JCCA 2010

By Eric

For some of you who don’t know, the JCCA is the largest annual meeting of nostalgic cars in Japan.  It is to the Japanese what the JCCS is to us yankees.  Every year there is a featured marque and this year it was was British, so while there may have been as much JDM goodness as usual there was still plenty to see.  I waited a couple of days to see what showed up on the interwebs before I made a post so I could put up a decent collection of what was there.  Unfortunately I don’t have all day to search for all those super cool unseen pictures so this is just a little collection of pictures I have put together from some of the blogs I frequent that I thought may be of interest to the JDM Legends type.

Let’s start of with some Hakosukas,

Of course the obligatory works replica…

Nice gold one, I’m a big fan of Hakos running wide wheels up front as well as in the rear.   Is it me, or does it seem like everyone in Japan daily drives on R-compound tires?  One more reason I love the Japanese style.

Here’s a pair that I really dig, I’m not usually the biggest fan of red cars but I love seeing it on Hakos because they always seem to be white or silver.  The gold and bronze Watanabes also differentiate them from the crowd, and once again wide front wheels and R-comps …..  straight nasty!!

And if it needed to get any better, look under the hood!  That’s an L series motor with a super rare and $$$$ OS Giken TC24-B1 twin cam cylinder head.  Apparently these were designed because there is a serious lack of flow with the 2 valve per cylinder cross flow heads above 7000rpm so they decided to build an entirely new head with 4 valves per cylinder that makes power up to 9000rpm.  When I win the lottery it will be hard for me to decide between this Frankenstein or a real deal s20

One more….  see what I mean about the wide front wheels?  I guess to me it’s more of a grip style or drag style thing, and I’ve always been a bit more into grip.

And a sedan with a nice stance.

How about some kenmeri love, this one in a nice color and some Panasports.

And this one with some seriously wide wats.

And some really nice Yonmeri’s have been turning up lately, here’s a nice one on some Works.

And this is one of my favorites of the JCCA, love the color combo, stance,  everything!!

I haven’t seen too much from the Toyota camp except a few nice TE27’s.  Simple and clean….

You can’t go wrong with TRD tosco wheels on any classic Toyota.

I’ve always wanted one in moss green.

Especially with this motor, twinspark baby!  that is 2 spark plugs per cylinder.  You don’t see a whole lot of these.

Nice row of Bluebirds but I didn’t find any single ones worth posting.

Sunny’s have a huge following in Japan.

And this is probably one of the best ones I have ever seen IMO.  Super wide Techno Phantoms and nicely done flares.  Yes please.

And remember those British cars that were there?  Not really JDM Legends material but I did find one worth posting, a Lotus Europa on some MK-III’s.

And an amazing engine bay, look at the headers!

And a big reason I would love to go someday is the swap meets.  Manifolds galore….

Some random Nissan stuff.

Need some titanium exhaust parts?  One day I need to take the time to learn how to weld that stuff.

Or a legit  Nismo KPGC110 grill?  Wow!  I believe it due to the quality of the mold, and trust me I know what replicas look like

2T-G header.  I love that you can make something of this caliber and actually sell it for what it’s worth in Japan.  They really respect craftsmanship over there which is more than I can say for the knockoff ebay mania that goes on here.

That is all for me today, back to real work!!  Check out http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/blog  , noriyaro.com , and choufukai.blogspot.com for more pics.