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The Nissan 370Z doesn’t officially debut until the LA Auto Show next Wednesday, but Datsun Z owners were invited to bring the car’s forefathers down to a special sneak preview event in LA that just ended an hour ago. Sponsored by Edmund’s Inside Line and Nissan, the purpose was to have older Z-cars on hand for comparison and photo shoot opportunities, so we tagged along with some members of Group Z. (more…)

Last week there was a car show and charity toy drive at the Datsun Heritage Museum. Click on the image above to see the gallery.

Pay your local Japanese bookshop a visit and you’ll see that one of the new JDM magazines catering to the new boom in nostalgics is G-Works. It’s one of my favourite Japanese magazines: it’s chock full of modified classic cars, real hardcore DIY articles and reports on local meets and clubs.

They also have an ongoing drag racing competition, held at Sendai, which flushes out all the uber-fast nostalgics. We’re talking 350+hp all-motor L-series Zeds, Skylines and Bluebirds pulling 11s over the quarter.

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Seriously, folks. If this video doesn’t make you want to get a nostalgic car of your own and tune the living crap out of it, you’re deader than Abraham Lincoln. Watch as a bunch of old school Nissan nuts shake out their Skylines, Fairladys, Bluebirds and Sunnys on Japan’s immaculate roads. The exhaust notes bouncing off JDM tunnel walls are pure auditory sex. These are definitely not trailer queens!

We think this has been posted more than once, but dsalni’s was the latest. Thanks!

Here’s an good design comparison between the Datsun 240Z and the soon-to-debut Nissan 370Z on Jalopnik. Rumor has it that the 370Z is 300lbs lighter than the outgoing 350Z, and will produce more horsepower, 332 to be exact. Though it’s hard to tell from photos, the 370Z is also shorter than the 350Z, with a wheelbase of 99 inches. We’re not as fond of the new look as our friends at Jalopnik are, but we’ll reserve judgment until we see it in person at the LA Auto Show next week.

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Our coverage of the SEMA show. Due to the economic disaster, the mood was a bit down and every company is struggling. However, there were some bright spots, including the first JNC car at SEMA! Also, read the article to find out why we are eating our words about Toyota.

Old school Honda-heads don’t often have the opportunity to show off their cars, so come and check out the show this Sunday, November 16, sponsored by Norm Reeves Honda. It’s the third annual event and it’s open to Hondas old and new, so come educate the youngin’s about Honda history. The address is 18500 Studebaker Road, Cerritos, CA 90703 it goes from 10am to 1pm. Here’s some pics from the 2007 NRH show.

We’re still trying to go through the hundreds of SEMA photos we took, but in the meantime here’s a small set of photos from Satoshi, our man in Japan, from one of the Morning Cruises sponsored by Barracuda. Here are two more galleries from some of their past cruises in our Events Section. (more…)

We’re still recovering from SEMA and will be posting up the backlog of events that have accumulated. First up, the Mooneyes‘ Crown Picnic 2008!