Our friend Jimmy tracks down an RPS13/180SX which he has tried to own for nearly fifteen years.
This time two years ago, we had just ripped the Trueno apart to send the shell down for sandblasting. The 86 was being brought down to Ace Motor Factors in Newbawn co Wexford. We brought it down on a Saturday’s it was going to get blasted on a Tuesday morning. I ensured to get that day off of work to document the entire process; this was something I didn’t want to miss.
With so much going on with the vlogs, I sometimes forget to take bust out the camera and try to document whats going on.
Another Blog post about MR X! As we mentioned in a previous post I always come armed with a charged camera and a pocket full of cash. This place is always full of surprised and someday we will look back on guys like this and think about how crazy it was that he could import these cars from the other side of the world and dismantle these cars to save others.
I must admit it was such a nice feeling being handed the keys to a freshly imported ae86. The fact I was going to have this car for the next four days was exciting. Up until this weekend, I had never actually driven an 86 for longer than a couple of hours. As you might have remembered from the last vlog, Dave threw me the keys while he stood there in full Nicholas cage attire.
Let’s kick things off again with part two of last years BBQ. Like I said in the previous post, we cram as many images as we can into these articles, mainly because the quality of cars that attend the BBQ is truly incredible. We want to show as much of what made it to the event as we can. It’s always a reminder of the thriving Irish car scene.
We are gifted an AE86 for the weekend and we rebuild the gearbox in the Trueno.
So many of you have just watched our recent video about our BBQ from last year. Here are some of the photos we somehow managed to get while putting together the event.
We invite some of Ireland finest JDM and more to the annual Juicebox BBQ. We also invite a few friends over from the UK. Ireland has some of the best Japanese cars on the planet, but these days they are well hidden. So, every year we invite the friends we have met over the years down to a free event to eat some burgers and remind ourselves this country still has some of the coolest cars on the planet.
Most of you have already seen the Vlog we did on Gatebil 2018. When this site used to be all about articles and photo, I had much more time for writing. I’ve been shooting pictures for many years, and I’m not necessarily great at it, its just something I enjoy doing along with capturing whatever I can on video. Flip and I shot a lot of photos on this trip, and I felt like they needed to be put up onto the site. At the time of writing this, the Vlog has already gone live so these photos are just a slower recap of what could be described as the craziest Car event in Europe.
“This is my happy face in the happy place” these were the exact words Reuben shouted as we shot his pride and joy on the large bend at Ruskodgen. Back in 2013, we took a trip to Gatebil to see what the fuss was all about, and it blew our minds. It was like nothing we had ever seen before.
I never thought this day would come. After nearly ten years of writing articles about other peoples cars on this website, I never thought id be putting together a feature about one of my vehicles. Its a little strange to be honest, I’ve spent years travelling around Ireland trying to root out the better side of Irish car culture and its funny to see this little blue nugget getting some attention.
The Trueno sees some progress as Barry calls down to hack out some of the final rust. We also check in on Flips RX7 which has a fresh coat of paint.
It almost seems like I never owned the Trueno, we got it in July 2017 and the car was actually in one piece until October of that year. We brought it to AE86 festival, Japfest and then stripped it down for blasting. Its been a shell longer than a car at this point and as of writing this, it’s a year and five months of metalwork with Barry.
It was August 2018, Ireland was enjoying one of the best summers in almost twenty years. All of our friends were away at a festival for the weekend so myself and Flip decided this would be the perfect time to paint the March.