More information and a bunch of videos can be found here. Nothing quite like watching a field of done-up old classics duking it out. also – if you ain’t got overfenders and a front lip kit, you are NOBODY!

August 20th, 2010 | Category: Events, Random Retro Snap | Leave a comment

Once again Taupo put on some magnificent weather for the RR invitational trackday this past Saturday… (cue Tui ad). OS regulars Philip Weston LMVD, Tomstament and myself were fortunate enough to attend, with Phil the only one willing to brave the elements and partake in a full day of unintentional D1s around the extremely wet [...]

August 10th, 2010 | Category: Authors Cars, Events | Comments (2)

Browsing of the oldschool.co.nz forums has once more netted some amazing photos of vehicles, this time around it’s from Swedish member “Hot Rod Nisse”.  I’ll let the pictures do the talking as they’re beyond description. Probably my favourite of all the cars shown in the photos is this early 4th Generation Opel Kapitän.  Beautiful.  I [...]

July 28th, 2010 | Category: Events, Inspiration | Leave a comment

The morning browse on the Japanese Nostalgic Car forums lead to an interesting find.  This event was held in the Nederlands recently and the turnout and variation of the cars involved was nothing short of impressive.   Check it out;

July 21st, 2010 | Category: Events | Comments (2)

Whilst doing my little morning browse, I stumbled across this entry over at the JNC blog; JCCA Classic Car Festival at Tsukuba what greeted me in the entry was definitely of interest but it wasn’t until browsing the thread on the forum itself that my eyes really began to open.  I’ve seen coverage of this [...]

July 13th, 2010 | Category: Events | Comments (1)

The Skyline contingent, they’re a popular car globally (now) though this is really only a recent thing when you compare it to the length of time that the Skyline range has been about (over 50 years, by the way.)  In Japan however, the Skyline has been popular for as long as it’s been produced though [...]

June 24th, 2010 | Category: Events, Inspiration, Random Retro Snap, http://www.hayatonka.com/ | Comments (1)

What car meet in Japan would be complete with the crew that carries on the bosozoku style?  None.  None is the answer to that question.  As such, here’s a smattering of those mentioned that attended the Nagoya show.  Enjoy their aesthetically offensive, racing car inspired awesomeness.

June 21st, 2010 | Category: Events, http://www.hayatonka.com/ | Comments (3)

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 [...]

June 18th, 2010 | Category: Car Spotting, Events, Inspiration, http://www.hayatonka.com/ | Comments (4)

…in attack position!

May 27th, 2010 | Category: Events, Inspiration, Random Retro Snap | Comments (1)