Recap of Japanese F1 fleet - Part 1

[Peloton25]

Light-Auto was mentioned previously in this thread. They had #051 for a short period of time. There was also a Gulf longtail we determined to be GTR #20R in their showroom for a while.

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[Le Man]

Originally Posted by Peloton25

Light-Auto was mentioned previously in this thread. They had #051 for a short period of time. There was also a Gulf longtail we determined to be GTR #20R in their showroom for a while.

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GTR #20R???????????????

[SD F1]

Originally Posted by Le Man

GTR #20R???????????????

OK please spill what you know about the GTR, BTW I appreciate your wealth of knowledge as all of us do!

Thanx
WG

[Le Man]

Originally Posted by SD F1

OK please spill what you know about the GTR, BTW I appreciate your wealth of knowledge as all of us do!

Thanx
WG

Many thanks for the compliments SD F1.

Erik has probably made a typo error.

This is the GTR in the showroom!!

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28R In FIA GT championship colour scheme.

20R Is at MTC... in 97 LeMans GT1 winning spec.

[Peloton25]

Indeed I did - my apologies. I've been scatterbrained lately.

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[Le Man]

Hope this is not a repost!!

www.zent.co.jp Go to Zent motorsports.....ZAZ museum...gallery

F1gt missing?

[Peloton25]

The GT has been missing for quite a while. I think what surprises me the most is that #053 is still listed there.

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[Peloton25]

With inspiration and some direction from our good friend bucciali I'm glad to say that I can finally make some decent contributions to this thread for a change.

Most exciting to me out of everything that I found over these past few days were these three new shots of the F1 believed to be chassis #043.

According to the rough translated description that was found with these images, they were also taken at the 2001 British Motorsports Show in Yokohama. That seems to be the first and last time this F1 was spotted in public. While it's definitely nice to have a few more images of this F1, it would be better if we could find something more current to prove it's still visually the same and still in Japan. The original discussion and more pics of this car are hidden away here if you missed it.

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Nothing too exciting with this, but it was a shot of #031 that I didn't yet have in my collection:



This was also very cool - there aren't many good photos of #028 in Japan so it was great to find this new one.

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Here's a handful of chassis #051 images I hadn't seen from the supercar show in Japan again. Wish they were larger as I really like this F1 quite a bit except for that goofy green shift knob. All of these are clickable, but none offer high-res.







Here are some new shots of #013 (red stripe) and #063 at the Historic Automobile Festival recently. Try to ignore the rather awkward looking Mitsuoka Orochis crowding some of the shots. These images are also clickable, but again, no high res.





These three are just digitally enhanced versions of familiar shots from the Rosso issue on the ZAZ Museum cars that came out last year. I save lots of stuff like this that most would probably ignore and thought these were cool enough to warrant sharing:



Last (and almost least given their miniscule size) are these three new shots of LM2 seen outside of it's cage that we fondly know as the ZAZ Museum. I learned through yet another rough translation of the site I found these on that the photos were taken when the car was displayed at the Yamazaki Mazak factory in Oguchi, Japan. Mazak makes machine tools and has been a global partner to the Mercedes/McLaren F1 team since at least 1999. I suspect that Mr Tsuzuki has some connection with the company as his pearl white Enzo and FXX were also seen in photos being displayed at the same location. All three cars had been stripped of their ZENT/ZAZ logos/plates at the time and wore Mazak ones instead. You can just barely read it on the plate on the LM in the third shot.



Unfortunately those are not clickable thumbnails. That is as big as those three shots get for now. I will definitely make an effort to contact the person who shared them to see if larger versions might be available. No promises though...

Enjoy all the new stuff!

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ER

[hurstg01]

You must find it really hard being this good!! Top work again from you Erik and bucciali

[Le Man]

Great post Erik,

Some very interesting pics, thanks.

[Peloton25]

Something odd I just noticed when I found this image...



The wheels on LM2 aren't engraved with the "F1 LM" logo as seen on LM3 and more recent photos of XP1 LM.

I was kind of suprised by this and actually thought that it could have been Photoshopped out for some strange reason, but looking at all the other images I have of the LM2 I don't see any evidence of it being there.

Before you ask, yes I am certain it's LM2. I think there will be more good photos to come from this set, but I haven't gotten my fingers on them yet. Searching in the depths of Japanese sites is not the easiest task...

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[hurstg01]

Originally Posted by Peloton25

Searching in the depths of Japanese sites is not the easiest task...

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ER

Very true!!!!
(It's like another language )

[Peloton25]

This shot was on the same page as the LM wheel, along with photos of wheels from a few other ZAZ Museum residents.



I also found this blurry postage-stamp-sized shot of what I would guess is the other white F1 - Okamoto's #031 - on track. This photo was linked from an even smaller thumbnail if you can believe that (gotta love those tiny images on Japanese websites ) and I literally laughed out loud when I clicked on it and THIS was the "larger" version.



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[hurstg01]

found one more from that set of #051 -

[Peloton25]

What do you know - I found a new pair myself too.



Here's a shot I hadn't seen of Okamoto's #031 at the Car Graphic Autumn Meet last year:



Here's a pair of #063 at BingoSports (you have to look closely in the second shot):



And two more of #013 and #063 together (the 2nd one is u-g-l-y), then one of #013 by itself:



Here are some great detail shots of #053 in the ZAZ Museum which I found on a Japanese blog site. I'm having someone else help me get in contact with this guy to see if he has more photos. He's the same one that shared the shot of the wheels on the LM & #053 that I just posted but I haven't been able to find anything more than this going page by page in his blog.





And finally - one more of #053 from another source:



As always, enjoy!

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ER