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EK9: Civic EK9 TypeRx special edition, specification & details
After owning my EK9 for so many years now, i just found out today that my EK9 is actually not a standard TypeR, but a TypeRx special edition! I’m quite excited and shocked i didn’t know this all the time! Naturally, i had to investigate the topic, and i’d like to share my findings with you. Wherever possible i tried to use official documents and sources for this post. Let’s look deep into the differences between the regular TypeR and the Rx version and how i figured this out. Honda made two special Editions of the EK9: One is the N1 or Race-base “lightweight” edition, which is an EK9 inteneded…
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OTHER: A quiet greatness – Japanese Car encyclopedia
Call me oldschool, but i prefer to have a nice print in my archive over flashy tiktok videos. I love the feel and smell and look and the fact that you know some serious time was put into creating a real masterpiece. And “A quet greatness” is exactly that. A 5-book encyclopedia about the Sporty and odd Japanese cars. You won’t find Rocket-bunny kitted driftcars or things like that. Instead you find well researched, beautifully layouted and lovely worded books for the real japanese car lover, collector and enthusiast, covering any significant “sporty” japanese car from the Autozam AZ-1 to the Zagato Autech Stelvio. The look and feel of these…
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OTHER: NISMO 1986 September Catalogue
I bought something whith would hopefully help me solve the mystery about this Suspension: An September 1986 NISMO (Nissan MotorSports) Catalogue. Nismo was only founded in 1984 officially, so it must be one of their very early catalogues. Eagle-eyed readers will notice that it’s very similar to the earlier “Nissan Sports option” catalgoues in style, so i think they just took over all the parts and layouts and added some more in the early days. The main difference is that you have one catalogue for all their cars and products, rather than single leaflets for the individual cars. So you will find all the usual suspects like MK63 brakes, competition…
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GARAGE: Datsun Special Tool wall & Garage Entrance completed!
Our garage entrance belongs to the part of our in-laws house, but we’re allowed to use it, obviously. The father-in-law always tried to keep it tidy, but the compressed gravel somehow always ended up inside the garage. So when our neighbours decided to build a house, he asked the concrete guys there if they could bring some extra concrete and do the garage entrance. They settled a deal and the work began: Rebar got laid: And fine concrete poured: Then it got flattened: My Father-in-law then took his time to complete the connecting stones, after the molds got removed: But i have to admit the result is awesome. So much…
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OTHER: Datsun Suisse Press release folders 1982 & 1983
Lately two press release folders of Datsun / Nissan from the years 1982 and 1983 popped up for sale locally. A long term project of mine is documenting the Story of Datsun Switzerland and another work in progress is the story of the Z / ZX in switzerland, so whenever something like this pops up, i try to get hands on it: the sets usually contain a lot of information about the company’s history and sales figures, etc, but also a bunch of press release photos and of course advertizing texts for the latest models. Usually they get released for big events like the annual Geneva Autosalon exhibition, where most…
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240Z: More bits and pieces arrived
Last week i got offered another bunch of parts from a seller which i’ve bought parts from before. His packages usually contain a lot of mystery parts from other generation Z’s, some random Z memorabilia and then some really nice and rare bits for my project in a package deal. This time was no different and the parts arrived today. The lot incldued two very nice hubcaps and two pretty worn ones: A bunch of NOS parts and refurbished ones. I was told the switch with cable on the top center is a “Joker” switch for those blind spots in the center console. I have to figure that out and…
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240Z / GARAGE: Datsun Tool wall & Workshop clothes
A while ago i finally saw something for sale which i’ve been searching for years. And even in Photo form i have only ever seen two of those. The only problem – it is a 6 hour drive away. Well today i spent more or less the whole day driving to middle of germany and back to pick this up: The thing i bought was the Datsun workshop tools from the mid 70ties. It’s quite an interesting setup. It’s basically a printed foil by a company called “Genku” on a Perforated sheet metal plate. It seems that you could probably buy the foil with the tools as a kit, but…
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240Z: Another NOS parts delivery
When i recently talked to Florian at Datsun-autowerk.com/. he reminded me of his stock of nice parts, and we made an exchange deal of some things. So i got this nice delivery of NOS (New-old-Stock) parts today, and some extra: It includes a set of inner and outer door handles: Various Door stoppers, hatch stoppers, door lock mounts, etc.: A heater valve and a clutch Cylinder piston: Inner door steps, Door seals, some rubber stoppers and seals: And it also included a nice Japanese Real-X 1/72 300ZX Z31 Model car (thanks for the freebie, mate!) And also a set of nice Japense market Fairlady Z brochures, which were still missing…
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ATENZA: Rim cleaning session
When i changed the wheels on the car a few weeks ago from summer to winter tires, i realized that the rims were full of brake-pad dust, despite the fact i ran through a good automatic car wash just two days before. I usually don’t spend too much time on detailing my daily driver, as i know it will be messed up again two days later. Especially with the current weather conditions. But this really triggered my OCD. so i bought a spray bottle of Sonax Rim cleaner and started with this (by far not the worst part of them all): After spraying the rims it immeadiately started to drop…
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OTHER: Kaido★House Mini GT 240Z
I try to avoid collecting diecasts, because this is just another rabbithole i would end up in spending way too much money and time on it. But when i recently came accross those Kaido★House Mini GT 240Z / Fairlady Z cars, licenced by Nissan i had to have them. I really loved the styling of the whole thing The two are identical except from the paint scheme (and there are some different colour schemes available at Kaidohouse.com ) The details are quite impressive. with an opening hood with engine inside, rollcage, dashboard, fender mirrors, paint details, KaidoHouse valve cover, etc. and the packing is really high quality. I didn’t expect…
