The Day has come! The AE86 leaves the shed after five years and goes to the paint shop.
I love unexpected nights like this, this stuff is always going on I just never want to shed too much heat onto lads who are out letting off some steam using their pride and joy. I think I’ve been documenting various lads and groups going night drifting for a long time, it’s well planned out, and low-key, the lads are out there to let off some steam usually on a dead-end road which we have been blessed to call a local area, it’s a quick burst of skids and then its time to go.
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A little escape from the grind with a few friends, pushing the limits of their road-going 4A-GE AE86s and some shed shenanigans.
A day I thought would never come, we had been at this for over five years at the time of these photos. This was an emotional day for both of us, we had both been so emotionally invested in this car over the last few years, Barry finished the front arch and gapped the front end and rear before hitting the hills. Without Barry this car would have never happened, along with Bryan, Flip or Jackie, key players in this car’s restoration, I wouldn’t have been able to undertake such a mission. I’m forever grateful for knowing these guys and having their influence and drive throughout the build.
Here are a few photos from the night we installed the cam cover and the pulleys, a vision I had for this for a long time I was curious to see if it would work out.
I could watch Barry forever working on this car and others, working with metal has always fascinated me and it’s been an absolute blast watching him figure things out with this car and slowly remove all the misery. It’s mad to think it’s over a year since I shot these photos, the last few weeks before the car went for paint, Barry devoted his weekends to calling down and wrapping up the flared arch work on the Trueno. I divided that work into four episodes one for each arch as I loved having Barry on the videos chatting shit and showing us how he does it. I’ll leave these photos to speak for themselves, someone might appreciate how he does it, a dying craft, very much on a dying platform, a blog post!
Barry finishes the right side on the AE86. We can finally see how the Trueno will sit. The metalwork is almost finished!
Here are a few photos from the first finished arch. Barry worked his magic here. I mentioned a few posts ago just how nervous I was about the overall shape of the arch and how it would come together, but Im very pleased with these. The profile follows the original form from Toyota and loses the flat piece on the front, which nods to the original design.
Here is the photoset from the day we nailed the very first arch. The rest were based on this shape and made for a balanced look. I’d be lost without Barry and his talents on this.
We take my brother’s first car, A Toyota Vitz (Yaris), and overhaul it with rare parts he has collected over the last year.
As Barry finished the right arch, progress is back on the menu for the AE86.
This was a special Saturday for the 86; Barry and I had been away from the car since September, things didn’t line up, and I was keen to get him back down to finish the arches; this was all that was left on his end before the car 86 gets shipped off for paint. We figured out a few weekends, and he promised he would make it down and try to wrap this up.
Here are a few up-close photos from the feature we did a few weeks back on Jacks RunX. I’ll keep the text to a minimum on these as most of you will be coming from watching our in-depth video on this car to see more. We got the good weather for these a few weeks before the actual video on the car and ran out of time to make the Youtube video, so the lads called down another day for that shoot.
We find a Holden Commodore outside the shed, and Josh gets his s15 running.
The coolest K11 Micra answers the call of duty for a special late-night delivery.