Car Spotting

2006 Datsun SFOS Meeting

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July 21, 2009
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WAAAAAAY back in 2006 (okay, so it’s not that long ago) was the last Festival of Speed meeting that I attended, I didn’t take my C110 as it had recently been involved in a crash that left it off the road for several months (mostly due to the massive delay of the Insurance side of things) so I ended up attending in my brother’s 240Z just as a regular passenger and bystander type of person.

Line-up to enter the display

Line-up to enter the display

For reasons unknown, I have no photographs of the voyage up though I did take a few of the display, yet none of the antics.  So I present to you the following photos, taken on the old Agfa camera, they’re not fantastic in quality but they are better than nothing.  We were so pleased with the size of our display, as were the organisers of the event who couldn’t believe we’d got together than many cars just to come to their meeting.

Though the display is not as diverse as it could have been if many more member’s could make the day and there are a million 510′s, it’s still an impressive collection of roadworthy cars.

Display mostly setup

Display mostly setup

Some sort of Australian car display was opposite. Insignificant by comparison.

Some sort of Australian car display was opposite. Insignificant by comparison.

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: Car Spotting, Events, External Projects, Random Retro Snap

Goodbye Sweet Silvia

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July 7, 2009
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So the day finally came and went.  I made a voyage to Dunedin this weeked been to swap my S12 Silvia for a D21 Terrano.  Though the exchange was not without it’s hiccups, the Silvia ran faultlessly all the way to Dunedin, it was sad to see it go but these things have to happen in order to aid the other more important cars.  I drove into Dunedin in the early afternoon, the car covered in road grime from the journey up on roads that had been covered in grit due to the ice, for many days previous, so I gave the S12 one last clean and took a few photos of it for memory’s sake.

Of course, having done that, I figured I’d visit young Zeb (proprietor of gx61.wordpress.com) to see whether he was at work.  Turns out he was and despite expecting to see his Alto, I was amusingly surprised to see his Toyota MarkII in it’s currently unfinished stance.  (more…)

: Authors Cars, Car Spotting

KDR30 MADNESS

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July 2, 2009
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perfect match (by decypher the code)

Got OCD much?

1983 red and black iron mask KDR30 turbo is the best kind of Skyline. Michael will probably disagree with me here, but what would HE know? :P Read on to see my “STRONGEST SKYLINE” Goo-net picks of the week:

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: Car Spotting, Cars for Sale

Retro-Rides, Home of the Amazing

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July 1, 2009
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In an attempt to bring another shade of things outside the Japanese spectrum, I found myself wandering over to where else but the mighty RR, safe in the knowledge that there was bound to be at least a dozen items that would catch my eye. Of course, I was correct. I shall now share with you a select few things that I thought were pretty damn special, starting with this;

1940s Diamond T-truck w. 40ft Trailer on the ¼ Mile

1940's Diamond T-truck w. 40ft Trailer on the ¼ Mile

That’s right, a truck & trailer running on the strip.  Not only is it epically cool just at that but the trailer unit is a portable American Diner!  …and the time it ran?  27seconds!   Sadly in my brief Google about it, I could find no more info, if you want to see the thread about it on RR, you can click this.

Another that almost instantly caught my eye was this… (more…)

: Car Spotting, External Projects

Racing the Prince Skyline BLSI

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June 30, 2009
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To try and recover from the thoughts of a Skyline SUV, I offer to you this video (shared by Steve, cheers man) It’s part of a series of 7 videos which I’ve provided all links for but this one in-particular (Part 2 of 7) shows a BLSI being thrown around on the track with old Toyota Crown’s and the like. It’s pretty brave stuff! If you’re not interested in the rest of the videographic Prince History (despite the narration being in Japanese) thenjust skip to around 3:55 and watch from then on.

If you’re interested in the rest, just click (more…)

: Automotive History, Car Spotting
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