A Collection of K11's and a send off for the Calsonic March - Juiceboxforyou

I never thought the day would come. I have a weird problem. I’ve always had it, but I’m not one to sell stuff. I’ve kept most things I held in high regard over my life, from bicycles to model cars, cameras to weird hats. Then, when it moved onto car stuff, it was the same, except it was a lot harder to hang onto things or try to preserve property that’s this size; unfortunately, the k11 sat outside the shed for a couple of years after having a pretty well driven three years previous,  I did everything in this car, travel Ireland, commute to work, go on dates all the usual nonsense you do with a car except this thing had grown on me. Before we figured out there was an actual colonic march, I wanted to do this livery; I just thought it would be hilarious to take one of the most iconic liveries and throw it on the most mundane Nissan. 

I bought the black car to save it from the crusher and maybe scab parts for the blue car, and I did the same with this little green one. At this point, I had three March’s in my life and felt it would be hilarious to take them out for some photos.

I love the Calsonic spud; Ireland is a country where people do not generally do this to a car, let alone a Micra; they’ve always been known to be a first car here, either driven by a nanny or a nun or a lad whos 17 years of age. What I’ve always loved about Japan is people love all shapes and sizes of whatever chassis could be made to look cool. I love the little tuning scene they had out there and the race series they did for this chassis back in the 90s. I spent my whole life thinking these cars were nothing more than an A to B machine, only to find out they made a hyper rev for these, and once upon a time, they had a great little scene. That opened Pandora’s box and made me want to dig deeper, resulting in the Calsonic Nugget.

Most people in the Youtube sphere have the best of everything, cool salvias GTRs and all sorts, and here I am frothing off three economy shit boxes. Younger Neil would be throwing a high five! 

As I mentioned in the video on these, I picked this car up for 600 euros; it popped up on Adverts, which is the lesser-viewed Irish car classifieds. 

I bought it from an older man who had owned it since import in Dublin. His son drove it to Galway and sold it for him as someone had tried to steal it in Dublin.

The black one was owned by my friend Noel. He was moving to China and had a tough time selling this car; he ignored the issue until it was time to go and offered it to me. I hoped he would change his mind, so I left it outside the shed. I don’t know what it is about these little nuggets, but they somehow grab hold of you; I think it’s just how honest they are as a car, super simple, revvy and fun to potter around in. It’s a very basic but very rewarding little genuine nugget.

Here I am, slightly bummed out at the fact this thing is fucked; I asked my mate Rob to take a photo of me sad in front of the car to remember the moment we realised it’s probably past the point of no return.

Fucking stupid cars, if we zoom out, it’s just a shit little Nissan march, but foolishly as humans, we tend to project human emotions onto these inanimate objects as if they are almost human or like some friend.

Here are a few shots of this thing I grabbed during the sunset. It looked ridiculously fresh here; the camera made it look super clean.

Unfortunately, this wasn’t as clean as I had hoped it would be; it had been stolen, so the door was fucked, and there were a few sneaky repairs on it which we uncover in a later episode, but it’s an excellent example, I guess its a chuki as it’s in between term, facelift front end and mid-term rear lights before they switched over to the Ichikoh.

I felt terrible stripping this out, but being honest; I don’t care for them in stock form; the fun is extracted from these when they are slammed and gutted. I drove it around like this for a while, only to be incredibly bored of the feel with the sloppy suspension, grandad interior and the shit 13-inch wheels. It wasn’t long before we ruined this with a 1.3 engine, and well, you’ll see the rest in an upcoming video.

Fucking rust creeping in everywhere; you can see the shock mounts here living their best life.

I know people appreciate these little shit boxes, so I left a batch of images in this for people to laugh at these little funny nuggets, Im not sure why I enjoy them so much, but they bring me a great deal of joy, and for the Calsonic March, Im still unsure of its faith. Till next time!