Michael’s away in Christchurch at the moment (no doubt sleeping off the awesomnity of last night’s Faith No More concert) so I’m currently holding the fort as far as updates are concerned.
And typically, I haven’t prepared anything in advance, so here is a photo of a random DR30 from my images folder.
A WILD TEKAMEN APPEARS!
More inspiration for me!
And yes, that is a real DR30 – I checked my work beforehand. *evil grin*
I’m constantly surprised and disappointed by the number of inaccuracies that seem to pop up in many Speedhunters articles, especially to do with Japanese nostalgic vehicles. For example, check out this recent piece on Sumo Power’s DR30 Skyline. Can you spot the incredibly glaring error straightaway?
Loyal readers, this is a DR30 Skyline... or is it?
That’s right, it’s a HR30, not a DR30. Complete with autobox, plush button seats, and L20ET under the hood.
In the spirit of proper journalism, I wonder if they’ll issue a correction – as judging from the comments section, a lot of their readers just plain don’t know better either. Someone even mistakes it for a HR31 and pastes a trademe link to a GTS-X. Now I see why Michael got so hot under the collar that last time Speedhunters referred to the C10 chassis as the “first ever Skyline”…
Actually the most maddening part is wondering whether the owner of the above HR30 knows that it’s not actually a DR30, or if he’s been horrendously misled? I know I would be rather indignant if some chump sold me a car under false pretenses.
I can forgive Speedhunters the odd little inaccuracy such as saying all JZX100s were turbocharged (they weren’t), but sometimes things like this are too hard to ignore – especially when it’s a popular blog with a huge following worldwide. Sort it the fuck out, guys!
Hey guys.
Long time since I posed here, so thought it was time I got my act together and wrote something.
Welcome to Workshop De La Cameron.
During my morning troll of the blog sites (on the right) I came across a post on GS that then lead me to a blog by a photographer chap named Matt Malcolm. Who had some sweet shots of the day (with more to come evidently). I’ll pinch a couple of the more retro machines (shhh, don’t tell him) and you can scope the rest on his own blog;
Soarer
Slideways Much? A much too much!
Broken Down cars are the Pits.
Awesome. I think this year is going to be a damned decent one in terms of photography of events, the Hampton Downs track seems to come to the party, hard.
-Michael
My poor, poor credit card.
I don't even want to add up the invoices, it's almost too depressing.
step 1: Bosch Motorsport fuel pump (aka ’044′)
step 2: Tial 44mm external wastegate and 0.8 bar spring
step 3: 4x Denso 850cc injectors (still on order, not in this photo)
step 4: Garrett GT3071R twinscroll ball-bearing turbo
If I don’t be making 400PS in terror squid after all this crap gets fitted ‘n tuned, tantrums shall be thrown. Excessively.
