How many of you remember 1999? Worrying about Y2K (or the millenium bug), Bill Clinton getting impeached, or the first ever Spongebob Squarepants episode on Nikelodeon.. One of the biggest things to happen in my life in 1999 was the tuning car boom. A time filled with street racing mischief and Lambo doors. We’re actually …
Tag Archive: Throwback Thursday
Feb
19
Feb
05
Reebok’s JTCC HR31
In 1989, Masahiro Hasemi and Anders Olofsson piloted a Nissan HR31 to victory in the Japanese Touring Car Championship’s famed Group A class. It sparked the beginning of the one-make dominance era. Only the Nissan Skylines would win the Group A championship until 1994 when Group A was cut from the JTCC series. So without …
Jan
22
Throwback Thursday!
For this week’s Throwback Thursday I bring you an awesome car from the past, but yet from the present. It is a 1989 Nissan Skyline GTS-T 4-door. This car was liveried to match its period correct 2-door racing counterpart from the 90s and moves around with 15×8.5/15×7.5 SSR MK-I Believe it or not, this build …
Dec
18
Throwback Thursday!
It’s your favorite social media day of the week again and you know what that means! Old print ads and pictures from More Japan! For this week’s throwback, we have an advertisement for the old 80′s SSR lineup. Notice the centerlock Star Formula wheels on that early generation Formula 3000? Awesome! It’s crazy to think that …
Dec
11
Throwback Thursday!
Thursday is one of the coolest days of the week because we get to post up pictures of cars and wheels that have become “unicorns,” making you wish you had been born earlier and could have bought that car or those wheels. If you were already around cars at the time, you may be slapping …