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I just picked this little toy from Book Dome a couple of minutes ago, anyone see this before? Is it part of a set with other Valks? Book Dome deals in used stuff so I'm not sure if it's a new release toy....I didn't see it in the lateest Hobby Japan or Dengeki Hobby....

That's awesome! I've always wanted one of those....any of these in North America?

Nobunaga says: "Nightingale, if you do not sing, I shall kill you." Hideyoshi says: "Nightingale, if you do not sing, I shall make you." Ieyasu says: "Nightingale, if you do not sing now, I shall wait until you do." Honestly (though I like Ieyasu and Oda both) I think Ieyasu's answer is the most wise... You raise a lot of good points though, thanks. And yes the Hiei incident was very Ruthless (why I made mention of it in my initial post), but was anything Tokugawa did any less? I mean he's the one who killed all the Christians and foriengers. Anyway... this has been bothering me for some time but I never really liked any of the anti-nobunaga series and stuff (well Onimusha a bit) until now. Ieyasu was not wise, he was an opportunist and he was lucky. The timing couldn't be more perfect for him because Nobunaga and Hideyoshi did all the work for him. If Nobunaga was not betrayed, Ieyasu would probably be waiting forever.

I don't think the Japanese hate Nobunaga at all. I read this book called Taiko by Yoshikawa Eiji that didn't really portray him as evil, just misunderstood.

I'm prolly too late with your answer...but I've only competed there once back in 98'...only full 1/4 mile track I ever ran on, so I'm far from an athority...just ran street bracket in my mid 13sec 77' Trans Am...hooked well, no real problems there, and the facilities were better layied out then some of the 1/8th mile tracks I'd been to... dunno about anime shops and the like...although I live near Springfield IL, I never get much time to go down to explorer for such places in St Louis area I'm a former 2ed gen firebird Trans Am owner...with the fender off it ain't that bad IIRC...but mine didn't have AC Actually, I think this one was built up for drifting, but I know nothing about drifiting so I could be wrong. He had some kind of drift-club sticker on his car....here's a shot of his interior:

Some moron actually paid you $260 for it? You are talking USD right? Even in Canadian dollars, you ahve to be a complete muppet to pay that much for a Master Peice of Crap.

Datsun roadster: And there was also this car at the show....a bit of an oddity there because this came from the 80's era, but still welcome! This car was all business and I would imagine not a daily driver:

Yeah, even here in import-heavy California you rarely see anything old like that. Problem is a lot of those older Japanese cars were designed to be pretty disposable and got tossed aside casually once they were done with. I really love the older Japanese coupes, the Mazda RX's and first gen Celica's took a lot of design cues from the older American muscle cars but in a compact size. Throw a nice 4AG or a 13B in and just about any of those cars will scream. Old Celica like this one?

Yeah, it was the first annual vintage Japanese car show in Vancouver, BC. It was a pretty small turnout...only about 40 or so cars. There's an annual vintage British car show that turns out about 300 cars here in Vancouver as well...that one's worth seeing. Well, I'm sure that next year and the years to come, it will get bigger. They were shooting for anything 1980 or older and it was organized by the Datsun club of BC. Nice effort for sure and I had a good time.

Last month when I was in Japan visiting my girlfriend, she laughed at me for wanting to waste 4,000 yen on an otaku book. I told her (like the wipped man that I am) that I wouldn't buy it. This morning I received the book from her in the mail. She said she flipped through it to see what the fuss was about and coudln't figure out why I would buy it. Well, needless to say, I'm really happy with it, and in the end, I didn't spend a single yen! I should tell her I'll be saving lots of money with this book since I won't need to buy tons of Hasegawa models just for the box art! Apparently, she had some trouble tracking it down...some places were sold out of it already.

That would be Ricky's car. The paint on his car is incredible. I couldn't find a single flaw on it. No orange peel, no drip, flawless....well, almost. He could use some wax to make the surface feel more slippery:

Integra motor powering the first gen wagon:

Honda City turbo motor powering the convertable first gen:

big stopping power for a small car:

A really early Mazda....RX-2 I think?

Anti-radar paint:

Mine's the first one:

The show was mostly Datsuns:

The first Fairlady: