Car Spotting

Events; Classic Car Show, Nagoya 2010; Pt. 1

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June 18, 2010
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Thanks go out to Ewan (www.hayatonka.com) for many, many things.  This time though it’s for taking a good whack of photos whilst he’s out and about at various events or otherwise.  In this instance he took the recently acquired KHR31 GTS-X that he attained on behalf of Shaun (Mettler) after this atrocity to the Nagoya Classic Car Show, the results as you will see momentarily are beyond awesome.  As you’ll see from the small share of photos this time around, the focus is on the larger Japanese sedans that were present.

Mitsubishi Debonair - Pure Class

Nissan Gloria (A30) - Stacklamp Wonderment

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FLAWLESS victory, round II

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May 24, 2010
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another successful FLAWLESS trackday has been and gone – many churs to Jarred and the team for the organizational prowess (and for letting me take the AW11 around the track for one brief stint). Taupo put on some interesting weather this year with fog in the morning and rain in the afternoon… a marked contrast from 2009 when it was sunny all day.

also chur to Markku/Truenotch for this sweet photo of my car:

You're required to manoeuvre straight down this trench...

With over 300 shots to sort through on my camera I should hopefully have the bulk of them up on my flickr tonight – the album is here – but for now, content yourselves with some selected shots after the jump…

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WRC madness!

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May 10, 2010
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Not quite retro nor classic, but I had a chance to scope out Rally NZ on the weekend. Cheaped out this year and didn’t go to any of the paying stages – but the Domain super special stage was a good enough approximation, albeit rather dark…

this Olympus E-30 continues to impress with its ability to perform reasonably well even in crap low light conditions. And don’t get me started on the merits of the “trashy” 40-150mm kit lens that came with my old E-500. (I like it, actually)

check out the flickr collection here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/turbo16vdohc/collections/72157623897542871/

otherwise there’s a selection of photos for quick perusal after the jump!

Rally NZ - 9th May (by decypher the code)

Rally NZ 2010 winner: Jari-Matti Latvala, Ford Focus WRC

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Car Spotting; AE86 Levin Wagon

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May 3, 2010
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HAH!  Tricked you.  It’s a photoshop of a Honda Accord Aerodeck with some Toyota bits and a Paintjob (or rather, the other way around evidently).  Still, it looks super sweet but the Aerodeck did anyway.  Nice fusion though. Big ups to the shopper.

I found the pictures on oldschool.co.nz, posted by NZDMAE86.  It appears as though he got them from hachirocku.com.au

-Michael

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Car Spotting; Honda Prelude at MoonEyes 2010

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April 29, 2010
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After viewing the three parts of coverage that SpeedHunters.com had of the Japanese MoonEyes Street Car Nationals (Part I, Part II, Part III) one particular car stuck in my head. Props to the builder of this fine piece of machinery;

Slammed and Shaved

Awesome

-Michael

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