I’m currently on the midst of a second road trip this year, this time my point of interest was none other than the Japanese classic car show. My dad was a quite the car enthusiast when I was growing up he owned various datsun 510 and Roadsters. For my first car I was gifted a 1982 Datsun 210, a car I hope I can own again some day.
I had arrived in LA the day prior with no issues on my trip, well besides the speeding ticket in a small New Mexico town along I-10 that felt necessary to employ four officers enforcing speed. The size of the city was just under 3,000...
However the 240 ran the whole 1,300 mile one way drive without a hitch even with the engine purring along at nearly 4,000 RPM in fifth gear.
The show took Place at Queen Mary in Long Beach, California on a particularly Hot day. Although being from Texas the heat felt like a normal September day.
The parking lot it self is a small car show in its self with various old school rides coming out.
And those are just the car I came across in the parking lot!
This Nissan PAO was one of two at the show.
The interior was quite sparse, however it looked like even this model came with factory A/C
This AE86 wasn't the cleanest at the show, but it did pack quite the surprise
A DC motor was the power plant
No fuel cell back here, just a battery cell.
There was this gorgeous R30 on display.
Mazda brought out one of two, possibly three Cosmo there were impored in 1967, this one had just around 13,000 KM on the odometer.
Not really a 'classic car' but Nissan became an offical sponsor of JCCS this year and brought out one of there R390 GT1 race cars all the way over from japan. Up until now I only had a chance to see this from the scree when playing Gran Turismo, never did I think I would be seeing the real deal today.
These Honda Z600 were super cool, and super tiny. I honestly think I could fit one in the back of my pickup truck, with room to spare
These honda also had quite a cool full size spare tire location. The license plate should give you an idea of these cars, they are tiny!
There was a huge turn out of all kinds of Celica GT out, this orange one had one of the most eye catching colors of the bunch.
There were a large turn out of roadster, from stock restored to turbo SR powered motors, I realized now after the fact I spent most of my time gawking over them than taking photos. They brought back memories of my dads old rides.
This Spoon clone CRX was tastefully done and had some serious work done to it.
JDM Legends brought out there 240Z that was about 95% done and the details on this car, as shown, are ridiculous. It attracted quite a large constant crowd that I wasn't able to get a full shot of the car.
Toyota brought out there 2000GT, yet another unicorn at this show you'd think that all the rare cars here were relatively normal.
The toyota sport 800 were quite the treat to see, I was completely unfamiliar with these cars until I came across them.
This was a privately owned 1986 Prelude with around 50,000 original miles, and looks liked it had rolled straight out of a time capsule
Black gold, you can never go wrong with black and gold. I should know...
Along with cars there was a handful of FJ land cruisers out, this FJ40 was fully restored.
And of course there were quite a few C10 skyline out on display, the front one being a 2000GT that was very well done and Won 1st place in best skyline!
After words I met up with friends from Texas and we headed out to Moon Eyes however we made it right after they closed, still cool to check it out in person.
Over all I had a blast and will hopefully be making the journey again next year. For now I'll press on north along the not so infamous PCH. The Colorado adventure story will resume next Sunday.
For the rest of the photos you can find them here: thevisualgarage.com/jccs2015