Although I love Watanabes, I never felt like they suited this car as much as the other wheels. Maybe a combination of tyre profile and the wrong colour for the wheels themselves, id was a little too plain for the look.
Spotted in the wild in New Ross, every time we see this beauty kitted out in WRC attire, it causes childlike excitement. This particular Escort belongs to my cousin Jamie, and I’m glad he still has it. It gives me hope for the younger generation like us, hopefully, many of us will still have our cars in years to come, and let’s hope they inspire another generation.
We hit the racetrack in the K11 daily driver March and go for another run in the Civic. The guys at Trackdays.ie were nice enough to invite us to another day out so we couldn’t resist. Barry calls down to finish Adrians Carina and we sort some coils for the 4A-GE.
We take a look at Josh’s new BMW E30 project and the K11 March is treated to new shoes.
Reuben steals the camera and heads to Sweden to set his C33 Laurel up for Ice drifting on a frozen lake.
We test fit the AE86 roll cage, Duggie fits some bits to the 4A-GE and Barry calls down to hack rust out of an old Toyota. Just another weekend at the shed.
Trackdays.ie invite us up to Mondello Circuit to give the EK4 Civic a proper drive around a race track. Its a first time doing grip for Neil and Reuben which leads to a lot of shouting and panic. Reuben also makes a new purchase.
We get take a closer look and strip the EK4 Civic only to find some fantastic surprise rust and dampness. Reuben drives his old Civic through a fire…
We get our hands on a rare EK4 SIR Civic and get nostalgic about our Honda filled younger years.
This was supposed to be a short episode but we added an extended chunk to the end and ruined any chance of this being finished on Monday!
We finally figure out the official Toyota AE86 production numbers on a Toyota parts Database CD and we head to Ace Motorfactors to get some parts blasted for the Trueno.
Here is a prime example of procrastination at the shed. Duggie had work to do on his cars, I had an endless list with the Trueno, and yet we focused our efforts on turning the Accent it into a Trials course.
I’m writing this just after we had one of the biggest washouts at Japfest 2019. These photos are from 2018 as you might have guessed if you attended the event. We were fresh back from Japan this year and didn’t have the time to organise a stand and to be honest because of how bad the weather was, I’m glad we didn’t. Last year we were graced with the greatest summer Ireland had seen since the early nineties. It was also a rare occasion where a bunch of us had cars on the road and were willing to drive them to an event.
We head to Irelands largest gathering of Japanese cars. An annual event held at Mondello Raceway, Japfest is the largest gathering of Japanese cars in Ireland and usually brings out some unexpected treats.
In this episode, we fall down the rabbit hole, trying to find out how many AE86’s Toyota produced worldwide. This episode started because two of our Truenos were 40 cars between each other on the assembly line in 1987 and now they live in the same shed. We also uncover some rare photos and interviews with the head designers and engineers on the AE86 chassis.