The owner and administrator of Australian S30Z enthusiast website - and home to the Victorian Z Club - viczclub.com, has been maintaining a blog chronicling the ongoing trials and tribulations of restoring and maintaining a Nissan S30 Fairlady Z - Datsun 240Z to those of us here in the west.

So if you’ve just bought an S30 yourself, or you’re considering restoring one, you should consider Gavin’s blog to be something of a bible!

Gavin’s blog @ VicZCar.com

Automotive news site Autoblog have stumbled across an astounding C10 GT-R replica. Considering the prices that the genuine item can fetch these days (anyone else wishing they’d bought one in the 80s/90s and held onto it?), it’s no surprise that people are choosing to go The Way of the Replica so often these days. And when it’s as lovingly done and as true to form as this example, who wouldn’t be happy to take it off his hands for the right price?

There’s some discussion in the Autoblog comments that the seller’s asking too much, but frankly, we think it’s a more than reasonable sale!

Visit Autoblog for more information and photos.

On Sunday, the Goodwood Festival of Speed of 2007 drew to a close. We’ve been waiting for pictures to filter in, and Autoblog, which has made no secret of how badly they’ve wanted to go after missing last year’s (sort of the position we find ourselves in right now), has posted galleries galore since their triumphant return to the States. Our favorite car in the recent photo batch has to be the 1968 Honda RA301. The F1 machine, piloted by John Surtees during the ‘68 season, was notable for its water-cooled V12 and monocoque body, made ultra-light due to liberal application of magnesium. Sadly, gremlins and crash avoidance manuvers conspired to rob Surtees of several podium finishes and at least one first-place victory.

Goodwood isn’t just some fancy lawn party for jodhpur-wearing, pinky-lifting tea-sippers. To give you an idea of its significance, Nissan even brought out the clear winner of the “Most Chased by Spy Photographers, 2005-2007″ award, the Skyline GT-R prototype, for the hillclimb, complete with black camouflage disguising the nose!

Jolly good, then. I think that just about does it for West Sussex. Oh, what the hell, here’s one more shot of the Toyotas up in the air.

Images courtesy of Autoblog. GT-R tip courtesy of Jalopnik.

Depending on who you ask, the C211 is possibly one of the less popular models in the lengthy Skyline history, but it’s gotta be fair to say that this particular example is stunning. While its interior and engine bay could stand a little attention, the exterior looks to be in awesome condition, and the rims and exposed oil cooler really help to set it off.

Check out The Drift Scene for more information and photos!

A little time travel today, as we throw you back to October 2005 to check out an article and gallery of shots from the inaugural Japanese Classic Car Show in California, USA, by well known JDM-dedicated online magazine JTuned.

While many of the cars shown are post-1980 (technically, a classic car in the US need only be 25 years or older), there’s no shortage of sexy 60s and 70s JDM to feast your eyes on.  Get to it!

Old Skool JDM @ JTuned.com

“OneSickLambo” - a member of the EvolutionM.net forums - has undertaken the task of dropping an SR20DET engine into his Datsun 510, known in its homeland as a Nissan Bluebird from the 510 series. More than that though, he’s gone all out to modernise and customise the hell out of this thing. Custom dash fabrications, Bride race seats, bi-xenon HID headlight setup, what appears to be an Evo VIII centre console, the whole deal.

He’s been maintaining a very in-depth photo journal of sorts, through a thread on the forums. Jump on over there and check it out!

SR20DET Bluebird @ EvolutionM.net
Nissan Bluebird 510 series @ Wikipedia
Datsun 510 @ Wikipedia

The second day of the Festival that keeps on giving has drawn to a close. Autoblog actually has men on the estate, snapping photos and broadcasting them across the pond. The one that will probably be of most interest to us nostalgic lovers is the Mazda Cosmo 110S that was part of Cartier Style et Luxe, the Goodwood concours that literally translates to “You Can’t Afford These.” As far as we can tell, this is not part of the Mazda 40th Anniversary of the Rotary exhibit that is one of 800 plus anniversaries being celebrated this year at the Festival of Speed, which means that Japanese cars are finally being recognized in concours events!

Other birthdays include Brooklands Circuit’s 100th, the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy’s 100th (which gave Honda motorcycles much of their early fame), the Bugatti Royale’s 80th, 75 years of the Ford flathead V8, Monoposto’s 75th, 25 years of Group C racing, 50 years of Scalextric slot cars, 60 years for both Ferrari’s and Saab, and 70 years since Toyota Motor Corp’s founding (although an automobile division of Toyoda Automatic Loom Works, Ltd. in 1933).

Jalopnik has managed to dig up a Flickr pool of Goodwood photos that stretches back to previous years’ events too. Take a look. It is truly the most spectacular car party on Earth.

Image courtesy of Autoblog.