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"   The 1960s and 1970s were formative years for the Japanese car industry, and the cars featured at this show resonate with me. As a teenager and into my mid 20s, I drove a couple of first-generation Toyota Celicas, a 1983 Mazda RX-7 that was eventually turned into an SCCA ITA race car...heck, my very first car was a 1969 Toyota Corona Coupe. And the 5th annual JCCS, at a new venue this year in Irvine, California, brought the memories flooding back.   There was wonderful JDM (Japanese Domestic Market, for the noobs) overload, with vintage Nissan Skylines, Bluebirds and Fairladys; Toyota 2000GTs, Corollas, Cressidas and Celicas. Air-cooled 2-cylinder twins from Honda and Mazda. Fender-mount mirrors, right-hand drive and those purposeful yet cool-looking bolt-on fender flares. And that great, so-called &amp;quot;gingerbread&amp;quot; styling and surface detailing of the 1970s that reminds me of pachinko machines and the Giant Robot movies.   The 1970s have been long forgotten by the teeming masses who drive Subaru Impreza STIs and Mitsubishi Evos, but many Gen X- and Y&amp;#039;ers have rediscovered old-school cool, retrofitting some of these Nixon-era icons with modern muscle. One of the most prevalent swaps seems to be a turbocharged SR20DE four in a Datsun 510. One such example claimed to have 390 rwhp, pretty much quadrupling the stock car&amp;#039;s output!   What follows is a small sampling of what was seen at JCCS 2009. If you&amp;#039;re of a certain age, have $10 burning a hole in your pocket and live nearby, you should plan to attend in 2010. For more information, and photo galleries of previous shows, go to . "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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