Look whats parked outside our office in Japan

matara · 2004-11-09T02:55:26+00:00

My colleague in Japan has just sent me this pic of a Kombi cafe that has just started serving outside our office in Tokyo! Steve

Da Wiz wrote:How do these old cars still get allowed to run around in Japan - I thought they had laws against older vehicles?

Um, nothing against old cars is stipulated in the traffic law in Japan. As far as they pass the safety inspection test, no problems. Those restored old cars get registered as "NEW" and the inspection is good for 3 years to follow.

VW's are just as popular over there and FLAT4's main office being there and stuff.

Some history I know about Type 2's there is that they were officially imported to Japan and distributed through an authorized dealer, YANASE, starting in 1953 with 3 cars and ended in 1976 with 101 cars, totalling 4339 of them. Among them, there was only ONE vehicle with a type4 1700 engine but the rest were mainly 1600s.

Many US vehicles have crossed the pacific ocean. You can see cool pictures of those LHD cars at http://www.oldcars.co.jp/vw/vw.html
and prices there reflect quality of restoration, I guess.

Just a piece of information you might like.

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