We often talk about the coolest European- or Japanese-market cars that we can import— more or less legally— into the United States. Naturally, most of the cars that actually end up coming over here from Japan will be R33 Nissan Skylines, and that’s fine. I’m in the process of looking for a weird 4WD kei van or maybe even a Mitsuoka La Seyde (naturally, the second the V12 Toyota Century hits age 25— which happens in 2022— I’ll be getting one) and so I spend a lot of time searching for such machines on the English-language page for Goo-Net Exchange in Japan.
Because I have a soft spot for the workhorse Toyota Crown taxis of Tokyo, I was looking at older Crowns for sale… and I found this.
It’s a 1990 Crown Super Saloon Station Wagon, which started out as a handsome but dignified-to-the-point-of-invisibility big rear-wheel-drive car. Then some person or shop broke out the gas-axe and built this car into an homage to the Ford station wagons of the middle 1960s.
The headlight treatment involves sort of a reverse-fin look, reminiscent of the massive tailfins found on Chrysler products of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Whatever the inspiration, this car is glorious, and you should buy it. The price tag of 1,205,000 yen amounts to just about $11,500, and you’d have a solid rear-drive wagon with the sort of quality Toyota reserves for its most prestigious home-market cars.
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