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Street Sighting ~ Nissan Skyline (the Aussie one)

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Apricot dard - grandma spec and doin a shop at the local. Bad photos sorry. Funny how cultural currency works, this is nowhere near as exciting as seeing a VL Commodore ( mainly because standard road goers don't exist ). Credit to the owner for looking after it, the colour isn't for me but that doesn't stop me appreciating its all original condition. Still unsure about the safety of no left mirror. Since the weather has become wet again the U-plate survivors have become increasingly difficult to catch. Won’t stop me though.
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Street Sighting ~ Mitsubishi FTO

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Other than the occasional grid appearance in Gran Turismo 4 the Mitsubishi FTO hasn't successfully steered my attention in its direction until now. And after a little research I'm glad it did - even if I find them ugly. This one in particular, whilst still no looker hides its awkward body lines with black paint. As prefaced I knew nothing about these other than the front wheel drive layout which turns out has a 'front mid-engined' V6 some even equipped with MIVEC . I'm pretty chimp-spec so just in case you're like me here is a diagram of 'front mid-engine' layout; Anyway, I do have some experience with MIVEC motors, having driven the absolute drivers car that is the Mitsubishi Grandis for a small partition of my p-plates. Apologies, getting distracted. But final remark, the Grandis is a great car that deserves its own post/review at some point. Back to the FTO... I couldn't find the stats but the FTO never really got the Australian delivered tre...
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Sporting Car Club of SA Classic and Modern Run

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I woke up on Sunday morning to a pretty random text from my aunt. She was going to catch up over coffee with an old childhood friend. He was planning on going to a run  up to Anderson Hill Winery with the SA Sporting and Classic Car Club of which he is a member. He invited her along for the ride and knowing I was an enthusiast I got a plus one. Ash picked up my aunt and I in his 1951 Rover 75 'Cyclops' (named for the single central headlight. The immaculate Rover definitely isn't my usual cup of tea when it comes to cars, but I was pretty surprised by its peppiness driving up Greenhill road. That's when Ash revealed the reason for his love of the car- the engine swap. Whilst I promised I wouldn't tell the secret of this car, lets just say there's something pretty speccy, and distinctly not-Rover  under the hood.   Engine swap aside, the Rover was still pretty cool. Restomodded with power steering, AC, a 6-speed manual, disk brakes, and LEDs, it handled better th...
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