Young Version — April 1998
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238 available scans from Young Version — April 1998, 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. Capture img018 is absent from the supplied folder; the exact missing printed pages have not been established.
Page 141 — English draft translation
Hello, YV editorial staff. I’m 21 and love cars, but I’m a really bad driver. I spent a whole year at driving school before finally getting my license, so you can imagine how poor my driving is. Even though I got my license, I’m almost always the passenger. This time I’m asking about the guy in the driver’s seat beside me: he loves YV so much that I’m starting to worry! His S13 always has about two years’ worth of back issues piled inside, so he can immediately read whichever issue he wants. Even when he visits my room, he just reads YV and forgets about me. He even takes the latest issue to work and reads it during lunch.
Recently my boyfriend has been wanting a YV sticker. I’m not sure why, but he really seems to want one. He keeps sending postcards to this column and getting rejected. Lately he sadly looks at the column and mutters, in a Nagasaki accent, “Guess I’m not serious enough.” I couldn’t just watch, so I’m writing this time. I want to see my boyfriend smile again, so Matsugon, please—could you send me a YV sticker? I want to surprise him and make him happy. I’ll keep sending postcards so he can continue submitting to Red Zone. (Sasebo City, Nagasaki Prefecture)
Captions and page details
Readers’ Page
Post it to the mailbox—open to everyone!!
1
By postcard
Postcard battle!
ON
EU
By letter
Red Zone
Driving and tuning
R
The former… (fragment)
Let’s communicate!
Two years’ worth of YV
Recommended!
It’s fast!
Integra Type R (drawing label; OCR uncertain)
V
8
Handled by
Matsugon (editor nickname)
TYPE
INTEGRA
I recommend it.
APEX N1 muffler (drawing label)
kg/mm DR RACING
That’s me!
No.3
Kenji Takada, Akashi City, Hyogo Prefecture
The sticker is the best!
Tareeri (handwritten caption; unclear)
YOUNG
VERSION!
Everyone who writes in is so serious that I’d really like to publish every letter. But then half of YV would be Red Zone, so I’m sorry to everyone we couldn’t include. I’m so moved that you love YV this much. Where can you buy a sticker?
Hello, everyone at YV! I’m a university student, and I finally got my beloved S13… (letter continues; OCR fragment)
Silvia S13
Super FR
Am I being a busybody?
Potenza-kun, Yonago City, Tottori Prefecture
yV
I finally got my car. I’d like to modify it, but that costs a lot, so I thought I’d start by putting on a sticker. Then I ran into a problem: I don’t know where stickers are sold. Cars I see around town have all kinds of tuning-company stickers stuck everywhere, but my car is completely bare. Are YV stickers not for sale?
They’re sold at auto-parts stores and tuning shops. YV stickers are commercially available, but the ones we send from Red Zone are not for sale. Please look forward to yours!
type Ra!!
What I bought was… an FD3S.
FC3SRST.
I’m thinking of a full repaint.
Hello, YV editorial staff. This isn’t my first time buying YV, but it’s my first time writing. I drive an AE92 Levin and plan to change its body color. Which color should I choose? Please give me a suggestion. (Miyako District, Okinawa Prefecture)
You should choose the color you like. But if you’re changing it anyway, a bright color would be fun.
Tetsuya Hoshino, Yamada District, Gunma Prefecture
why?
LEVIN LOVEX2)
FC
Lapis-kun, Soraku District, Kyoto Prefecture
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