It’s not the Type R that everyone is drooling over, but getting to see a 2017 Honda Civic Si with a mere 59 miles hooked up to the dyno is still pretty cool! Local upstate NY tuners Quantum Raceworks posted this dyno graph on their Facebook page as a baseline, showing some pretty decent numbers for the little 4-banger.
The Japanese auto auctions, which I have written about on a regular basis, have incredible cars pass through them, right alongside a used Kia C’eed. You get a couple photos, an inspection sheet that is typically quite thorough and the opportunity to inspect the car ahead of it hitting the block. Then, when auction…
It seems like kind of a slow week at the Japanese auctions and so I’ve only been able to find 6 cars worthy of mention and 3 of them aren’t even Japanese. They’re still fantastic examples of the kinds of pure automotive awesomeness that you can find in the Far East, so without further delay, this week’s coolest cars…
The Nissan Pulsar GTI-R, aka “Baby Godzilla”, becomes legal for US import in August and I’m curious as to what the hypothetical market would be for one. Skyline GTRs are well into the $17-20k range and auction prices are so high in Japan that importers have stopped importing them. Now the “hot new thing” is the GTS-T,…
This week I have the top 15 most awesome non-Skyline cars able to be imported into the US on the auction block. I try to keep it at 10 but I simply couldn’t pare the list down anymore. Rather than the usual bit of text explaining Japanese auto auctions and whatnot, I’m just going to jump right into it.
Another week and another 100,000 cars passing through the various auction houses of Japan. As what I’m hoping will be a weekly tradition (until I get lazy), I’ve perused the various auction listings to come up with 10 unique, neat or otherwise highlight-worthy vehicles that are all legal for US import and not Skyline…
The Japanese auto auctions are AWESOME! Why? Because over 100,000 cars go through them every week! Every car that every dealer, shop and some private owners have grown tired of gets posted up between Saturday and Wednesday and then put up for bid Wednesday through Friday.
How would you like to own a practically new Mercedes 190E 2.5L Evo 1, one of only 502 made? This stunner is going across the auction block this evening, has a mere 37,000 km on it and a starting bid of $14,000. Sure it's in Japan, but that's a minor detail because this is an Evo 1! A car so over-engineered it makes a…
I'm looking at an automatic '82 Mercedes 240D. In NY, land of rust, but only 115k miles and seems to be very well cared for. Full records kept, work done by an expensive but highly regarded German shop. It'll be a DD and ideally a family car come March. With 1 on the way, I need rock solid reliability and I don't want…
I've noticed that there is a lot more money being spent on cars lately and a lot of people willing to open up their wallets for cars not found here in the USA. Of course there's Skylines, but this site (and others) have also featured Fiats, that Czech-Fiat, original Minis, E30 wagons, FD RX-7s, Honda CRX's and…
I love rat rods of all kinds, especially the most simple, rusty, crusty ones with bullet holes and patina and parts gathered from untold numbers of trips to the junk yard. The Rat Rod Magazine 2014 Build-off is going on now, so I wanted to write a post about my favorite build, Lenny Hartle's 1927 Dodge.
So my 1st Oppo article was about the amazing rat rod built by Chris Walker of ITW Hot Rods for the Rat Hard Rat Rod Tour.
Chris Pratt's beetle was nice and all, but nothing compared to this one!
Rat Rod Magazine is doing their annual Rat Hard build-off where they give 12 people 30 days and a budget of $3000 to build an awesome rat rod, then drive it from Steelfest in MN to Redneck Rumble in TN. Pratt's beetle is nice, I guess, but certainly isn't anything terribly exciting.
