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 85 — English draft translation
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AE86…
The fighting Hachiroku in the GT Championship…
…races carrying our dreams
TUR
E NIPPO
ATURBINE
The Racing S-GT engine is mounted as low as possible, close to the bulkhead. It could easily make over 500 horsepower, but a restrictor limits it to just over 300 horsepower.
TOYOTA
Racing Devolop
APAPEX
The latest, most formidable machine…
Racing
ervis
Raci
TRAMPIO
BILION
BP
Mito Natto
The rear suspension was a challenging part of the build. It uses a rigid arrangement in which two tubes around the air jack connect the left and right uprights.
BP
Photos: Shioda Shoten. Report: Tadashi Uemura.
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