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The 18th annual OLD\/NOW Car Festival was held on the Childrens Day public holiday at Tsukuba circuit, an hour and a half northwest of Tokyo. The meeting was heavily promoted and a big crowd turned out on a warm spring day.<\/p>\n

There was a mixture of races and \u201ccircuit runs.\u201d The modern component of the event comprised supercars and a race series for Mazda Miatas.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Masatoshi Shimazaki & John Murn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Like most Japanese historic meets, the entry was mainly production-based cars from the mid-\u201960s, onwards. A circuit run just for Toyota 2000 GTs was a feature, as was the excellent Porsche representation in a circuit run\u2014specifically for the German marque.<\/p>\n

Submitted by John Murn<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 18th annual OLD\/NOW Car Festival was held on the Childrens Day public holiday at Tsukuba circuit, an hour and a half northwest of Tokyo. The meeting was heavily promoted and a big crowd turned out on a warm spring day. There was a mixture of races and \u201ccircuit runs.\u201d The modern component of the event comprised supercars and a race series for Mazda Miatas. Like most Japanese historic meets, the entry was mainly production-based cars from the mid-\u201960s, onwards. 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