Author: Dino Dalle Carbonare
For me, patience isn’t concerning the ability to attend; it’s about the way you approach the wait. It’s been two years since my last Project 964 update, and quite a bit has happened since. After addressing the water ingress issues that required all the interior carpeting and foam to be pulled out, the 31-year-old 911 had more unwanted surprises for me. Nevertheless it’s how I handled those challenges that allowed me to maintain moving forward. The speedometer, the oil cooler fan, the tail lamps, the symptoms all began playing up, after which, just as I used to be beginning to…
Exclusivity is what sells within the automotive world today. With so many sports and performance cars in the marketplace, you’d think most individuals could be content together with your regular OEM options. Yet, for those craving prestige, there’s all the time that desire for something extra. Enter Novitec and their N-Largo series. Immediately we’re witnessing a revival of bespoke craftsmanship harking back to the Nineteen Thirties, ’40s, and ’50s. Back then, coach builders meticulously hand-formed aluminum panels to skin chassis from Ferrari, Maserati, Aston Martin, and plenty of other high-end manufacturers. Today, we go for wide-body conversions and composite materials…
Last 12 months was my first visit to the large Anime Matsuri event in the guts of Houston, Texas. The allure of hunting out cars at an anime convention drew me back for 2024. Anime Matsuri’s atmosphere is exclusive, mixing subcultures I’m only mildly accustomed to alongside ones I deeply embrace. While, like every Italian of my generation, I grew up watching over-dubbed Japanese anime on Italian TV, I’m nowhere near an anime otaku (nerd). I’m, nevertheless, a licensed automotive otaku, and while I felt like just a little fish out of the water on the 2023 Anime Matsuri this…
Apologies if I start this post off on a rather negative note, but knowing what 7’s Day (7/7) was once like in Japan, it’s hard to not be concerned at the dearth of participants that turned as much as the official unofficial Daikoku PA get-together this past weekend. While it has been a bit quieter lately, the low turnout on Sunday late afternoon/early evening may very well be attributed to the annual 7’s Day event held at Mobara Circuit, which fell on 7/7 this 12 months. Most owners who attended would have skipped dropping by Daikoku PA on the way in which…
Nagoya at first of May can only mean one thing within the Speedhunting world – Wekfest Japan. Since its introduction in Japan, Wekfest has best represented the newest styling trends in real-world Japanese automobile culture, with a heavy bias to stance. The show has turn into the place for a lot of automobile builders to debut their latest projects, and for this reason, the assortment is at all times fresh. Sure, there are at all times previously-seen builds, but often these cars have been updated with recent modifications or refined and perfected. But there may be a lot recent stuff that it…
While you think of the Philippines, your first few thoughts probably don’t contain a fully-built Garage Mak-style S15. But that is a component of what makes this particular Nissan Silvia so good. If it had Japanese number plates you’ll probably never second guess it – which is why I desired to shoot it. Last week, Alec and I brought you a store visit story on Autoplus in Manila, and this automotive belongs to the owner’s son, Luis. While it may not be an official Autoplus demo machine, it actually shows what the shop is able to. If not glaringly obvious, Luis has…
Waking up on the break of day on January 3 and heading all the way down to Daikoku Parking Area in Yokohama has change into second nature. Regardless that I’ve been attending the Daikoku Latest 12 months meeting for so long as I can remember, I at all times look ahead to it. For me, this continues to be the best unofficial automobile gathering Japan has to supply. I arrived before 8:00am, but even then your complete parking area was already full with an assortment of makes and models that will make any automobile otaku drool. As at all times, I’ll let the pictures from the morning do a lot of the…
