The turnout for this meeting did appear to be quite on the low side. The conflict of dates around this time of year likely doesn’t aid attendance numbers but it’s good to see a few cars and the people who dig ‘em out and about. I’ll be able, myself, to attend this one year. However distant in the future that might be, I guess the longer it takes the more likely I am able to bring the Prince as opposed to the Kenmeri. AAAAAAAaaaannnyhoo;
Leon's Isuzu Gemini
JZ-powered Hilux
A trophy cabinet full of slammed Crowns with various motivation.
This event started with very humble beginnings, the idea and thought that most people have had, to start an event that caters for Japanese classics. It’s very few and far between in NZ. Our small country’s classic car scene has been dominated for the most part by the rodders of V8 and concourse of European (including British) types. Japanese cars (as with a lot of western society, I imagine) tend to have been looked down upon and scoffed at by such crowds. The reality is though that Japanese cars are more accessible to most, as in their heyday, they’re cheaper and more reliable than their more “prestigious” counterparts.
Enough of the blather though, this is an online blog, you didn’t come here to read my dribble, you came to check out the photographs. So here you go.
70's Mitsubishi GTOs.. remember when the GTO was awesome?
With Xmas less than a week away (and the new year following not long afterwards) I turn my attention back to this post made shortly after the turn of 2010 involving a certain silver Skyline. It was a rather whimsical entry detailing a list of things which needed to be done in order to gain “400PS+” in said vehicle, and the first steps taken down this path… of glory? destruction? Something like that.
Fast forward nearly twelve months, and the list now looks like this:
That! was! MADNESS!
So contrary to all expectations at the time, 2010 ended up being the Year of the Banana instead.
One bitter irony: I fixed the Skyline’s alternator with parts from Japan, only to have it shit itself again in exactly the same manner as before. As a result I now plan to fit an alternator from a Subaru in protest. Screw you, Nissan.
But don’t worry, 2011 will more than likely become the Year of the Squid, if the (more…)
