By Antonio Alvendia

Antonio Alvendia

Cressidas and Levins and Sprinters and Skylines, oh my! I was just clearing out some images on my Mac and transferring them to one of my terabyte drives when I stumbled upon these images I shot at the Japanese Classic Car Show last month. Before I transfer them to the HD archive and forget all about them for another year or so, I thought I’d just share some more pics of these awesome Japanese nostalgic cars! Continue reading and view more photos on MotorMavens!

I’m all for functional aerodynamics, but am I the only person noticing just how ridiculously long these front underboards are protruding from the nose of the car? I feel like just in the past six months the average front underboard has doubled in its length forward. It’s a massive trend in racing in Japan right now and with each step further outwards I feel like we’re returning to the super silouette inspired 1980s Bosozoku style. I’m a reader of Auto Otaku’s blog and I’ve been seeing a lot of cars on there with underboards/diffusers even longer than this one. I think it’s cool in a very hardcore way, but damn if they arent growing bigger by the second. I feel like I’m going to start seeing new generation sports cars on the street done up by their owners to mimic this trend and then we’ll have in a sense a modern sports car Bosozoku style comeback. I honestly don’t know if thats a good thing or not. Looks and functions great on cars like this Super GT Z33 and on time attack cars, but on the street it could become a bad joke if it gets out of hand. One more pic after the jump.

Ok, I think most of the Bosozoku stuff is silly, but I really like this 240. I especially dig the license plate. Two more pics after the jump, and you can see some more So Cal Bosozoku rides in this VWVortex thread.

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