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sam P
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« on: January 20, 2008, 16:45:04 pm »

I'm allways interested to see what they're building over there. Their cars always seem to have a slightly different styling than most european/US built cars.
Very inspirational, sometimes even controversial, but always exciting to look at.
Too bad it's hard to find pictures of these cars on the net or in magazines because most of them are in japanese.
Any Japanese loungers over here??
Anyone got some more pictures/info?

Some examples:


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« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2008, 16:53:14 pm »


Some of them walking the thin line between cal-look and custom...

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« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2008, 17:24:04 pm »

VERY cool!!!

love the green oval with green perspex lenses!!

and the J bars! (or nerf bars, or whatever they are called!)
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« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2008, 17:26:58 pm »

yeah! i like the green one on fuchs too
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« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2008, 17:46:36 pm »

That orange car is killer...love the wheels.  Also the pale yellow car is great.  I'm hoping to do a slick '67 in Yukon Yellow sometime down the road. 
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« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2008, 17:57:53 pm »

yeah, those cars are cool!

it's great to see an another angle on the look, i'd love to see more people over here experimenting with the look like that....

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« Reply #6 on: January 20, 2008, 18:39:59 pm »

The Japanese make some killer cars.


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« Reply #7 on: January 20, 2008, 20:35:40 pm »

are those 14" fuchs on the front of the green looker?
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« Reply #8 on: January 20, 2008, 20:48:26 pm »

I'm allways interested to see what they're building over there. Their cars always seem to have a slightly different styling than most european/US built cars.
Very inspirational, sometimes even controversial, but always exciting to look at.
Too bad it's hard to find pictures of these cars on the net or in magazines because most of them are in japanese.
Any Japanese loungers over here??
Anyone got some more pictures/info?

Some examples:

Yellow car: that's Kei Hasegawa's Bug. He recently got rid of the body and changed it to a '51 model! Car is still the same color and was featured in Hot VWs and Ultra VW (March 2007). Engine is a 2-liter with IDAs.

Green car: Koishi's Endo's Oval. One of the fastest street-driven VWs in Japan, with Nao Fujita's Oval. Runs on cool 15-inch Radir rims.

2 race cars: both cars belong to Mr. Komori. I'm pretty sure Nao is driving one of them in this pic!
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« Reply #9 on: January 20, 2008, 20:49:55 pm »


Some of them walking the thin line between cal-look and custom...

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All these cars belong to Der Winning Bug, a club based in Japan. Check out both the Feb. '08 Hot VWs and Feb. '08 Ultra VW (should be out in a few days!) for some info about this club!
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« Reply #10 on: January 20, 2008, 20:54:33 pm »

Thanks for the info Stephan!
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Yellow car: that's Kei Hasegawa's Bug. He recently got rid of the body and changed it to a '51 model! Car is still the same color and was featured in Hot VWs and Ultra VW (March 2007). Engine is a 2-liter with IDAs.
Yeah, I  was wondering if it was the same car when I saw this pic:

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« Reply #11 on: January 20, 2008, 21:43:15 pm »

my first volksworld mag featured a very nice green japanese car with yellow tinted windows. maybe someone has a picture. and yes they are influenced by other aspects off callook. nice to see some change.
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« Reply #12 on: January 20, 2008, 22:10:18 pm »

sam, no that's a split. it was in ultra some months ago.
a split with upright fenders, you don't see many of those  Cheesy
but it sure means business by the looks of it!!

p.s. can anyone tell me about the fuchs of the green oval, what size are they? i see some late 15x6 in the rear i think...
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« Reply #13 on: January 20, 2008, 22:14:19 pm »

I'd say 4.5 & 6 earlies..
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« Reply #14 on: January 20, 2008, 22:18:34 pm »

here are a few more
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« Reply #15 on: January 20, 2008, 22:22:49 pm »

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« Reply #16 on: January 20, 2008, 22:23:17 pm »

way cool, love the green one too.

watch out for the DDS car at EBI this year.
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« Reply #17 on: January 20, 2008, 22:27:20 pm »

Check out here:

http://www.winning-bug.com/

With all the members cars listed here: http://www.winning-bug.com/member/index.html

Takahisa Shimada's 66 is a personal favourite.
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« Reply #18 on: January 20, 2008, 22:29:26 pm »

cheers tim!

these guys have got some refreshing looks on cal-look  Smiley
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« Reply #19 on: January 20, 2008, 22:36:33 pm »

Those back fenders on the light blue split are badass!
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« Reply #20 on: January 20, 2008, 23:21:04 pm »

I'd say 4.5 & 6 earlies..

Agreed...
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« Reply #21 on: January 21, 2008, 04:38:58 am »

Well....Japanese California Look scene is deifferent than those trends in U.S or Euro, but going strong.
There are more guys challenging the new look to the scene than the conventional California look.
For example, new members car from the Cal look club that mentioned before..."Der Wining Bug" is now more into metal frake paint ....trying to be different!! But also this club loves old school things such as "fat Biscuit" pattarn interior etc.

In Japan. there are so....... many guys(young) think they have " the look" but not detailed or not clean...too bad. Cry
 But sure they are enjoying!!  Well....that is good!!

There are some cool cars here in Japan, take a look this '64 with original American Racing!!
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« Reply #22 on: January 21, 2008, 04:46:51 am »

Hi Nao, chicky baby!
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« Reply #23 on: January 21, 2008, 05:18:21 am »

Hi John Cheesy

How are you??  How is your car?? Well....I will lounge time to time....
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« Reply #24 on: January 21, 2008, 14:33:38 pm »

Hi John Cheesy

How are you??  How is your car?? Well....I will lounge time to time....


a big welcome to the lounge Nao-san
looking forward to seeing you again
please try to make it to the Volksworld show that would be awesome
but maybe not realistic with the BugIn 33 the weekend after
see you in US then and off course for the European DDS BugIn 2
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« Reply #25 on: January 21, 2008, 15:09:21 pm »



That is a sweet looking car.

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« Reply #26 on: January 21, 2008, 17:50:02 pm »

Welcome Nao! Good to see you here!!!
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« Reply #27 on: January 21, 2008, 17:52:54 pm »

Well....Japanese California Look scene is deifferent than those trends in U.S or Euro, but going strong.
There are more guys challenging the new look to the scene than the conventional California look.
For example, new members car from the Cal look club that mentioned before..."Der Wining Bug" is now more into metal frake paint ....trying to be different!! But also this club loves old school things such as "fat Biscuit" pattarn interior etc.

In Japan. there are so....... many guys(young) think they have " the look" but not detailed or not clean...too bad. Cry
 But sure they are enjoying!!  Well....that is good!!

There are some cool cars here in Japan, take a look this '64 with original American Racing!!
i love this car with those sexy american racing  Shocked Shocked Shocked Shocked
and you're welcome nao
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« Reply #28 on: January 22, 2008, 19:23:54 pm »

Welcome Nao !!!!  Cool
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« Reply #29 on: January 22, 2008, 19:29:21 pm »

are those 14" fuchs on the front of the green looker?
look like 15x4 1/2
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