Archive for September, 2009

Alexandra Blossom Fest. ’09 Drag Videos

Only a few, as it seems to chew through the batteries on my camera so at the start of the day after a couple I decided I would use it sparingly to a point where I forgot almost entirely to use the video function at all.  They’re taken with a little SONY DSC-H2 Point & [...]

Deception and Filler (C110 Restoration)

When I bought my 110, way back when.  I was lead to believe by the seller that there was very little rust in it.  He made mention of a few points that were a concern but there was certainly nothing major and it was in fact, “The best 240K I’ve seen, as far as rust [...]

Alexandra Blossom Fest. Drags ’09

That time of year has rolled around again which meant it was time to drive for several hours up to Alexandra from Invercargill on the Sunday to see the Drag Racing and witness the cars parked in and about the area at such a time.  As usual, they did not disappoint.  Entries were up on [...]

CARBOY Video Snaps, 1988 HillClimb at Mt. Nokogiri

Ed (Orion) fellow RC writer and Skyline Enthusiast extraordinaire (as well as an 80′s enthusiast, he can be forgiven in that though, he was born in the 80′s) sent me the above titled video for my perusal. Having heard about it from him I was most definitely looking forward to it. I slapped it in [...]

Memories of drainpipe.

Ah, I still remember back when I wanted to buy a HBSN2 Cosmo. Fortunately that plan got scuppered when I managed to find a SA22C RX-7 instead, much to the relief of Tom who still has recurring nightmares of a certain Cosmo nicknamed “drainpipe”… more on that below. Either way, I still have a soft [...]

MAX Space, MAX Noise, MAX Speed

moar Minkara madness

Today’s source of photos: IRON MASK DIARY. Enjoy…

Hacking into it again.

Demoralising though it may be to discover copious amount of rust spots that the previous owner lied about, it is an inevitability in of car restoration.  My previous cheap drill had died during my last effort at the task at hand and not wanting to leave it sitting in gloom and doom, (due to being [...]

Minkara spotting…

I think I’m starting to get the hang of navigating around the Minkara carblogs – there are plenty of albums tucked away inside user profiles with sweet rides contained within. Observe thusly:

Inspiration

Working at an Internet Cafe, I probably spend more time online checking out things for my cars than I could possibly spend doing to them, so I thought I would share a couple of images that I happened stumble upon… We’ll start with a fairly impressive amount of solid colour RS-Watanabe eight-spoke, R Type. Ahh.. [...]