Banpei's two door panda Trueno from Japan

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Thanks!

Earlier this week, these clips by FK's Factory arrived:

These are supposed to be reproduction clips for the OEM wind deflectors. Without these, you can lose them when the windows are wound down.

They basically push them in place:

The placement is simple: the wind deflectors are wedged between the window moulding and the rubber window seals. These tabs then need to be aligned with the four tabs on the wind deflectors, and then they push the seals against the deflectors even when the windows are wound down.

In case anyone needs these clips, you can find FK's factory here. They don't seem to be in stock anymore, but maybe he will reproduce them once more.

The cheap generic automotive connectors also arrived, but I had the same feeling when ordering stuff from Temu, and it finally arrived after weeks of waiting: the connectors were way smaller than the advertised photo showed. |
This means a simple unclip-and-swap will not work. I'm not too keen to strip the original wires and crimp new pins on them as these cables are already relatively short. So in the end, I'll just order the OEM ones and keep these in storage for future projects.

Yesterday, I also attended an oldtimer event in my hometown. Even though it was parked next to a Lotus Esprit Turbo in John Player's livery, the Trueno received a lot of attention. It certainly helps that the autocover fog lights now have the Toyota branding on them, as now I get a lot of questions about what type of Toyota it is. To my surprise, there was even someone teaching his kids about the autocover fog lights. He and his oldest son watched Initial D together. My son wasn't interested in watching it, but maybe I should when my daughter is old enough to understand English well enough!


As usual, I forgot to take any photos of the Trueno, but here's the side marker on the photo of the Lotus Esprit.