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WW Kick-off 2013: the ubiquitous Nissan Skylines

April 9, 2013 / banpei / 0 Comments

I remember meetings where once a Nissan Skyline entered the place it immediately drew all attention because seeing one was so rare! Nowadays it is actually the opposite: nobody turns their heads anymore and “exotics” like a Silvia S15 tend to gather crowds of people.

It is actually a bit of a shame as this Skyline was rather interesting:

It looks like your average Skyline R33 GTST with a ridiculously oversized intercooler, but if you get closer…

…you will spot this interesting tuner badge: Continue reading

WW Kick-off 2013: Rusty Reborn!

April 9, 2013 / banpei / 0 Comments

This incredible project was parked on the other side of the road of the meetup (used as the parking lot) and created by an ex-MX5 owner. It is, obviously, heavily inspired by Mike Burroughs’ Rusty ratty 5 series beemer.

I must say he did an excellent job on lowering the car. It may not look as low as the original, but believe me it can’t be lowered more than this unless the exhaust gets modified.
Even though this E28 is only a 520i the owner promised me something bigger/beefier will get swapped in. :)

A nice detail was this ill-fitted 80s radio antenna. Continue reading

WW Kick-off 2013: Dual FWD Honda Civic EP

April 8, 2013 / banpei / 0 Comments

Dual FWD, or at least that’s what popped into my mind when I saw this Honda Civic EP Type-R.

Wangan Warriors 2013 season kick-off Silvia S13 lucky shot

WW Kick-off 2013: Nissan Sil80 S13 lucky shot

April 7, 2013 / banpei / 1 Comment

I think this photo was my luckiest shot during the meetup:

Basically I was making an attempt to shoot the Sil80 from several angles and all of a sudden one of the people in the background started to make weird gestures. So I moved around just a bit to the right, shot and prayed the aperture and exposure would be alright. I was lucky there! ;)

WW Kick-off 2013: it started to snow

April 6, 2013 / banpei / 1 Comment

I’ll continue where I left off: right at this Honda Civic.

For some unknown reason the whole meeting was overcrowded by Civics and for another unknown reason the roads around the meetup were clogged up with high revving VTECs. Once is funny, a couple of time is nice, but after several hours it just gets plain annoying.

Anyway, let’s talk a bit about this Civic: I think the IKEA background suits this Civic. This Civic does not seem to have a clear theme and is a bit of various popular parts together. Take a bra / nose protector, ground scrapingly low coilover set, wide steelies and you are done with it.

Of course that summary is very harsh and I actually did like the car as a whole and took several more pictures of it… Continue reading

ITT2012: loose ends

July 24, 2012 / banpei / 2 Comments

My final ITT 2012 post and after that I’m done with the interesting photos from this great festival. ;)

So first of all there was a large German delegation from the Toyota Oldies site where the owner brought his rare Toyota Tercel Snow 4WD (AL25):

I just love the snow branding on the Tercel: Continue reading