I’m busy trying to sort out the photos that I took on Saturday.  In the meantime here’s a few that I’ve uploaded to give a vague idea; Stay tuned for the other 200 odd photos ASAP. -Michael

November 30th, 2009 | Category: Car Spotting, Events | Leave a comment

Those of you that have been around the interwebs a while will be no doubt familiar with the various Zama photographs that have been put on various forums about the place.  Though I always found them annoying for the most part.  You would see a car beside a car that there was a photo of [...]

November 27th, 2009 | Category: Automotive History, Car Spotting, Inspiration | Leave a comment

November 27th, 2009 | Category: Car Spotting, Random Retro Snap | Comments (4)

It is what it is. -Michael

November 26th, 2009 | Category: Authors Cars, Retro Videos | Comments (2)

There wasn’t exactly a surge of entries for the competition to win a plastic kitset model, provided by Ewan of www.hayatonka.com; Despite the lack of entries there was a correct few and the eventual winner between them was Spencer of  oldschool.co.nz fame.  Spence correctly guessed this car; You can read a little more on the [...]

November 25th, 2009 | Category: Automotive History, Car Spotting, Competition, http://www.hayatonka.com/ | Leave a comment

After efforts on Saturday to get it running, my little L38 Daihatsu 360/MAX  wasn’t playing ball.  Something just wasn’t right, I figured I would likely have to remove and rebuild the carb as it appeared to be a fueling issue though I wasn’t sure where exactly.  In an effort to figure out whether the fuel [...]

November 24th, 2009 | Category: Authors Cars | Comments (1)

…I would buy these NOS roof visors (aka monsoons) for the KDR. 30,000 yams (NZ$466) is what they’re going for, which is a bit on the ridiculous side if I’m honest. But I’m not feeling particularly rich this month having spent quite a bit on the TX3, so I’ll have to pass. Maybe I’ll get [...]

November 22nd, 2009 | Category: Authors Cars, YAJ - Yahoo! Auctions Japan | Leave a comment

Browsing for random things turned up for me the address of a site that I simply had to share with you all, it’s called “Moby’s Site” (the link is now on the right hand side).  I thoroughly recommend checking it out.  Though here’s a few samples to get inspire you further to click the link; [...]

November 20th, 2009 | Category: Automotive Documentation, Automotive History | Comments (3)

With much and many thanks to Ewan from Hayatonka.com, I have had the parts to put the engine in the Daihatsu Max back together for a week or two, the only problem is that the weather decided it did not want to assist me with this…                …until yesterday that is!  So with the first sunny [...]

November 19th, 2009 | Category: Authors Cars, Automotive Maintenance | Comments (4)