Through checking the stats of the website and where visitors are coming from, I noticed a few interesting ones outside the regular google searches and such.  Recently, when I was talking to Ed (Ratdat) about the Prince Skyline Super, I linked him to my blog entries to show him what had happened with the one he told me about and subsequently the other one for sale in Canterbury for significantly cheaper, the product of this became a linking on his own blog to mine, which is sweet!  Sharing the love around is always good, so as to return the favour I added his to mine, I’m not really sure why I didn’t have it on already, I guess trying to have an entry on my own every week day (yeah, I know I miss some) keeps me too busy to pay attention to other parts of the site.  (I know I need to update the RC front page, shhh!)

Ratdat

Other than Ed’s site though, there are a few others I’ve added relatively recently that you might want to check out;

Garage RS (Garage RedSun) ; A young NZ chap with a fetish for Corona’s and wide wheels.

Garage Slipway ; A team of Auckland, NZ guys who love 80′s Toyotas and making them go sideways

You can either click their pictures on this post or their links on the right hand side of your screen.  Go to it!

-Michael

Having not stumbled through the projects on retro-rides.org for a while I decided to do so today, in aid of finding something worth of biffing up on here for everyone to admire in all it’s greatness.  As is usually the case with RR, to find such an example did not take long at all.  There’s was in fact something on the very first page that caught my eye.  A collection of letters inside some brackets on a NightmaresRacing thread that spelt out “ITS ALIVE 25/4/09″…    …well, anyone who frequents RR will know that anytime Nightmares does something, it’s done to an amazing quality and in a short space of time.  I’ll let you wander around the thread itself but here’s a sneak preview of what is the product of a seriously amazing craftsman.

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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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