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FT-86, Levin Notch?

October 13, 2009

Not retro at all other than the potential lineage, however, everyone else was jumping on the band-wagon so I figured, hell!  why not!?  P-shopped a Levin notch from the original concept of the FT-86;

Could have used more time and effort, I got bored.

Could have used more time and effort, I got bored.

Thoughts?

-Michael

Cars in Smash Palace

October 13, 2009

Some may remember my post a while back featuring screen captures of some of the vehicles in “Sleeping Dogs” well, same again but from the NZ film, Smash Palace this time around.  Though Smash Palace was made in 1981, the predominant cars are obviously from the 70′s and earlier in the movie.  The filming took place at Horopito Motors, NZ’s most well known wrecker for the most part due to the part played in the film.  Enough blather, onto the cars.

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If you like low…

October 12, 2009

You’ll like these tidy and entirely slammed Volkwagens; Check them out on fenstudios.com;

They’re also up on his flickr.com account which is linked to in the above fenstudios link, so check them out as well as the rest of the guy’s photography.  It’s not too shabby!

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Have a laugh at my Southland accent, I know you want to.

I was going to throw in a few extra ‘R’ words but the memory stick ran out of space and cut me off.

-Michael

ローレル For Sale

October 9, 2009

Whilst doing some digging to try and find part numbers to the JDM IRS C32 shocks, I stumbled upon many things Laurel ( ローレル) and thought to myself, well hell, why not make an entry with a few different ones that are for sale currently on YAJ (Yahoo! Auctions Japan) .. SO!  Here goes;

C32, its like a GX61/71, but Nissan.

The C32, it's like a GX61/71, but Nissan.

This tidy example is up for 250,000JPY “Buy Now” roughly $3800 in New Zealand dollars. It’s a 2litre Auto but without any engine shots, it could be either L20E or RB20E powered.  The Hakosuka type boot spoiler fits quite well with the boxy shape.

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