Outside the local Autobacs

iPhone 7 Plus -  Lightroom app - raw DNG.

A slammed glimpse into my S14's future.

Last night at the 「Yuki's Night」night-meet, at Takasaka Service Area on the Kan-Etsu expressway (In Saitama, just North of Tokyo), I got an Idea of how the mods I planned to do to my new S14 would eventually look. 

The GT-R R33 wheels, The lowered stance, The slightly augmented stock aero. It was all there... And it looked even better than I imagined it would. The trouble is, that now I've seen it, I know it's been done already, so I have to think of a way to set mine apart when the time comes.

Thankfully, my woefully inadequate salary means that it's not something I need to worry about anytime in the near future.

But as someone on his 3rd S14 which was bought because it was cheap, more than anything else, my faith in the S14's looks and my urge to build mine has been renewed.

Now to find a way get people to pay me appropriately for my work, so I can make mine this cool.

Double Trouble #JapaneseRides

With my tax return, I have purchased my third Nissan Silvia. Yet another white S14 Kouki, but this one is a Q's Automatic, not a K's Manual. It's almost certainly going to become my daily driver. The black beast will be relegated to track duty only (as soon as I can actually afford to track it again).

"But wait, you can't even afford parking!?" is what you're going to say, but in a month, things will be a bit different. Soon, I'll be back in my natural habitat, behind the wheel, once more!

Bringing down property values #JapaneseRides

I like seeing rough rides on the sterile streets of Tokyo, because, more often than not, they are driven by those bent nails that refuse to be hammered down by Japanese mainstream society. One day, very soon, I will, once again, rumble down the boring boulevards in my S14, a blight on my surroundings, a stiff middle finger to convention, free from the impositions of the herds of sheeple on their cattle-cart trains.

ライスと侍 危機一髪 Rice and The Samurai's near miss - DRiFTWiRED 1 - 2014-08-10 日光サーキット - Nikko Circuit

やっぱり侍はすごい。

The Drift Samurai displays mad skill avoiding Rice Kobayashi's shiny new S14.

2014 Tokyo Auto Salon - The Cars

2014 Tokyo Auto Salon - The Cars, a set on Flickr.

As promised. Pics from the Tokyo Auto Salon.

First up. The stars of the show....

The cars!

Tokyo Auto Salon (AkihabaraNews.com)

2014 Tokyo Auto Salon 
For when your car needs a facial and a manicure...Okay. Maybe not.

Held January 10-12 at Chiba City’s Makuhari Messe convention center, this year’s event drew a staggering 296,714 visitors! The first event, held back in 1983 by Option Tuning Magazine, was an effort to promote car customisation and tuning culture.

The event has steadily grown over the years, and 2014 was billed as the largest custom car show in the world....

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And now the backstory...

Six Sexy Silvias

Just pretend the 180sx is a Silvia for my title’s sake ;)

D1 East Series. Round 1. Nikko Circuit 2013-04-21

Fukui Pref. S14 Dress up ~5 hit combo~