Archive for December, 2008

On my voyage…

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December 17, 2008
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On my way into work, on any given day I would usually see a tonne of cars that take my fancy, obviously some more modern and others of an older generation or two.

What I thought I would do today, is take my camera along for the walk.  Unfortunately whilst fiddling about making sure the settings were on high shutter speed (so I didn’t miss any fast moving vehicles) I, in the process, missed an absolutely mint Chrysler VF Valiant, and at times when I thought I would turn the camera off to save batteries on my walk into work, I also missed a few others that were worthy of being noted.

However, I cannot go back in time and as such, I shall post that which I did manage to capture, starting… from the start!  Enjoy.

Ford Anglia

Ford Anglia

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Alexandra Blossom Festival: Drag Racing

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December 17, 2008
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Held back on the 28th of September, 2008.  Was the Alexandra Blossom Festival Drags, though I’ve only been once before in my brother’s 1973 Datsun 240Z, this year I managed to hitch a ride along in my friend Matt’s R32 GT-R (you’ll see it featured in a few photographs)

Q vs. Q

Q vs. Q

The day was beyond beautiful, the sky was fantastically blue, the only detriment to this of course was that the track (an airport runway) and the air temperature for optimum performance, suffered slightly.  With that said though, Matt did manage a 13.5 in his first event on the drag strip.  Which I thought was most definitely worth the 2.5 hour drive from Invercargill.

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Teretonga: 50th Anniversary

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December 16, 2008
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To those unaware, Teretonga is Invercargill’s race track.

Their website can be found here;

(click the picture to link)

Every year around the middle and tail end of February, the “Southern Festival of Speed” (a series that has events in Christchurch (Ruapuna), Timaru (Levels), Dunedin (Street Race) and as mentioned, Invercargill (Teretonga)) rolls into town.  Cars come from all over the  globe, the most recent one saw Can-Am cars (amongst others) take to the course, which was a very welcome spectacle to those who were used to much quieter modern machinery and your more typical Formula Ford affairs.

McLaren Can-Am Goodness

McLaren Can-Am Goodness

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Cleaning & Detailing.

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December 16, 2008
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Having once worked as a Car Groomer, I have a great appreciation for those that take a massive amount of time and effort to properly and sometimes anally clean their or other peoples vehicles.  There’s likely a few different websites and forums about that are dedicated to this type of thing but one of the more well known ones is detailingworld.co.uk

Though a lot of people seem to scoff at those that go right to the extreme of measuring the depth of the paint and such things, it’s these fastidious details that pass on and allow the lives of cars to continue in other’s hands rather than being sent to the scrapper.

Here’s a few before and after’s,  lots of the threads on detailingworld.co.uk are worth a good gander.  Of course, once you’re there, feel free to have a nosey about, there’s some epic skill on show and some fine machinery also.

Before

Before

After

After

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: Automotive Maintenance

Inspiration & Amusement

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December 15, 2008
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Inspiration

burntrubbers Turbo Gem

"burntrubber's" Turbo Gem

Every now and then you’ll stumble across a car or two that really makes you think, “Yeah.. that’s why I have cars as a hobby” or alternatively just something that makes you laugh and feel good about random automotive nonsense and the association with some of the people who share the hobby.

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