Automotive History

Classic RALLY! Scans

1
June 10, 2009
by

I thought I would throw something a little different to what’s been up of late into the mix and take some scans from I book I have called “RALLY!” it’s a 1970′s book, written by John Davenport and published by Hamlyn.  If the pictures interest you, the books ISBN is; 0 600 37570 0

It’s almost rude to not have an Escort front such an entry.  However… I’m often described as rude.

Lincoln Mercury Comet

Lincoln Mercury Comet, Factory entered Nissan Cedric in Background

Keep in mind these are scans out of an old book, if you click on the picture, it will take you to the largest resolution I could get from the book without them appearing marred in some manner.

Of course, there are Escorts, just click (more…)

: Automotive History, Car Spotting

Sound of Skyline

0
June 4, 2009
by

Those of you who recall one of my previous shipments from Yahoo! Auctions Japan via Ewan of Hayatonka.com will remember there was (as the picture above shows) a vinyl LP that came with the “Spirit of Skyline” book, well the other day I finally got around to ripping the audio from the record onto the computer.  It isn’t the best quality being that the record player I used was old with a scabby needle and had not seen use in a fair while, but it still worked and you still get the jist of the 3 parts to side 1 of the record.  One that was done I had to find a player to play them on WP without it opening up in another window.  I’ve sorted that though and if you click further, you’ll hear the wonders of the Skyline and Prince, narrated in English!  Have a listen.  It’s pretty damned cool if you ask me. (more…)

: Automotive History

Spirits of The Rally

0
May 22, 2009
by

I was just linked to a page on this site by Ed.  I thought I would share it with you all as it has some pictures of some pretty wicked cars, here’s a few of my favourites;

Fiat 131R

Fiat 131R

This is hopefully close to what Tomstament’s car will look like on completion, perhaps even in those colours.  That would be magic.  You can get to the rest of the images and pages by following the link at the base of this entry. (more…)

: Automotive History, Events

British Steel & American Iron

0
May 21, 2009
by

I saw this YouTube video linked on the RetroSceneMag blog.  I watched it intently waiting for something else to happen but the whole time just enjoying the sound pulsing out of the V8 powered Marina van.  Absolutely magic.  It’s what I hope filthy_one’s Pontiac Laurentian will sound like once he’s got his new engine in.   I enjoyed it so much it spurred me on to find more videos of a similar nature to share with you all… (more…)

: Automotive History, Retro Videos

Hakosuka vs. Wallpapers

0
May 20, 2009
by
Hakosuka versus Corona

Hakosuka versus Corona

Sadly only available in 1024 x 768, scanning the smaller images from my almost 30 year old book doesn’t give a much better resolution than that irrespective of DPI.

You can download these images by clicking the links for each one at the bottom of the page… (more…)

: Automotive History, Photographs for Wallpaper
Albizia Theme designed by itx