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 160 — English draft translation
The S30 Z—this is the car we ride because it is cool. We do not drive it just because it is old; that means “it is old, so it is bound to be slow” is no excuse. We tune it with the latest technology so it can beat modern sports cars. When a slightly older Showa-era car passes the newest Heisei sports models, we say: “Don’t underestimate your ancestors!”
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Showa-era cars.
Cars… [fragment].
Showa… [fragment].
Declare that these cars are still competitive!
It is not about nostalgia… [headline fragment].
Leave the latest tuned cars behind!
Now then, the next Showa-era car…
The next Showa-era car is a little older than the ones introduced so far…
People may call them nostalgic, old-fashioned machines… [sentence fragment].
But we do not drive Showa-era cars simply because we are nostalgic for the past. For example…
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