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Apr 13 2015 6 Comments

Old America in modern Tokyo

old American car in modern Tokyo

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  1. Dan Waldhoff says

    4/13/2015 at 10:17 am

    … and you KNOW it must be a good daily driver because it would have to pass Shaken, the very strict Japanese vehicle inspection …

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    • Lee says

      4/13/2015 at 10:49 am

      Yes. Definitely.

      Very clear it’s really looked after too. In immaculate condition. Not really a car (or indeed truck) person, but there was something about this, and quite possibly where it was parked, that really appealed.

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      • Jeffrey says

        4/13/2015 at 11:57 pm

        A classic for sure. GMC panel wagons are even rare here (in ‘murika). American motor vehicles had a certain brutal beauty in the 1940s and 1950s.

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        • Lee says

          4/14/2015 at 8:24 am

          Interesting. It must be an especially rare beast in Japan then.

          Yeah, there’s definitely something about it. Spotted it from a bridge quite a way away, and it even stood out from there.

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  2. Jay says

    4/14/2015 at 7:05 pm

    I’ve been enjoying your photos very much since I found your site a few months ago – they tell great stories. Thank you!!

    Love this one too; the angle of the picture and the black windscreen make it look as if it has accidentally arrived from another time and place out of the dark on the left, and is about to disappear again, any minute now..
    Or maybe I should just catch up on sleep a bit… 🙂

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    • Lee says

      4/14/2015 at 8:34 pm

      Thank you very much. That’s wonderful to hear.

      Lack of sleep or not, that’s a great way of looking at it. And as I’m unlikely to ever see it again, in many ways it has disappeared.

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