Archive for May, 2009

More Yahoo Japan Auctions?

Yes!  I can’t get enough.  I’ve bought another spoiler.  Why?!  WHY?!  Well…  it was a number of reasons, partially because the first one didn’t quite fit.  Sure, it would have taken only a few minutes to make it fit but it didn’t right off the bat.  The other reason was that this second one I [...]

Drive a Volvo

If any of you (like me) enjoying turning your hand to driving cars on the computer every now and then, then you may well enjoy this title.  Volvo has paired up with SimBin, the makers of the GT series of driving games for the PC.  They bring you a small racing game, it’s not 100% [...]

Renault on trademe.co.nz

Not a particularly popular car in it’s older guises, that is to say, not in NZ.  Though there are obviouslya few around and there’s some pretty sweet ones available on trademe.co.nz at the moment that don’t frequent the site by any means.  I present you the following; You can check out the price and the [...]

A Lust for Rust; Update!

You may remember this car being featured last month (A Lust for Rust) well the latest on it is that it’s now completely legal.  After a few minor delays it made it’s way to the doom of the warrant man and failed.  With only minor things needing to be remedied it was soon back to [...]

Glimpse into my past

With most everything in recent time posted on RC being of a classic Japanese nature, I thought I should try bring back a little bit of balance and what better way to do so than to show you the second car I owned (the first was a 1978 Chrysler Avenger 1600GL/S). You’ll have to excuse [...]

Spirits of The Rally

I was just linked to a page on this site by Ed.  I thought I would share it with you all as it has some pictures of some pretty wicked cars, here’s a few of my favourites; This is hopefully close to what Tomstament’s car will look like on completion, perhaps even in those colours.  [...]

British Steel & American Iron

I saw this YouTube video linked on the RetroSceneMag blog.  I watched it intently waiting for something else to happen but the whole time just enjoying the sound pulsing out of the V8 powered Marina van.  Absolutely magic.  It’s what I hope filthy_one’s Pontiac Laurentian will sound like once he’s got his new engine in.   [...]

Hakosuka vs. Wallpapers

Sadly only available in 1024 x 768, scanning the smaller images from my almost 30 year old book doesn’t give a much better resolution than that irrespective of DPI. You can download these images by clicking the links for each one at the bottom of the page…

Prince Skyway Returns Home

Many of you (in NZ at least) will recall the Prince Skyway (Prince Skyline Wagon) that came up for sale on trademe.co.nz in March 2008, after being shown at the Kumeu Hotrod show a few months prior.  If you were wondering whether it did or didn’t sell, the answer is in the affirmative, it did [...]

The joys of nostalgic…

It seems that my DR30 coupe (in all its awesome ’80s Nissan reliableness) has unceremoniously shat the fuel pump controller, which is a little silver box that lives in the boot and is supposed to vary the voltage to the pump based on engine load. unsurprisingly none of the Nissan wreckers here in Auckland have [...]