Courtesy of the YouTube member AACForum (Australian Autosport Community) I present to you the two parts of the Hardie’s in which an unlikely candidate earns pole position for the 1984 Bathurst 1000 race. -Michael

July 14th, 2010 | Category: Automotive History, Retro Videos | Leave a comment

So, seeing as the site seems to be working again (whether it did it on it’s own or Ed fixed it, I’m not sure) I might as well post about this little sucker that I bought off trademe.co.nz the other day. The seller had originally bought it himself under the impression it was a Cortina [...]

May 14th, 2010 | Category: Automotive History, Inspiration | Comments (1)

With Rally New Zealand 2010 just around the corner, today’s random retro snap is brought to you by the letters W, R and C. Spotted in Japan – a meticulously recreated Familia WRC replica. The livery commemorates the 1989 Swedish Rally, where the BFMR famously took 1st place in the hands of driver Ingvar Carlsson [...]

April 27th, 2010 | Category: Automotive History, Random Retro Snap | Comments (1)

At a glance, it looks like any other 3-door Familia of the era; even the listing title doesn’t really give away the fact that it’s a front-drive turbo model. I would have skipped right over it, had my caffeine-deprived brain not caught up at the last minute and realized what it actually was. Sure enough, [...]

March 23rd, 2010 | Category: Automotive History, Car Spotting | Comments (3)

I’m constantly surprised and disappointed by the number of inaccuracies that seem to pop up in many Speedhunters articles, especially to do with Japanese nostalgic vehicles. For example, check out this recent piece on Sumo Power’s DR30 Skyline. Can you spot the incredibly glaring error straightaway? That’s right, it’s a HR30, not a DR30. Complete [...]

February 15th, 2010 | Category: Automotive History, Car Spotting | Comments (10)

Back at work again… what’s all this talk about an xmas break? Anyway, I’ve been perusing the Google Books service a bit lately and there are all sorts of interesting magazines and articles from all eras to be found (a lot of them for free), including this nice little piece titled Japanese Micro-Mini Cars from [...]

December 29th, 2009 | Category: Automotive Documentation, Automotive History | Leave a comment

I’ve lost count of the times I have been asked whether a particular wedge Skyline is an R30 or an R31.  Even amongst so-called Skyline “obsessives” there’s a lacking in ability to tell the difference.  So rather than having to explain it time and time again, I figured that I would take a moment to [...]

December 21st, 2009 | Category: Automotive Documentation, Automotive History | Comments (3)

Those of you that have been around the interwebs a while will be no doubt familiar with the various Zama photographs that have been put on various forums about the place.  Though I always found them annoying for the most part.  You would see a car beside a car that there was a photo of [...]

November 27th, 2009 | Category: Automotive History, Car Spotting, Inspiration | Leave a comment

There wasn’t exactly a surge of entries for the competition to win a plastic kitset model, provided by Ewan of www.hayatonka.com; Despite the lack of entries there was a correct few and the eventual winner between them was Spencer of  oldschool.co.nz fame.  Spence correctly guessed this car; You can read a little more on the [...]

November 25th, 2009 | Category: Automotive History, Car Spotting, Competition, http://www.hayatonka.com/ | Leave a comment