I expected some impressive vintage racing cars for sure at Race Retro, the UK’s big historic racing meet, but not the staggering range and quality of metal that was on show, or the variety of events that were being promoted. In every set of circuit racers, rally machines and single seaters there would be at [...]
Granted this is not the first time we have looked at the OS Giken’s TC24-B1Z, but seeing it’s further been refined from last year’s Nostalgic 2 Days show, I thought I’d dedicate a little post to it as it’s simply, a work of art. It was back in the late seventies that Okazaki-san from OS [...]
I will attempt to tackle the Nostalgic 2 Days in the sort of manner one would at the show itself. If you were there you would head towards the cars that stand out the most and circle them, getting a closer look at their details. The first car that stopped me in my tracks was [...]
Mirroring Nostalgic 2 Days over in Japan, the UK has also just held its own vintage racecar event. Race Retro is the UK’s premier meeting for historic racing and rallying: it’s the pre-season gathering place for the vintage racing community – the time-travel version of January’s Autosport International show, if you will. Like Autosport, it [...]
No matter what school of thought you may belong to, the kyusha scene in Japan has been steadily growing in popularity over the last few years. The vastness in which vintage cars are approached in Japan is as diverse and as varied as the culture itself, no matter how you tackle your own build, it will [...]
As you saw during my “Photo Attack” last week, the JCCA New Year Meeting is the mecca of vintage Japanese car culture. With so many amazing vehicles gathered in one place, picking favorites is nearly impossible. Even so, there were still a few cars which made a big impression on me, and one of them [...]
When I posted about the 2013 JCCA New Year Meeting last week, my primary goal was to show just how overwhelming the event is. The show itself is fantastic, the parking lot is even better, and then there’s the swap meet and vendor area. As I was sorting through my photos from the show I [...]
If you go by the old saying that a picture is worth a thousand words, the following post should be worth about 120,000 of them. With as much raw material as I gathered at Sunday’s JCCA New Year Meeting, I’ve been struggling with how I should approach posting about this massive event. After a bit [...]
To me the absolute best thing about being a Speedhunter is not just being able to photograph and explore the world’s coolest cars, it’s being able to experience so many different types of car culture on a regular basis. It can be chatting with fun-loving drifters one moment, trying to fit in with the elite [...]
My favorite event ever. I suppose that’s a strong statement considering how many great automotive gatherings I’ve had the pleasure to visit, but if someone asks me what my single favorite event is I’d easily answer with “the JCCA New Year Meeting”. There are so many different words I could use to describe the New [...]
To kick off my Spotlight-O-Rama from the 2013 New Zealand Festival of Motor Racing held last weekend (and this coming one), I thought I’d take a look at one of the coolest cars occupying space in the Hampton Downs Motorsport Park pits. Yes, you’re looking at genuine Zakspeed Ford Escort Mk2. Like every car I [...]
Since 2010, over two weekends in January the Hampton Downs Motorsport Park has played host to the New Zealand Festival of Motor Racing. A celebration of circuit racing both past and present, in its inaugural year the event recognized the achievements of New Zealand’s own Bruce McLaren. In 2011 it was Kiwi-born Ferrari works driver [...]
I’m like a kid in a candy store at most any car show I go to, but Autosport is one of those general interest shows which has me pinging back and forth across the spider’s web of my automotive interest. Here are some of the cars which made me stop, drop and drool. First up [...]
The launch of the new Jaguar F-Type has meant the reintroduction of the classic Jaguar sportscar letter-based naming convention after an almost 50 year break. C- and D-Type Jaguars conquered the 24 Hours of Le Mans five times in seven years during the ’50s; E-Types won their class at Le Mans in the ’60s and [...]
The 2012 edition of the Classic Motor Show filled up 11 cavernous halls at the Birmingham National Exhibition Centre: the biggest ever event in its history and a car-lover’s paradise. CMS is put on over three days, and realistically that’s the time you would need to drink in the entirety of the show. The halls [...]
