We visit a hidden collection of rare Japanese cars in the Irish Midlands.
I thought this day would never come, the 86 was sitting in the shed for so long that it felt like I bit off more than I could chew, a few hours after this photoshoot the car would finally be leaving to go for paint. I decided to bring it around the corner to the place where we did the original photoshoot before the tear down, just to get one last up close and personal photo set before this look would change forever.
These photos are from the night before the car went for paint, I threw on the Longchamps to give some inspiration and threw it out into the ring arena. Not much to say here ill let the photos do most of it but this was a really good look into the overall stance and look I wanted for the car. It kills me just how much I’m obsessed with these wheels!
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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Nothing to see here but more AE86 photo spam with cool parts. A Power Craft manifold, something I had lusted after since 2009, it only took about 12 years to get my hands on one.
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.
Barry’s final day doing metal work on the AE86.
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.
We refreshed the AE86’s cam cover with some sparkle paint and give the BMW some attention.
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!
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.