Grand Nostalgic

So after three months off the road the old girl is finally ready to roll, well when I say roll I actually mean scrape.

After waiting a while for bespoke coilovers they did finally arrive not too long after the estimated delivery date. To say I was like a kid at christmas was an understatement. Unfortunately due to a mix up at the engineering company the wrong top mounts were sent, so after a quick call and a few days later I got everything sorted and all fitted to the car. Whilst I was anxiously waiting I got tyres mounted to the wheels, with abit of guess work and some help from fellow club members, we finally got the right tyre sizes all round to allow for a serious height reduction. Out came the spanners, tape measure, hammers and arch roller to try and make everything come together without too much drama. Here’s how it stands at the moment, the vision of a few friends coming together slowly.

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“What do you do when you offered some track time and have access to one of JDM Legend’s cars? You drop everything and head to the track for a few hours of filming”

Says it all really, some footage of one of the JDM legends cars in action with an awesome engine soundtrack to enjoy too!

I have never really been a huge fan of the W124 saloons, I’ve always preferred the stuff previous to this generation of cars which all seem to be fairly boxy (W201, W124, W140 etc). But I don’t quite know what it is about the example below, I can’t pinpoint it. Maybe it’s the colour of the car or the wheels which look OEM yet are aftermarket (Carlsson 1/12) or just generally the pure simplicity of the car, anyway it has got me to take the W124 a bit more seriously.

The example below is a 300E which has 3.0L  inline 6 cylinder engine with around 180bhp

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What would you do if you saw a dusty AE86 sat under a tree? If you answered something along the lines of  ”do anything you can to own it”, then you’re not that different from the owner of this Levin. He then took it one step further by dropping in a 3SGE from an Mr2 over the tired 4A-GE.

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Here’s a video from the Porsche channel on Youtube showing their racing success from the past. Not much more to it really, enjoy!

So today I woke up and noticed sunshine through my bedroom window, which is rare here in the UK. I gave Haris a call and decided to have a productive day and get a few decent pictures of my Z31 Turbo, considering  it had been tucked away for the past 4 months. So we packed up our camera gear and headed over to where we have started hanging out more often, the Stretton Karting Circuit which is next to Leicester Airport.

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You can’t get better than this, here’s some footage of E9 3.0CSL’s and classic Porsche’s Racing back in 1976.

I would say enjoy the commentary but it’s in German, so just enjoy the video footage of some legendary classics racing!

My local Mercedes specialist isn’t very far from me and has quite the collection of classic Mercedes cars. I thought it would be rude not to share a few pics of them here with you.

The following is a Mercedes 560SEC with AMG Bumpers and some nice 90′s AMG splits.

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