Sorry if this was already posted. Good article on Hagerty's website about the Japanese Classic Car show in Irvine CA. http://www.hagerty.com/lifestyle/hobby_article.aspx?id=58172#

wow, what an amazing event! I wish I could have seen all those great cars. Love how well the Datsuns were represented.

You guys should visit the JNC forum a little more

The show was a lot of fun and afterward my friends and I enjoyed some fried chicken and waffles in Long Beach at Roscoe's House of Chicken and Waffles. Here are my pictures, slightly more random due to lack of sleep mostly... I think triple carbs were on my mind

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v283/70CamGuy/JCCS%202009/

http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/blog/

http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/blog/2009/10/05/events-jccs-2009-part-one-kyuusha-kulture/

http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/blog/2009/10/07/events-jccs-2009-part-two-wagons-ho/

http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/blog/2009/10/08/events-jccs-2009-part-three-the-exotics/

http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/blog/2009/10/09/events-jccs-2009-part-four-rolling-stock/

http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/blog/2009/10/10/events-jccs-2009-part-five-the-mod-squad/

http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/blog/2009/10/13/events-jccs-part-six-truck-yeah-and-some-race-cars/

http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/blog/2009/10/14/events-jccs-part-seven-so-hard-to-say-goodbye/

I'm loving the fact that the cars are getting more and more recognized as a collectable. (Don't start guys, not looking for any comments) but having Haggerty do the video was nice to see and kinda informative for those who don't know what to look for when it comes to rust.

This should be required viewing for the newbies. maybe?

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Thanks for the photos, Andy! For me, the really fun ones were the Toyotas. You took pics of a couple of nice mid-70's Celica GTs. My first car was a 75 GT. Sort of underpowered, but I enjoyed it. Then there were the 2000GTs. Ooooooohhhh, baby!

I agree about the collectable aspect of our Z's. I think they've gotten no respect in the collectors' world because of being foreign. (Not even old Porsches have the collectable value of classic American cars.) I think that's disappearing with the emergence of new generations of collectors. At least that's the bet I'm making with my own Z. My Mustang was a pretty good investment (certainly much better than any of my RESPONSIBLE investments), and I expect my Z to do even better over the years. Time will tell.

Edited October 23, 200915 yr by FastWoman

I had a 68 Toyota Corona 2 dr hardtop 'back in the day' around my senior year in college. As I recall, I didn't pay much for it, something like $550 in 1972, and it looked and ran great. You don't see those too often anymore except at shows like this one.

Edited October 23, 200915 yr by sblake01

Thanks for the photos, Andy! For me, the really fun ones were the Toyotas. You took pics of a couple of nice mid-70's Celica GTs. My first car was a 75 GT. Sort of underpowered, but I enjoyed it. Then there were the 2000GTs. Ooooooohhhh, baby!

Happy to share! I like the old Toyota's too. We drove down there with a couple of the 1st Gen Celica guys (their message board is 1stgencelica). The blue one at the end of my album was our last casualty of the weekend with a broken throttle cable. It has an F20C and 6-speed out of an S2000. That thing has power to spare, dyno'ed with a base fuel map at 220 whp

Another guy the drove down with us has a '71 with a freshly built 18-RG. He's got Mikuni 44's, I love the sound of that car.

My friend owns the green mango (corolla coupe) in the show, but also has a '69 Sprinter at his shop I think he's going to build. I never noticed how cool the grill is on the Sprinters till I saw the cars at the show