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The Mazda Carol.

The Mazda Carol is an adorable kei car. Modified or not

Anyone can save a few bucks by clipping coupons or stealing from the collection plate at church, but it takes a true master to go for the long con. Every con forms from an opportunity. In my case, the opportunity was a chance to get a free house in Hokkaido, if I were to live there for a few years.

You see, all across rural Japan are small towns. These small towns are full of old people, because the young ones moved to Tokyo to get things like “a job” and “cooked food.” However, they still have functional internet, and more importantly, they have hundreds of thousands of perfectly good scrap cars littering the countryside, just waiting for some cheapo to come by and liquidate them. So I said yes, and also convinced them that my eternally shitty cat, Mr. Fluffbottoms, qualified as a ‘child’ in order to further juice the prefectural statistics.

My reward was a 1600-square-foot house, and two parking spots. In Japan, a parking spot is like gold, as it limits the number of cars you can register. As soon as I arrived, I also took a quick mental survey of all the empty parking spots that my geriatric neighbours had. There weren’t too many, as everyone seemed to be (badly) driving a doddering and wheezing kei car from the turn of the century. That’s where the long con got longer.

Since I didn’t really have any “work” to speak of, I went to the town hall and set myself up as the community taxi. Now, all the old people could sell their cars, and I would drive them safely to their appointments. In exchange, I would occupy their now-unused parking spaces with all the Mazda Carols and Nissan Prince Royals I could drag out of abandoned rice paddies.

If you asked me, I would say a lot of the townsfolk enjoyed getting picked up in a snarling Evo VII with a four-inch exhaust, the hydraulic handbrake handle replaced by a crudely-sawed-off hockey stick. And if you asked them, I wouldn’t understand what they said in response, because I made it very clear to my customers that the only Japanese phrase I would answer to was motto hayaku.

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1965 Mazda Carol P360. What a cute car.

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1971 Mazda Carol

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1970 Mazda Carol DX. With the standard 360cc 20ps rear mounted ohv water-cooled four cylinder you aren't going to win many races but turn up at a meet in this and you would get attention.

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