My car is a UK mk1, not JDM (chassis number confirms), but I was wondering what this was?!
How’s your Japanese??
From a rough translation on my phone it looks like some kind of parking permit (Ikeda Town, Gidai Prefecture)
Yeah, parking permit. You can’t own a car in Japan unless you have one of these.
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Ah ok, that’s weird, being a UK car…
Perhaps previous owner thought it looked good 
I’ll get rid of it I think.
Thanks guys!
then it is presumably an import and not a UK car
It’s a Kamakazi pilots short term duty licence disc
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For others wondering, you can confirm if what you have is a UK car by checking the VIN. All 1.6 Mk1 imports will have a VIN starting NA6CE…
There have been some cases of people buying what they thought was a UK car, only for it to be found to be an import. Back in the day, when imports were first appearing, some people genuinely thought they were required to fit a UK rear finisher. Mazda did a nice number of selling those panels for £400, if you weren’t in possesion of a UK VIN.
Other tell tales on early cars:
- 0-140 speedo, UK only. But also back then, Mazda was selling new UK speedos to people. At the time, they wanted a deposit of £200 which you got back when you dropped off your broken UK spec speedo.
- Sunvisors; all early imports had a split visor, with Japanese labeling.US spec visors ended up with a mirror on the drivers side.
- Heater slider controls; UK cars had a square push on knob. JDM had screw-on more pointy knobs. Apparently that wasn’t safe
- Subtle one this; on UK cars, the central air vent knobs were stubbier, again for alleged safety reasons
- Dashboard lights; extra heat lamp on imports.
- Wipers; the aerofoil on UK cars was riveted, not screw-on.
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If you can remove it without damage, fair chance somebody with a JDM car might appreciate it…if that floats their boat. Pretty rare. Look like it’s just adhered like the old licence sucky things.
Wow nice list, in one place that! 
Hadn’t heard of a couple of them, will be checking my aero foil on the wipers later
Chassis number on bulkhead matches v5 and begins JMZNA18B2… I guess that’s a UK one?
Early one 
Yeah I had a half assed pick at it, and it’s on pretty firm!
Almost like it was baked by the rising sun 
Might leave it matches the paint hehe
Or use a hairdrier?
Search the boot…apparently every 5 has one.
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Dammit, i found curling tongs and a blonde wig in mine
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Tons of replicas for sale. This looks like a replica. THe “car” is the wrong colour.
Yes, it works well when stuck in an industrial Italian town near venice, and in a rustic restaurant. Even displayed the menu font correctly
“beauty of the police festival” Yep, just what I thought it said… 
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It’s got to stay now haha!
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Possibly a previous owner had to replace the window with one from a eunos import. John Cullen no.17598