(Updated)TOYOTA MUSEUM FESTIVAL 2016: Japan still loves old cars!

"Flavien Vidal" (flyingfrenchy)
06/15/2016 at 16:35 • Filed to: None

Hey guys! Some of you may have seen this photoshoot a couple of weeks ago. I had originally planned for it to go online at R&T, but due to problem with Travis’ spam filter and no update on his side, I ended up putting it on Oppo for you guys to see! :)

Well, Travis eventually noticed his email problem, got back to me and it’s now online on R&T! I hope you guys will forgive me for editing the post here and putting the R&T link instead, but it’s the first article I actually SELL, not paying anything out of my own pocket to do it, and even making a few bucks! How cool is that huh? :)

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Right now, it’s a bit of an editing mess and I hope it will get fixed. I can’t upload or edit articles there myself, unfortunately. (One cool thing about Kinja!)

I hope there will be more stuff from me there over time. Any money I make thanks to R&T will go toward new camera gear hehe!

DISCUSSION (29)

Wheelerguy > Flavien Vidal
06/07/2016 at 07:01

You owe me a salivary gland transplant, man.

*sips water*

Anyway, were there other Italians or Britons in there?

Flavien Vidal > Wheelerguy
06/07/2016 at 07:04

Italians, a few...

Kinja'd!!!

Brits also...

Kinja'd!!!

Rustholes-Are-Weight-Reduction > Flavien Vidal
06/07/2016 at 07:31

If only the engine had also been “designed by Lotus”

Well The “handling by Lotus” may be partially true, as it’s an Esprit chassis, but the Esprit chassis has been optimized later, which is a common mod on Deloreans. Because truth is: they handle pretty badly. If you hit the brakes, the front wheels lock and go back a few inches if you don’t install an additional trailing arm.

Flavien Vidal > Rustholes-Are-Weight-Reduction
06/07/2016 at 07:37

Interesting. I have never driven a Delorean. I know that the engine is a bit gutless, but I had no idea it also handled badly :)

LongbowMkII > Flavien Vidal
06/07/2016 at 08:01

Well, white is now off the potential Europa paint list. Though I’d like to see how/if they modified the front. Clean.

Flavien Vidal > LongbowMkII
06/07/2016 at 08:06

Yeah, not a big fan either... It’s the kind of car that is better off with darker colors..

RWS Motorsport > Flavien Vidal
06/07/2016 at 08:07

Well. Wow, what a scrumptious array of photograms!

Flavien Vidal > RWS Motorsport
06/07/2016 at 08:13

Thx man, means a lot coming from you :)

Rustholes-Are-Weight-Reduction > Rustholes-Are-Weight-Reduction
06/07/2016 at 08:17

I may have exagerated a bit. I wouldn’t call it bad, but it is more of a GT car than a real sports car.
On the other hand, seeing the lower control arm flexing like this is kind of scary:

Clemsie McKenzie > Flavien Vidal
06/07/2016 at 08:20

That R5 T2 though... Hrnnrg.

Flavien Vidal > Clemsie McKenzie
06/07/2016 at 08:22

I kept contact with the owner... We might go to Suzuka play with it early next month. I doubt he’ll let me drive, but who knows... Maybe be he’d be interested in trading seats with my SA22C for a few laps! He seems to love old RX7 :)

Nauraushaun > Flavien Vidal
06/07/2016 at 08:31

Awesome write-up! I remember that feeling of seeing so many cars on the way to the event from my local Japanese Classics show , it makes it feel like it’s much bigger than it actually is.

Clemsie McKenzie > Flavien Vidal
06/07/2016 at 08:37

He sounds like a lovely gentleman!

Flavien Vidal > Clemsie McKenzie
06/07/2016 at 08:40

He is! He does sdoor to door races with the car too, which very few people who own one nowadays do :)

S65 > Flavien Vidal
06/07/2016 at 08:43

Kinja'd!!!

LongbowMkII > Flavien Vidal
06/07/2016 at 09:18

Hide those shut lines. No offense to the owner/rebuilder just the nature of the beast.

HammerheadFistpunch > Flavien Vidal
06/07/2016 at 10:03

2000gt's melt ma butter like nothing else...they are just so right.

kanadanmajava1 > Flavien Vidal
06/07/2016 at 10:06

Interesting. I haven’t even though that an Isetta could be driven with the door open.

Is that AC in a 2000GT really a factory option or is it just a period correct retrofit install? That’s an option that I wouldn’t like to have in a 2000GT. But that’s a very irrelevant complaint as it’s highly unlikely that I ever could get one.

Nice pictures!

Flavien Vidal > HammerheadFistpunch
06/07/2016 at 10:06

I found a 2006 and 2003 Nostalgic Hero (Japanese classic car magazine...). At the time ,a couple were for sale in ads for 200k$. That was 10-13 years ago. They are now worth 1 million$. That’s 70 - 90k$ a year just owning this piece of awesomness! If I could get back in time, I would take a loan to buy one. Not sure I’d ever sell it though haha

I’’ probably do a piece on these magazine and how cars were worth nothing a decade ago (KenMeri GTR in 2006? 50k$ yup.)

Flavien Vidal > kanadanmajava1
06/07/2016 at 10:08

That thing is so damn big lol. Not sure it was a factory option... But it looks similar to the one in the Mazda Cosmo, so it could...

HammerheadFistpunch > Flavien Vidal
06/07/2016 at 10:10

Their value spree makes me sad...240z is probably closest I’ll ever get

Flavien Vidal > HammerheadFistpunch
06/07/2016 at 10:21

Planning on getting one... It’s the car I want, but my wallet push me toward better investments I can make right now (still car related, but not a 240Z) :)

First world problems FTW :)