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Guess the Car

September 10, 2009

The last one was relatively successful and so I thought I’d try another.

Guess me!

Guess me!

Click it to see it larger.  I have comments on moderation now so I can give it a while and other peoples guessing won’t help anyone out, as such.  So!  Your thoughts!  Leave a comment.

Resulting;

Grilled Goodness

Grilled Goodness

All for the princely starting bid of 14800JPY, that’s about the same a replica 110GT-R grille would cost me and I know which I’d rather have.

http://page19.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/x89163620

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So, guess what.

After a ferocious bidding war on trademe.co.nz on Saturday night, I bought it.  On the Sunday I made a phone-call to arrange a time for collection and then headed on the trip from Invercargill to Gore to buy it.  I arrived and backed up my huge trailer to the seller’s huge trailer and we moved the beast across.

From Austin...

From Austin...

...to Nissan

...to Nissan

These are the Dai’s of our Lives.  Lame Joke, I know. Anyway, once the transfer was completed and the little sucker was strapped to the trailer the journey home began (more…)

Spotted

September 3, 2009

This is Invercargill afterall, had to throw up the typical car I remember seeing cruising around in my day;

bogan_falcon

-Michael

Max Power!

September 2, 2009

Daihatsu Max, that is.

So, as I used that creepy new twitter application to indicate earlier in the weekend I checked out a 1974 Daihatsu Max which was located in a town three quarters of an hour drive away.  It was a fine enough day and I’d spent a good while hacking at my C110 so it was a nice relaxing drive in the lazy jacked diseasel cruiser that is my D21 Terrano.

I had stumbled upon said Max on trademe.co.nz some days earlier, initially listed with no picture, after a day or so a picture had made it’s way on there but being it was what appeared to be a scanned an un-cropped photo it provided no aid in knowing what was what, other than the car was white and at one stage it had been parked on the grass.  Helpful?  You judge…

trademe image.

trademe.co.nz image, highest resolution

Having made vague arrangements to days previous and then having earlier to confirm location and residence I arrived at my destination mid afternoon and was ushered around the corner to find…  (more…)