August 3rd, 2010 | Category: External Projects, Inspiration, Random Retro Snap | Leave a comment

Folks may recall this post last week about my friend Shaun, whose four year $20k+ project V8 KHR31 met an untimely end on the road to Taupo on the 31st of May in what can only be described as a freak accident. Since then, the amount of support received from the wider interwebs and real-life [...]

June 8th, 2010 | Category: External Projects, Random Retro Snap | Comments (3)

You might recall a post I made a little while ago about the Crazy Octopus and it’s progression from FC -> S30, where I left it, there was still some work to do and the iconic octopus itself had not yet made it onto the car.  This has now changed, not only is the Octopus [...]

June 3rd, 2010 | Category: External Projects, Inspiration | Leave a comment

http://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/news/3761155/Taupo-crash-injures-two » The thread on GP Forums » long story short, my mate Shaun spent four years and over $20,000 putting his V8 Skyline coupe together (it was one of the very first Nissan VH41DE conversions attempted worldwide, and the only KHR31) – he’s very meticulous when it comes to researching and building stuff. Yesterday [...]

June 1st, 2010 | Category: External Projects | Comments (8)

During the blog downtime last week, I received a message in my inbox from a couple in Malaysia who had contacted me to show me their C110 Project, they had been given my email address by Ewan (hayatonka.com) whose contact details they had received by reading this entry “Want to buy from YAJ? Here’s How” [...]

May 17th, 2010 | Category: Automotive Maintenance, External Projects, Inspiration, YAJ - Yahoo! Auctions Japan, http://www.hayatonka.com/ | Comments (8)

Some of you who have been around the e-nets for a while,on the retro and classic side of things at least, particularly those who frequent retro-rides.org may recall the infamous “Crazy Octopus” it belonged to a chap from the US, it was his track hack and it’s general unkempt condition and amusing paint-job created a [...]

May 5th, 2010 | Category: External Projects | Comments (5)

Yeah… Z Honda, not Honda Z which is a car in it’s own right.  I was scoping out the F20C powered Sunbeam Minx thread on the ChevyTruck forums (weird place to find it, right?) and part way through the builder shared this link to YouTube of an S30Z with F20C motivation.  I dig it. 200rwhp. [...]

April 28th, 2010 | Category: External Projects | Comments (3)

I think this is possibly one of the coolest conversions I’ve ever seen.  Take 1x Y30 Cedric Wagon and graft on bits from a 720 Pickup.  Not only does it suit it right down to the ground on the face of it, but the detail done to the rear is also very staunch looking…

April 27th, 2010 | Category: Cars for Sale, External Projects, Inspiration, YAJ - Yahoo! Auctions Japan | Comments (4)

So, I sent an email to my friend Ewan (www.hayatonka.com – the link is on the left) about some photos he took at a show he was at recently.  He had rang me whilst he was there and was quite excited about what was available.  He sent me some pictures of said show but also [...]

April 21st, 2010 | Category: Automotive Maintenance, External Projects, Inspiration, Random Retro Snap | Comments (6)