Don’t cha just love it when you manage to get some free time over the weekend to spend with your car? While the JNC workhorse wagon is not exactly slammed like a mamma jamma, it is somewhat lower thanks to RS-R springs. It also now sits on a random set of old school wire-spoke wheels minus the baskets. What did you do this weekend?

One of our readers needs to get this, right now, and share the wealth. It’s a huge collection of NOS (new old stock) 1960s to early 80s Toyota parts from a closed dealership. The seller says it consists of a little bit of everything for old Corollas, Crowns, Land Cruisers, Starlets, Coronas, Carinas, Hiluxes and Cressidas. The actual mountain of parts includes taillights, headlights, exhausts, service manuals, relays, switches, trim, and sheetmetal. In other words, all the hard to get stuff. For anyone who has ever tried to restore an old car, you know this is a once in a lifetime chance. We already know we’ll be kicking ourselves in the future for passing on this opportunity. Someone buy this, please!

[Source: eBay]

It’s January, and that means while Americans party hearty at Detroit Auto Show amongst Lexus roadsters, alien-shaped Mazda race cars, and the occasional pile of actual steaming bullshit, Japan is humming along to the sounds of the Tokyo Auto Salon. Why, oh why, do two of the most spectacular, uh, spectacles in autodom have to happen at the same time? Well, at least we have grandJDM and Auto Otaku’s terrific photos from the event to ogle. Although the Auto Salon focuses mostly on blinged-out minivans and drift machines, there were a few choice old school cuts in the mix, like Rocky Auto’s hakosuka (pictured), Star Road’s S30 Z, Top Secret’s RA25 Celica, a Mazda Carol hot rod, and Mooneyes’ 1JZ Crown.

Then there was the small issue of this hi-riser X70 Mark II Wagon donk thingy, which we are sooo doing with our own Cressida longbox. Thanks, Kev, for posting the image that will serve as our inspiration!

For our coverage of 2007’s Tokyo Auto Salon, click here.

[Image: grandJDM]

P.S. We are not doing that with our Cressida.

New article here, about the recent trip taken to attend the Monterey Historics.

In case you were wondering what’s been happening with the blog, Ben is at the Monterey Historics in California. Only, there’s a catch. The reason it’s taking him three days to get there is because he’s driving down from Seattle in a newly-purchased, completely untested, 21-year-old Toyota Cressida station wagon that none of us has ever driven, popped the hood of, or sat in before. Stay tuned for either a.) actual coverage of the vintage auto event, or b.) tragedy.