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.

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Page 109 — English draft translation

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Hot tune

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Option

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tnod

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Who says American cars are uncool?

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Fresh!

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Hot Rod

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HotRod

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Drift Tengoku, November issue

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Preview

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First issue

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-option

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Hot Rod Option is a new kind of car magazine that satisfies people's enduring desire to drive. It covers tuning, customization, styling, and ways to enjoy cars, championing ‘American style for Japanese readers’ with a free-spirited outlook. Tuning and customization cultures around the world ultimately trace their roots to American hot rodding.

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Manabu Orido's...

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Even in a car...

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American cars

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Drifting is fun

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Is the Camaro the American AE86!?

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Taking on the U.S. mall...

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Z/28

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HoiRod

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Buyer's and tuning guide

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1980s American and Japanese cars

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¥580

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Hot & cool customization

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Postage: ¥150

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Tax included

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Dirt ovals are an adult social scene

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