CORNER STORIES

After resealing the master cylinder (with help) on my 1986 Leone , Zigg arrived at the shed. With him came news of a pop up Honda meet. Yasukichi Yamamoto - Opera Performance was in town, which meant a call to arms for the Honda people (the rest of the shed headz) .  Given it was around the corner from mine, I figured I could wheel up the only Honda I own. Here's some pics and off-the-dome remarks from the event... Had a chat with the owner of this S660 that sports some fruit. I felt the pride and joy of the owner teaching me about it and while it sounds silly, I enjoyed seeing a HKS mushroom filter in person. Cool car. Earth Dreams... Hearts and diamonds, this Jap-styled NSX suit stood out as you'd expect, but were ultimately outshone by the power of trim and stock purity (all ridiculously cool cars) ... Hard to tell, but colour matched hood emblem.     Roof off.     It was a treat to have some NSX variety. But now we must move onto all the econo-machines H...

What you are about to read or more likely scroll is what I would consider peak CS. A boring car, a really boring car, but clean - a survivor.  The kind of car you see a Facebook post about saying 'Remember when these were everywhere?'  before you to read the real stories of people in the comments, smile, and forget that we all drive imported battery packs. So here's to the now, when I feel thankful the powers of observation can afford me a lovely conversation about being grateful and looking after things  with my fellow Australian. Corolla Seca, CSI, silver, mass produced, boring, slow, clean, in good condition, clean, well loved, clean, far from fun to drive, clean, and also clean. Not long ago I would have felt like I was looking down the double barrel of a shotgun pressed against my life  (being attracted to a automatic Seca) . I could not consider liking or driving such a car. Too boring. A naive and disrespectful perspective of a car I assumed was reserved for t...