Option — Shōwa Car Tuning & Buyers Guide (2000 Edition)
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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 10 — English draft translation
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For the test, familiar faces Tarzan Yamada and Manabu “Monkichi” Orido. Powerful cars gathered at Ebisu Circuit in autumn.
So, here is the first installment of our major feature on the popular Shōwa-era cars everyone is talking about.
We’ve gathered a whole lineup of the latest tuning on cars still in active service!
Now is the perfect time to drive a Shōwa-era car! How about this?
It is a concentrated package of tuning technology.
…although the contents are thoroughly up-to-date…
On this opening feature page…
Manabu “Monkichi” Orido
Orido gets various nicknames in different magazines, but at Option he is “Monkichi” for now. He is active in the GT Championship and also entered NASCAR this year—a self-described current street racer, full of drive.
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Photos: Kōji Nakano, Shinya Hattori (MPS), Hiroki Iwashima (Coris) / Report: Hitoshi Gotō and Masahiro Takafuji (Monkey Production), Seiichirō Saitō (Mamezō)
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