Option — Shōwa Car Tuning & Buyers Guide (2000 Edition)
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About this issue
180 available scans from Option — Shōwa Car Tuning & Buyers Guide (2000 Edition), in right-to-left reading order. Japanese OCR and English translation drafts are available throughout. Drafts have not received exhaustive image proofreading; unreadable source remains recorded in the archival data.
Page 1 — English draft translation
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Everything about 1980s tuning!
AE86, S13/PS13, FC3S, 70-series Supra, and more.
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Option — Shōwa-era car tuning
Editorial supervision
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Buyer’s guide
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Taking on the latest sports cars!
AW11; RNN14 Pulsar GTI-R; R30 Skyline; S30, 130, and Z31 Fairlady Z
Sports cars born in the Shōwa era: tuning guides by model, parts catalogs, and buyer’s guides—all in one volume!
Shōwa-era cars
Front-wheel-drive cornering champ!
EF3/7/8/9 Civic and CR-X; AE92; EP82
Levin/Trueno; Starlet
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Fujiwara Kamata’s shop
Leave four-door drift cars to us!
Cefiro
A31
The Mark II trio
GX/JZX81
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Shōwa 500
And there’s plenty more!
Special feature: AE86, PS/S13, FC3S, and 70-series Supra
Silvia
S12
Galant VR-4
Soarer
MZ20; E38A/39A; and many more!
Map of salvage yards and used-parts shops
refresh and maintenance methods
BOOIS
POWER
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Orido and Tarzan’s
YEN
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Back-to-back showdown of the newest Shōwa-era cars!