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

Browsing of the oldschool.co.nz forums has once more netted some amazing photos of vehicles, this time around it’s from Swedish member “Hot Rod Nisse”.  I’ll let the pictures do the talking as they’re beyond description. Probably my favourite of all the cars shown in the photos is this early 4th Generation Opel Kapitän.  Beautiful.  I [...]

July 28th, 2010 | Category: Events, Inspiration | Leave a comment

Simple yet evocative. But wait, there’s more! Hatosan KenMeri Body on Yahoo! Photos Japan »

July 26th, 2010 | Category: Inspiration, Random Retro Snap | Leave a comment

Came across this freakin’ awesome piece o’ kit while doing the daily Yahoo Used Car trawl… I’ll let this plaque do the talking.

July 14th, 2010 | Category: Car Spotting, Cars for Sale, Inspiration | Comments (2)

The Skyline contingent, they’re a popular car globally (now) though this is really only a recent thing when you compare it to the length of time that the Skyline range has been about (over 50 years, by the way.)  In Japan however, the Skyline has been popular for as long as it’s been produced though [...]

June 24th, 2010 | Category: Events, Inspiration, Random Retro Snap, http://www.hayatonka.com/ | Comments (1)

Here’s a neat little video of Shaun’s new KHR31 Skyline being driven through the streets of Nagoya to the dropoff point at the container yard, where it will be sent on its merry way to NZ. This clip was thrown together by my friend Nik who took Ewan’s original 1GB (45 minute) file, edited it [...]

June 23rd, 2010 | Category: Inspiration, Retro Videos, http://www.hayatonka.com/ | Leave a comment

Thanks go out to Ewan (www.hayatonka.com) for many, many things.  This time though it’s for taking a good whack of photos whilst he’s out and about at various events or otherwise.  In this instance he took the recently acquired KHR31 GTS-X that he attained on behalf of Shaun (Mettler) after this atrocity to the Nagoya [...]

June 18th, 2010 | Category: Car Spotting, Events, Inspiration, http://www.hayatonka.com/ | Comments (4)

There’s something incredibly captivating about the stance of this KDR30, almost like a tiger ready to pounce. maybe it’s just the angle, or the tightly cropped focus, or even the way the front wheels are turned… but whatever the reason, it just exudes this aggressively cool aura! photo courtesy of minkara

June 10th, 2010 | Category: Inspiration, Random Retro Snap | Comments (3)

With the latest addition I mentioned the other day, my new rear spoiler, I am left with only a replica 110GT-R grille to get.  My modified standard grille makes do for the time being but as with the previous rear spoiler, the differences between the actual look and something “close” are quite large.   Given I [...]

June 9th, 2010 | Category: 110-Project, Authors Cars, Inspiration, YAJ - Yahoo! Auctions Japan, http://www.hayatonka.com/ | Comments (3)