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 131 — English draft translation
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“Different from everyone else!” The four-door drift car made that statement unmistakably…
It all began with these Showa-era cars!
Showa-era cars revived through drifting.
A new idea: sports driving in a four-door.
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A four-door sedan powers through a high-speed drift.
One day, it suddenly appeared in the drift scene: the A31 Cefiro.
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It was an extraordinary sight, but it made such a strong impression that the Cefiro boom quickly spread nationwide.
And standing out was not the only advantage of a four-door drift car.
Four-door sedans are generally less likely to have been driven hard, and used examples are inexpensive.
In many cases, tuning parts for the manufacturer’s two-door sports models could be used as-is.
They can also carry five adults. You can even tell your parents that… maybe. It is practically a car made for us.
Here is everything you need to know about tuning these four-door drift cars!
A31 Cefiro.
The GX/JZX81 Mark II trio.
“Showa Cars Revived Through Drifting” lineup.
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