soarer is still in his possession, Imamura's FD3S went to Apex'i USA and is also one of the Falken demo cars, and I think even Ueo has his Trueno still.
Either way, someone found it in that field and decided to raise some funds to bring it back to life and make it look exactly like it did back in the day, but that's apparently not the case anymore.
So it's supposed to look like this:
But probably never will ever again.
Funilly enough, most of the "famous" drift cars from the early D1GP era are still alive and kicking in some way or other. The HKS Silvia that Taniguchi used to drive is now one of the Falken demo cars, Kazama's S15 resides in Norway somewhere, Kumakubo and Tanaka's S15s are still at Ebisu and have been converted to rally cars, Ueno's Soarer is still in his possession, Imamura's FD3S went to Apex'i USA and is also one of the Falken demo cars, and I think even Ueo has his Trueno still.
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And don't get me started on this one
It's had a hard life, that's for sure. When Dai Yoshihara and the Rockstar/Pacific Rim team competed in it, I believe it still had the SR with the HKS catalog thrown at it, then Falken bought it and ended up shoving an LSx in there... I think, and don't quote me on that, that LS ended up in McNamara's S14 (which it still has today) and they've put a semi-stock SR back in the S15 since it's only used for demo purposes. HKS built 2 completely similar S15s back in the day, the second one ended up in Europe and no one really knows what happened to it.
Still, it'll never be as bad as that kid in the UK who bought the Sexy Knights purple/yellow FC3S, procedeed to blow the 13B and shoved a Ford 302 in there instead.
