Everybody dreams of having cool custom builds on their car but this one has to take the cake on being a cool advanced project for any car!
This car is a radio controlled car. It’s a perfect looking candidate for such a project too. Check out the work done to it in the gallery below. These are all the photos and videos I have found of it. It was created a long time ago and it seems like two other videos that contained this vehicle in it are gone now as the youtube links don’t work

The entire car was a long project that improved it’s features and functionalities over time. Mr. Kichi first developed the pop up headlamp found on his car. It’s a unique looking light differing from the standard pop up headlamps that feature a single round or rectangular/square light. This has a PIAA P3000 paired with a single projector lens on the inside.

The door can also be opened and closed by hydraulic control. There is a normal door damper on the passenger side rear. (shown by pink arrow in photo) There is no door damper on the driver's side rear, but instead there is a mysterious rod. (Shown by a white arrow in photo) This seems to be the actuator rod going up and down to open and close the door.

Functionally it wasn't that difficult to open, but it was difficult to figure out how to close the door. It was difficult to close the door slowly, it will become a "half door". It seems that the hydraulic pressure was controlled so that the door would slowly come down and at the very end it would gain some momentum. The leverage of the closing force is different once the door is halfway and hanging its weight on the outer end.
You can see in the video the door closing with some jerkiness like a primitive robot’s movement.

Mr Kichi’s shop was located in Nagano Prefecture in Japan. The controller is an amazing piece of hardware. It is fairly large and bulky but it has everything you would need to operate the vehicle. Of course there is a steering wheel for steering this massive toy car. The clutch is operated by a servo motor and it is very smooth. There’s a camera on the dashboard, possibly for relaying the video feed to the controller. A secondary camera is mounted on the instrument cluster showing the tachometer and speedometer. There are antennas mounted on the car to transmit and receive.

This car has appeared in various TV programs such as Night Scoop and Nakore Chin Hyakkei, and this radio control technology was announced at the Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan's Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan conference in 2010.

Unfortunately Mr. Kichi’s website does not seem to be working anymore: http://www.ki-chi.info/index.html

Original Source: https://minkara.carview.co.jp/userid/920929/blog/28642773/?fbclid=IwAR3TkiCAKup9BEHfE9P2_5HdKbagrX0geCJbeCHElnYBuAPsdj7u-hPG6Ac