I've been looking for other R2 owners! That R2 is so cool!!! I"m so happy that I found this page. A few years ago, I purchased a 1971 Subaru R2 Serial number 00002. It came with a custom trailer that was paint matched and built out of the back of an R2. It took me a while to get it started, but it runs ok now, although people give me dirty looks at the stoplight because of the smoke😁 I need a passengers side window for it so I can drive it without rain getting inside, but i love the car. I'm not sure if its possible to post a pic here, but id sure love to show her off.
Yes, a nice clean face. There was the water-cooled version that had a conventional grille between the headlights. It wasn't terrible, but kinda cluttered the front.
I can't think of a better way to film a car show. No one is going to be annoyed by him driving around the show constantly. No like if he was in a Cube or Suzuki Ciaz or something. I love variety since, as much as I love seeing Skylines and Supras, oddball cars are what make going to events worth it.
1983 had some great cars debut. Honda CRX, Nissan Fairlady Z31, Toyota AE85, Peugeot 205. But because I'm weird, my favorite is the Suzuki Mighty Boy. lol
Yes! Iconic two-stroke Japanese car wheels. Personally, I associate them with 1970's Suzuki (and other) vans that I saw back in Australia. Oh. And I forgot to mention, the owner widened the wheels on the R2. They look spot on
I love the R2 because of a story on the Taiho Shichauzo manga. There the R2 revives an motorcycle engine upgrade, so it smokes the competition. Anyway, I loved the story back in those early 1990s and the fact that I thought it was a Fiat 500 at first. They kept calling it a R2 so when internet arrived I altavisya-ed it and found out. Scrap your rare lowered over of a kind Mitsuoka Ray? Blasphemy! 😲
If you7ve read even one manga comic, then you've read more than me! Hahahahaha. I actually worry that I have zero pop-culture connections with cars. There can't be many more than me. Altavista search engine? I remember using that for many years after Google started winning the wars. There was no filter for 'adult content' >_
I hate the idea of scrapping a car. I always imagine that there's someone out there somewhere who would absolutely love to have it or have the parts from it. I mess around with the z32 platform quite a bit and I have owned over 40 of them. Most of which have been parts cars. But when I do scrap one... I make sure to save every usable part right down to nuts and bolts and even if it's wiring. It's gotten so bad that my barn, three out buildings, two garages, a storage unit, and most of the spare rooms in my house are full of z32 parts. 😂 I may be a hoarder... But when all the parts of a particular car are gone, they're gone. A lot of these older cars... Nobody is reproducing parts for them and when someone needs a part they have to find someone who's been holding onto parts for years. And I guess that's where someone like me comes in. I've sent parts and pieces of various z32s all over the world. And that's a car that was somewhat mass produced. Imagine trying to find parts for this thing in the video. I would imagine that it's almost, if not completely, impossible.
Schweet cars from the year of my birth On the JDM front: Turbo A70 Supra On the EURO front: Lancia Delta HF Integrale On the USA front: Buick Regal Coupe
So awesome you got to meet up with the R2 owner. I found his channel not more than 2 months ago and I'm hooked. Yeah I can't believe this car was about to be scrapped in 2021. I can see that happening earlier in its life when people wanted the newer models or when there were plenty on the road. Great content as always!
cool :). i get it with the parts, few months back i bought an mazda 323/familia BD, it has been sitting for past 20 years so it needed...and still needs some work, wich means parts. luckily im pretty succeful with hunting down the correct stuff so far, but some small things here and there i already used from newer mazdas, and even skoda parts, lol. and unsuprisingly, despite the familias outselling the corollas a few times in japan in the early 80s, parts for it literally doesnt exist over there...yet alone the cars itself, lol.
Yeah, it's exactly that turns me off classic car ownership. (Well, let's pretend that I have money to buy classic cars...) To have a cool yet obscure, old car, but to have it's restoration put on hold as you search for near non-existant parts, is just too much to ask of me
@@wasabicars yeah, i deffo wouldnt buy an old obscure car that needs a full resto, for this sole reason haha. in my case its much more reasonable, while it sat fot 20 years, the engine got started ocasionally, and it was stored indoors, infact based on some clues i gathered it seems like atleast for some time of this period it was used as a display piece at some mazda dealer somewhere in germany, lol. basically the biggest thing i had to deal with was the brakes that were pretty much dead, but other than that it luckyly didnt really needed much haha
I saw the thumbnail and thought ”Now thats a wasabi-car!” and then Daniel says the same thing when video starts. 😂 Such a cool car, great video as always! I was born in 1996 and usually like cars that are older than me, my Corolla was made in 1982, but 96 Impreza or Mercedes W124 would be kinda cool to own.
In this day and age where it's actually hard to buy one brand new car due to supply chain shortages, it's better off having many second hand ones and spreading the km's between them to keep them going longer. This car is still just a labor of love, but throwing away something that someone else might treasure is just wrong.
As reasonable as what you're saying is, that's a mighty "out there" concept to a land of people who only want something new and reliable in their driveway. But to me, the idea of keeping cars longer, like, really longer, is very close to my heart
1976 had some fun cars released...the Mitsubishi Sapporo,Honda Accord,BMW 6 series (E24) and Lotus Esprit are my favorites. Would love to own any one of these but 3 are unaffordable and one cannot be found 🤔
Nice. Thanks, Iraj. I'm not sure which you're suggesting is which, but there's this Lotus Espirit that drives past the house regularly. I'm DM you on insta
Oh man this is so amazing! What's shocking to me is that you use a car for only 10 years and rather than scrapping them at the time or sell it. You store it for 3 decades and one day they go yeah i don't care bye car, that's so insane, speaking of your wife, does she still have that rasheen? Like that's a classic now isn't that insane? Ugh about what you asked about the year (lucky you 72 I'd love to have a Mitsubishi Celeste from that year, where they even made back then?) 96 is a good year for kids my age but idk, you know i don't like mkiv supras and post r31 skylines... I think I'd go for a nissan cedric or cima from that era, even a president why not? 😆 I hope you are doing great Daniel. The cressida might be out of the paint shop next month!!! It's been so long. You'll be one of the first to know i promise 😊
She scrapped the Rasheen! Damn. It was so sudden. She said she was considering getting a Toyota Aqua, and then boom. The Rasheen was gone. Not even time for me to shoot a farewell video of it. Wow. I hadn't realized you were THAT into Nissans. Cool. I look forward to seeing the Cressida :D
Another nice and light free-flowing video, Dan! It is interesting how the two of you are at many of the same car shows... His restoration series videos on that little R2 are interesting because he chronicles everything. Coincidentally, the first with him pushing it into his workshop somewhat like the thumbnail. Also his cool little Sambar is a bit of a reason to check out his channel as well. I never understood the "throw away" type of society anywhere. Many, many Japanese are brought up that way. America is pretty much the same, but I was brought up a different way. I try to fix everything. The 1967 Corvette 427/435hp roadster is mine.
I was actually gonna start the video with a dung beetle reference, but I figured the humour might get lost in translation. Lol. He does love to push it around... Yo! The '67 Corvette. Very nice. Looove that shape, and the late one is the coolest
@@wasabicars Happy Sunday Dan. The rake on that R2 is pretty cool but the beetle reference wouldn't be lost on me. The new C8 Corvette is beautiful and for the money it is a performance bargain. Not that I have $100k laying around
@@troyfankell6581 Have you seen a dung beetle push a ball of dung? If you glimpse it, you'll see the opening moments of this video quite differently. Lol
1970 was my year and I own one the iconic ones US made, 70 Chevelle. So yeah I'm against the whole just scrap it thing. Strangely the cool little car reminds me of my fiat 500, lol.
Cool. 70 Chevellas are such a muscular-looking car. Yeah, toooo much scrapping going on here. My wife got she car scrapped after 24 years in a heartbeat. I didn't even have time to shoot a farewell video of it :(
One of the Top5 Coolest Subaru's ever made...hands down (would swap my Imprezza or (Maybe even) The Forester for a roadgoing Subaru360 (Live in Denmark, so it would be really hard finding one here in Scandinavia)
a little jem that, lots of nice powerful cars produced in the US in 68 but over here in the uk things were a bit more relaxed but still there are exceptions ide go for a car with a bit of go and it would be the Triumph GT6 MK2.
In 1949 I arrived along with the Ford Custom (single spinner) sedan, one of the coolest cars of that year. Actually though, I prefer the 1950 Studebaker Champion coupe as the rest of the car is just way out there compared to the competition, with its 4 piece wraparound rear window and huge rear deck 😳 . Those were the days!
yes 1977 so this year special cars you have the Aston Martin V8 Vantage, Panther 6, Daihatsu Charade, Datsun 810, Holden HZ, Lamborghini Militaria, Matra Rancho, Porsche 928, Suzuki Cervo, Toyota Chaser, etc...
I absolutely love it , You mentioned there was another type of car called microcar , How the heck could anything be smaller than this one ? Does the gas and oil get mixed into the tank or does it have a separate oil tank that mixes as the fuel is being delivered ? And please forgive me Daniel but , You may not have the correct wife , Thank you for Sharing , Take care
It's ultimately anti patriotic to rebuild an old Wasabi. This is a quintessential culture issue, an old school British Isles and Ireland idea that an old hack should be Eternal and Loved, verses progressive post 1870 Japanese ethos of moving with the current new thing. I'm sure you will see your way through it.
Yeah I don't get the "just scrap it" or dump it concept. You know what I do Dan and recently I took possession of another vintage Hilux because it was going to be scrapped. And my daughters car blew up, same thing. I cant scrap it. Problem is I now have 9 cars in the yard. 🚗🚕🚙🚌🚎🏎🚓🚘🚚😂
I've come to a conclusion; not an answer though. That being, that we're never going to understand that 'scrap it' thinking. We're bound by our own cultural values that obscure those of others. Boom! I just dropped some wisdom there. Yeah, saw vids of the patina Mini and the red Hilux. Nine!? Crikey!
She's a beautiful old thing. I love it. We need to be creative in keeping these on the road.
I've been looking for other R2 owners! That R2 is so cool!!! I"m so happy that I found this page.
A few years ago, I purchased a 1971 Subaru R2 Serial number 00002. It came with a custom trailer that was paint matched and built out of the back of an R2. It took me a while to get it started, but it runs ok now, although people give me dirty looks at the stoplight because of the smoke😁
I need a passengers side window for it so I can drive it without rain getting inside, but i love the car. I'm not sure if its possible to post a pic here, but id sure love to show her off.
Looks very like a shrunken fiat 850, still a lovely little car, beautiful patina
Yes, a beautiful car. Thank you :)
Agree, a lot of Fiat 850 there. Very charming.
Wasabi Cars for life
Holy Dooley, man. That's a hell of a compliment. Means a lot to me
@@wasabicars respect brother
Such a cool looking car. Love the styling. The front end is my favourite. No grill, clean , simple. And a 2 stroke !
Yes, a nice clean face. There was the water-cooled version that had a conventional grille between the headlights. It wasn't terrible, but kinda cluttered the front.
I can't think of a better way to film a car show. No one is going to be annoyed by him driving around the show constantly. No like if he was in a Cube or Suzuki Ciaz or something.
I love variety since, as much as I love seeing Skylines and Supras, oddball cars are what make going to events worth it.
Lol! It is pretty cool seeing it roll around ;-)
I spotted a silver 200ZR 😍
Oops
Awesome rig for sure very rare
My father had the new ford thunderbird released in 1988 also the year I was born.
1983 had some great cars debut. Honda CRX, Nissan Fairlady Z31, Toyota AE85, Peugeot 205. But because I'm weird, my favorite is the Suzuki Mighty Boy. lol
Ha! Nice one. And don't think I didn't notice you wrote AE85. I respect that
It is a very cool car.
Yeah, man. Kinda Franken-cool
Is beautiful car 👍🇨🇷
It is :D
1968 HK Monaro GTS 327 same year I was born.
Aww yiis! Dude, very nice. I have a Rare Spares posted of the Bathurst-winning, Warrick Yellow one
I love those wheels. 100% perfect for the Subi.
Yes! Iconic two-stroke Japanese car wheels. Personally, I associate them with 1970's Suzuki (and other) vans that I saw back in Australia. Oh. And I forgot to mention, the owner widened the wheels on the R2. They look spot on
I love the R2 because of a story on the Taiho Shichauzo manga. There the R2 revives an motorcycle engine upgrade, so it smokes the competition. Anyway, I loved the story back in those early 1990s and the fact that I thought it was a Fiat 500 at first. They kept calling it a R2 so when internet arrived I altavisya-ed it and found out.
Scrap your rare lowered over of a kind Mitsuoka Ray? Blasphemy! 😲
If you7ve read even one manga comic, then you've read more than me! Hahahahaha. I actually worry that I have zero pop-culture connections with cars. There can't be many more than me. Altavista search engine? I remember using that for many years after Google started winning the wars. There was no filter for 'adult content' >_
Looks like a fiat - but better, models are hot 🥵🥵🥵🥹
Yes, I'm not familiar with the Fiat people refer to, but I was told of the resemblance some time ago
Absolutely love it !
Amazing that car survived ! In Japan society frowns upon anything old right ?
Essentially. There are of course those that appreciate the 'nostalgic', but they're in the tiny minority
I hate the idea of scrapping a car. I always imagine that there's someone out there somewhere who would absolutely love to have it or have the parts from it. I mess around with the z32 platform quite a bit and I have owned over 40 of them. Most of which have been parts cars. But when I do scrap one... I make sure to save every usable part right down to nuts and bolts and even if it's wiring. It's gotten so bad that my barn, three out buildings, two garages, a storage unit, and most of the spare rooms in my house are full of z32 parts. 😂 I may be a hoarder... But when all the parts of a particular car are gone, they're gone. A lot of these older cars... Nobody is reproducing parts for them and when someone needs a part they have to find someone who's been holding onto parts for years. And I guess that's where someone like me comes in. I've sent parts and pieces of various z32s all over the world. And that's a car that was somewhat mass produced. Imagine trying to find parts for this thing in the video. I would imagine that it's almost, if not completely, impossible.
Cool
Thank U :)
Took me like 20 seconds to figure out this is in english
I'm unsure how to respond. Though, I am curious to know what actions will result from this epiphany.
Schweet cars from the year of my birth
On the JDM front:
Turbo A70 Supra
On the EURO front:
Lancia Delta HF Integrale
On the USA front:
Buick Regal Coupe
How great does the two stroke sound
It makes even motorcycles sound more like cars ;-)
All my favourite cars were from 1973 but I'm a 1978 vintage........
So awesome you got to meet up with the R2 owner. I found his channel not more than 2 months ago and I'm hooked. Yeah I can't believe this car was about to be scrapped in 2021. I can see that happening earlier in its life when people wanted the newer models or when there were plenty on the road. Great content as always!
cool :). i get it with the parts, few months back i bought an mazda 323/familia BD, it has been sitting for past 20 years so it needed...and still needs some work, wich means parts. luckily im pretty succeful with hunting down the correct stuff so far, but some small things here and there i already used from newer mazdas, and even skoda parts, lol. and unsuprisingly, despite the familias outselling the corollas a few times in japan in the early 80s, parts for it literally doesnt exist over there...yet alone the cars itself, lol.
Yeah, it's exactly that turns me off classic car ownership. (Well, let's pretend that I have money to buy classic cars...) To have a cool yet obscure, old car, but to have it's restoration put on hold as you search for near non-existant parts, is just too much to ask of me
@@wasabicars yeah, i deffo wouldnt buy an old obscure car that needs a full resto, for this sole reason haha. in my case its much more reasonable, while it sat fot 20 years, the engine got started ocasionally, and it was stored indoors, infact based on some clues i gathered it seems like atleast for some time of this period it was used as a display piece at some mazda dealer somewhere in germany, lol. basically the biggest thing i had to deal with was the brakes that were pretty much dead, but other than that it luckyly didnt really needed much haha
I saw the thumbnail and thought ”Now thats a wasabi-car!” and then Daniel says the same thing when video starts. 😂 Such a cool car, great video as always!
I was born in 1996 and usually like cars that are older than me, my Corolla was made in 1982, but 96 Impreza or Mercedes W124 would be kinda cool to own.
Yess! Thank you. That a 'Wasabi car' is a thing to some people, is a pretty epic thing. And, thx for the car list :)
In this day and age where it's actually hard to buy one brand new car due to supply chain shortages, it's better off having many second hand ones and spreading the km's between them to keep them going longer.
This car is still just a labor of love, but throwing away something that someone else might treasure is just wrong.
As reasonable as what you're saying is, that's a mighty "out there" concept to a land of people who only want something new and reliable in their driveway. But to me, the idea of keeping cars longer, like, really longer, is very close to my heart
Would have to remove the seats for me to fit.
I love the r2. Are there also old diesels in japen? Like nissan patrol . Daihatsu taft? Love your vids man. 👍
Despite what I show, anything that isn't an old Nissan Skyline or S30 (240Z) is rare. Did see one of each, but both were behind doors
1976 had some fun cars released...the Mitsubishi Sapporo,Honda Accord,BMW 6 series (E24) and Lotus Esprit are my favorites. Would love to own any one of these but 3 are unaffordable and one cannot be found 🤔
Nice. Thanks, Iraj. I'm not sure which you're suggesting is which, but there's this Lotus Espirit that drives past the house regularly. I'm DM you on insta
Oh man this is so amazing! What's shocking to me is that you use a car for only 10 years and rather than scrapping them at the time or sell it. You store it for 3 decades and one day they go yeah i don't care bye car, that's so insane, speaking of your wife, does she still have that rasheen? Like that's a classic now isn't that insane? Ugh about what you asked about the year (lucky you 72 I'd love to have a Mitsubishi Celeste from that year, where they even made back then?) 96 is a good year for kids my age but idk, you know i don't like mkiv supras and post r31 skylines... I think I'd go for a nissan cedric or cima from that era, even a president why not? 😆 I hope you are doing great Daniel. The cressida might be out of the paint shop next month!!! It's been so long. You'll be one of the first to know i promise 😊
She scrapped the Rasheen! Damn. It was so sudden. She said she was considering getting a Toyota Aqua, and then boom. The Rasheen was gone. Not even time for me to shoot a farewell video of it. Wow. I hadn't realized you were THAT into Nissans. Cool. I look forward to seeing the Cressida :D
Another nice and light free-flowing video, Dan! It is interesting how the two of you are at many of the same car shows...
His restoration series videos on that little R2 are interesting because he chronicles everything. Coincidentally, the first with him pushing it into his workshop somewhat like the thumbnail. Also his cool little Sambar is a bit of a reason to check out his channel as well.
I never understood the "throw away" type of society anywhere. Many, many Japanese are brought up that way. America is pretty much the same, but I was brought up a different way. I try to fix everything.
The 1967 Corvette 427/435hp roadster is mine.
I was actually gonna start the video with a dung beetle reference, but I figured the humour might get lost in translation. Lol. He does love to push it around... Yo! The '67 Corvette. Very nice. Looove that shape, and the late one is the coolest
@@wasabicars Happy Sunday Dan. The rake on that R2 is pretty cool but the beetle reference wouldn't be lost on me.
The new C8 Corvette is beautiful and for the money it is a performance bargain. Not that I have $100k laying around
@@troyfankell6581 Have you seen a dung beetle push a ball of dung? If you glimpse it, you'll see the opening moments of this video quite differently. Lol
@@wasabicars Thanks Dan. I just went down the "dung beetle" video trail...
1970 was my year and I own one the iconic ones US made, 70 Chevelle. So yeah I'm against the whole just scrap it thing. Strangely the cool little car reminds me of my fiat 500, lol.
Cool. 70 Chevellas are such a muscular-looking car. Yeah, toooo much scrapping going on here. My wife got she car scrapped after 24 years in a heartbeat. I didn't even have time to shoot a farewell video of it :(
One of the Top5 Coolest Subaru's ever made...hands down (would swap my Imprezza or (Maybe even) The Forester for a roadgoing Subaru360 (Live in Denmark, so it would be really hard finding one here in Scandinavia)
360's have sooo much character in their styling. It's the van version of the 360 that gets me quite excited though. Very cool
a little jem that, lots of nice powerful cars produced in the US in 68 but over here in the uk things were a bit more relaxed but still there are exceptions ide go for a car with a bit of go and it would be the Triumph GT6 MK2.
Nice. Thank you :)
WaSubi
I have been thinking that exact same thing for a while Dan. What 1971 car would I like to own? Hmmm
I'm sure there were some good'uns :)
In 1949 I arrived along with the Ford Custom (single spinner) sedan, one of the coolest cars of that year. Actually though, I prefer the 1950 Studebaker Champion coupe as the rest of the car is just way out there compared to the competition, with its 4 piece wraparound rear window and huge rear deck 😳 . Those were the days!
yes 1977 so this year special cars you have the Aston Martin V8 Vantage, Panther 6, Daihatsu Charade, Datsun 810, Holden HZ, Lamborghini Militaria, Matra Rancho, Porsche 928, Suzuki Cervo, Toyota Chaser, etc...
Very nice list. Thank you :)
I absolutely love it , You mentioned there was another type of car called microcar , How the heck could anything be smaller than this one ? Does the gas and oil get mixed into the tank or does it have a separate oil tank that mixes as the fuel is being delivered ? And please forgive me Daniel but , You may not have the correct wife , Thank you for Sharing , Take care
damn, model's ig is not vailable
Try this: instagram.com/mmiiyyuu.4/
@@wasabicars cool, thanks bro!!
This thing needs a blue roof.
Wasted opportunity
Haha! A personal preference or in relation to an existing car?
@@wasabicars Its an R2.
...D2
Not wabi sabi rust (sabi)car😅
not many cool cars from 2004 aside from, E46 M3, evo 7, s2000, rx8 , 350z and ep3 civic type R
Ooooh! I can think of one (... an Aussie one, which may not appeal to you...) 2004 Holden Monaro :D
@@wasabicars oh yeahh thats a goodun, or as it was known the “vauxhall” monaro over here haha
It's ultimately anti patriotic to rebuild an old Wasabi. This is a quintessential culture issue, an old school British Isles and Ireland idea that an old hack should be Eternal and Loved, verses progressive post 1870 Japanese ethos of moving with the current new thing. I'm sure you will see your way through it.
Um, yeah. The country was build of car exports from the 60's to the present day. Car companies resurrected the nation.
Yeah I don't get the "just scrap it" or dump it concept. You know what I do Dan and recently I took possession of another vintage Hilux because it was going to be scrapped. And my daughters car blew up, same thing. I cant scrap it. Problem is I now have 9 cars in the yard. 🚗🚕🚙🚌🚎🏎🚓🚘🚚😂
I've come to a conclusion; not an answer though. That being, that we're never going to understand that 'scrap it' thinking. We're bound by our own cultural values that obscure those of others. Boom! I just dropped some wisdom there. Yeah, saw vids of the patina Mini and the red Hilux. Nine!? Crikey!
@@wasabicars 😬😬