This is Yasuhiko Shimazaki's beautiful 1962 Gazelle Ser lllC Convertible, which he bought through friends in England and then had exported to Japan to celebrate their golden wedding anniversary on November 5, 2006.
Yasuhiko says: "Looking back over the fifty years, one of my many memories was the blue and white Singer Gazelle convertible we owned half a century ago. This was not particularly a luxury car, but it was definitely a vast luxury for us at the time. This was, after all, little over a
decade after Japan had been resoundingly devastated and defeated in the war. The nation was still just getting back on its feet, the rapid-growth 60s were still just a gleam in people'seyes, and not many families had cars. So we caught a lot of envious flack for owning it, but we enjoyed it immensely. We would put the top down and drive around, two youngsters out for a lark. The country roads were mostly gravel and bumpy, but we still had many hours of happy motoring.