We check out all things Japanese in Ballarat

Joel Strickland

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20 Jan 2020 1 min read

Joel Strickland

Contributor

20 Jan 2020 1 min read

When a friend invited me to hang out for the day and cruise in his classic Toyota Celica to an all Japanese car show just outside of Melbourne, I thought, why not.

The gallery below highlights the cross section of cars on display at the Ballarat All Japanese Car and Bike Show hosted by Shannons Insurance.

We drove in convoy with a bunch of owners from the Toyota Car Club of Australia, so there was a large selections of Toyota’s on display. The Datsun club was also well represented with some great 1600s, and the Ballarat JDM club was out in force.

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Standouts for me were a very original looking Subaru RS Turbo, Nissan Pintara, Nissan Bluebird, a very clean fourth-gen (A80) Toyota Supra and an immaculate, recently restored, first gen Toyota Celica.

Joel Strickland loves all things automotive. You can follow him online @joelstrickphoto on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

Joel Strickland

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Growing up in Tasmania, car culture hardly surrounded Joel. But between Targa, the Australian Rally Championship and V8 Supercars there was enough to build Joel’s passion for all things automotive. Joel got his first big break covering the Australian Rally Championship in the mid 2000s. His two biggest publishing accomplishments were for two publications which are no longer in print, first one photo published in Motorsport News in the mid ‘90s and then his first feature story published in Speed magazine in the mid 2000s, both from rally events. He now combines that automotive passion every day in his photography and writing. The best car he’s owned to date was a 2005 Subaru Impreza WRX, with the sound of the boxer engine and handling causing him to yearn for another. If he had the money, he would buy a Dodge Viper from the early ‘90s. Did someone say 8.0-litre V10?

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