Not only is the Day of Too Many Events coming up this weekend, but our former masters across the pond are brewing up the Goodwood Festival of Speed. One of the first photos to filter in from this year’s event are from the chaps at Speedhunters. The lucky blokes captured this hakosuka GT-R G.C. replica on the hillclimb. As you know from last year when Toyota was the featured marque, we haven’t wanted to go anywhere this badly since we begged our parents to takes us to Disney World at age eight but we just don’t have the budget or time.

Seeing the original GT-R in action in England just makes this next bit of news all the more fitting. We’re big fans of BBC Top Gear, and this weekend takes the gang to Japan, where another one of their epic races will ensue. The contestants? New GT-R vs. Bullet Train. Banzai!

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This page will feature a series of wallpapers, created both by grandJDM, as well as by others. We’ll try to give credit to the original creators when we can, but sometimes it’s hard to find out who the original creator is!

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Here we have some wallpapers of three of our feature cars; Arnel’s TE27, Jerry’s RX-3SP, and Mike’s C10 GT-R replica. Apologies for the lack of resolution choices, the original images simply weren’t big enough to offer larger wallpapers.

If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably realised that as time passes, there’s less of a chance that you’re ever going to own at least one example of every single classic JDM car that you’d always sworn you’ll someday own. In a situation like that, it’s probably a good idea to start looking at alternative ways to feed that hunger for classic JDM! One such solution, for many folks, includes the building of scale models. With any level of modification options – such as the ability to buy different wheels and engines, there’s a world of possibilities.  It can still be a costly exercise – and finding room in the house for all those models can cause some headaches – but hey, think of scale model building as the Nicorette patch for your classic JDM addiction!

Japanese Nostalgic Car forum thread
Hobby Link Japan
ToyEast

We thought it might be a neat idea to provide weekly links to some Japanese blogs. After all, blogging is not a phenomenon to be found strictly in the west! And with so many excellent English language blogs devoted to Japanese cars, it only makes sense that there’d be just as many excellent Japanese language blogs about classic JDM!

However, we don’t speak Japanese (oh the agony!), so you’ll have to bear with us while we use Google’s translator tool to figure out what’s going on with each of these blogs.

This week’s blog belongs to Private Tune / Murata Team, and frankly we can’t quite figure out the specific aim of the blog. What we can tell you though, is that there’s a fantastic selection of photos in many of the posts, so head on over and a bit of a browse through the pages of Private Tune’s blog!

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