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Volkswagen unknown [Typ 1]

Volkswagen unknown [Typ 1] in Nami no kazu dake dakishimete, Movie, 1991

Class: Cars, Convertible — Model origin:

Volkswagen unknown [Typ 1]

00:06:00 Vehicle used a lot by a main character or for a long time

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s13a ◊ 2020-09-04 18:16
rjluna2 ◊ 2020-09-04 19:18	1975-79 Volkswagen Cabriolet. Made for Japan due to repeater at the front fender.
tore-40 ◊ 2020-09-04 19:49	rjluna2 wrote 1975-79 Volkswagen Cabriolet. Made for Japan due to repeater at the front fender. I don't think these are VW repeaters, also the steering wheel is not on the right side (waiting for your response, @jfs), but if you are looking for a "made for" reason, then what about the speedometer with the red sector - did US cars from that era have a warning, say above 55 Mph?
tore-40 ◊ 2020-09-04 19:53	Looks like also we have US bumpers (with rubber ends?), US taillights and US exhaust, badge is hard to read if that means anything
s13a ◊ 2020-09-04 20:05	It says Fuel Injection: Speaking of 'made for's' in Japan. Most of the foreign cars (Euro, British, American..) over there are left-hand drive, and they do need to have sidemarkers or other external changes (changing the arrangement of tail lights, like on this Caprice for instance) in order to be allowed to drive the vehicle on the road.
tore-40 ◊ 2020-09-04 20:48	But does it mean they left the factory like this, which i doubt, as the lamps look nothing like the Euro N+DK units, for example, or were they added upon import? If so, does that really justify a made for?
rjluna2 ◊ 2020-09-04 21:41	tore-40 wrote Looks like also we have US bumpers (with rubber ends?), US taillights and US exhaust, badge is hard to read if that means anything It's more than that, it has indicators on the bumper that is not sold in our country
tore-40 ◊ 2020-09-04 22:19	Of course the bumper and front wings are not us but the four wings are attached with a handful of bolts. There are numerous mismatch items in addition to the indicators. Things like the ac (see the air intake), exhaust and even the speedometer look US specific and are harder to change. Also elephant units, rear badge and rear bumper ends (not the brackets, but there were kits sold to change to euro style) So despite the location it reminds me of one of the very last 1979 us spec convertibles sold in the us into the year 1980, still as 1979 though As a funfact regardless of origin, the us 85 mph limit was rendered useless after manufacturers like Ford here got creative Link to "cdn.bringatrailer.com"
Exiv96 ◊ 2020-09-08 01:38	s13a wrote Speaking of 'made for's' in Japan. Most of the foreign cars (Euro, British, American..) over there are left-hand drive, Because it's part of the snobbery of owning a foreign car there. s13a wrote and they do need to have sidemarkers or other external changes (changing the arrangement of tail lights, like on this Caprice for instance) in order to be allowed to drive the vehicle on the road. From what I've learned from a few brochure scans and web pages translated from japanese, sales of foreign cars in Japan weren't exactly uniform back in the 1970s and 80s. If some had their own sole official distributor, most were sold through independent importers, and sometimes cars from one brand were available from competing companies. See for instance this pic (from Twitter) with six Buick leaflets from six different distributors, including Yanase, C. Itoh and Isuzu. And then there was the grey market, with transpacific traffic an easy route. And I think that explains the way some european cars looked in 1970s Japan. It's not that the local regulations mandated US-like bumpers ans side markers ; they were US-spec cars exported to Japan.
s13a ◊ 2020-09-08 03:34	Exiv96 wrote Because it's part of the snobbery of owning a foreign car there. ...and because it's easier to export your foreign car to lhd countries after you're unable to maintain it after six or more years due to the absurd bureaucracy. Exiv96 wrote It's not that the local regulations mandated US-like bumpers ans side markers ; they were US-spec cars exported to Japan. Well, I've found this: poorly google-translated text: Quote At the VW factory (EURO model), the front blinker was moved to the front bumper due to the model change in 1975, so YANASE, which was the Japanese import agency at that time, said this "HELLA side marker" according to domestic security standards. Was selected, and the front quarter panel was equipped as a side turn signal. Therefore, in the VW pamphlet at that time, Germany (left photo) and Mexico (right photo) do not have side markers even after the front blinker is moved into the bumper. By the way, the VW TYPE-1, which is popular in Japan as a "US model" such as a 5-mile bumper, a large front blinker, and a rear tail light with a reflector, is actually a model customized to detailed specifications according to American safety standards like Japan. It is one of. In this way, you can enjoy the different specifications of each country, which is the appeal of the air-cooled VW sold all over the world! So, if I understood the text correctly, they were (or at least some of them) customised to look like US-spec models, but it doesn't mention that they were specifically imported from the US. They could've been easily sold in Japan in LHD form as european models which would be then altered to look like US-spec models, but as you can clearly see here, it has several non US-spec bits here..
tore-40 ◊ 2020-09-08 06:36	In short, a European spec car with US items fitted then. And a mandatory side repeater added by the import agency.

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