The age-old question: pre-facelift DR30, or iron mask, which do you like better? Michael likes the uglyfronts:
Grille?
Whilst I prefer the squinty Darth Vader-esque evilness of the facelift:
Or no grille?
Amazingly, I still meet people who can’t tell the difference between the two!
Images courtesy of Minkara/Carview
Ain’t nothing worse than driving around with a mismatched interior. Well, to me anyway.
Couple of years back I chanced upon some tidy interior trim and seats out of a BFMR Familia which some guy had decided to convert into a rally car some time ago, and said interior was subsequently stored away for safekeeping/reinstalling one day. As it so happened, the rally car was written off and the trim sat in his garage for a few more years until one day he decided to move house and found it all under a sheet while getting ready to shift things. It also turned out to be the ultra-rare “wind-up window door card” version, so I pretty much bought it all on the spot.
there was one slight problem though: no front seats. “Not a problem,” I thought to myself, “I’ll soon be able to find a decent pair on Trademe…”
That was four years ago, and I’ve been looking for those elusive front seats ever since… until this week, when I finally tracked down a pair via the AMAZD club. Cheers Dee (and Ross)
as a stop-gap solution I’d purchased a pair of BFMP Familia bucket seats, which are identical in design save for the trim pattern and the way they mount to the rails (they’re for a FWD chassis, and mine is 4WD). The big drawback of the latter is that the driver’s seat ends up on a massive lean, and no amount of spacing will actually balance it out completely.
this is actually my 2nd pair – the first pair were even shabbier.
BFMP seats
The best stuff always seems to pop up when you’ve got no way of getting it. Example, these two auctions finish tonight and are the EXACT wheels I’m after for the C110.
RS-Watanabe Type-R 16x8.5" -6 offset
RS-Watanabe Type-R 16x9.5" -19 offset
Ahh well. One day…
-Michael
As referred to yesterday, here’s the rest of the photographs I took at said event. Well, here’s a few and then a link to the gallery where you can enjoy the rest.
Aussie Muscle
This picture I think grabbed all the respective elements of your typical Aussie Muscle car. Dished Slot Mags, White Lettered Tyres and a ’5.8′ badge on the quarter. It belonged to this well kept car; (more…)
So, I went to this little car show event on the Sunday just been. I had initially planned on going just to take photographs but then when I showed up the chap asked if I wanted to put the H230 in the display. Saved me the entry fee ($5) so I figured, hell, why not?
So, here’s a few quick snaps while the rest of the photographs upload;
OH HAI!
Vintage - All Class in Brass
British Gubbins.
I apologise for the quality of them right off the bat. I didn’t take the time to adjust to the day, it was overcast and the photos suffered accordingly. Still, something is better than nothing right? Stay tuned for near a couple of hundred photographs later on.
There were things there sectioned for Australian, American, British, European, Japanese. Was a far greater turnout than I imagined it would have been.
-Michael
