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Takusan Skyline desu.

Posted: January 8, 2011 in car life, Hurui Kuruma, Super Smooth Streeters
Tags: C10, C110, C210, C211, classic jdm, GT-R, Hakosuka, KenMeri, Nismo, Nissan Skyline, R30, R31, R31 House, R32, Tommy Kaira

It’s the end of the week and still so many Skylines left. I may just take it upon myself to decree another Skyline Week in the nearish future. As it stands, Ive obliterated my post count of 2010. That has to worth a beverage…

Also, if you’ve been here before I’m assuming you must be confined to quarters and prone to sniffing glue unless asleep. Further to that, you may have noticed that I’ve changed the “theme” of this page. That was because I was sick of the old one cropping my photos so cruelly and this was the first one I found that fit my current bill. I may do some more searching or tweaking. At some stage. Mebbe.

Today is about two years worth of Skylines from one used kuruma emporium – Flyrat in Minami Machida, right next to Up Garage and over the back fence of Tomei on Route 246. I may have posted a couple of these cars before, but for shits & giggles I’ll whack ’em all in the same post this time ‘cos that’s just the way I’m rollin’ these days. Yo.

I’ll post them chronologically, because any other system would tax my feeble intellect too much at this hour…

This overfendr’d R32 was there for quite some months.

Four doors with an iron mask.

It is possible to improve on a clean family tekkamen – by sticking a Truckosuka on the background. This was my second sighting in the metal of a Hakosuka & the first I could capture with my point & shoot soul-stealer. Quite excited, I got.

Just realised that this one has the R30, R32, Hakosuka, C10 racecar and a Z30 in the workshop at the back. You takes yer chances when you gets them…

What’s that under the cover behind the Stagea, R32 & Z32 I wonder…

This sounded almost as badass as the window shaking YonMeri that I kept seeing but never got a photo of…

Things just kept getting better…

This car is perfect.

One of my favourite words. Might just make a t shirt from this.

I’ve never done so much gawping at a single location before.

By this stage Flyrat was starting to cause me physical pain…

Dont care what the badge on the back says. It’s a Skyline.

Fettlin’ chap tolerated my happy-snappery. As they all did really. Slack-jawed yokels probably didnt happen by too often, may have given them all something to laugh at over Kenyobi Nomunication.

Wouldnt it be grand to have that sight greet you when you opened your garage door of a morn’?

T-shirt #2.

Tommy Kaira M30. Wonder where it is now…

The restoSuka that I’ve featured before.

A blissful way to close out the week…

211 reasons to go to work tomorrow…

Kaiju RNN-14.

Posted: August 18, 2009 in car life, Kaiju, Super Smooth Streeters
Tags: Grand Slam Pro, jdm, monster brakes, Nismo, Nissan Pulsar, Option magazine, Pulsar GTi-R, RNN-14, Tommy Kaira

Of Doom!!!

Or at least, of very big brakes, as Fukushima San of Grand Slam Pro on the edge of Yokohama pointed out. “Hard Tune” was also mentioned…

The bonnet scoop & grill are unique to the Minami (South) Kanto RNN-14 Owners Club. If you can judge an owners club by their bespoke bonnet scoops, I’d say that they must certainly be a collective of smooth operators.

Fukushima San intoduced me to Takihiro Inamoto San, the owner of this car, when I was lurking about Grand Slam a few days ago. I immediately began babbling about my Pulsar love, especially that for GTi-R’s, then regaled them with tales of carting the (at that time prospective) inlaws about New Zealand in my old N13, while they did a good job of looking interested (Fukushima San & Inamoto San that is – the inlaws spent their time trying not to look too appalled.).

The Australians tagged the R32 GT-R “Godzilla” after having their touring car series ripped asunder in the early ’90’s. Which got me to wondering about this Kaiju Kuruma…

Gamera? Manda? Guiron mebbe?

Actually, Im pretty sure I saw MechaElvis drive past in a lowered Silverado later that day, but was too shook up to get snap happy.

Whilst on the monster trip… It all just depends on how quickly you want to stop, really. Quite often when looking at hopped up cars, you’ll see something that puts a dirty great smile on yer dial. Mostly, that is more to do with Go rather than Whoa, but these brakes deserve a prize. Radness.

Not monster tuned, but enough to go like a Gamera. Or a Guiron. & definitely better tha MechaElvis’s Silverado.

This plaque is a limited edition of… one.

And no self respecting collective of smooth operators masquerading as an owners club in Japan would be complete without a smoothly executed carrybag. Ideal for carrying aboot…

…copies of Option2 featuring your kuruma.

The club that gets coverage together stays together.

I dont think Inamoto San knows that I took this photo, so if I post in the near future complaining of a ninja style beat-down…

Ups!

Okii arigato gozaimasu to Inamoto San.

Living in the Past.

Posted: November 18, 2008 in car life, Super GT
Tags: 1969, 1999, Eric Comas, Fairlady, fuji speedway, Gan San, Group C, Group7, GT-R, gtr, Japan GP, jdm, jgtc, KN's Factory, Masami Kageyama, motorsport, Nismo, Nismo Festival, nissan, Nissan R382, Pennzoil Skyline, Pulsar, R90C, race shop, sports car, Super GT, Tommy Kaira, Toyota 7, tuner, Z, ZZ

TV-Tokyo’s half hour weekly Super GT show today reminded me just how rubbish the weather was at Fuji last week. My Nismo hat didnt keep me warm, but the Nismo championship did keep me happy. Which brings me to two things, one of which I did last summer (heh – actually September, so autumn really, but so very much warmer) and another which happened ten years ago.

September was my first visit to KN’s Factory, ten years ago was the JGTC championship win for Masami Kageyama and Eric Comas in this Pennzoil Nismo GT-R. I saw the car as I passed by the store and almost crashed into a bridge. So returned with a camera.

If you were to drive by in September, you would quite likely have seen this.

As raced, with bugs.

The aero was a bit more extreme the following year, but this is still pretty tech looking. Perfect way to Sayonara the ’90s.

Somebody kerbed the wheels. Eric? Masami?

15 years of Nismo! The Nismo Festival at Fuji Speedway on November 30 will celebrate 25 years. Omedeto Nismo! Might be a bit chilly…

Eventually I noticed the sign asking me not to touch the car. Honestly – I didnt touch much of it…

Obviously no truth to the rumour that Japanese cars have smaller towhooks.

Quite a view that must have been. Dont worry – GT5 will have a cockpit view.

A Frenchman sat here. So did his Nihonjin buddy.

I was the freshest of freshy Gaijin at this stage & this was my first JGTC experience, so this image stayed with me until the racket of Fuji’s home straight concrete canyon blasted it out. I blame the VTEC’s.

Remember when SE Racing made those silver wing things, called Wing Things, that you could strap on you arm and be the BMX King of 7 year olds on your block? No? Yeah – Im old – I get sidetracked easily.

At the time, I thought that the Zexel signage detracted from the “purity” of the Pennzoil livery. I quite like it now. Ahh nostalgia… Yep. Old desu.

The products from this vending machine sell themselves. With help from the poster. I couldnt find a machine that vended posters. But the search made me thirsty. A cunning plan indeed…

They sure did. But this post isnt about Z’s.

Or is it?

As you would expect, the engine cover from a Nissan R90C was stashed in the window…

…along with the nose.

On a later sortie along Route 16, I noticed that something had changed here…

Blimey, I thought.

Why, isnt that a Nissan R382? With a 6 litre V12? This one is from 1969, a golden era for Japanese Group 7 sportscars. Any era that produced these Nissans and the Toyota 7 is golden in my book. Porsche turned up with a 917k for the Japanese GP, but Nissan took the top two spots. Gan-san was one of the drivers of the winning car.