Nz Style in Australia

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Earlier I had decided I wanted a change and was planning on going to Japan. Unfortunately purchase of the yellow AE86 meant there wasn’t enough time and money to go this year so I have decided I will start preparing early so I can go next year. Unfortunately this meant I had to sell my AE86

I put it up for sale and a young man named Chris came to look at it. He really liked it and really wanted to buy it. After we discussed it and he left I spent a lot of time thinking about it, he was a genuine buyer so reality set in. I had to message him apologetically and say that I couldn’t do it, and that I had decided to part it out instead.

We kept talking over the next couple of weeks and I kept trying to convince myself that as much as I didn’t want to part with it, for me be able to go to Japan it had to be done. So a deal was made that suited both parties and he came and collected the car on saturday.

I had to have one last photo shoot so here are some final pictures.























Then we loaded the car on the trailer, and I bid thee a sad farewell.



Sigh..

Anyway, since the ADM went on the R101s I only have one set of 14″ wheels left, the Casablanca 8. I’d really rather put them away for later so I went looking for some wheels and I found 3 pairs I wanted to buy. I bought 2 pairs from Daniel at JDMWheels (JDMWheels.com.au, he posts worldwide! can find wheels for you in japan etc, can be emailed on [email protected]) and I found a pair on eBay which Daniel was kind enough to collect for me as they were in Sydney.

The first pair are are SSR Riverside R109s – 14×8 -3, the second pair are Gallop Racing Mesh – 14×7.5 -4 and the third pair are Gen 2 SSR Superstars – 14×7.5 -1. The Superstars aren’t in the best condition but I’ll give them a clean up and paint, I think they’ll come out awesome.

Daniel emailed me through some pics of the wheels.



And a sneaky pic beside his AE71



Will get some more pictures when they arrive.

I decided to buy a zenki lip as the one on the car had been given a hard time at the track so found one on a forum and bought it, went to pick it up today. Quite an awkward item to be carrying on a bike!



I gave the lip a couple of coats of bumper black and whilst waiting for the paint to I gave the bike a long overdue clean.





Gave the lip a few more coats then washed the car.

While the car was still wet I put a JustJDM sticker on the rear window, happy to give Craig a bit of advertising as he’s helped me out a lot over the years.











The paint had dried so I took the old lip off and attached the new one. I wasn’t happy with the way the previous lip was mounted but there were that many holes in it, it wasn’t really possible to re-mount it.





Track day on the 29th! Im going back to NZ on the 25th to sell my 20v and a few other parts.. Have a few guys on the lookout for a Trueno for me in Japan, will update when new things happen

Thanks for reading!