Finding an s13 like this in Ireland has started to get rare. Years ago the streets were flooded with s-bodies; everyone and their friend drove a Silvia or a 180sx. The recession kicked in and many who drove these cars were out of work and out of money. This led to a sudden change in the value of these cars, which inevitably led to them, being butchered. Ask yourself, how many nice s13’s are on the road today? On top of that how many of these cars are still daily driven?
The Toyota Sera is a car you might not know about, it did make an appearance in Gran Turismo but so did everything haha. Its a car that rolled off of the assembly line in Japan looking pretty much like a concept car and example above really does look like the the story of that brother kept in the basement, the one that really shouldn’t have been left out…
There’s just something so awesome about this company. Imperial craft based out of Minoo City in the Osaka prefecture build and tune some incredible Mini’s. I stumbled across their blog in Minkara and was amazed at some stuff that has come out of their workshop. The cars have been given the Japanese touch and by the looks of some of the pictures its a match made in heaven.
Congratulations to Martin Ffrench who took the win at the first round of JDM Allstars in Teeside over in the U.K. Really wish I could have made it over. Seems how me and most of you didn’t, enjoy this clip of Martin going all out in one of the runs, you would be almost fooled into thinking there’s more then an SR20 under the bonnet. Such a nice result for Martin and his re entry into drifting compared to what happened in Ennis last week.Click here for more on the win.
Just one picture this time around. Apparently only in Waterford City, Fiat made this one off Bravo with Jimi Hendrix on the front. It even came with the dent and missing light to make Hendrix stand out more and add to the rock and roll theme. Maybe this was the reason he wrote this song? Was it really about a Bravo?
Things are busy on this end at the moment, but more actually worthy features coming sooon!
Waking up early Sunday morning and looking out the window to see another day of glorious weather was a rare feeling. Just as things got underway the track claimed another car as we saw a collision between Damien Short’s Corolla and Nick Quealy and his R32. Sadly for Damien the 86 would not make it back onto track for the rest of the event.
MR2 aye? Yes this is the car from gone in sixty second’s in many of the action scenes, no shit.
You know it! More ridiculous then ever, and probably worse then ever.. But who cares? Its out tomorrow and I’m sure everyone is going haha
It was 5am on a Saturday morning and the phone was vibrating with a text from Martin Ffrench. Walking out of the house and seeing his Altezza all loaded up on the trailer looking gleaming and ready for action was enough to wake anyone up. The car was ready for the first round of Prodrift which was to be held in Ennis Co. Clare. Hopes of a dry weekend slowly started to fade as we made our way through the Tipperary countryside and darkness started to disappear and reveal some horrible Irish clouds . This was looking to be another typical weekend just like the one at Ennis back in 09. To our surprise we drove right through the rain and out the other side…. mother nature was down for some drifting on that weekend and gave us Ireland some of the best weather it could have ever asked for.
A new year, a new round of Prodrift and another Look through the car park to see what you drove to the event!
The starlet has always been known for a reliable little run around. The 70 series like the silver model pictured above has been well established as a cheap A to B run around and a nice little car to use for Auto testing and hot rodding. In the last few years we have seen the love for these little starlets grow more and more. One of the reasons would be the fact they are cheap for the younger generation to insure and they are starting to get rare. The cars can be seen on websites like donedeal and similar and in some cases people can look for up to 2000 euros for them!