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EVENT: Japaner young- und Oldtimertreffen, Bleienbach 2015
Yesterday i went to the annual Japaner young- and Oldtimermeeting in Bleienbach, Bern (Switzerland) which this year was held on a little airport. Beautiful weather and nice people made it for a perfect day. This is the event every Japan-classic car lover should attend in switzerland. Pretty laidback vibes and every year the selection of cars seems to be quite different so you never really know what to expect 😀 This year the organizers managed to mobilise the local Honda S-chassis club which was there in full force. Quite a selection 🙂 Suprisingly there were a lot of superrare mitsubishis too. Some of them i’ve never seen in the wild…
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ATENZA: Welcome Home new Mazda 6 Atenza / My EJ9 on google streetview
After a few weeks of endless waiting, finally my new 2015 Mazda 6 aka Atenza GJ Was ready for pickup today. Here it is – brand new of the showroom floor 🙂 After many years of researching and studying im happy to finally have a new daily car. I’m happy with my choice and love the car so far. hope it lasts 😀 At the same time i sadly had to leave my old EJ9 daily at the dealer. Bought it 12 years ago as my first car for 5500.- CHF and totalled it two times in the meantime. still got 200 Bucks for the car today so i’m happy…
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240Z: TABCO repair panel delivery (rear quarters & inner wheel wells)
Not a big update, but an important one: Today i got a FedEx delivery from USA, bringing me a nice set of Tabco Repair panels: I decided to buy them directly at Tabco because they’re the main manfucturer of these. All the companies like zcarsource and MSA only sell tabco parts so why not get them directly at the source? Service was fine after a few mails and superfast shipping i had them at the door today. They may not be OEM-quality but i guess it’s the next best thing you can buy at the moment. because i tried to source OEM rear quarters first but they seem a) impossible…
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EJ9: HondaHolics EK/EJ-Shooting from 2007
Well yeah, as my new Daily car will arrive soon my old daily beater will leave me soon as well. So i dug through some old archives and found these pictures from 2007, which Hondaholics member “Impurttuner” made back then. Still quite nice pictures. It’s obvously my Car was the only Non-EK while all the others were the real deal EK4. However Looking at the pics make me remember how cool my EJ9 once was to me. EK9 replica roof spoiler. JDM-styled (aka bronze coloured) Barracuda wheels, cheap-ass Type-R Replika lipkit, Lazer muffler, and so on. All the cheap parts for a cheap car but still love the look. Nowadays…
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240Z: Cusco testfitting, Hood, Doors and Fenders disassembled
While waiting at the garage for a guy to come and pick up one of my spare-engines and a transmission i decided to get some work done. Unfortunately the guy never showed up so i had plenty of time to get some stuff done. Mainly preparing more panels for paint stripping 🙂 1) The hood – before:  Hinges removed done 2) Completed the second pair of doors (from the white chassis): 3) Decided to also split the fenders from the second car. as you can see they’re quite rusty but some stuff like the lower cowl-panels / Corners and the headlight-surroundings seemed pretty nice, so i decided to take it…
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240Z: Roofcut stripped, Datsun Competition steering knuckles, Cusco strut tower bar
Well yeah, had some big plans this week for the Z, but unfortunately a Flu hit me and i’m lying with a cold and fever in the bed fourth day in a row. However i got so bored of laying around all the time today i HAD to do something so i decided to finally unpack that roof that is standing in my entry hall since a few weeks. Before: And after unbolting a couple dozens of screws: While at it anyway i decided to strip it as well so i have that done too: Found this old matchstick box underneath the roof skin. Always fun to find old stuff:…
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Wallpaper: EK9 at Siblinger Höhe
Finally i managed to complete my photoshop work on a new Wallpaper. This picture was taken about a week ago at an early sundwon at a local hill called “Siblinger höhe”. I just went for a ride and had my camera gear with me and thought there were some nice vibrations in the air so i stopped by a side-track and made some shots. This is what i ended up with after about two hours of photoshopping. To download it full size resolution, head to the Wallpapers section. If you’re interrested in Photoshopping and photography, this is the original picture taken with my cheap Panasonic zoom Camera, before photoshop:
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240Z: Big update, mudflaps arrived, Intake manifold research, Trunks disassembled
Sorry for the lack of updates lately on the 240Z project, it’s not like i’ve been not doing any thing, just was enjoying my EK9 in the nice weather, and had a lot of other stoff going on. My bodyshop man has a lot of daily-business-customers wanting to have their american cars ready for summerseason so he’s busy working on small projects currently and my car is on the backburner. Also did a lot of research and ordered a lot of parts. currently i’m awaiting 2 shipments from Japan and a big one from USA and still need to order a lot of tools and small bits to complete a…
