It's a Chaser, Chase it.

If you’re in NZ, in the North Island and/or willing to travel there to have a blat around on the track in your precious beast (sorry, no drifting will be allowed) then come one, come all (as long as you’re not a cock, obviously… if you go, and it’s latered discovered you are one.  I will find you and kill you.)

Taupo, Track 2.

Basics below…

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OK, so it’s not feature week anymore but the Nationals are well enough in the past that the majority if not entirity of all videos taken have been processed and posted, so what I figured I would do is put them all in one place, using the embed YouTube feature so that they’re essentially thumb-nailed and easier to find whatever one it might be that you’re looking for.  Unfortunately, the fantastic video compilation from ‘Thousand Dollar Supercar’ is not on YouTube, but rather on Google Video/Picasa/Something else.  So I’ll just have to link to that one.

Coverage from ‘thegreatestben‘ showing X100 Chaser, Z30 Soarer, S13 SX, AE86 Corolla, Z10 Soarer, KE20 Corolla, MX5, KB110 Sunny, RA23 Celica & KP61 Starlet.

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WARNING!

DISTURBING AUTOMOTIVE CONTENT WITH A SUMMED UP VOCALIZATION AT THE END. IF YOU’RE AT WORK, DO NOT TURN UP YOUR SPEAKERS

This just in! Celica vs. Soarer. As was mentioned and photographed in this entry.

The moment of sadness and heartbreak during the recent oldschool nationals.  Video by brocky41, owner of TUFDAT.  To their credit, both drivers and cars kept on, afterall… it is part of being on a racetrack, accidents happen.  Commendable regardless.

You can view more of brocky41′s OS video’s by looking at his YouTube profile here;
http://www.youtube.com/user/brocky411

The myriad of images that have been popping up over the last few days tell the tale in and of itself.  However for those unaware I should possibly go into a little more detail.  If you’re a reader of this blog you may have noticed this entry a little while back, indicating that the OS Nats was due to happen shortly.  The dates have passed and the moments have happened, unfortunately it was yet another oldschool event I’ve not been able to attend due to living at the other end of the country, numbers perhaps seemed a little lacking though the fun had by that those that did attend.  More than made up for it, I’m sure.

Here’s a sampler of the track action…

oldschool.co.nz - the real cars... ..and a Vauxhall.

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The Citroen car club of New Zealand held it’s national rally a couple of months ago from the 23rd til the 26th of January. Based around Masterton the rally started with the ’75th Anniversary Traction tour’ ending it’s week long journey from Auckland.

Although quite a while ago, I’ve not really been able to set aside any time to write anything on this…

We went along on the Saturday for the Pride of ownership and Gymkhana event at Solway showgrounds, and in the Afternoon, a navigational trial which saw most of the cars cover around 110km around the Masterton area.

Most of the time when you go to car club days, there’s a massive turnout of newer models,  however, out of around 80 cars that were entered in the ‘pride of ownership’ portion of the first day, about 70 could be seen as ‘classic’ Cits. From BX’s, right back to Post War Tractions, and everything D, 2CV, and CX in between.

Here’s a few sample pictures from the pride of ownership display, the link to the rest is at the bottom of the entry.

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