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DR30 Carclub Restive Horse

September 20, 2010 / banpei / 2 Comments

At the Garage Pleasure blog I spotted a picture of a DR30 parked in front of a Garage where the DR30 inside garage looked very very agressive:

Carclub Restive Horse garage box
Now what would be the purpose of that DR30?

I found out that the Garage belonged to the DR30 carclub Restive Horse and they park three of their most precious DR30s in there:

Carclub Restive Horse garage box
The one (for the people at home) on the left is a true hardcore track monster (still road legal!) and the one on the right able to drive both on the road and on the track.

Yes, you can only see two of them because the two in front are parked so tight that you can hardly see the one parked behind them! I knew square meters are expensive in Japan, but that it actually is this bad:

Carclub Restive Horse garage box
That is just millimeters away from denting! :P

This is how aggressive the road going track monster looks:

Restive Horse track monster

This picture proves that hardcore track cars can also be very cute:

Restive Horse cute track monster
Kawaiiii! ^_-
I should have made such a picture of my Carina and my son, but for that it is already too late: he weights more than 19 kilograms already…

You can find Carclub Restive Horse here!

Family Album Treasures: Bojutsu Skyline C210

September 9, 2010 / banpei / 0 Comments

Now is this little girl doing baton twirling or Bojutsu in front of her daddy’s C210?

Bojutsu Skyline C210
It surely is a very nice Skyline Japan: presumably a 2000GT with some deep dish SSR Mk1s (I reckon something like 8J) and (after market?) front fenders with big breathing gills! And in the background a nice Mark II X30 hardtop coupe and what looks like the headlights of an Isuzu 117 coupe.

According to the source the picture was taken around 1990. Found at uvj*9’s blog

Family Album Treasures: Gigantic silencer on Skyline R30

September 2, 2010 / banpei / 0 Comments

Dunno what’s the story of this gigantic silencer, but it surely must have looked very impressive in the late 80s:

Gigantic silencer on Skyline R30
That squatting pose reminds me a bit of Takumi and Istuki on an Initial D manga cover.

DOTS: Skyline R34, Celica ZZT230, Fairlady 350Z and Toyota Bb

August 15, 2010 / banpei / 2 Comments

How often can you spot a Nissan Skyline R34, Toyota Celica ZZT230 and a Toyota Bb parked next to each other?

If you look closely you can also spot another Celica ZZT230 further down in the parkinglot!

Skyline R34, Celica ZZT230 and Toyota Bb parked next to eachother

And how about spotting another red Toyota Bb parked in the center of some Dutch town the same day? And spot two other R34s the same day as well?

Toyota Bb parked in some Dutch towncenter

And if you turn your head 45 degrees see another Nissan Fairlady 350Z parked next to a big giant?

Nissan Fairlady 350Z
It is possible: if you visit the funpark Madurodam in the Hague! The funpark is a scaled down version of the landmarks in the Netherlands, so a heaven for all scale model enthusiasts! :P

I’ve paid the park a visit with my son and my wife and saw various cars parked or driving on the roads of Madurodam. Most of them were just VW/Audi/Mercedes/etc. and actually some were interesting cars like Porsches and Masseratis but I did not expect some JDM car nut to throw around Skylines, Fairladies and Celicas as if they were common cars in the Netherlands! Take for instance this blue R34 next to the main railway station of Utrecht:

Blue Nissan Skyline R34 in Utrecht (main railway station)
Just blends in the scenery nicely!

And I also didn’t know people at the ING Bank headquarters owned a black R34:

Blue Nissan Skyline R34 in Amsterdam (ING bank HQ)
Yep, apparently even people at the ING bank have taste! :P

There are probably a lot more Celicas, Fairladies and R34s to spot in Madurodam but I wouldn’t have had the time to take a picture of them anyway…

Family Album Treasures: Squat in front of a GC10

July 5, 2010 / banpei / 0 Comments

The quality of this picture is too low to determine the exact type of the Skyline GC10, but at least we can make out that it is the later type…

Nissan Skyline GC10 squat
In the background more late 60s/early 70s J-tin and judging from the clothes the picture is definitely taken somewhere in the early 70s…

Japanese rustoseums (part thirteen)

July 1, 2010 / banpei / 3 Comments

Time for a few more rustoseums!

Some time ago I proved that it could get worse than just a few sports cars rusting away: a bunch of Skyline C10s is about the worst thing I could find. The second worst rustoseum is absolutely the Mazda Cosmo and this Nissan Skyline 2000 GTE KGC111 is a good third I guess:

Japanese rustoseum: Nissan Skyline 2000 GTE KGC111
The 2000 GT-E KGC111 was the Hardtop version of the C110 range with a fuel injected L20. It superseded the carbed 2000 GT KGC110 and to distinguish the difference between the two the type designation was inceased with one. This Skyline GT-E is definitely beyond repair…

And fourth place would definitely be this Isuzu 117 Coupe:

Japanese rustoseum: Isuzu 117 Coupe
The Isuzu 117 Coupe is one of the most beautiful Japanese cars. Since it has been designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro it shares a lot of design cues with the first Audi 100 (coupe) and IMO that is one of the few beautiful Audis! However this example certainly isn’t the most beautiful 117 anymore… But at least, with some love and care, it looks repairable. ;)