The former Japaner old and – youngtimertreffen has change dit’s name to Japaner Oldtimertreffen this year. Due to limited space and many 90ies cars showing up in the recent years, the organizers decided to make it a pre-1994 year event only for the real vintage Japanese cars only. Even though i can’t show my Honda anymore, i think it’s a good move. This years event will be hosted on the 19.may 2024 at the Meilenstein in Langenthal which itself is worth a visit. It’s an Automotive themed museum / workshop / Hotel, which also hosts a formula one car collection (30 cars), and many other nice automobilia. FInd all details…

Yesterday i had the chance to visit the Swiss Car Register in Safenwil. It’s located in an old beautifully restored textile mill on the same premises of the Emil Frey Classics museum but not related directly. So what is the Swiss classic car Register? It’s basically a library of the rich swiss coachbuilding history and automotive history. You will find everything related to cars and transportation. – Drawings, specifications and technical documentation of swiss coachbuilders – Old magazines – Microfiches, glass-negatives, etc. – Parts, owners and service manuals – General information about brands, designers and international coachbuilders – Books about the wealthy people who owned those cars – Books and…

This weekend my Wife was off so i decided to enjoy the ending summer by taking out my EK9 for a spirited drive. However i wanted to have some sort of goal in mind to not just drive around pointlessly, so when the “Cars and coffee” event in Gossau popped up in facebook, i thought that makes a nice one-hour ride each way and i chose a slightly longer route through the countryside rather than boring Autobahn. I arrived at roughly one o’ clock in the afternoon, when it was already in full swing, so i got to park slightly off-site of the main grouping of cars, but i didn’t…

Whenever possible, i try to go to the local Hillclimb race of Oberhallau. This year, i thought about skipping it, because it can get a bit repetitive. But then i learnt it will be extended to 3 days because of their 100 Years anniversary edition with lots of historic specials planned. We arrived early on saturday morning under relatively nice weather and secured a nice front row spectator spot, while the training laps already had started. It wasn’t long until the first bigger accident (no bigger casualties, lickily) caused a longer break Which also forced the drivers mid-track to wait until the flags went green again: After the track was…

Save the date! The “Japaner Young and Oldtimertreffen” goes into the 13th round. On the 21.05.2023  it will happen, this time in a new (but not so far away) location. The Meilenstein location seems really cool. i’m excited to be there. I’m also thinking about making a small booth to sell some random stuff i have laying around. Anyway. If you like or own japanese classic cars, THIS is the one event to join in switzerland. Click here for the official facebook page or go to Japanclassic.ch for more details. Here are some pictures from 2020 and here some more from 2019 2018 photos 2017 photos See you there.

With a two year delay, thanks to a certain virus, we finally were able to make our long-ago planned roadtrip through scandinavia. Some might know that i have family roots there and i travel to sweden quite often, but this time, we decided to visit norway too, because i heard so many good things about it. And we didn’t get dissapointed a bit 🙂 The trip was more or less split into five sections Part 1:  4 days of city sight-seeing in Oslo (NO) Part 2:  A travel to Västerås (SE) including two nighs there Part 3: A visit to my Family in Östansjö (SE) with two nights there Part…

This weekend my mate Stefan was celebrating the 5th anniversary of his “Cagedude” workshop. He’s one great fabricator, doing all kind of metalwork for race, street and show cars. I didn’t really expect much. a bunch of people and cars and that’s it. But when i arrived the event was in full swing with much more than everybody expected 🙂 Stefan got a nice selection of customer cars on site. like the “druft punisher” S-chassis with a V8 Hellcat engine! Naturally stefan’s own cars where on display too, and i was happy to see some progress on his Yonmeri / 240K-GT project: Of course i had to check out the…

Due to my absence, covid and other shit, i havent’ been to the Bergrennen oberhallau in a few years. So i was especially excited to go again this year to this local mekka of motorsports. It seems like Japanese cars have become more common in the general hillclimb scene, but some have been around for years, like Ruedi Fuhrer’s F20 (S2000 Engine) Powered CRX: In case of Honda, the usually strong going Integra DC2 group was completely absent this year, for whatever reason, instead there was a strong showing of EVO’s:  But what i like most of this event us the mix of so many different groups. Within a few…

If you don’t know what to do this saturday and are into old or new japanese cars, make sure to check out stefan’s “Cagedude” Workshop 5th anniversary celebration this saturday: More information here: https://www.schaer-metall.ch/cagedude  and on his facebok event. There will be japanese food, parts sales, some of his customers project cars and an “open workshop”. I really hope i’m recovered from my illness untill saturday, so i can crank up my EK9 and drive it there, to finally get a view of this swiss master fabricator’s cave 🙂 And i’m definitely keen to see the finest selection of vintage “Skyline” datsun’s in switzerland in one place. I’ll sure bring…