All well and good that the ’80s Jap trend is starting to take off… but are dealers taking the piss? $13,000 for an automatic HR31 GTS-X with 150,000 clicks. Also the vehicle “has not been tampered with” and yet it’s sporting a flash new “Philips Bluetooth” audio system… go figure. I should go down there [...]
So, you want to race your car around a track? Here’s your chance…. Due to a myriad of other events taking place so close to each-other, numbers for the oldschool.co.nz Trackday are on the low side. If you have an older car and want an opportunity to go faster than you’re legally allowed to on [...]
Got a little more done today, quite happy with how easy this stuff is to chip off. I assume there’s a solvent that can be used for tidying up the residual crap? If anyone has an idea, let me know. Keen to get the solid floor sparkling. I love that the previous owner left the [...]
A couple of weeks back I got cajoled into entering my 4WD TX3 as part of the AMAZD (non-rotary Mazda) club stand at the Auckland 4 & Rotary Nationals which takes place at the end of this month. I was a bit reluctant at first but then decided “ah what the hell, it’ll provide the [...]
I was informed the other day by a padre in the CH of CH that there’s a car yard not far at all from his work that is specialising in the currently uncommon but entirely up and coming popular culture trend shift towards classic and retro J-tin. My padre (Josh (not the one with the [...]
More done today. I started with this front end; You can see residual over-spray from many effort as well as the surface rust from the chassis section that sits behind the front apron. Thankfully it’s only that and the structure of the car is in very good shape as far as those sections are concerned. [...]
C. I got a little bit more paint stripping done, this time on the front apron, which as to be expected was riddled with bog also. However, I neglected to take any photos of it. Instead after I finished with that I decided it was time to mark out where the flares sit and then [...]
With both fenders at about the same stage before my drill packed a sad. In the weekend I decided to roll to Mitre 10 and replace the drill under warranty. We’re up to drill number 3 now. Last one only last two weeks and did a tenth of the work of the first one. Not [...]
Alright, so as mentioned in the comments from the RHS fender, I got stuck into the LHS Fender yesterday and some of it is better and some of it is worse. So it’s probably drawing even with the RHS, I’ll let you see for yourself; Let sit for several minutes…
You look out your window and beside your own classic, is a Type3 and a dirty IVC-spec Holden HQ. Nice. -Michael
