A Secret Stash of Toyotas

Sometimes you have to drop everything when an invitation comes along. I got a message from Conor Browne a few months back, and he asked if I wanted to tour his stash of Toyotas and beyond. I had heard about the collection for years, but he was looking to downsize the load and asked if we could showcase the cars to shed some light on the stuff he had for sale. This worked perfectly for me as I wanted to see this stuff in person, showcase the unexpected treasure hiding in the unassuming Irish countryside and get some excellent content out of it all.

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A Trip To Jimmy Oakes

I’ll keep the writing brief here, as I did quite a lot of talking in the video on my USA trip recap. Here is a photo dump from the time we visited Jimmy and the lads in Connecticut.

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Josh’s M3 Swapped E30 is insane!

We visit a couple of die-hard AE86 brothers to check out their projects, drive a 3.5 gearbox 86 and talk about rusty Corollas.

A closer look at Josh’s E30 with an S50b30 M3 Swap + bonus shed shenanigans

A Trip To The LZ Compound

The trip to Adam’s house was wild, from hanging out with Mike and the crew to driving LZ’s Porsche through the streets at night. I’ll let the photos do the talking here, as I said enough in the recap video. let’s just say, Adam is living everyone’s dream to pretty much complete Gran Turismo in real life.

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A Trip to the Freedom Factory

I need to catch up on the updates. I took a stack of photos from our first day at the Freedom Factory with Dave from Driftgames. I’m sure you have seen the video, so ill keep the words to a minimum. This event was epic. I was impressed by the excellent weather in the middle of October, to be honest. Regardless I hope you enjoy this photo dump from that event.

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A Naked Trueno

Out in the frosty depths of an Irish winter. Our shed never gets sunlight this time of year, so the front is permanently frozen. This was such a massive milestone for the build; looking back, being able to roll the car out under its weight and just looking at something that sat as a shell for so long reminded me the misery was worth the wait. What I find hilarious is the trusty Prius in the background, a car I expected very little out of but it’s literally my lifeline to work, 1300k a week, and it just keeps chugging, yet it received very little love. Here is a Trueno, a car I obsess over, which gives me nothing but grief and misery, yet I keep plugging along. Im pretty sure most of you can relate to your daily driver and the more enormous money pits we “love”.

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The Noise of Summer! Night drives & Car meets

We partner with a local Cars and Coffee event and gather for a night cruise in this one. A somewhat raw collection of footage.

A Radio Overload at MR X’s

This is a photo of the absolute madness I ended up handing over cash last year. I had seen the post on Facebook for a job lot of old Japanese radios, and I knew id love to own them. Why I’m not sure, I love old head units. If you are a viewer of the youtube channel, you’ve probably seen the episode by now where we call up to MR X, and I come home with a tray full of gauges and about 30 head units, some of them still had mini discs, tapes and CDs in them.

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Evan and his Carina (Cresta)

You’d miss having Evan at the shed, he moved out to his home house a few months back, and there’s been an absence of his deep rural Irish humour. We shot these photos the weekend I was going to launch a video about his recently imported GX71 Cresta; I needed some B roll shots and decided to do a little shoot of the car out in our ring arena.

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The J’s Racing CRX

These are a few shots from our video we did not too long ago; this was a night when Jackie asked if I wanted to get a sneak peek of probably the coolest honda to ever end up in Ireland. This is J’s racing CRX EF8 car which was in hot version and options video, famous for lightening quick speeds around Tsukuba it ended up in Ireland during our incredible import boom of the late 2000s

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AE86 Up to Speed & Shed Project Updates

An Update on the AE86 and other projects in the shed after some time away from it all.

Goodline Delivery Machines

The never-ending selection was such a great moment the day we brought the Goodline bumper down from the distro to the shed; I had bought both the hood and bumper from Rob in Osaka two years previous, and it was a mission to get both of them home. Once I got the bumper, I would probably end up hanging it on the wall as Rob had painted his car black, and the bumper was the last remaining part of the car’s original look. I can see myself getting another good line bumper to use for track use, driving on the road, and mixing it up with the OEM front bumper and early spec lip for times I want to switch the lookup.

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Two Die Hard AE86 Brothers

We visit a couple of die-hard AE86 brothers to check out their projects, drive a 3.5 gearbox 86 and talk about rusty Corollas.

Two Die Hard AE86 Brothers

We visit a couple of die-hard AE86 brothers to check out their projects, drive a 3.5 gearbox 86 and talk about rusty Corollas.

The Coolest Japanese Family Wagon? A look at the Evo IX Wagon

A closer look at our friend’s Mitsubishi Evo IX wagon. They only made 2500 of these, and this example is loaded with rare parts. Is the Evo wagon the coolest Japanese Family Wagon ever built? It ticks all of the boxes.