The Yufuin Car Museum is in bad shape. If you look closely at the mural, you can make out areas where the wallpaper glue has decomposed. Also, this room is so small, that it is impossible to take a good photo that shows off the whole car. I'm sure that it must've looked much better 30 years ago...
I want to see how people react to hearing me say that "I drive a midget".
A powered tricycle- this is a direct ancestor of the modern tuk-tuk.
You can't really tell in this picture, but the black mechanic has a huge smile on his face. Why? I can only guess that he is much happier to be working on a Model T than in the cotton fields (who was the Japanese guy who thought up this display? Thats what happens when people grow up with images of Sambo etched into their memories.).
I think that the old Mazda logo is pretty cool, and predict that someone will see this pic and create a kit for Miatas and RX-7s (dunno if it would look as good on an RX-8).
I'll just let the picture speak for itself. Feel free to write a caption...
All of the cars in the Yufuin Car Museum are in sorry shape, cramped together, and are poorly lit. This was actually a GOOD idea for an underfunded museum, as the low light, and the cars being placed RIGHT next to each other hide the blemishes much like the ugly in bars and nightclubs is hidden by low lighting and the crowd (especially after a few drinks...). Surprisingly, they had many rare cars and some of them, after a LOT of work, have the potential to be real gems. I think it would be great if the museum sold its cars to a museum with a lot of money, so that these cars can receive the restoration and maintenance that they deserve.
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This is the saddest museum I've seen, except for the ones in Montana where anyone can put up a "museum" of stuff, mostly about dead animals or dead white people like Lewis and Clark.
The mazda logo kind of looks like the HP logo, huh? I've always wanted to find a Huppmobile, like the one G'ma's dad drove around...very cool car, which he drove all up and down California to take farmer's photos, as well as into Mexico to do some bootlegging. That's how he could afford such a neat car!
Posted by: yomama | March 4, 2004 12:07 AM
Posted on: March 4, 2004 00:07
I noticed in the first picture that you have your shoes off. Now I know that people take their shoes off to go into a house but I did not expect this. Is it customary to remove ones shoes before entering a car too? Whats up with that?
Posted by: brian | March 4, 2004 2:19 PM
Posted on: March 4, 2004 14:19
Hah! No! Yes, you must take your shoes off before going into the house at the door in Japan (and my house in California as well), but you need not take them off to get in the car. What happened was that I saw my friend take hers off, but she took them off so that she could stand on the seat. I thought that you might have to take them off to get in so... Ah, screw the explanation- I'm a dumbass (sigh... did I hear a "9er"?).
Posted by: Adam | March 4, 2004 5:28 PM
Posted on: March 4, 2004 17:28
What's up with the T-bird? It seems a little out of date?
Posted by: Scuba Steve | March 10, 2004 3:18 PM
Posted on: March 10, 2004 15:18
The museum was so small that there were no partitions between the sections. Also, the collection had serious gaps between timeframes, but this proved to be interesting. Seeing all of the rust damage on those cars made me want to break out the polishing compound and the buffer...
Posted by: Adam | March 10, 2004 8:57 PM
Posted on: March 10, 2004 20:57