According to Japan’s “Best Car magazine”, the FT86’s release date is set to be postponed a further 2 years with the goal posts being shifted from a 2011 release date to 2013.
Toyota have given two reasons for this reported delay. One is that the concept is being redesigned again as Toyota has stressed that the ft-86 we have all seen was only a concept.
The second reason is about the economy slowing down and that the sports car market will take longer to recover. Either way they really need to get this car together. I think we are curious to see the redesign. Or even the finished car on the streets. Maybe they will go back to the roots like the Americans with the Challenger and the Camaro. If so they will absolutely win with the car in so many ways. Who knows whats going on over in Toyota. I guess we will just have to wait and see….
So I got a call about this Legal drag strip type thing that was going down in Tullow just outside of Carlow. I was instantly curious to see what exactly or how this could work. We jumped in the van and Magoo and Ann drove ahead in the Primera. It was some laugh finding the place but eventually we rang the guys from Caseys Yard and they came down in the trusty ex Eircom Transit at top speed and they lead the way. I was still wondering how on earth you could have a drag strip around the country side. We were on back roads laughing and wondering if the roads would just be closed off or what. Eventually I gave up guessing of ways in which they could have a drag track in the middle of nowhere and decided to wait till we got a look. As we were tearing along a nice country road the road suddenly turned into wide open concrete. It was crazy, no fences on the fields and a couple of houses at the start. Then the road opened into a massive field with this little concrete road in between. We then came to a digger which was blocking the road. Everything felt very mad max about the situation but it was cool. They were looking for a fiver to go up and check it out so I was down for supporting. The digger bucket lifted which was basically there as a gate and we headed on up to the sheds in the distance. It really looked like something from the America. I’m easily amused I guess.
I ended up going on a nice 3 day birthday celebration in a shack by a beach so I didn’t get to stick up some updates. I’m going to shove them all up now to make up for the last few days.
And why not start with this absolute beast. Some people really know what they are doing, puushing the boundries of “modifications”. Flushed boots are for pussies, this chap takes the game into a whole new level with this incredible flushed back window spoiler combo.
Incredible.
These days in Ireland Altezzas are as common as piss. There are so many around that have the same look. Not a lot of people have ventured into trying to do something different.
Woke up the other day and had to take a picture of this. You always see those stickers on peoples sun visors or peoples rear windows. Some sort of witty statement usually on a bad car. I have seen steer from the rear so many times and its usually on a bad car. Looks like its nowhere to be seen on this bad boy, but hes definitely steering from the rear.
Incase people get scared about the level of Honda’s we decided to break it up. Presenting member one of the official juicebox team. Expect to see this starlet at every show with its own stand and in every drag race, time attack, you name it. UNREAL
Its crazy when things change so fast for people. Ireland really is a gigantic bubble if you stay around here for along time. For Flip it was a shock when he decided to go to the land down under. It opened his eyes that there is certainly a shit lot more going on outside our little island. This was the last shoot we did with his dc5 which isint anything crazy or insane.
To be honest there wasn’t a whole load of cars that showed up. Either because of the weather or because its Waterford and it may be a distance for people to travel. The weather was pulling its typical raining and sunny at the same time stuff so no one really knew what to do. Hopefully a meet happens soon that will bring some some more people. The good thing about this meet was that even though not so many showed up the cars that did were pretty fucking cool so everything worked out and made it worth while to feature.
Its funny how everything is traveling in circles. The American car scene is trying to source every last JDM part they can including front end conversions to gear knobs. They seem to have created something which was based on the whole JDM scene and now the Japanese have decided to start copying the US. Its amazing that both of these countries are both doing the same thing more or less. The Japanese are starting to rust bonnets, buy diamond steelies and go for the whole roof rack theme. Its cool either way as more and more cool cars are coming out of both countries. Check this USDM jam that went down in Japan from stanceworks. Check the website for more snaps also.
There was some nice cars outside but it started to pour out so I didn’t get to take photos of everything. After being so amazed by the show I decided to go outside and get some snaps. Straight away there was some promising stuff. This ek was looking pretty damn cool. Nothing too insane and it was already killing it in terms of how it looked over some of the warrior wagons inside.
Where do I start. I guess the show is cool for the type of people who just enjoy looking at whatever kind of car or want something to do on a day off. The poster is slightly misleading to be honest for someone who would have expected more. I expected at least the skyline would be there with its bonnet off boasting that rb buf noop, nothing of the sort, nowhere to be seen. How fooled were we aye? The show had a lot of potential bu like many things in Ireland but It fell short of what we expected in quite a lot of ways. With the site were going to try and cover as much as we can in the car scene, some may be good, some may be bad. This one is sort of bad.