Those wily Japanese come up with some of the strangest company names…
What a delightful surprise!
Still doesn’t beat FLYRAT though, which is a car yard named after not one, but TWO types of vermin. Genki desu!
Random Retro Snap
Random snap: SURPRISE! AW11
March 11, 2010
Random Retro Snap; Garage Slipway Soarer
March 9, 2010
photo by Matt Malcolm
To scope the rest of Matt’s recent Hampton Down’s lark, click his banner;
-Michael
OS Nats, on Film!
March 2, 2010
Developed the roll of film that I took at the OS Nats today. Can’t get much more oldschool than 35mm, yo!
excuse the scanned quality...
Unfortunately I need a proper scanner – the hp multifunction I got for Xmas doesn’t do a very good job at scanning negatives, even after converting to black and white and a bit of touching up in the GIMP. But it’s nice to know my 1981 Olympus Trip 35 camera is still going strong.
In the meantime the most elegant solution will be to convert the negs straight to digital, or at the very least have some prints made.
Random snap: Calsonic HR31 GTS-R
February 24, 2010
sweet random snap from a recent discussion thread about Skylines and race livery. I quite like the Calsonic colour(s) myself, even though I’ve never been a large fan of blue cars. (It’s second only to the DR30 Silhouette red’n'black in my books, but that’s a given!)
Of equal interest is the large MIKUNI logo on the wall in the background… now how sweet would that be on a t-shirt?!
Number 24, Calsonic HR31
but riddle me this: who drove the #24 car, and when? The only one I remember is #12.
Random snap: 4-door Tekamen
February 17, 2010
Michael’s away in Christchurch at the moment (no doubt sleeping off the awesomnity of last night’s Faith No More concert) so I’m currently holding the fort as far as updates are concerned.
And typically, I haven’t prepared anything in advance, so here is a photo of a random DR30 from my images folder.
A WILD TEKAMEN APPEARS!
More inspiration for me!
And yes, that is a real DR30 – I checked my work beforehand. *evil grin*
