Young Version — August 1999
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About this issue
The August 1999 issue of Young Version explores drift setups versus grip tuning through 22 shop demo cars, including S15 Silvias from Mine’s and Kazama Auto. Features cover front-wheel-drive builds taking on high-powered 4WD rivals, choosing a first drift car, and reviving a used AE86 Trueno on a ¥1 million total budget. Suspension fundamentals, engine-oil selection, rotary maintenance, new-parts tests, and reports from Hiroshima and California round out this look at Japan’s late-1990s tuning scene.
242 available scans from Young Version — August 1999, 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 114 — English draft translation
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Keiichi Tsuchiya
Le Mans 24 Hours Special
Toyota staked the prestige of its engineering program on the three works cars it sent to Le Mans. Yet after pushing flat-out for 24 hours, the car that fought to the finish was neither the expected favorite No. 1 nor No. 2… Overcoming its handicap and setting a near-fastest lap, No. 3 closes in on the leading BMW.
Photo/Masakatsu Sato
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No. 3 — Counterattack (headline OCR is fragmented)
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