Battle Magazine — March 1997
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116 available scans from Battle Magazine — March 1997, in rtl reading order. Original scans with English draft translations and searchable page text. Drafts have not received exhaustive image proofreading; unreadable source remains recorded in the archival data.All 59 provided PDF pages retained as 116 reader pages; completeness against a physical printed copy has not been independently established.
Page 88 — English draft translation
Fourteen years ago, in May 1983 (Showa 58), the AE86 Levin and Trueno were born. Even today it’s perfectly normal to spot a Hachiroku on mountain passes—or cruising around town. But when it first came out, the Honda CR-X appeared as the Ballade CR-X, Mitsubishi’s Starion was still current, turbocharged intercooled models were arriving, and the Familia had just gained a turbo in its first front-wheel-drive generation. The Skyline was in the R30 DOHC RS era. Looking back, that really was a long time ago. Apart from the R30 RS, most of those cars are rarely seen on the street now. Yet the Hachiroku is still out there running hard…
Captions and page details
The Hachiroku fan’s gaze has finally turned overseas.
Left-hand drive…
Here it is!
T&S Garage
The world is a big place, after all. This month’s Hachiroku is still an Hachiroku, but it grew up a little differently: a U.S.-spec, left-hand-drive version. Its distinctive face and solid color have a distinctly American feel!
T&S Garage
Red
AE86
This month’s feature
Photography: Hideki Otani (this magazine)
COROLLA GT-S
TOYOTA
SPORTS
Shigemitsu Suzuki / This West Coast-grown car looks great in crimson!
1985 model year
Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture
One-make feature
The front wears a Trueno face; the rear is Levin. The two Hachiroku siblings combined!
▲Mr. Suzuki says, “If anyone wants one, I can import it.”
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