I already did a post about Toyota's Megaweb in Tokyo, but I had to save the best part of Megaweb for last. While Megaweb itself has a lot of cool stuff to see, the History Garage is even better. Megaweb has all the new cars and high tech things, but the History Garage is where you will find all the cool classic cars and vintage racing machines.
Say hello to one of the toughest Nissan S30Z's I have ever seen. This dark red Z is owned by Kuni-san of Gunma Prefecture, and when I first spotted it at the spring Omega Cup event at Tsukuba Circuit I could not keep my eyes off it! After first drooling over the car's amazing stance, I began to notice the overall attention to detail on the car
Took this photo at a classic car swap meet a while back. How many different emblems can you identify? -Mike Garrett
As part of our goal in sharing and celebrating the love of cars, we have made plans to visit a number of specialty car builders and shops in places around the world. One of the ones that we were planning to hit was Rocky Auto, the famous builder and restorer of vintage Nissan cars located central Japan. In a response to my post about the Tokyo Nostalgic
Now that we have had a look at the Tokyo Nostalgic Car Show itself, let's take a look at some of the cars that could be found in the halls of the Tokyo Big Sight. After all, cars ARE the reason people go to car shows right? When it comes to the classic car scene in Japan, Nissan is king. Sure there are plenty of restored and modified cars from Toyota
As much as I and the other Speedhunters love classic cars, the one problem with them is that they are "classic". What I mean, is that there is not quite the same amount of "fresh" material about classic cars as there is the for the newer stuff. That is why when I found these recently taken photos of this amazing black 240Z, I knew
I was thinking that I had a pretty busy weekend last week, but after hearing Antonio's tales of waking up in three different countries on three consecutive mornings, I guess it wasn't THAT busy. Nonetheless, I did end up packing quite a bit of action into just two days. Friday I spent the day checking out the Tokyo SIS, which you probably just