British V8 – or not?

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June 12, 2009
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Alex shared this website with me a few weeks back, not really his thing he didn’t feel compelled to make a blog entry about it, I however thought it would be ideal to do so.  Despite the title, it’s essentially a site dedicated to conversion in British cars, be they 4, 6 or 8 or otherwise (there’s bound to be a rotary conversion on there somewhere, surely)  This first one I’ll show you is the one that caught my attention up front, especially being that when you think conversion into an MG or some such, you tend to think Rover V8.  Not this car though, this is a whole different tack that likely offends a lot of the MG faithful.

1962 MGA MkII

1962 MGA MkII

Externally, it appears as any other MGA, even if you take a closer look around it, you’d think that.  It’s not until you see what’s under the bonnet that you realise it isn’t your average MGA (more…)

: Car Spotting, External Projects

Ford Laser Japan commercial

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June 10, 2009
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From time to time I get the occasional bewildered comment along the lines of, “So your Ford Laser was actually made in Japan? And sold in Japan brand new? But I always thought they were Australian cars? Are you sure you didn’t just buy it off a Japanese guy or something?”

So here is proof that Lasers did in fact exist in Japan, in the form of a short Youtube tidbit:

note: Autorama was the 1980s Ford-Mazda Japan joint sales venture.

: Retro Videos

Classic RALLY! Scans

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June 10, 2009
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I thought I would throw something a little different to what’s been up of late into the mix and take some scans from I book I have called “RALLY!” it’s a 1970′s book, written by John Davenport and published by Hamlyn.  If the pictures interest you, the books ISBN is; 0 600 37570 0

It’s almost rude to not have an Escort front such an entry.  However… I’m often described as rude.

Lincoln Mercury Comet

Lincoln Mercury Comet, Factory entered Nissan Cedric in Background

Keep in mind these are scans out of an old book, if you click on the picture, it will take you to the largest resolution I could get from the book without them appearing marred in some manner.

Of course, there are Escorts, just click (more…)

: Automotive History, Car Spotting

Supra-charged Vee-Eight!

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June 9, 2009
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Some of you will have seen it mentioned if you read these entries a bit, that Ewan of Hayatonka.com, (the New Zealander living in Japan who will help you get almost anything you want from there) has a MkII Celica Supra.  I mentioned it somewhere in a previous post.  A while ago, Ewan sent me a bunch of photos of it (I promptly forgot until now, such is my memory)  at which point I realised that I had actually seen the car before, many moons ago on a Toyota site or some such, it’s quite the recognisable car.  I’m sure you will agree.  Firstly, this lump sits nestled under the modified bonnet;

Super-charged Toyota DOHC Alloy V8

Super-charged 1UZ Toyota V8

As you can see from the height that the supercharger sits, it required a somewhat abnormal addition for a sleek Japanese 80′s vehicle, though an entirely common one for something from American shores…  (more…)

: Feature Car

Classic Skyline’s in Gran Turismo 4

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June 9, 2009
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Seeing the contributions from Zebulonicus on beeoneoneoh recently (Zeb is a Huge Nerd, Pt I. & Zeb is a Huge Nerd, Pt. II) reminded me of the folder full of GT4 pictures on my old USB stick, unfortunately, I couldn’t find that stick so I set about in the weekend trying to take some more pictures from GT4, I realised at the time that my last save game on GT4 is only 50% complete, I can’t be bothered finishing it though, I have all the cars I require for hilariousness amongst them is the entire collection of classic Skylines in just about every colour option available for each car.  Yes.  I am that pathetic.  Anyway, here’s what I got up to before being told that I’d played around on it long enough and there was a movie that needed watching.  So the R30 and R31 will have to come at a later date.  Some might argue the R32 is getting long enough in the teeth too, perhaps not though.  Anyway… on with the show!

Prince Skyline Sport R21A

Prince Skyline Sport R21A

If you’ve not seen this Skyline Sport before and you’re interested in the history of the Skyline, I have an incomplete history already posted on here which for the moment covers the first 20 years from 1957 – 1977.  I’ve provided the links to these entries at the bottom of this post.  Alternatively you can use the “Search” function on the left, just type in “Skyline History”. (more…)

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