Rare, One - Owner car - 1975 toyota trueno sprinter te47 gt coupe - Advan a3a wheels

G'day everyone. My name is Daniel O'Grady and welcome to another Wasabicars video. I hope you're all doing great. I'm feeling pumped! Actually, I've got a bit of a cold but I'm going to soldier through this and bring you some top information. I am pumped for this video because this is a car I have never shown before, and it was a car I never saw on the roads in Australia. I guess I did see it in some footage, some historical rallying/hill-climb footage from Europe, Canary Islands. So, there's a video out there somewhere that someone pointed me to. And, it seemed to be every second car racing up the hill was one of these. But, as I said, never seen one... before. This is the only example I've seen with my eyes. I've seen pictures around the place since then, but this is the one and only that I've been within touching distance. I of course did not touch it because it's too expensive. So, let's check out that placard that's on the windscreen. The first thing that stands out is the price, 148. I wish this was yen; that's like $1.50 but that's crazy talk. It refers to 10,000's of yen. So, 1,480,000 yen. That's a lot of money. I guess, average-wage six months pay. If you want to got it into understandable terms. The next thing I want to point out is 50. This is the 50th year of Showa, the Showa period, which equals 1975. I don't know if I said before, Sprinter Trueno TE47. There's a word of the end there and it's in English, actually. It says one-owner. A one-owner car. How cool that we can see a one-owner car in great condition in a car lot. That's great to see. The car lot is Alpha. They're in Fukuoka city. They've always got one or two classic cars and the rest are newish stuff that you might see on 7tune or Speedhunters, cars I'm not really that much into. But, I'm sure plenty of you guys would love to stroll through this yard. Let's check out the outside of the car. The colour, I'm loving. Sort of understated, yeah? Mossy green, or deep-dark green. Quite nice. The shape is quite slippery. You can see it's got that curved, or attempted... like a 240Z, right? But really squashed up flat. Some sort of curved front and a sloping rear. It's got those plastic rubber bump strips that run down the side of the car? Well, you can see it, right? Of course we saw plenty of this in Australia. Kind of un-sexy. Eh, very un-sexy. This is a GT model. I saw a brochure and there was a beautiful GT stripe down the side. This one doesn't have that. Instead, it's got that Grandpa strip. Anyway, a nice example of a car. Finishing of the car is the wheels, and they are Advan A3A's. Very, very popular I think. No photo of the engine, but it is a DOHC engine, 1600cc. Or, let's say 1588cc and the power output is 110 PS. PS, we never used that in Australia, so it's new to me. Is it metric horsepower? So, it equates to 108 horsepower. Very, very similar. Okay, guys. Question of the day. This car, as I said, is a Trueno, right? Is that how you pronounce Trueno? The Japanese pronounce it as Toreno. To-re-no. The word is a Spanish word meaning thunder. I checked on-line, and I believe the correct pronunciation is "tre-no". "Tre-no". So, I pronounce it wrong. True-e-no, that's wrong, guys. But I guess, who even cares? So, question of the day is which word did you always pronounce incorrectly? And, I'll give you another example. Camaro. I say Ka-ma-oh. How is that possible? It's a Ka-mer-oh. Don't people inthe US say (not) Ka-ma-oh? Why do I say Ka-ma-oh? Anyway, car names, I say them wrong. Oh, another one. Celica. People say Se-le-ka, or something like that? Anyway, mispronounced words, mispronounced car names. Okay, guys. Thank you all very much for joining me. I hope you've enjoyed it, and take it easy. See you.