Search for the baddest of the badboys!
OMG!! It is a tie!
Both the Laurel and the Skyline got 50% of the votes, so we will have to do extend the final with one extra poll!
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Exhaust of the week: hatstands Skyline C210
Last week we featured a tree-like exhaust on a GX61 at TAS 2010. This week we have a Nissan Skyline C210 with a hatstand-like exhaust, also found at TAS 2010:
Nissan Skyline C210 with hatstand exhausts
Bosozoku lifestyle: play with your RC zokusha
For the people too lazy to create their own RC zokushas Aoshima created two sharknose Skyline RC cars: a sharknosed C110 and a sharknosed C210, both available in two colors.
This is what the C210 looks like:
Aoshima Skyline C210 RC zokusha
I must say I was impressed by the detail in this RC car: the rims are deep dish SSR Mk IIIs (on the C110 deep dish RS Watanabes can be found!), the headlights are nicely covered behind the sharknose, the lip is in square zokusha style and the rear spoiler has its lines continue in the bodywork! Nice! 🙂
Found through Japanese Nostalgic Car blog. The
RC cars can be found here.
Picture of the week: Gifu Works Ironmask
This Tekamen (???), aka Ironmask, by Gifu Works is a really beautiful example of a Grachan zokusha:
Gifu Works Tekamen Skyline R30
Truely a work of art! 🙂
How deep is your dish?
I saw these amazing 14 inch 12J steel rims on Auctions Yahoo:
Deep dish 14 inch 12J steel rims
Just look at how deep that is! What would the offset of these rims? ET 100?
Deep dish 14 inch 12J steel rims
As you can see they used something like 5J wide steelies as a basis and widened it by adding another steel band in between.
Deep dish 14 inch 12J steel rims
Even if it looks wicked it is not exactly the safest way to have wide steel rims: the center of the original wheel may not be strong enough to carry the load of the extreme wide lip. Making the lip wider makes it a big lever of 7 or 8 inch. Imagine the stress this will create on your wheelnuts! 😀
You can find the auction here:
14 inch 12J Steel rims @ Auctions Yahoo.