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| Cappo |
| Posted on: Tuesday, November 11th, 2008, 11:17:00pm |
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Sunday 2nd November saw the 10th OPENcafe meeting take place at Hamanako Garden Park near Hamamatsu (between Hamamatsu and the Suzuki Kosai plant, the factory where the Cappuccino was built).
OPENcafe is the biggest Cappuccino event in Japan, and this year was no exception with 450 Cappuccinos present. As part of the application process you had to specify the colour of your Cappuccino, the reason for this? All cars would be parked by colour...
Eveyone going to the event had received a numbered ticket though the post prior to the event, on arriving everyone was given a welcome pack; this included, brochures from the traders, pin badges, stickers and a program.
By 10:30 most of the cars were parked and an Opening Ceremony took place, then everyone gathered for a group photo (about 600 people). Following this a 'talk show' took place. Three of the orignal development team from Suzuki talked though the development story of the Cappuccino, from the initial concept work on P89 (the 1989 Tokyo motorshow car) through the development to production.
After this the 'Goods' stand opened (official merchandise), and massive lines formed to get hold of OPENcafe stickers / lanyards / towels / shirts / keyrings etc.
During the afternoon there were interviews with the traders and later the 'Garage John Garage Band' performed.
Later in the afternoon there was an award ceremony (best car, a photo contest had taken place, furthest driven the the event, and a 'Special award' which we won for being the first overseas visitor!). Then a raffle took place. There were loads of prizes, from copies of K Car Magazine to a Garage John carbon front bumper! After the raffle had finished the staff started handing out photos, the group photo from earlier that morning!
It was an excellent event with loads of interesting Capps. Really well organized and in exellent weather (we got a bit of sun burn). Thanks to the OPENcafe staff for their hospitality.
Andy
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| capgun |
| Posted on: Tuesday, November 11th, 2008, 11:58:21pm |
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| fxdlidon |
| Posted on: Wednesday, November 12th, 2008, 12:02:15am |
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| Cappo |
Posted on: Wednesday, November 12th, 2008, 12:07:17am
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| Waiting to park... |
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| Cappo |
Posted on: Wednesday, November 12th, 2008, 12:08:01am
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| The silver end |
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| Cappo |
Posted on: Wednesday, November 12th, 2008, 12:09:54am
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| Blue and black limiteds |
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| Cappo |
Posted on: Wednesday, November 12th, 2008, 12:10:35am
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| Red ones |
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| Cappo |
Posted on: Wednesday, November 12th, 2008, 12:11:53am
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| Misc colours (opposite end) |
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| Cappo |
Posted on: Wednesday, November 12th, 2008, 12:13:12am
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| The 'talk show' (Suzuki development team) |
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| Cappo |
Posted on: Wednesday, November 12th, 2008, 12:14:27am
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| Mystery car under sheet turn out to be... |
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| Cappo |
Posted on: Wednesday, November 12th, 2008, 12:16:23am
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| ...cut away show car from the 1991 Tokyo motor show. (helmet on passenger seat is the P89 concet car driver's helmet). |
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| Cappo |
Posted on: Wednesday, November 12th, 2008, 12:17:28am
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| Lump on the boot is the ABS unit. |
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| Cappo |
Posted on: Wednesday, November 12th, 2008, 12:19:01am
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| Popular new mod - 'duck tail' boot lid (available via Yahoo.jp) - better looking than the GT wings... |
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| Cappo |
Posted on: Wednesday, November 12th, 2008, 12:20:34am
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| 17" BBS LMs - stretched rubber is in too. |
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| Cappo |
Posted on: Wednesday, November 12th, 2008, 12:21:23am
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| Asking for expensive trouble?! |
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| Cappo |
Posted on: Wednesday, November 12th, 2008, 12:23:40am
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| Excellent paint on this (a Toyota colour) |
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Posted on: Wednesday, November 12th, 2008, 12:24:50am
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| Again, nice and subtle, good colour. |
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Posted on: Wednesday, November 12th, 2008, 12:25:58am
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| BL Almond green?! |
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| Cappo |
Posted on: Wednesday, November 12th, 2008, 12:26:40am
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| Cool blister arches on this. |
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| Cappo |
Posted on: Wednesday, November 12th, 2008, 12:28:46am
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| Cappo |
Posted on: Wednesday, November 12th, 2008, 12:30:07am
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| Really nice silver/grey car (check out the door mirrors) |
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| Cappo |
Posted on: Wednesday, November 12th, 2008, 12:32:02am
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| Another Capp with 17's (and the essential wider-than-the-car GT wing) |
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| Cappo |
Posted on: Wednesday, November 12th, 2008, 12:35:48am
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| One of the cleanest cars at the show... |
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| Cappo |
Posted on: Wednesday, November 12th, 2008, 12:38:27am
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| Cut-away bumper showing J Works muffler |
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| Cappo |
Posted on: Wednesday, November 12th, 2008, 12:44:04am
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| One of about 5 near standard cars - not all of them have been modified (most had though) |
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| Cappo |
Posted on: Wednesday, November 12th, 2008, 12:46:11am
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| Dirft Capp (S13 pop-up lights) |
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| Cappo |
Posted on: Wednesday, November 12th, 2008, 12:47:47am
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| Not for the shy... |
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| Cappo |
Posted on: Wednesday, November 12th, 2008, 12:48:58am
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| Front hinged bonnet and Gull wing doors |
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| Cappo |
Posted on: Wednesday, November 12th, 2008, 12:50:38am
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| Real leather buckles! Beats bonnet pins! |
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| Cappo |
Posted on: Wednesday, November 12th, 2008, 12:51:48am
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| Corvette clone... one of a few 'clones' |
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Posted on: Wednesday, November 12th, 2008, 12:53:01am
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| Viper style clone (a lot of effort had gone into building up the rear arches) |
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Posted on: Wednesday, November 12th, 2008, 12:54:30am
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| The Lotus Elan style front end conversion. |
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| Cappo |
Posted on: Wednesday, November 12th, 2008, 12:56:45am
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| Launched at the show - the Baby Cobra Japan conversion - not cheap, expect to pay over £20K at the current exchange rate. (I think this includes base car but there are a lot of options to take this figure even higher) |
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Posted on: Wednesday, November 12th, 2008, 12:57:59am
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| Interesting headlight conversion. |
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Posted on: Wednesday, November 12th, 2008, 12:58:58am
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| Weird tail lamps (protrued like speaker cages) |
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| Cappo |
Posted on: Wednesday, November 12th, 2008, 1:00:30am
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| Regulars... |
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Posted on: Wednesday, November 12th, 2008, 1:02:02am
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| These were neat, also on offer were polised OZ Chronos rims too. |
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| Cappo |
Posted on: Wednesday, November 12th, 2008, 1:04:20am
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| Lots of this going on |
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Posted on: Wednesday, November 12th, 2008, 1:06:35am
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| And lots of dials too - this guy had an artifical horizon on his dash! |
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Posted on: Wednesday, November 12th, 2008, 1:07:25am
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