Automotive History

Sorry for the lack of anything posted yesterday and also for the lack of anything of substance in this post. I’ve been a bit busy and had the mind occupied with the potential purchase for me of another Prince Skyline, it has been consuming all my thoughts and in turn I neglected this site, I’ll try to not let that happen again. Honest.

Whilst I try compile something for later today, here’s a big ass picture for your downloading desires;

Prince Skyline Sprint 1900 (R52)

Prince Skyline Sprint 1900 (R52)

The picture is hosted on conceptnissan.com where there’s some pretty cool other vehicles to squizz at too, so take a look around.

-Michael

PDL Mustang (the first)

April 2, 2009

Regular readers will remember my small photo entry on PDL Mustang II.  This entry is to cater for the first PDL Mustang,  which although no longer in it’s livery (due to reasons that were mentioned that I’ve subsequently forgot) is still a formidable looking machine.  These photographs were taken back in 2006 at the Teretonga Classic Speed Fest.  As you can see, the massively wide guards and wheel & tyre combo to fit said guards give the car quite an amazing stance.  It’s still sitting period typical with nose down and bum up, but looks sweet for it.

PDL Mustang

PDL Mustang

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Peeking into the Past

March 12, 2009

At least one of these cars is not like the others

At least one of these cars is not like the others

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I think the picture speaks for itself. No more words required.

It’s not surprising that it was missed really, a scene that exploded in Europe and the UK went by relatively un-noticed here in NZ.  Reasoning was likely due to the lack of need or requirement.

After-all, why get into small, compact, low capacity cars when there’s no insurance or congestion reason to do so.  So, whilst NZ and Australian (and America) were still kicking about in V8s and large saloons, the UK and Europe got onto something altogether different, no doubt the Mini was a contributing factor to it all, however the 205GTi, the Golf GTi, the Alfasud’s and others kicked this up a notch.

VW Golf GTI - MKI

VW Golf GTI - MKI

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Remember the ATCC?

February 9, 2009

Do you?  I do.  It was once upon a time, a fantastic spectacle of multiple manufacturers.  Everyone I’m sure is well aware of what lead to it’s demise.  If you’re not, the brief answer to that is narrow minded Australian folk and industry who tried to save their own manufacturing and design by ruling out any technological advancement brought forth by opposing nations automobiles.  The crux being the Sierra vs. Skyline battles.  The Aussies didn’t mind the Sierra so much, irrespective of the fact that it had nothing at all to do with them, it still had a blue badge on it that circled their problems.  It really wasn’t until the Skyline started it’s similar destruction of the fields that they changed the rules entirely.  They were fine with the Skyline and with Nissan in general when it competed but was further down in the standings.  Winning was a different kettle of stingrays.  Afterall, a 4cylinder Turbo had taken pole position in qualification in the form of the Fury 910 Bluebird one year and no-one cried foul then.  Why?  Well it didn’t win the race, it just qual’d really well and subsequently failed come race day.  I digress.

I was browsing about the other day and happened upon this website which I thought I would share with you all.

Evidently a 2008 round of the Australian V8 “Supercars” had an invite for some of the old Group A and Group C cars to take to the track.  I hope you enjoy these as much as I did.  The link to the gallery is at the bottom of this post.

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BMW 635 leads the pack

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