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A Lust For Rust

April 6, 2009

When a few of my options for an April feature car fell through, I got a few mates to make some suggestions and they were all good ones and ones I’ll keep in mind for future months, however during the same time span I received a message from a good guy on the oldschool.co.nz forums, by the nickname of Raizer, asking whether I would be interested in featuring a VW Beetle on my site that belonged to a friend of his. The timing was perfect. I needed a car and what’s not to like about a Beetle? So I got him to send me some info and some photos and here we are now and here is the car itself;

The Garage, filled with Beetle

The Beetle belongs to Kev his plans for it include a 1600 twin port engine with twin carbs utilizing either a Skat racing or Bosch 009 dizzy, lowering catered for in typical dub style with a beam adjuster up front and turned down splines in the rear to keep things evenly slammed.

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: Feature Car

FLAWLESS Trackday UPDATE!

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April 6, 2009

by kyteler

UPDATE!

Alright, some of you might be aware of the Flawless track day. If you’re not, it’s on this post here;

Flawless Trackday Planned – 21st June 09

The latest on this is that the deposit has been made. If you want to attend get your payments in ASAP, the details for doing so can be seen here;

FLAWLESS Trackday Information

DO IT! Don’t miss out.

: Events

PDL Mustang (the first)

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April 2, 2009

by kyteler

Regular readers will remember my small photo entry on PDL Mustang II. This entry is to cater for the first PDL Mustang, which although no longer in it’s livery (due to reasons that were mentioned that I’ve subsequently forgot) is still a formidable looking machine. These photographs were taken back in 2006 at the Teretonga Classic Speed Fest. As you can see, the massively wide guards and wheel & tyre combo to fit said guards give the car quite an amazing stance. It’s still sitting period typical with nose down and bum up, but looks sweet for it.

PDL Mustang

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: Automotive History, Car Spotting

Farken’ L!

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April 1, 2009

by kyteler

I was having a minor discussion via txt messages on the old cellular phone the other day, conversing in small sections with one ‘Ricardo el Snoozin’. He made mention of some padre’s of his wetting their pants in glee over the Rocky Auto RB30 S30Z makin figures over 300hp, his immediate response to them that the old Nissan L-series Inline 6 could also make similar numbers was met with much scoffing and a few titters. Ah, the joy of peoples ignorance. What this conversation did for me, was remind me of a Japanese AUTOWORKS magazine I have in my abode, which details a little green S30Z rolling an L-series on triple carbs. I passed on photographs of the article and thought I would share with my readers on retro-classics a little of it too. I don’t want to get into the whole deal of it, obviously it was published in Japanese print and as such there’s likely copyrights I may well in infringing were I to go to far, as such I shall share but a few pictures and the power chart. So here goes;

A fairly unassuming FairladyZ on RS-Watanabe Wheels

You could be forgiven for thinking it was just another tidy Z car. afterall, that’s exactly how it appears at first glance, that is unless you’re that little bit more observant and you spy the cage and the staggered wheel and tyre selection…

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: External Projects

trademe Browsing…

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March 31, 2009

by kyteler

What do you do when you’re sitting at work, supposed to be doing stock-take (really I’ve done most of it, I just wanted a little break from it just at the moment) you browse the internet looking for car related things and doofers. Often you’ll find yourself on trademe.co.nz, imagining buying all manner of badass and peculiar vehicles. Here’s a few that caught my eye;

First up, a plug for one of the GM-T and oldschool members, his Opel Kadett/Isuzu Gemini Race Car that’s currently for sale;