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Prince Skyway Returns Home

May 20, 2009

Prince Skyway S21W

Many of you (in NZ at least) will recall the Prince Skyway (Prince Skyline Wagon) that came up for sale on trademe.co.nz in March 2008, after being shown at the Kumeu Hotrod show a few months prior. If you were wondering whether it did or didn’t sell, the answer is in the affirmative, it did sell and the latest information is that it’s made it’s way back to the land of the rising sun with help from Jason Quigg (you may know him from such places as the Prince Skyline GT Register) the car found an owner and was consequently shipped home to Japan.

This was how it was presented on trademe.co.nz;

…and here’s the latest, a few photos that I’ve copied from Prince Skyline GT Register April ’09 Meeting Minutes. (more…)

: Automotive History, Car Spotting

Illustrated S20 Engine Wallpaper

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May 19, 2009

by kyteler

Prince / Nissan S20 Engine Cut-away

Available in 1600 x 1200 , right click the following text/link and “Save Link As…” or “Save Target As…”

retro-classics Wallpaper 11 – S20 Cut-away in 1600×1200

If you’re unaware of what the S20 is, it was the power-plant behind many racing victories for Nissan in the PGC10 and KPGC10 2000GT-R as well as being used in the Nissan FairladyZ 432 and 432R and the KPGC110 Nissan Skyline 2000GT-R.

-Michael

: Automotive History, Photographs for Wallpaper

Classic Japanese Racing Wallpapers

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May 19, 2009

by kyteler

Over the next few days I’ll be throwing up some various sized images scanned taken from my latest acquisition from YAJ, the “Spirit of Skyline” book. Here’s the one for today in a larger 1600×1200 scale, not all will be this size, sadly as it’s an old book the smaller photos even when scanned at a larger DPI, do not come out too well.

Prince Skyline GT-B's and Race Pit-Crew

To save the image, right click the following text/link and “Save Link As…” or “Save Target As…” (more…)

: Automotive History, Photographs for Wallpaper

Look at IMPACT TURBO RX-7!

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May 15, 2009

by Orion

In the unlikely event that anyone here is capable of reading Japanese, I present to you the original 1984 Savanna RX-7 turbo (Series 3) 6-page catalogue in its entirety. The pictures and cutout diagrams are good value unto themselves. Special thanks to RE4LIFE – and definitely make sure you check out the rest of his homepage, the guy owns two of the tidiest SA22Cs I’ve ever seen

so the next time any flatpeak muppet tries to lord his “knowledge of rotangs” over you, just ask if he’s ever heard of the 165PS “Impact Turbo” before. Ten to one odds he probably won’t have…!

Series 3 turbo catalogue »

: Automotive Documentation, Automotive History

CITY! CITY! IN THE CITY!

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May 10, 2009

by Orion

full credit to Aaron (AzumitH) for stumbling across this awesome gem of a page. As you can see, Japanese car commercials were serious business back in the ’80s. Nothing quite like a troupe of dancing gaijin to compel you to rush down to your nearest Honda dealer.

TURBO! HYPER TURBO!!! CITY TURBO!!!!1!11